The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-25 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(Arrival of the Saxonia, via Southampton.)
NEW YORK, July 13 (Morning).

The Senate has passed a supplemental Recon-
struction Bill substantially the same as that adopted
in the House of Representatives, with additional
clauses ratifying the past action of the district mili-
tary commanders, empowering General Grant to
remove the Southern civil officials, declaring no per-
son entitled to registration as a voter by reason of
the Presidential pardon, and also declaring all civil
officials who participated in the rebellion to be dis-
franchised.

The House of Representatives passed this bill
with an amendment deposing all the Southern civil
officers, and authorising the military commanders
to appoint their successors.
The Senate not concurring in this amendment
the bill went to a conference committee, and the
House of Representatives has resolved that the
period of its adjournment shall be until the 13th of
November.
Some letters from General Grant to Generals
Sheridan and Orde have been published, directing
them to continue the registration of the voters and
their districts without reference to the opinion of
the Attorney-General.
The defence in Surratt's trial continua:, and
additional evidence has been adduced proving the
bad characters of the witnesses for the prosecution,
and the absence of the prisoner from Washington.
Stevens, Howard, Chandler, Logan, and other
Radical members of Congress, have made speeches
strongly denouncing Maximilian, and approving his
execution.
It is reported that the Washington Administra-
tion is in favour of American intervention in
Mexico.
Filibustering expeditions against Juarez and his
Government are organising at New York, New
Orleans, Buffalo, and other cities, and large num-
bers are reported to be enlisting.
Masses have been said at all the Catholic churches
in New Orleans for the repose of the soul of
Maximilian.
The Austrian Consul at New Orleans has char-
tered a vessel to convey the Austrians of the Foreign
Mexican Legion to Trieste.
The New York papers state that the American
gunboat llaye has been detained at Ctiebec, having
been refused a permit to proceed to Detroit, in con-
sequence of the reft
the ual o the captain to give the
customary salute to British gunboats.

SOITMAMPTON, July 24.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Saxonia, from New York on the 13th instant,
has arrived here with 130 passengers fur this port,
Havre, and Hamburg, 36 sacks of mails, and
$180,512 for London, $159,335 for France, and
$47,105 for Hamburg.

ST. NAZ.kIIIE, July 24.

The steamer Imperatrice Eugenie has arrived here
with 203 passengers and 1,200,000 francs in specie.
Her dates are—Colon, July 1 ; Guadaloupe,
.July
7 ; Yalparaiso, June 10 ; Lima, June 22. Tran-
quillity had been restored at Columbia. Bolivar
was the only State which held out for Mosquera.
The other Central American States were quiet.

OVERLAND MAILS.
MALTA, July 23.
The Nyanza left at 4 a.m., and the Columbian
leaves at 10 p.m. to-day. The former may be
expected at Ma rseilles on the evening of the 25th
inst., and the latter at Southampton about the
Ist of August.

OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL.
The Delta, from Southampton, 12th inst tut,
arrived on the 21st at 11 a.m., and left 5 p.m. for
Alexandria.
The Ceylon, from Marseilles, 20th inst., arrived
on the 22d at 5 p.m., and left at 7 p.m. for
Alexandria.

ITALIAN FINANCE.
FLORENCE, July 24.
At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies yes-
terday evening, the house, after taking into consi-
deration the proposals of the committee upon tho
budget, and a declaration of Signor Rattazzi, agreed
to the following order of the day :—" The budget
for 1868 shall be presented with all possible reduc-
tions, in addition to those already voted, and the
committee upon the budget is charged to present
a summary report upon the subject at the com-
mencement of next session." 11

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET—This Day,

Cotton opens quiet and unchanged. Sales pro-
bably 10,000 bales.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

Loxpox, :July 25.--Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze and flue weather, but rather
cloudy.

(By Telegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.

Arrived—Vibehia, from Guernsey ; Melbourne, from
Hudickswall ; Cecrops, from Trinidad ; Troubadour,
steamer, from Rotterdam; Fulton, steamer, from Dun-
kirk ; Baron Osy, steamer, from Antwerp ; Concordia, from
Boulogne; Leon Raymundo, from Madeira ; Adratta, from
Riga; Herzogin von Brabant, from Quebec.
Sailed—Beta, steamer, for Oporto; Seine, steamer, for
Boulogne; John Bull, steamer, for Havre ; Velocity
steamer, for Calais; Benbow, steamer, for Hamburg.
DEAL, Thursday Motning.
Passed—Coaster (of Grangemouth), from the west, for
the north; Result (of Guernsey), from the north, for the
west; Esk, screw steamer, from Guernsey; Seine and Ta-
mise, steamer, from Paris; West of England, steamer, from
Liverpool—all fog London; Dee, from the west,
for the river; Conduce, from Shields, f•br Cape de Verd
Ornskoll, from Hernosand, for Havre; Cape Horn, from
Hamburg, for Aries.

REPRESENTATION__ OF HELSTON.—The rumoured
probability of Mr. Brett's early elevation to the bench has
fUorr.thileeLnriterals. On
led both parties in the little borough of Ilelston po
for au election. Mr. B. S. Gordon, the Lord Advocate of
Scotland, has conseated to come forward in the Conserva-
eypelite,dratthhaet
consent
er,t borough,toßogers, a
allow. himself
ltoivcealinstoolri,c;istto,ra, nvidililt Zobtelittedbatthtalet
being invited to comp forward, Mr. Roger r
"although he had no personal ambition to take upon '
to be put in nomination." An address has b
him-
selfthanthseee hitonsoaucrrifiocfedre,phreeswenoutilndg
been issued to
the electors by a Ur. John Lea, who promises,
of his candidature being successful, ~to in the event
, establish a new
English home in the vicinity of Holston,"
dedi-
cate himself" to promote the best localcrai • and to "
interests. It is
impossible to judge from his address
what political creed
he professes.