The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-04 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1866.

News from America, if not less interesting than
formerly, will at least not be so long watched for.
We shall be kept au courant with the details of
American political life, the same as we are with the
proceedings in our own metropolis. We can hardly
yet, as Lord DERBY said the other evening, imagine
what the result of the full working of the cable will
be. As yet the delay occasioned by the transit be-
tween the American coast and Newfoundland,
which takes six or seven hours out of the fifteen
which are spent between New York and London.
The rulers of the two great nations having ex-
changed courtesies, the two chief municipal autho-
rities of England and America have also inter-
changed greetings, and the Mayor of New York
and the Lord Mayor of London have sent by the
aid of the electric messenger expressions of good-
will and hopes of national amity. This union not
only of the Continents, but of the hemispheres, is
in reality the great event of the day, and its effects
we may hope will be actively felt throughout the
habitable globe when the temporary excitements and
agitations of the hour are forgotten. It is an
achievement vast enough to satisfy even our trans-
atlantic cousins, accustomed as they are to the vast
and magnificent in nature, and used to dealing in
extremes with social and political matters.

The intelligence we have received from New
York by the Persia, us that both Houses of Con-
gress have passed a resolution admitting Tennessee
into the Union. The Radicals have taken care to
do this in the most unfavourable manner by adding
an amended pre mble to the resolution to the effect
that Tennessee, having been in insurrection, could
only be restored to the Union by consent of the
law-making power of the United States. A string
of further conditions fulfilled by Tennessee was then
rehearsed, so as carefully to avoid committing the
Rapublicans to the wholesale admission of other
Southern States. The PRESIDENT, however, is re-
solved to be equally careful not to be committed by
the ingenious devices of his opponents, to whose
tricks, by this time, he is pretty well accustomed.
lle signed the bill re-admitting Tennessee, but sent
a message with it to Congress, stating that the sig-
nature was not to be considered as admitting the
right of Congress to pass laws preliminary to the
admission of States, nor as committing himself to
their conditions. This message was received in ac-
cordance, with the usual good taste of the Radicals,
with derisive laughter. Rira viiu qui rira le dernier
is however, an old saying, and the Re-
publicans have long since discovered that
ANDREW JOHNSON is no contemptible adver-
sary. He is not likely to suffer them to en-
croach upon the Presidential prerogative, because
he knows that at this juncture the supreme power
offers the best protection against the dangerous in-
novations of the ultra party, which is ready at any
moment to overturn the old landmarks of the Con-
stitution, in order to secure some temporary tri-
umph for themselves. The Radicals, however, find
their own affairs or much less than they can manage
that they have energy to spare for their neighbours,
and accordingly the House of Representatives has
adopted a resolution, requesting the PRESIDENT to
urge the Canadian authorities to release the Fenians
captured in Canada, and to abandon the Federal
prosecutions against the Fenians. The Fenian
generals, SWEENEY, SPEAR, and MEHAN have been
released on bail, and in fact the decisive action of
the Federal Government has completely disheartened

the conspirators.
The general news brought by the telegraph is
comparatively unimportant. JEFFERSON DAVIS
has had a consultation with his counsel upon his
line of defence, so that the expectation of his trial
is still kept up. Time is fighting hie battles, as it