SPAIN AND ST. DOMINGO. '

Otago Witness, Issue 50, 29 June 1861, Page 9

SPAIN AND ST. DOMINGO. '

The Spanish flag was hpisted at St: Domingo on March 16. On receipt of this news.ihree ships of war with troops were, immediately -' r despatched from Havannah. [This ocegp^tioja V of St. Domingo by Spain has c^ted.|oro^|x-. . citement at Washington, and will^^atJfi^ij:' serious diplomatic .cor>espondeirop^^f^^ Spanish Government, The- Hayiiap^ppa^ publish a proclamation against Spanjpl^^^ sion^ stating that t^e^ouly ■ : wa^St*iiisay|^pfv couptry : m PY rfiyoluiioH* f . j nale, '*w high havejustcomcto lindjs^||f|4pif

; jbjeeupied with' comments on the proclamation : byv.thV 'Dominicans of annexation to Spain. v ltf.appeaVs that a General Santana is at the head' of the movement, and that he has issued a series of decrees and proclamations "in the name of Her Majesty Queen Donna Isabella TL" It further appears that the CaptainGenernl of Cuba, though he had entered into communication with the annexationists, had ' -exjireskly reserved to "the 'home government the power of sanctioning or repudiating their act. Advices from llavannah 5 to the 7th of April state that the- Southern Commissioners sailed thence for Europe on the 6th inst. A Spanish squadron, with 3000 men and war materiel of all descriptions, had left for St. Domingo. It * is stated that an army of occupation of 7000 T men would be sent from Havannah. The President of St. Domingo had issued a proclamation officially announcing the transfer of the government to Spain.