The Spanish Government is making renewed efforts on a great
scale to suppress the Cuban insurrection. Troops have been despatched already in large numbers to the island, and a very considerable further force is to be sent. There is a report that General Martinos Campos will shortly be appointed Captain- General, in the room of General Jovillar, who has succeeded as little as his predecessors in restoring peace to the island ; and lastly, it is announced that a loan of 13,000,000 sterling has been negotiated. This latter, if true, is perhaps the most material point of all, for the Spanish Government in Cuba has long been bankrupt. It has augmented the taxes until they exceed the assessed value of the property on which they are levied, and it
lias decreed the most savage penalties against defaulting taxpayers; but still it is unable to collect the revenue. In the mean-
time, we have the usual stories of Spanish victories. Every mail tsports the successes of Spain, but somehow or other the successes don't result in success.
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