The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-16 00:00:00

sense.

During the meeting loud cries of " Down with
the present system ! away with its supporters 1" were
uttered.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 16.

The North German Lloyd steamer• America, from
New York, has arrived here, with 109 passengers
for this port, Havre, and Hamburg ; 48 sacks of
mails for London ; $92,000 in specio for England,
and $156,000 in specie for France.
NEW YORK, Dcc. 5 (Morning).

The Senate has paused a resolution calling for
papers relative to the Alabama claims, and has also
passed a bill declaring five to form a quorum of the
Supreme Court. A resolution has been laid on the
table denouncing those portions of President John-
son's Message in which he condemned the course. of
Congress as a breach of official propriety, and re-
commending Congress to express reprehension
thereof. Senator Sumner, in a speech opposing the
printing of extra copies of the President's Message,
denounced the Message as incendiary, and calcu-
lated to stimulate rebellion and provoke civil war.
It was evidence, he said, of a coalition existing
between Mr. Johnson and the rebels. Mr. Davis
whose successor Mr. Johnson was, would have sent
just such a message.
Mr. Dixon, a Conservative Republican, defended
Mr. Johnson, and declared that Congress was mis-
representing the people, and that it should reflect
on the lessons taught by the Conservative victoria
in the recent elections, which were a rebuke to th©
Radicals.

A resolution has been referred to the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, declaring that no claim of a
foreign Government over na turalised citizens of the
United States shall affect the right of such citizens
to Federal protection, and that the Government
shall at all hazard protect naturalised citizens both
at home and abroad.

General Hancock has reinstated several judicial
officials in Louisiana who had been removed by
General Mower.

The Alabama Convention have passed an ordi-
nance suspending all civil courts with the exception
of the Supreme Probate and Criminal Courts.
General Popo has ordered the Convention to
adjourn on the ground of its action injuring re-
construction.

The Virginia Convention
,has elected Judge
Underwood as President. He addressed the Con-
vention, advising it to exercise all Christian charity
consistent with future safety.

Governor Brownlow has published a card deny ing
the evidence of Chief Detective Baker before the
Impeachment Committee, and declaring that he
never testified, and dogs not believe, that President
Johnson ever corresponded with Mr. Davis or any
other rebel during the rebellion.
The negroes of Bullock county, Alabama, have
organised courts of their own. They were armed
and threatened to seize the property of the whites.
General Swaync sent a detachment of troops, who
dispersed them, and arrested fifteen of their ring-
leaders.

Mr. Hoffman, a Democrat, has been re-elected
Mayor of New York by a majority of 22,000 over
the Opposition Democratic and Republican candi-
dates. The Republican vote showed a decrease of
7,000.

Intelligence from Mexico, of the 20th ult., pub-
lished by the Now York journals, mentions a rumour
that a messenger had arrived in thateapital from the
Emperor Napoleon to President Juarez.