The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-03 00:00:00

MEXICO.

Advices from Vera Cruz to the 13th ult. (via Havan-
nah), state that 300 men had been sent in a French man-
of-war to Bagdad. It was supposed the Imperialists would
soon re-occupy the place.

In the Senate, on the 17th inst., the credentials of Hon.
William A. Graham, Senator elect from North Carolina,
were presented, and ordered to be laid on the table.
Mr. Doolittle (of Wisconsin) called up the bill for the
Appointment of Provisional Governments for the South-
ern States, and opposed it in an able speech. He said
that the surrender of the two ideas of the South that
States had a right to secede, and that slavery was a bless-
ing, formed the basis of a permanent peace. The Lincoln
and Johnson policy of maintaining the Union must be ad-
hered to or secession will have been a success. He called
attention to the fact that ono of the great Radical leaders,
Thaddeus Stevens, once objected to the nomination of
Andrew Johnson for the Vico-Presidency on the ground
that ho was from a foreign State at war with the United
States, and therefore was an alien. The Radical policy, if
carried out, would entirely destroy the Union in time. To
admit the right of States to secede, or the power of Con-
gress to expel them, would be to admit into our system a
principle of self-destruction wholly at variance with a per-
fect and permanent Union. The blood shed and money
spent had been not to overthrow or drive States out of the
Union, but to keep them in the Union. Any other theory
was wicked and suicidal. .

In the Senate, on the 18th, the Committee on Territories
reported favo\trably to the admission of Colorado, declar-
ing that State 'to bo now one of the United States of
America on an equal footing with the other States.
Mr. Wade (of Ohio) delivered a long speech against Pre-
sident Johnson's reconstruction policy, and in favour of the
bill for the appointment of Provisional Governments for
the Southern States. Ile thought Mr. Johnson had made
some improvements upon Mr. Lincoln's policy ; but he had
not yet met the requirements of the times. He (Mr. Wade)
would never yield the controversy until all men in America
stood upon a footing of equality before the law. The
negroes had been used to put down the rebellion, and were
now entitled to participation in all benefits secured by the
success of the national arms. Tho people of the South
were i!iAoyal and full of hate against the Union. He
would keep the Southern States out of the Union until
they gave the right of suffrage to the negro. There was
as much right to exact this as for the President to insist
upon the adoption of the Anti-slavery Amendment, and
the repudiation of the rebel debt. The Southern States
had acquiesced in those measures under duress, and might
repudiate them when military power was withdrawn.
The following correspondence has taken place between
General R. Clay Crawford and the officers in command of
the respective shores of the Rio Grande :

GENERA', CRAWFORD TO GENERAL WEITZEL.
Brownsville, Texas, Jan. 1, 1866.
Major-General Godfrey Weitzel, Commanding District of
Rio Grande and Twenty-fifth army corps :
General,—information has just reached me that a num-