- Under an elasperation, perhaps not unnatural, Spain is braving her
great adversary the United States in Cuba. The local Govern- ment has resorted to measures which amount to noninterpourse with the United States ; not only private ships being kept out of Cuban ports, but an American mail-steamer under command of an officer- in the United States navy. This last proceeding has evidently increased the irritation in the States, and national Pride very generally " indorses" the notion of the order of the "Lone Star?' Lidition meetings prevail. In the mean time, the Government at Washington maintains a technical decorum in its attitude towards Cuba, and has sent a special commissioner to inquire into the exclusion of the mail-steamer. In character the reports are exactly_like those that we have continued to receive for many weeks, but the difficulties on both sides increase in an accelerating ratio. The present impression from the intelligence is, that war is near at hand.
