The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-06 00:00:00

THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.

FLORENCE, Feb. 5, Evening.
The committee of the Charnbief Deputies for
examining the bill upon t 0 scpVtion of Church
and State and the conversion of the ecclesiastical
property has been constituted. Signor De Luca has
been appointed president, and Signor Macchi secre-
tary of the committee. It is stated that some of
the members of the committee intend to bring for-
ward a counter scheme, or at least to lay down
principles which may serve as the basis of a new
bill.

The committee will meet to-morrow.
Almost all the bureaux of the Chamber have exa-
mined the convention concluded between the French
and Italian Governments relative to the Pontifical
debt, which, it is stated, meets with their approval.

AMERICA.
(Per City of New York.)
NEW YORE, Jan. 26.

The proceedings of the Judiciary Committee in
relation to the proposed impeachment of the Presi-
dent have not been made public, but it is understood
that no witnesses have yet been examined, and that
the expediency of the measure is still the point under
consideration. It is said that the committee will not
report upon it until the end of the present session.
The impeachment resolution was at first re-
garded as a mere intimidation to force Mr.
Johnson into a surrender to the Radical
policy, and as such it was even generally
ridiculed, but now it is everywhere discussed as a
serious probability. The Radicals are labouring
zealously to bring the impeachment to an issue, and
the Conservatives have so far rather encouraged
the proceedings, under the belief that it can only
result in failure and the final discomfiture of the
Radical faction.

Mr. Johnson, in approving the bill providing for
the immediate assembling of the Fortieth Congress
upon the close of the present session, is thought to
have invited impeachment, as the bill could not
have been passed over his veto, and its defeat would
have at least deferred the impeachment for five
months.

The President is reported to be very anxious that
the impeachment shall be attempted, and to have
expressed himself confident of the final defeat of
the Radical policy.
Numerous journals and public speakers, usually
well informed, have declared that Mr. Johnson will
proclaim the present Congress an illegal and revo-
lutionary body, attempting Legislation in defiance
of Constitutional requirements, and that he will
call upon the Army and Navy to sustain him ; but
that he will not resort to so serious a course until
the attempt to depose him from office shall actually
be made.

A Bill recently passed by the Radical Legisla-
ture of Tennessee, granting negroes in that State
the right to vote, and providing for the organisa-
tion of a loyal militia force, to be composed of
white and coloured men, is regarded as a step in
anticipation of a collision between the national Go-
vernment and present State authorities.

SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 6.

The North German Lloyd steamer Bremen, from
New York on the 26th ult., has arrived here with
69 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen,
and $184,494 for England. She experienced mode-
rate northerly and southerly winds throughout the
passage, On the 2d inst. in lat. 48.55 N., long.
25.7 \V., she spoke the Hamburg steamer Bavaria,
which broke her rudder in lat. 490 N. long. 27 W.
The Bremen offered assistance which was declined,
as the Bavaria was on her way back to England
for repairs.