The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-10 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEIV3,

Prom the Aniflo-Antaicad 77Nes.)
On the 21st November Congress met at Wash-
ington, when the President was enabled to ignore
its existence, as legally, the first Monday in Decem-
ber is the date on which the Session commences.
He refrained from transmitting his Message till
then, and Reports from the Heads of Departments
could not of course be received. Practically there-
fore there was no business before the House, al-
though the attendance of members was large.
Speaker Colfax presided at the Representatives,
where
.the Impeachment Committee was called on
for its report, which it promised on Nov. 25. An
unsuccessful attempt was in ole by the Democrats
to have the loyalty of the Tennessee members in-
quired into, as were those from Kentucky, some of
them being accused of having served in the Confe-
derate army. Mr. Brooks, who was the Democratic
spokesman, considered it unfair that while Ken-
tucky Congressmen had been excluded on a charge
of sympathy with the Confederacy, Tennessee mem-
bers, who had actually served against the United
States, should be admitted. In one instance only
did he prevail ; the excluded delegate having been a
Major in the Confederate army, though he has now
swung round to Radicalism. The House then ad-
journed till Friday. In the Senate the Hon. Ben
Wade presided, with his head rather battered from
his recent fall. Business commenced, as usual, by
Mr. Sumner's bill to make negroes and whites equal
in the District of Columbia. Senator Edmonds, of
Vermont, introduced the following joint resolution,
which was ordered to be printed, and is to be called
op on an early day ;
" Whereas, the public debt of the United States
was, except when specialiy otherwise provided,
contracted and incurred upon the faith and credit
of the United States that the same would be paid
or redeemed in coin or its equivalent, and whereas
doubts have been raised as to the duty and pro-
priety of discharging such debt in coin or its
equivalent, it is therefore—
" Resolved, by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States in Congress as-
sembled, that the public debt of the United States,
except in the cases wherein by the law authorising
the same other provision was expressly made, is
owing in coin or its equivalent, and the faith of
the Unite I States is hereby pledged in payment
accordingly."
It is thought that this resolution will be c trried
by a large majority in both Houses, and the fall in
the price of gold indicates, we believe, its favourable
reception.
If the Message of the President does not absorb
Congressional attention, there will be a great fight
between the advocates of contraction and inflation.
It is believed that in the house the inflation:sts are
in a majority, and the Senate is doubtful. The
West strongly adveeate more money, and will op-
pose Secretary M'Culloch's scheme of contracting
the greenback currency. He desires an increase, of
h:s present power in this direction, .while his oppo-
nents propose to abolish the law under which he
is enabled to absorb greenbacks at the rate of
$4,000,000 a month. This subject is more closely
associated with repudiation tha❑ is at first sight
apparent. Let any one begin to tamper with his
capital to meet his ordinary expenditure, and he takes
what may prove to be a fatal step on the road to
ruin. It is more pleasant to meet expenses by
" doing a little paper" when credit is' good, than
to retrench, to dismiss servants, sell horses and
carriages, and take a downward step in the social
scale. Yet such a course may be the only true so-
lution of a grave difficulty. Contraction means
not only a national, but an individual retrenchment
throughout the States ; inflation is the seeming
prosperity a man has who is living on his capital.
The true financial friends of the United States dread
the Representatives shying at the bog they have to
wade through ere they reach sound financial
ground. " What is the uie of sticking in this
mud ?" says the horse, who has pleasant clover
pastures inviting him ou this side. " That grass
may be very pleasant to eat," he is answered ;
" but it will destroy your constitution. You will
be blown out and burst." The position is a
trying one, for the bog is plain enough, but the
other evil, remote and obscure. Secretary M'Cul-
loch is, however, painfully alive to the danger ; and
it will not be his fault if Congress overrules his
opinion. The plan ha proposes is sketched in the
report which has reached this country through the
cable.

