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

AMERICA.

The political intelligence from the United State!
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 vs'
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 /few 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 Intelligencer says :—" Such an event is with'
out precedent in our annals."
The limitation on which the house insisted wall
th us worded :

Provided, however, and it is hereby declared that e°
part of the military force of the United States for the
support of which appropriations are made by this 56
shall be employed in aid of the enforcement of any eIP
actment of the body claiming to be the territorial lee'
iature of Kansas, until such enactments shall have bee°
affirmed and approved by Congress ; but this provis°,
shalt 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 all
body of non-residents, acting or claiming to act an a
posse comitatus of any officer in said territory in the ea'
forcement of any such enactment, and to protect the Per
sons and prcperty therein, and upon the national high'
ways leading to said territory, from all unlawful searcher;
and seizures ; and it shall be his further duty to tali°
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 Staten
authorising the distribution of arms to the states !,nd
territories.

Intelligence from Kansas, which we publish
further on, may have had some influence in deter;
mining the decision of the house, but the events °I
the last six months have supplied abundant reasons
for a similar resolve. The President has power to
call an extra session of Congress, so that its mem-
bers may adopt such remedies as the exigencies Of
the case demand. This power he has promptly
exercised, and, by the following proclamation, Con-
gress has been convoked in an extra session, to
commence on the 21st of August, that is three days
after the close of the late session :

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, while hostilities exist with various Indian
tribes on the remote frontiers of the United States, end
whilst in other respects the public peace is seriously
threatened, Congress has adjourned without granting the
necessary supplies for the army, depriving the executive
of the power to perform his duty in relation to the cool•
mon defence and security, and as an extraordinary occa•
sion has thus arisen for assembling the two Houses o
mgress, I do, therefore, by this proclamation, convene
the said houses, to meet at the capital, in the City of
Washington, on Thursday, the 21st of August, inE4't
hereby requiring the respective senators and represen•
tatives then and there to assemble to consult and deter-
mine on such measures as the state of the Union oil
seem to require. In testimony whereof I have caused
the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, and
signed the same with my hand. Dune at the City off
Washington, the 18th day of August, in the year o
our Lord, 185 G, and of the independence of the United
States the 31st. FRANKLIN PIEBOL
By order, W. L. Manor, Sea. of State.

SUSPENSION OF A LIVERPOOL num.—We regret to,
announce the suspension of the Liverpool firma of
Messrs. M'Larty and Co., and Lamont, M'Larty, and
Co., with liabilities to the extent of nearly 100,0004.
Their losses in the Australian trade and in their Italian
steamers have been the cause of their stoppage. Con'
sidering the valuable services the mercantile steam flee"
rendered to the country in the recent war, it is indeed s
source of regret that any firm should be compelled to
suspend pay went from losses occasioned by the working
of a portion of the screw steam mercantile marine. DI
the Australian trade it is known that many and serious
losses have occurred, yet to this very trade we are to'
debted for the large imports of gold now coming tor
ward monthly from these colonies, to the great adi!!!
tage of the country at large.—Liverpool Albion.