Mr. Sherman to Señor Polo de Bernabé.
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to the minister of Spain, and has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the minister’s note of the 3d instant in which he communicates a copy of a telegram received by the governor-general of the island of Cuba, stating that the insular government has resolved upon the publication in an extraordinary gazette of a manifesto to the country, setting forth the excellencies of autonomy, declaring that the colonial constitution is capable of reform in a full sense, and making appeal to the insurrectionists to conclude a peace after a previous understanding and agreement.