The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-02 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The political intelligence from the United States
which reached England by the mail delivered yes-
terday is of the highest interest. The Senate and
House of Representatives at Washington were
openly at issue during the last few hours of the ses-
sion on a point arising out of the slavery question,
and the members have dispersed leaving some of
the most important supplies unvoted.
The House of Representatives refused to pass the
Annual Appropriation Bill for the support of the
army, unless the senate would consent to engraft
upon it a proviso that no part of the money should
be applied to the enforcement of the laws enacted
by the legislature of Kansas. This resolution caused
the loss of the entire bill, and Congress closed its
session without making any provision for the sup-
port of the army.
We have to-day no army (says the New York
Journal of Commerce) ; or, which is the same thing,
no means of supporting it. With an overflowing
treasury, we have not the means of paying a cor-
poral's guard, unless, perchance, there remains un-
expended a remnant of the appropriation of last
year. The Washington Union declares that " the
revolution has begun."
The Intelligences- E.l7s :—" Such an event is with-
out precedent in our annals."
The limitation on which the house insisted was
thus worded
Provided, however, and it is hereby declared that no
part of the military force of the United States for the
support of which appropriations are made by this act
shall be employed in aid of the enforcement of any en-
actment of the body claiming to be the territorial legis-
lature of Kansan, until swill enactments shall have been
affirmed and approved by Congress ; but this proviso
shall not be so construed as to prevent the President
from employing an adequate military force ; but it shall
be his duty to employ such force to prevent the invasion
of said territory by armed bands of non-residents, or any
body of non-residents, acting or claiming to act as a
posse comitatus of any officer in said territory in the en-
forcement of any such enactment, and to protect the per-
sons and property therein, and upon the national high-
ways leading to said territory, from all unlawful searches
and seizures ; and it shall be his further duty to take
efficient measures to compel the return of and withhold
all arms of the United States distributed in or to said
territory in pursuance of any law of the United States

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authoribirg the distribution of arms to the states and
The dismissal of M. Alvarez, Spanish Envoy at
Mexico, continued to be the subject of many com-
territories.
ments. It appears that he did not strictly follow Intelligence from Kansas, which we publish
his instructions, which enjoined him to require the further on, may have had some influence in deter-
unconditional ievocaf'on of certain acts of the mining the decision of the house, but the events of
Mexican Government deemed by Spain to be dero- the last six mouths have supplied abundant reasons
gatory to her rights and dignity. for a similar resolve. The President has power to
The Government intends to create three consu- call an extra session of Congress, so that its mem-
lar offices—at Montevideo, Buenos Ayres, and Pa- hers may adopt such remedies as the exigencies of
rana—instead of the Legation it now maintains in the case demand. This power he has promptly
the Uruguay.
exercised, and, by the following proclamation, Con-
The Gazette published Royal decrees appointing gress has been convoked in an extra session, to
16 other Civil Governors. commence on the 21st of August, that is three days
The provinces were tranquil. The Government after the close of the late session :
in the meantime kept a watchful eye over the I BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
movements of the Carlists and revolutionists. It I A PROCLAMATION.
increased the army, organised the reserve, and took Whereas, while hostilities exist with various Indian
special pains to appoint proper Governors. I tribes on the remote frontiers of the United States, and
The pay of the officers of the army had been ang- whilst in other respects the public peace is seriously
mentcd. Captains are hereafter to receive 1,000 threatened, Congress has adjourned without granting the
reals (101.) monthly, lieutenants 700 reals, and en_ necessary supplies for the army, depriving the executive
signs 500 reals. of the power to perform his duty in relation to the cote-
The Madrid Gazette of the 28th tilt.
01011.
defenca and security, and as an extraordinary occa-
publishes mon has thus arisen for assembling the two Houses of
decrees conferring decorations.
C ,ogress, I do, therefore, by this proclamation, convene
The Epoca, a semi-official organ, says :—« Some the said houses, to meet at the capital, in the City of
journals think it extraordinory that the decree Washington.' on Thursday, the 21st of August, inst.,
for the dissolution of the Constituent Cortes has hereby requiring the respective senators and represen-
not yet been published. We believe that there tatives then and there to assemble to consult and deter-
is no motive for feeling surprise. Whatever may I mine on such measures as the state of the Union may
be the political constitution which may be adoptel seem to require. In testimony whereof I have caused
in Spain, it will be established naturally, like those the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, and
84-,,ned the same with my hand. Done at the City of
of 1837 and 1845—that is to ea
y that, the parlia- Washington, the 18th day of August, in the year of
ment being dissolved, now Cortes will be convoked our Lord, 1856, and of the independence of the United
within three months ; and it is possible, and even States the Elbt. FRANKLIN PIERCE.
probable, that the government of her ajesty, de- By order, W. L. MARCY, Sec. of State.
siring that the elections fur them shall be made
after those of the municipalities and provincial de-
putations, has calculated that the latter cannot
take place before the month of November.

SUSPENSTON OF A LIVIRPOOL Fiaar.—We regret to
announce the suspension of the Liverpool firms of
Messrs. M`Larty and Co., and Lamont, 111‘Larty, and
Co , with liabilities to the extent of nearly 100,000/.
RUSSIA. Their losses in the Australian trade and in their Italian
Russian news just now is little else than an stearnErs have been the cruse of their stoppage. Con-
account of the preparations for the coronation the sidelieg the valuable services the mercantile steam fleet
rivalries of the ambassadors in matters of expe,nse,
rendered to the country in the recent war, it is indeed a
the great pains taken by this one to please, and source of regret that any firm should be compelled to
suspend payment from li,sses occasioned by the working
the nonchalance of another about the whole affair.
tohfeaportiel of the screw. steam mercantile marine, In
As politics in the Russian capital are just now Australian trade it is known that many and serious
of this trivial nature, perhaps the following iossea have occurred, yet to this very trade we are in-
little episode, which is working a revolution in debted for the large imports of gold now coming for.
the goldsmiths' shops there, may not be out of ward monthly from these colonies, to the great advan•
place ; .--- 011 one occasion of Count de Morny's 1
hia tage of the country at large.—Liverpool ion.