Mr. Robinson, one of those rowdy Democrats
who spring from the hotbed of New York, has in-
troduced a resolution in the House of Representa-
tives, charging Charles Francis Adams, American
Minister at St. James's, with neglect of duty in
refusing to interfere on behalf of American citizens
arrested and tried in the United Kingdom. A com-
mittee of investigation is demanded, with a view,
if the facts justify the course, to impeach the Mi-
nister ; and the President is desired to recall Mr.
Adams by the Atlantic cable as the speediest method.
Copies of correspondence ou the arrests and trials

are also called for. It is a singular fact that the
party who received British support and sym-
pathy is that which has always displayed the
most bitter and unreasoning hostility against
England. The Democrats derive a large measure
of support front the Irish, and in return aid
Fenianism. On the other hand, they received all
the assistance the Southern oligarchy could give,
and therefore sympathised with the rebels. The
complications in which England has become in-
volved by the piratical acts of cruisers obtained in
English ports, is in some degree due to them, yet
they are prepared to fasten on England the conse-
quences, at the same time that they tender aid in
fostering a rebellion in the United Kingdom, and
endeavour to cover the agents employed, by the
open protection of the United States. This is the
party, with Mr. Johnson at its head, that com-
manded the sympathies of the well-informed Eng-
lish press.

The Alabama Convention still in session rejects all
counsels of moderation, and goes in for the extreme
of disfranchisement and proscription. To the list of
the disfranchised are now added those who will not
swear to support negro suffrage. The members have
voted themselves $8 a day, and the same amount for
each twenty miles they have to travel to and from the
capital, and in payment have appropriated funds
set apart by the Alabama Legislature for the in-
terest On the State Debt, although the method of
paying the members is provided by the Reconstruc-
tion Acts. The friends of the negro express great
disappointment at this sample of African legislation,
and have been constrained to admit that the present
experiment is a failure. Ere long similar constitu-
tional conventions will be in session in other States,
and unless greater wisdom prevails in their coun-
sels, there will be a speedy end of such Assemblies.
As anticipated, the house of Representatives has
repealed the tax upon cotton grown after the pre-
sent year. The feeling was almost unanimous, and
the evidence conclusive against it.
It was announced that Mr. Horace Greeley had
been nominated United States Minister to Austria,
and that the Senate had confirmed the appointment.

were somewhat surprised at this news, as

_ .
Horace Greeley had declined the appointuent last
year, when Mr. Motley's resignation, and Mc-
Cra2ken's insolent report to the President were dis-
cussed. Mr. Greely had not only declined, but pub-
lished the grounds for his refusal. These have in
no way changed, and we presume that if Mr. Greeley
last year refused the promotion, that this year, cir-
cumstances remaining the sang, he would refuse it
again. By a telegram rent from New York, on
Thursday, we learn he had refused it, but one would
have supposed that his name would not have been
submitted to the Senate unless his sanction had been
first secured.

Judge Shipman made some excellent remarks
when opening the United States Circuit Court at
Hartford, Connecticut, in his charge to the Grand
Jury touching the cases of defalcations of bank offi-
cers about to be tried :

" There are," lie Said, " men of good social standing,
who aro raised by their salaries above want, and aro re-
moved from many of the temptations which assail those in
the obscure and humble walks of life. To fail to punish
them when they deliberately violate their trust and plunder
those who have relied on their integrity, while at the same
time the more ignorant and degraded offenders against law
are visited with its penalties, shocks the moral sense, and is
a bitter mockery of justice. It renders property inse-
cure, encourages fraud, and removes those wholesome
checks which should guard and warn others from

