The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-23 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.
The screw steamship Kangaroo, Jeffrey comman-
der, ha' arrived from Now York, with one day's
later advicos than those brought by the Africa,
250,000 cols. in specie on freight, and 300 passen-
gers:- - - - - -- -

The New York mails of the 19th, which were to
have been despatched by the Baltic, would be de-
tained for the Adriatic ; she would coal imme-
diately on her arrival out, and leave about the 22d.
In the -Senate Mr. Douglas had expressed his
assent to the general views of the Message ; but as
regarded its endorsenient of the action of the Le-
compton Convention he differed in tote. He con-
gratulated the President on the course he had
pursued in the matter, and proceeded to show that
Congress could not properly receive Kansas into
the Union under the Lecompton Constitution. Not
only the slavery question, he, said, but all others
must be submitted to the whole people of Kansas,
as they are guaranteed to establish all their domestic
institutions for themselves ; and on that principle
the whole Constitution must be submitted to as-
certain whether it meets with their approbation.
He also compared it to the freedom of election in
Paris, when Louis Napoleon was chosen, and
said that the reason assigned why the people
should' not be allowed to vote on its acceptance
was that if they had the chance they would vote
it down by an overwhelming majority. He be-
lieved that they would ; therefore kis objection
to force an obnoxious Constitution upon theta.
Upon concluding his remarks there was applause
from the galleries, upon which it was moved, but
ineffectually, that they be cleared. Mr. Biglee
(Penusylvania) supported the Convention, and
argued that to keep them out of the Union simply
because the whole Constitution had not been sub-
mitted to them would be inconsistent with the
doctrine of non-intervention. The people of Kan-
sas, he said, had now an opportunity of deciding
whether they would have a free or a slave State.
Until they made that decision he could not deter-
mine his course. These gentlemen continued the
discussion, the former referring to a speech the
President had made 20 years ago, and the latter
protesting against its introduction, under the sta-
tue of limitation plea. Ultimately the further
consideration of the Message was postponed, and
the Senate adjourned.

The House of Representatives having adopted a
proposition of Mr. Houston, of Alabama, that it
proceed to the re-election of a printer, with a pro-
viso, selected Mr. Steadman by a majority of 32.
The members having selected their seats by lottery,
then adjourned.
According to the Washington correspondent of
the Now York Herald the Treasury Department
had suspended payment. Requisitions to the
amount of nearly half a million dollars were held
in the Department. " This," says the Herald,
" will doubtless lead to the immediate passage of
an Act authorising an issue of Treasury notes, in
accordance with the suggestion of Secretary Cobb."
The same correspondent states that the Govern-
merit had received accounts of the capture of a
slaver by one of her Majesty's ships ; out of 600
slaves 200 were drowned.
Advices from Kansas report that General Cal-
houn, Provisional Governor, had issued two pro-
clamations—one specifying the manner of holding
the election on the 21st in-t., for submitting the
Slavery clause of the Constitution to the people,
and the other providing for the election of State
officers ou the first Monday in January. It was
understood that Secretary Stanton had issued a
proclamation c tiling a special session of the Legis-
lature, which was to meet on the 7th inst. At a
mass convention of the Free State men, at Leaven-
worth, on the 27th ult., it was unanimously re-
solved to put the Topeka Government in motion,
and stand or fall by it, in case Secretary Stanton
should decline to convene the Legislature. Affairs
in Kansas were assuming a more complicated shape
than ever.

It is stated that the President has peremptorily
dismissed Robert J. Walker and Frederick P.
Stanton from the Governorship and Secretaryship
of Kansas. Colonel Richardson,, of Illinois, who
piloted the Kansas Nebraska Bill through the last
House of Representatives, had been appointed to
succeed Governor Walker, and General Denver,
Commissioner of Indian Affair?, would supersede
Mr. Stanton. General Denver was in Kansas,
and would enter upon the duties of his new office
as soon as the special messenger despatched from
Washington reached the territory. The cause of
the dismissal of Mr. Stanton was the fact
the
oif his_
having issued a proclamation calling a Fpevia
ses-
sion of the Leconipton Legislature to meet on
the 7th inst.
It is stated that various Indian tribes had of-
fered their services to the Federalmovements Government
in the suppression of the Mom
Of the movements of Walker Washington
correspondent of the Heraldsays erald .n
:i
" The steamer from Aspinwall, duen New York next
Wednesday or Thursday,
wi!l bring the news that he
has entered the San Juan River by the Colorado
mouth, and that in conjunction with General Martinez