The memory of General Lopez was honoured at New
Orleans on the 1st of September, the anniversary of his
death, by a torchlight procession. The column was
headed by companies of soldiers, followed by the
returned Cuban prisoners, bearing a large illumination
inscribed "Beaten, but not conquered;" then a hearse,
on whose sides were written the names of "Lopez,"
"Crittenden," "Kerr'" and others; after these, a host
of firemen and citizens, bands of Lone Star men, the
whole being closed by "well-known citizens on
horseback and in carriages," saith the New Orleans
"Picayune." During the advance, bands played the
Lopez Dead March; the streets were lined, the houses
were crowded with spectators; "an orator" addressed the
mass; and the commemoration closed with a religious
service at the cathedral.

The papers contain reports of a sitting of the Women's
Rights Convention, lately held at Syracuse, which
extended over three days. A number of resolutions
were passed, asserting the rights of women to "the
emancipation of their sex from all the slaveries of law
and custom which hitherto have made and kept them
incapable of their heaven-appointed mission." In
defining the rights for which they were striving, and which
"they intended to obtain," Mrs. J. Elizabeth Jones, of
Ohio, said the chief point of their demand was "the
right to vote: that included all other rights. She was
anxious to obtain a seat in the legislative hall, on the
judicial bench, or to fill the chair of the executive. For
herself, she was not one of those who talked much
about women's rights. She took them without saying
anything about them." Mr. Governor Brigham, the
great "light" of the Mormon community, raised a
slight storm by expressing his conviction "that the
feminine element in human nature was, in all respects,
a subjective element, and the masculine the executive."
The ladies would not admit the truth of the
proposition. A woman was equal to a man at any time, and
had as much right to take a part in the deliberations of
the state, the administration of the law, in the
dispensing of physic, or in anything else connected with
the social state. The effervescence which had been
called into action by Mr. Brigham's expression was
increased to a boiling agitation by a rev. gentleman,
named Hatch, having the audacity to tell this assemblage
of strong-minded women, "that the feminine
element which gave to the softer sex all their influence
and consideration was a modesty in raiment, and a
retiring disposition which prevented them coming
forward in public with the shrill clarion or brazen
trumpet; and that true woman was like the modest
violet, half concealed, rather than the sunflower, which
glares upon everybody, and calls upon men to admire
it." Some further remarks from the same gentleman
raised such a hubbub about his ears that he was glad to
make a precipitate retreat, whereupon the "ladies"
cheered vehemently. The business was wound up by
the singing a doxology, and the convention was adjourned
sine die.

The latest accounts from California are of a favourable
character. There have been fewer murders and
other outrages since the last steamer sailed than for some
time past, and in general the state of affairs was far
more encouraging. The news from the mines continue
to be very cheering; it is anticipated that the yield of
gold during the next two months will be immense.
Large numbers of persons were pouring into California
overland. Measures for the independence of Lower
California were progressing. Gold discoveries had been
made in the eastern range of Sierra Nevada. The
money market at San Francisco was in a most favourable
condition, and the receipts of gold dust on the increase.
The other markets were moderately active, though
several descriptions of goods had declined in price.

In Cuba, great animosity is manifested towards the
American government. So strict is the espionage
observed, that two English officers, attached to a British
steamer, having, during a walk, pointed to the
fortifications in sight, were arrested and imprisoned on
suspicion of being flibustiers taking observations. The
British Consul procured their immediate release. The
luggage of passengers is strictly overhauled for
newspapers, and sometimes private letters are opened and
read. Letter-bags containing correspondence for
delivery, by American vessels, are examined. An additional
secret police-officer has been placed in every American
vessel entering Havannah, but not in vessels of other
nations.

The town of St. Jago, at the western end of the island
of Cuba, was visited by a tremendous earthquake in the
night of the 20th of August. Several severe shocks had
taken place during the day, which created great alarm
among the people of the town, a large and populous
place, containing 40,000 inhabitants; but the great
shock was felt between two and three in the morning.
The motion was undulating, and to this perhaps is owing
that more edifices were not destroyed. This single shock
would, in all probability, have caused more destruction
to persons than all the preceding ones had caused, in
consequence of the hour at which it happened; but
others having previously occurred, made all the
inhabitants alert, and thus it was that few had to come out
of their houses, and perhaps not a single one out of bed.
In the harbour the earthquake was perceptible by a
strange motion of the water, which boiled, producing
phosphoric bubbles, and followed by a fetor so intense
as to take away respiration. In the Plaza de la Catedral
all the lights were instantly extinguished, and the
immense multitude then there was environed in the thickest
darkness. In that of Santo Thomas the priest was
preparing to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice, when the horrible
shaking was felt, and which plunged into the deepest
dejection all the faithful who were praying. The scenes
which passed in the streets were not less terrible. The
few who had had courage enough to remain within their
houses, rushed frightened along the streets, without
being restrained either by the profound obscurity, the
copious rain, the fury of the wind, the ruins of
the falling buildings, the state of their health, or the
uncertainty of the road they were following. On the
following day there was another serious shock, and, from
the 22nd to the 28th, shocks continued to be felt, which
kept the inhabitants in constant alarm. From the first
shock, on the 20th, to the 23rd, the town was deserted,
with the exception of the Plazas. Nearly all the houses
were closed, and the streets, which at another time are
so busy, were only occasionally trod by one or two
individuals, who took good care to pass in the middle,
fearful of some building falling upon them. The Plazas
were occupied by an immense multitude, praying without
ceasing; the beach appeared as an encampment, the
most distinguished families having sought hospitality
from the inhabitants of the huts. The part nearest the
sea presents nothing but ruins: few are the houses which
have not been thrown out of the perpendicular, and many
will have to be rebuilt, at least in a great part. In the
rest of the town the consequences of the earthquake have
been less sensible, which may be attributed to the greater
solidity of the foundations. The large edifices, such as
the churches, barracks, palace, gaol, &c, have suffered
more, as was natural, than the lesser ones. The higher
houses, too, more than the lower; those of stone, brick,
&c, than those of wood; in all, the outer walls and
cornices have suffered more than the rest of the edifice.
The south portion has suffered more than the northern,
which added to the news received from Saltadero,
Baracoa, Gibara, Bayamo, and Manzanillo, leaves no
doubt that the earthquake has been more felt from 20
degrees of north latitude to the Equator, than from the
20 degrees to the Tropic of Cancer.

An Ambassador from Pitcaim's Island has arrived
in London, bringing despatches from Rear-Admiral
Moresby, which contain some interesting information
respecting the island first peopled by the mutineers of
the Bounty. The admiral visited the island in August
last. He says:—

"It is impossible to do justice to the spirit of order and
decency that animates the whole community, whose number
amounts to 170, strictly brought up in the Protestant faith,
according to the Established Church of England, by Mr. Nobbs,
their pastor and surgeon, who has for twenty-four years zealously