treading in the same path of crime. The position
of the active officers of a bank, who are daily ern-
ployed in conducting i s affairs,
is one of peculiar
responsibility. They are intrusted not only with the
property of the opulent who are able to bear losses, and
who have usually a potent voice in selecting these officers,
but they control the interests of the small stockholders."
of widows and orphans, whose sole means of support are
(often the small savings of a life of industry and self-
denial, carefully invested by those who have passed awns'
as a security against want for friends who have shared
their affectio 7 and been dependent on their care. No m°rj
delicate or sacred earthly trusts can be committed tomo"
than these. And yet they aro often shamefully violatel,
and the public and the victims are told that the high P''si"
tions of the culprits, their attractive and manly qualities,
their past unblemished reputation, or their eminent Pie*
or all combined, are such that those who have the earliest
and free access to the evideuee of guilt do not desire fuel:
punishment, and cannot find it in their hearts to 3la
in bringing them to justice. If-the moral sense of dies"
most immediately interested in the management of these
institutions is reduced to this sickly condition,
it is quitd
time that a law was enacted declaring every officer, direc-
tor, or stockholder of a bank, who has no knowledea that
a fraud has been committed upon it, and fads to make lir,
mediate complalut to the officers of the law, au accesso?'
after the fact, punishable by fine and imprisonment.
miserable vendor of counterfeit currency passes a Vigil,'
note at a bank and is detected, he is at once handed 0%
to the officers of the law. It the bolder robber seizes -
package of bills from its counter or messenger, he is
s
imme-
diately arrested, if possible, and brought to justice. Shall
it be said that as officer of a bank who commits,
coolness and deliberation a long series of crimes, tu"
smallest of which is more flagrant than counterfeiting °
ordinary theft, may, when he can pursue his guilty voca-
tion no longer with secresy and success, assemble in'
partial friends, make his confession and apology, and tilier ri
leisurely depart, with none to hinder or molest him ? 4—cei
laws made only for the comparatively weak, ignorant, an.
helpless? Is the whole force of society, operating Oren/
the expensive machinery of criminal justice, to be exP"de„,
upon its obscure and worthless members, while tLe
conspicuous ones are acre- ned from punishment and treated
as mere victims of misfortune, entitled to sympathisills
regrets, and to every facility for concealment or flight? .
"So demoralising has the sentim nt of the community
on this subject become, that offenders of the more resPec`;
able class begin to demand exemption from punishment °a
a right. It is not long since a man of education apa
pro-ninence, notoriously guilty of repeated and extensive
forgeries, while temporarily confined, or rather lodged, I.
the gaol in this county, had the effrontery to deuoea.c_e
.
every one of his victims who hesitated to twit° with
in suppressing the evidence of his guilt. lie finally coe:,
came all their scruples, and is now engaged in oulight4bo
log other communities on their moral duties, and in
,tPat
enjoyment of the patronage and favour of society
mark the contrast. Ab ,ut the same time, in the SalO
city, an obscure, uneducated day-labourer forged a at°gd
small cheque, presente 1 it at the bank, was detected 1,,n,
speedily consigned to the State prison at Wethersfield tu'
a term of years."
What a splendid commentary on late cases in 13.8.;
land ! and more no!ably on that of the nonvl3t
Wilkinson and the London Times. This cxceln
judge could not have named an offender
United States whO hadmore shamefully wroughth3„,
the ruin accomplished by thi.3 man. Yet theetin ;
vcrnment, the Judge, and all concerned in m,
out his punishment, had to withstand a severo
pressure, headed by the most powerful organ
of

