The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-06 00:00:00

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

" Sir,—Having received information that the State of
I Alabama through a Convention representing her sovereignty
has adopted and ratified an ordinance by which she with-
draws from the Union of the United States of America,
and resumes the powers heretofore delegated to the Federal
Government, it is proper that we should communicate the
same to you, and through you to the House of Representa-
tives over which you preside, and announce our withdrawal
from the further deliberations of that body. The causes
which, in the judgment of our State, rendered such action
necessary we need not relate. It is sufficient to say that
duty requires our obedience to her sovereign will, and that
we shall return to our homes, sustain her action, and share
the fortunes of our people.

"We have the lionour to be, very respectfully your
obedient servants,
"GEORGE S. irOUSTON.
SUYDENHAM MOODE.
6‘ DAVID CLOPTON.
"JAMES S. PUGH.
"J. L. M. CVEY.
"JAMES A. STALLWORTH."

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seceding States, the Vice-President said there was
no record of such absence on the journal; he sug-
gested that the Senate should instruct him' as to
whether he should recognise their absence. After
debate, the Senate declined to take any action upon
the matter, and thus no notice of the withdrawal
of the absent senators will appear upon the record.
Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, urged the adoption of
Crittenden's resolutions.

Mr. Dix, Secretary of the Treasury, communi-
cated to the house an important document in reply
to Mr. Sherman, chairman of the Committee on
Ways and Means. It gives the items of the public
debt in detail, the amount of the floating debt, the
unpaid balances, claims, acceptances and other ac-
knowledgments of debt by the Government; also,
the facts connected with the recent sales • of Trea-
sury notes, and the amount required to pay the
public dues accruing prior to the Ist July, which is
estimated at twenty millions, in addition to the
revenue and other sources of income. It Oggestb
measures to raise the amount, and among other
means refers to the surplus revenue deposited with
the States in 1836, as a specific fund which might
be pledged or recalled. The communication shows
the precise condition of the Treasury.
Mr. Douglas has prepared an amendment to the
constitution, consisting of eight sections, and will
offer them a.sa substitute for Mr. Crittenden's reso-
lutions. Section first provides that Congress shall
make no laws in respect to domestic servitude in
any territory of the United States, and that all ter-
ritorial. Governments shall be formed on the model
and in the terms of the Compromise Act of
1850 ; that no new territory shall be organised
until it has 25,000 white inhabitants, nor no
new State admitted until it has the requi-
site population for a representative to Con-
gress ; that the Supreme Court shall determine
the validity of territorial enactments. Section
second declares that Congress shall have ne power
to abolish or interfere with slavery either in the
States or in anyplace under the exclusive jurisdic-
tion of the United States, and that Congress shall
not have the power to interfere with or prevent the
removal of slaves from one state to another. Sec•
tion third for ever suppresses the slave trade. See-
tion fourth gives greater emphasis and efficiency to
the claim already in the constitution concerning per-
sons held to service or labour escaping, &c. Section
fifth prohibits the elective franchise and the right
to hold office, whether federal, state, territorial, or
municipal, to persons of the African race, in whole
or in part. Section sixth is in these words :—" The
United States shall have power to acquire districts
of country in Africa or South America, for the
colonisation, at the expen3e of the federal treasury,
of such free negroes and mulattoes as the several
States may desire to have removed from within
their limits, and from the district of Columbia and
such other places as may be under the jurisdiction
of Congress." The seventh section provides for the
payment for fugitives, if the officers in search of
them are prevented from doing their duty by vio-
lence or intimidation, and the eighth section pro-
vides that the first and second clauses of the first
section of the second article of the constitution
shall read as follows:

The executive power shall be vested in a president of the
United States of America. The president and vice-presi-
dent shall hold their offices for the term of six years, and
shall be ineligible for the office of president for the ensuing
six years after having performed the duties of president,
and shall be elected as follows :—The legislature of each
state, at its first session after any federal census, shall
divide said state into as many congressional districts as it
shall be entitled to representatives in congress, which dis-
trict shall be as compact in form and nearly equal in popu •
lation as practicable. In each of said districts one elector
of president and vice-president shall be chosen by the
people thereof having the qualifications requisite for elec-
tors of representatives in Congress, and in addition two
electors for the state at large shall be chosen by the mem-
bers of the Legislature assembled in joint convention for
that purpose, on the day appointed by Congress.

