The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1867.

entirely controls the price of gold throughout the United
States.

(From E. F.Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular.)

6, Austinfriars, London, Jan. 16.
By the Java we have our customary advices from New
York to the 31st ultimo ; they report a fair average
amount of business in all the stock markets. Governments
were firm at previous quotations, and some rather impor-
tant changes appeared in the Railroad Share List, Chi-
chago and North Western being quoted $9 lower, while
Hudson River had improved $l4, Cleveland and Pittsburg
$5, and Illinois Central $2. Money was more in request at
higher rates, and gold steady.
There has been a general activity in the London
market for American securities during the past week.
On improved quotations from New York prices slightly
strengthened, but have not maintained the full advance,
United States 5-20's closing 72i to -I, Illinois Central shares
81 to }, both being a small advance on this day week but
Eries have declined 1 per cont., the last quotation being
44} to 45.
Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Bonds leave
off 32 to ex coupon, or about equivalent to last week's
quotations. The debentures are 51 to 52.

Impeachment of President Johnson.

The Pall iilall Gazette states :—" "We have reason
to believe that the articles of impeachment to be
laid before the Senate by the managers who shall
be appointed by the House of Representatives to
prosecute him will be substantially as follows
1. That he has violated and set aside the Constitu-
tion and laws of the United States which he had
sworn, as Executive, to support. The chief speci-
fication as to violation of the Constitution is that
he has appointed to office men whom the Senate had
refused to confirm immediately after such refusal,
the Constitution declaring that all appointments of
the Executive shall be made " by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate." The chief
specification with regard to the violation of
the laws will be that he has appointed to
office, and is now paying out of the Contingent
Fund of the War Department, men who have
not, and who are notoriously unable to take
the oath of loyalty, thus violating and setting aside
a law of Congress passed July 2, 1862, and yet un-
repealed, providing that no man shall hold any
office, military, naval, or civil, unless he has first
taken the oath that be has never given support,
countenance, or encouragement to the enemies of
the country in armed rebellion. Another specifica-
tion under this head will be that he has refused to
sustain the Civil Rights Bill since the same was
passed by Congress over his veto, or to instruct his
agents in the South to respect and enforce its pro-
visions, through which neglect various instances of
flagrant denial of rights and perpetuation of wrongs
meant to be prevented by the said bill have ensued.
These alleged instances will probably be mentioned
in detail, and the testimony of military men ad-
duced. 2. That he is guilty of " high crimes"
against many American citizens whose lives have
been cruelly sacrificed by him in his illegal
pursuit of partisan purpose. The first spe-
cification will be that by sustaining the
Mayor of New Orleans and his police—all of whom
were ex-rebels—in suppressing a legal assemblage
of Unionists in New Orleans, he was the real cause
of the slaughter in that city of 378 unarmed men,
amongst whom were the most eminent and devoted
patriots of Louisiana. Another specification will
refer to the similar massacre at Memphis. 3. That
he has been guilty of gross and serious " misde-
meanours" in language and beheaviour, to an extent
injurious to the peace and order of the country and
degrading to the office he holds. The specifications
here will be mainly these-1, denouncing the ser-
vants of the people in Congress assembled as
" satraps," as " a body hanging on the verge of the
Government," as " equally guilty with the traitors
of the South," and as " guilty of .the New Orleans
massacre ;" 2, declaring publicly that he could
with safety have made himself " dictator" if he
had wished ; 3, giving pardons indiscriminately
to rebels against the Government at the solici-
tations of a woman of loose character, and
others who made it a business to obtain
and sell them, and other abuses of the pardoning
power ; 4, giving to the country as the regular re-
port of General Sheridan on the New Orleans
massacre a garbled copy of the same, with the in-
tent of concealing a statement very damaging to
himself in the same ; 5, habitual drunkenness to
the extent of interfering with his duties as President,
and also of bringing dishonour on the country by
wild and incoherent harangues, made while in a
manifest state of intoxication. In support of this
allegation the speeches made at his inauguration
and at Niagara and various other places visited
during the President's recent Western tour will be
adduced. It is probable that a leading manager of
the case will be the Hon. Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, a
gentleman who led in the prosecution of the late
Preston L. Brooks, of South Carolina, for his
assault upon Mr. Sumner in the Senate Chamber,
which resulted in his expulsion from the House of
Representatives. Mr. Bingham is said to be a man
of considerable legal learning, and an able speaker.
It is believed by some prominent men in Washing-
ton that the President will resign rather than have
a trial proceed.

ings for furtherin g this demonstration, must be made
to the district organiser in each case. The council
of the Reform League wish to impress upon the
minds of all disposed to co-operate with them in
their national and patriotic objects thas, whilst it is
their earnest desire that the demonstration on the
11th of Feb. should be such as to prove unmis-
takeably the firm and deliberate resolution of the
artisan and labouring classes to have the rights
to which they are entitled by the principles of the
constitution, to be no longer excluded by class legis-
lation from being represented in the Commons
House of Parliament and the administration of state
affairs by men in whose appointment they have had
themselves the power of freely and directly concur-
ring, and, in fact, to be no longer treated as children,
fit only to be placed under the political guardianship
of the wealthy. It is also the earnest desire of the
council that this great demonstration should in all
its proceedings be conducted in a peaceful, orderly,
and law-respectful spirit, worthy of men whose
strength is in the justice of their cause more than in
their numerical force, worthy of the brave, thought-
ful, and Christian people of Great Britain and Ire-
land.—By order of the executive, GEORGE HOWELL,
secretary, 8, Adelphi-terrace, Strand, W.O

class of robber equally dangerous. The Fenians
organise openly, with the avowed object of fight-
ing the British empire. They declare their inten-
tion of dividing among themselves the property of
Ireland in case of their success, and they know they
will be hanged, shot, or exiled in case of failure.
But the mean thieves, to whom Mr. WATKIN alludes,
direct against their countrymen poisoned arrows
and concealed mines, that a Email gain may accrue
to themselves from the ruin which involves countless
numbers of families in misery and destitution. The
midnight incendiary who sets fire to a house filled
with sleeping inmates, in the hope that he may carry
off some small amount of plunder in the general
scramble is the man that may be likened to the
gang denounced by Mr. WATKIN. It is lamentable
to see the helplessness of the English public in the
face of the new danger which threatens their pro-
perty, and it is refreshing to find one man at least
up to the occasion, and sufficiently powerful to make
his exertions felt. —Anglo-American Times.