public opinion in the world.
Our correspondent at Naples tells us that the
eruption of Vesuvius is increasing, and beceintug
i 08
daily more interesting. A new stream of lava 'he
been opened from the summit of the cone in to
direction of Torre del Greco. Fortunately the la
at
is flowing over that of previous eruptions, so till
visitors may enjoy the sight without regretting no,
destruction of valuable laud. The .weather CO
finites bright and clear. November has been quite
an Indian summer.
The Bishop of New York returned from Eing,,o4
in time to speak at the Protestant Episcopal ','" to
vention, lately held in New York. He alluded to
the very kind treatment and great hospitality hie
American clergy had received in England, and the
remarks met with the warmest reception by 15,
Convention. Resolutions were adopted heart'
approving the acts of the Pan-Anglican Synod, 50
its Synodical letter recognising the essentialun'l,
:of
of the Anglican Church, and applauding the Pr°tee
sion by which the President of the United St'liere
will be associated with her Majesty in the Pr`lY to
of English continental churches and chapels
which American travellers commonly resort' to
copy of these resolutions has been transmitted of
the Archbishop of Canterbury as the President
the Synod.
The report is again revived that General '-'-cor
man is to command a large body of regulars at ity,
near Washington. He is not expected at that ebbe
till the Ist of December, and in the meantime 'ea
number of the regular troops has been inereAsto
from 1,900 to 3,000. Colonel Forney continues
litfa
announce in both his papers, that the Presidentiali
tends to subvert Conuress and a coup (re
,
on the country. GeLeral Sherman can be' t
obliged to the author of these ridiculous canara`nie,
associating his name with this unlawful sehfethe
That officer has just addressed the Society °l,jou
Army of Tennessee, at their annual celebrPoi
. ,
at St. Louis. lie ingeniously avoided Pelit ,
vaguely recommending a return to the netit a
velt
tiou. lie became eloquent, however, when he °.
n ssee.
on the achievements of the army of Ten-c,4 es
He offered to welcome back the Southerners
eon
equals," but not "superiors," provided they the
" adapt themselves to the manifest destiny
country."
has re-
Judge Agnew, of the Supreme Court,
„„hily
versed the decision of Judge Allison, of the the
delphia Court of Common Pleas, who charge'. aid
•
jury to return Mary Miles damages, which they
gar
for $5OO, under the following circumstances•ted
Miles, a respectable coloured woman, was eigeeil'
from a car of the Westchester (Pennsylvania) "'het
road Company, because she refused to change She
seat when requested to do so by the conductor. bone
sued the company, and obtained damages as reale
stated, when the company appealed to the SuProll'
Court. Judge Agnew ruled that never in do
sylvania has there been au intermixture of the At
races socially, politically, civilly, or religieusittbo
the time of the alleged injury there wisn-oyeen
natural, legal, and customary difference i!.e„ con:
the black and the white passengers in a puh,l-secnr"
veyance, the subject of a sound regulation In Pe
order, promote comfort, and preserve o'3
He therefore held the conductor to be justified'
I'te
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Births.
, tbe
BURNABY.—On the sth inst., at Plumsteail,
of Captain A. D. Burnaby, R.A., of a sou. pbroolfl
OARELEY.—On the Bth inst., at Angley Park, er'l
Lady Oakeley, prematurelv, of a son, stillberd• 1,13.1
TAYLolt.—On tho Bth lust., et 16, Eaton-111"e' t

Jane Taylor, of a daughter.
Marriages.
ALLISON—A TKINSON.—Ou the sth just., at Sto `jbe
on-Sea, Robert Andrew Allison, Esq•, of Se',.`7,.:"Cf
Cumberland. to Laura Alicia, youug~•s't dog"- r A
late Joseph Milner Atkinson; Est
5.0,0 • 0,
PURDON--CAULFEILD.-011 the sth inst.,C4c.,,vo,,if
4
co. Limerick, George Purdon R of ?upl.:►l e
Clare, to Annie onl •,• • t• 'f
late ()ono°
udda
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Deaths. „ 11-i''' r
CARTWRIGHT.— On the 7th inct , at Loughborel ,cer,
Brixton, Richard Cartwright, *Esq., late of (I 31.
CUB,
lane, aged 74. t• A
HowELL.—On the Bth inst. at Hove, near Br,gb 11/
Howell, Esq., F.Ii.S.A., aged 83. c erWe
lIASSEY.—On the 7th inst. at Grove-lane, - °lib
'Thomas Massey, Esq., aged (37. r: 1 cl ii%‘e''''
TREvoit.--On the 7th inst , at Brynkinalt, 3,14'1011 '-
land, youngest son e.f Lord and Lady BO"'
vor,!aged 1 year and 9 months.

London : Printed and Published by WILLIAIL :.jo of
a ill No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The SUN o,lle''' coin
Strand in Ms Precinct of the Sr voy, b°
Middlesex.—Tuesday, December 10, 107.

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