The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-26 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF TILE AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 24.
The North German Lloyd's steamer America,
from New York, has arrived here with 106 pas-
sengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen ; 40 sacks
of mails, $132,937 in specie for London, and
$5,100 in specie for Bremen.
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, Morning.

It is reported that General Grant, in a Cabinet
Council, advocated the adoption of a more liberal
Reconstruction policy.
Orders have been sent to General Sickles not to
interfere with the Federal courts.

General Pope has ordered the civil officers in his
district to give public advertisements only to jour-
nals favouring the Reconstruction Act.
The rumours of the probable removal or resigna-
tion of other Cabinet officers are denied. The Ca-
binet is reported to be harmonious. Mr. Pendleton,
formerly Minister to Chili, has been arrested in Vir-
ginia, under a writ from Judge Underwood, for
perjury in taking the Registration Oath.
Mr. Ashley will, it is said, be indicted for conspi-
racy and subornation of witnesses.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Times says that the recent disclosures by Conover
were part of a conspiracy of prominent Democratic
Congressmen against Mr. Ashley and other im-
peachers. _ _ _

The Indians have been routed in a battle near
Fort Kearney, Nebraska.
_

The Globe, a new paper, published at New York,
asserts that immense over-issues of securities in the
Treasury Department have been discovered at
Washington, but the report is generally discredited.
Admiral Tegethoff has arrived at New Orleans,
and is awaiting orders. _ _

According to advices from Vera Cruz to the 31st
July Juarez's reception at the capital was very
enthusiastic. Tejada, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, in a speech at a banquet, on the occasion,
highly eulogised the example of the United States,
and spoke of the war in Mexico as a lasting lesson
to two classes, the clergy and the great proprietors.
It is reported that Marquez had been captured and
the traitor Lopez assassinated. Prince Salm-Salm
had been sentenced to be shot. The Mexican Con-
gress was expected to be convened in November.
The Prezidential election takes place in December.
As now re-arranged the Mexican Nliniitry stands
thus:--

Minister of Foreign Relations, Sebastian Lerdo
de Tejada ; Treasury, Jose Maria Yglesias ; War
General Ignian Mejia ; Justice, Jose Martinez do

Castro.
The following proclamation was issued by Juarez
upon his entry into the capital :
" Benito Juarez, Constitutional President of
the Mexican Republic.
" Mexicans—The National Government return
to-day to establish its residence in the city of
Mexico which it left four years ago. It bore with
it the resolution of never abandoning the perform-
ance of its duties, the more sacred in proportion to
the conflict the nation had to sustain. It went in
the firm confidence that the Mexican people would
struggle without cessation against the iniquitous
foreign invasion in defence of their rights and of
their liberty. The Government left in order to con-
tinue to uphold the banner of the country as long
as it might be necessary, until the triumph of the
holy cause of independence, and of the institutions
of the republic should be consummated.
cg The good sons of Mexico, battling alone,
without the assistance of any one, without resources,
and without the necessary elements of war, have
obtained it. They have shed their blood with su-
blime patriotism, and have been ready to make every
sacrifice rather than consent to the loss of the
Republic and of liberty.
" In the name of a grateful country, I pay the
tribute of the highest acknowledgment to the good
Mexicans and the worthy leaders who have de-
fended her. The triumph of their native land,
which has been the object of their noble aspira-
tions, will always be their fairest title to glory and
the best reward of their heroic exertions.
Filled with confidence in them, the Government
strove to comply with its duties without conceiving
even a single thought that it was lawful to impair
any of the rights of the nation. The Government
has fulfilled the first part of its duties by not con-
trasting abroad or at home any engagement which
would wound the independence and sovereignty of
the republic, the integrity of its territory, or the
respect due to the constitution and the laws. Its
enemies attempted to establish another Government
and other laws without having been able to consum-
mate their criminal intent. After four years the
Government returns to the city of Mexico with
the banner of the constitution, and with the same
laws, never having ceased to exist one single in-
stant within the national territory.
The Government has neither wished, nor should
it have allowed itself heretofore, and far less ought
it in the hour of complete triumph of the republic,
to be inspired by any sentiment of passion towards
those who have fought against it. Its duty has
been, and yet is, to weigh the demands of justice
against considerations due to lenity. The modera-
tion of its conduct, wherever it has resided, has
demonstrated its desire to temper as far as possible
the rigour of justice by reconciling clemency with
the stern duty of leaving the laws to act where they
are indispensable to secure the peace and future
prosperity of the nation.
Let us now bend all our efforts to obtain and con-
solidate the benefits of peace. Under its auspices
the laws and the authorities will be efficient for the
protection of the rights of all the inhabitants of the
republic. Let the people and the Government re-
spect always the rights of all—among individuals as
between nations respect for the rights of another is

peace.
Let us hope that Ow Mexicans, warned by a
lengthened and painful experience of the calamities
of war, may co-operate in future for the welfare and
prosperity of the nation, which can only be obtained
by an invariable regard for the laws, and by an obe-
dience to the authorities chosen by the people.
Under our free institutions the Mexican people
are the arbiters of their fate. With the sole pur-
pose of sustaining the cause of the people during
the war, when they could not elect the executors of
th:ir will, it was my duty, in conformity with the
spirit of the constitution, to retain the power they
had conferred upon me. The struggle ended, it
becomes my duty to convoke immediately the people,
in order that without the pressure of force and
without illegal influences they may elect at entire