War seems likely to kill Slavery in Cuba, as it
did in the Southern States of the Union. The Volunteers, who have recently ruled the island, are dying fast; and General Concha, besides raising 12,0_00 men in Spain, for whom he offers bounty-money of £10 a head, has at last been compelled to organise Negro regiments. He offers freedom to every man who enlists, and hopes by this means to raise some 10,000 men. He has already reviewed one regiment, said to be in good condition, and seems to have got his finances into much better order, the wealthy classes consenting to what we should call an income-tax of two shillings in the pound. Their idea seems to be to sacrifice their negroes to save their bonds, but we are not without some suspicion of an arrilre pensee. The island once reduced to subjection, fresh negroes could be imported, and all not emancipated by service reduced afresh to slavery. Per- haps, however, the planters see that the game of slavery is up, and that they had better restore order, before the insurgents have promised to divide estates as well as to emancipate the people.
