Du Buque Visitor

In a series of letters from Havana with the signature of M. C., we find the following sketch of the present government of that place.

[Nat. Int.]

"The Government in Havana. It could hardly be conceived in the United States that a city of 130,000 souls, including a garrison of 10,000 men, should have been for whole years trembling under the poinard of the assassin. A Spanish government, too, is a very different thing from an American one. General Tacon governs to some purpose! He is a despot, a pacha, a satrap, but withal an enlightened despot, a just, vigilant, and firm magistrate. He commands the army, superintends the finances, and renders justice. He looks after the safety of the State, and the cleanness of the streets. He is the arbiter of the fortune, and even of the life, of the citizens, while he does not disdain to attend to their domestic concerns, and occasionally to adjust their family differences. He wants nothing but the place of high priest to fill all the offices in church and state. He appears in public in a general's dress, surrounded by his aids, and escorted by a troop of cavalry. He is the Alter Ego of royalty, and, as such, is furnished with all the appliances of arbitrary power."