On Jan. 22 the Senate of Rhode Island passed
an act repealing the Personal Liberty Bill by a
♦ote of 21 to 9. The house, after some discussion,
postponed the further consideration of the subject.
The capital of the nation had begun to present a
military aspect. A company of Flying Artillery
from West Point was expected to arrive on Jan. 22.
The Government will continue to concentrate troops
there until the 4th of March.
The New Mexican mail of Dec. 31 had arrived.
Major Crittenden's command had a battle with the
Indians near Simon Springs, in which 50 Indians
were killed, including the notorious chief Santauk.
They burnt 100 Indian lodges. None of Major
Crittenden's command were even wounded.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
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BETTING AT MANCHESTER-TUESDAY.

Our quotations to-day, although rather lengthy, are
principally made up from offers. Anatis, without being
backed for a shilling, headed the list of favourites for the
Liverpool Steeplechase. The other candidates, excepting
the Emperor, were all on the decline. Chore Amie would
have been supported at 100 to 6 for the Chester Cup. The
only wager made upon the Derby was 2,000 to 35 against
Knight of the Thistle. In other respects, the following
list of prices will best indicate the latest state of the odds :

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
100 to 8 agst Anatis (offered)
100 to 7 agst Cockatoo (offered)
15 to 1 agst Emperor (taken) •
100 to 6 agst Jealousy (offered)
100 to 6 agst Freshman (offered)
25 to 1 agst Xanthus (offered)
100 to 3 agst Westminster (taken)
100 to 3 agst Tattler (offered)
100 to 3 agst Goldsmith (offered)
100 to 3 agst Kilcock (taken)
100 to 3 agst Tom Moody (taken)
40 to 1 agst Comet (taken)
40 to 1 agst Irish Emigrant (take 50 to 1)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
15 to 2 agst Preceptross (offered)
Bto 1 agst Diophantus (offered)
Bto 1 agst Kettledrum (offered)
100 to 8 agst Klarikoti (offered)
20 to 1 agst Walloon (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Conqueror (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
100 to 7 agst Chere Arnie (take 100 to 6)
IS to 1 agst Man-at-Arms (take 20 to 1)
25 to 1 agst Lawyer (offered)
30 to 1 agst Wallace (offered)
40 to 1 agst -Vancouver (taken to £25)
DERBY.
sto 1 agst Dundee (wanted)
25 to 1 agst Kettledrum (offed)
25 to 1 agst Klarikoff (offered)
2000 to 35 agst _Knight of the Thistle (taken)

INTELLIG ENCE.

GREAT NORTHERN.
Yesterday the directors of this company determined on
ret•vmending the proprietors at the general meeting, on
the 23d inst., to declare a dividend for the half-year ending
the 31st of December last, at the rate of £6 is. 6d. per
cent. per annum on the original stock, giving for the half-
year £3 3s. 9d. per cent. to the oriinal stock, .C 3 percent.
to the B stock, and £3 7s. 6d. to the A stuck.

MIDLAND.
The directors of this company have decided to recom-
mend a dividend on the ordinary stock of the company for
the past half-year at the rate of 7 per cent. per tuinura,

The suspension has been notified of Messrs.
Ledgard and Sons, of the Poole Bank. The bank was
established in 1821 and was entitled to issue notes to the
eitent of £11,856. The total amount of its liabilities has
not transpired.

Numerous arrests hare taken place in Calab► ia.

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ROME, FEB. 3 (ria Marseilles).
General .Goyon has sent French soldiers to

occupy Correse.
The Papal. Zouaves have retired upon Monte
Rotohdo.
The Pope has given up the prisoners of war,
excepting those who are Roman subjects.

NAPLES, FEB. 4.
Rumours of a Surrender of Gaeta continue to be
current.
Prince Carignano is still at Mola di Gaetti.
A reactionary conspiracy has been discovered in
Naples, and has led to several arrests. Naples is
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n,464eme y, in an address, exhorts the citizens to
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act with moderation. He says—" The attitude
assumed by the Government until now produces
distrust. Abuses have taken place; but the Aulic
Chancellor, Baron Vay, merits the confidence of
the country."

PARIS, FEB. 5 (Evening).
• The Patrie says—" The news published by the
CGrrespondencia Autografa of Madrid, that the
Pope is preparing to leave Rome, is completely
false."

In to•day's sitting of the Corps Legislatif, Count
Morny delivered a speech whiCh referred solely to
reforms in the interior.
The Pays publishes news from the Herzegovina
to the 3d inst., announcing that massacres by the
Montenegrins had taken place in Turkish terri-
tory, and that several Turkish villages had been
burned.

MONACO.

The lndependanee Beige of the bth inst. publishes
;he following :

" We are informed from Paris that yesterday a
convention was signed which definitively cedes
Menton and Roque brune to Prance. The sum
paid to the reigning Prince for these territories is
4,000,000 f. He moreover retains as his property
the town of Monaco and its 3,000 inhabitants.