29th Mar.
Tre Court of Enquiry into the loss of the US. orniser Maine has found, as was expected, that the vessel was blown up by a submarine mine. The calmness and dignity with which the news of the outrage was received by the American Government, Congress, and People, have been cordially appreciated by all English admirers of the States, and will be always remembered with hearty sympathy. As the Nation says, the bearing of the people in the presence of this calamity, which is now known to be an outrage of unexampled villainy, has discovered in the nation reserve of sanity, of calmtiess, of poise and weight which is worth more than all our navy. If we ere able to display these qualities throughout, the world will think better of us, and our own self-respect will be heightened." President McKinley has shown himself worthy of his high position, by putting away. the opportunity that was given him to play on the patriotic string which is always ready to vibrate in American hearts before the trath was made certain; and from Captain Sigsbee's first dispatch, every official communica tion on the subject of the explosion has been marked by unsurpassable good taste and propriety.
Nhe time has now come, as every one felt that it must, for the United States to interfere to stop the misery with which the insurrection, and the Spanish efforts to repress it, have afflicted Cuba, It is impossible for the statesmen of America, as civilised and humane men, to remain mere spectators of the horrors that have been and are still being perpetrated in Cuba, The United States do not want Cuba themselves, but they do not want a vast shambles at their door, Whether Spain will be wise enough to listen to President McKinley and suspend hostilities, or whether her pride will force her to make an expiring effort, we shall soon know. It has been hinted that rather than confess herself beaten by her own insurgents, she would welcome a war with the United States in which even defeat would not be so inglorious, but we trast that wiser counsels will prevail, and that there will be no war.~ By such a war Spain has everything to lose and nothing to gain.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.