The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-30 00:00:00

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LI VrRPOOL..TithnSDAY:
By the arrival of the racket-ship Patrick :Henry,
Captain Popham, we have received New York-papers
to the Bth inclusive, two days later than those brought
by the Zeubbia yesterday. The news. in general is very
unimportant and meagre. The. following are the •
latest :
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS, JAN. 5.
In the House, Mr. llstalson, irons the committee on
military affairs, reported back that.pait of the Message
relating- to the appointment of a lisutenant-general, and
was discharged from its furtLei. consideration. Mr.
Preston King, on obtaining leave to make a personal ex-
planation, read a parer sustair.ing the 'Bill he had offered ,
on Monday, grantkg 2,600,000 dole. to the President to
make peace with Mexico, and excluding slavery from
any territory that might be-acquired. He said he should
not have introduced the Bill but for an apparent dispo-
sition to avoid action upon the anti-slavery proviso
as brought forward by Mr. Willmot. Peace, he
said, could • not be made' With Mexico, without
indemnity ; but there should be no extension
of -slavery into regions now free. The Bill
presents no • question of abolition, but simply
one of Ihnitation, and he thought it ought to be adopted.
Justice to the free States required its adoption, and it
would improve the character and condition of labour
throughout the country. Ilia remarks were brief and
cogent.
. The question concerning an increase of the army came
up; and Mr. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee advocated
the passage of the bill, and was followed by Mr. Hilliard,
who insisted upon the right of fteely canvassing the acts
of the President, and avowed himself decidedly in favour
of a prosecution of the war. It should be waged till
Mexico would make overtures for an honourable peace.
He thought any declarations as to the terms on which -
new territory should be added to the Union " indecently
premature," and said that if attempts were persisted in
to dictate such terms, the days of the Union were num-
bered.

Mr. Haralson offered a resolution to close the debate
upon the Bill on Wednesday at two o'clock, but it was
not adopted, and the House adjourned. •
In the Senate, after the presentation of a number of
petitions, among which were several in favour of a rail-
road from the Lakes to the Pacific, Mr. Cameron offered
a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury
to specify the articles of import -upon which duties can
be increased, and how much additio..al revenue can thus
be raised.—lt was laid over. The resolution calling upon
the President' for information concerning Santa Anna's
return to Mexico, was laid upon ,the table, on motion
of Mr. Phelps. The Public Land Bill wai made the
order of the day for Monday, and the Bill to apply
certain lands to aid the Central Railway in Michigan
was di-cussrd, arid ordered to a third ri.ading—yeas, 26;
nays, 16. The Cumberland R .ad Bill was made the
order for Tuesday, 4n,1, after a short executive session,
the Senate adjourned.

January 6, 1847.
In the House to-day, on motion of Mr. Hamlin, the
vote of yesterday laying on the table, that portion of the
President's Message e, hick relates to the appointment of
a Lieutenant-General of the Army was r, c ,nsidered, by
a vote of 86 yeas to 84 na) s. The question being again
thus brought up, to lay it upon the table, was decided
in the negative. Yeas 92, noes 97. The subject was
then referred to the Committee of the whole on the state
of the Union.

Mr. Haralson's motion of yesterday to close the debate
on the bill for increasing the regular army by the addi-
tion of ten regiments, was thcidtd in the negative.
Yeas 93, nays 96. The bill was then taken up in Com-
mittee of the whole, when Mr. Smith of Indiana occupied
the floor for some time in opposition to the Administra-
tion and the war.

In the Senate, Mr. Thomas Clayton presented a
rnemorial•from the Citizens of Wilmington, Delaware,
to bring the war to a speedy close. The Judjciary Corn •
mittee was discharged from the consideration of the
petition of James W. Sehaumbergh, which was trans•
f'rred to thu executive journal. The Committee on
Printing reported against printing the memorial of the
sugar planters of Louisiana for the repeal of the tariff
of 1846. The Bill for the sale of the Lake Superior
Copper Mines was taken up, and sundry amendments
passed—when it was ordered to be printed. The con-
sideration of the Bill was postponed until Friday. The
Bill giving the assent of t.',.nLycsa for certain states to
tax public lands as coon as sOld, was passed. The Senate
then went into ext.cutive "session, and on opening the
doors, adjourned.