The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-18 00:00:00

at the same time expressing their approbation of
Mr. Tyng's conduct and condemnation of his oppo-
nents. One declared that he would preach the gos-
pel under any and all circumstances ; another that
such admonitions as he had listened to will have no
effect in making him ashamed to preach the gospel ;
and the Rev. Dr. Dyer even went so far as to assert
" that they were associated with those who loved
false doctrine, and that it would be better far a
thousand times that they were driven out than that
they should remain yoked with such." These eccle-
siastical disputes, which injure Protestantism, might
easily be avoided. We are not aware that there is
any point of doctrine involved, it being a mere point
of church discipline. If the rules of the Episcopal
Church are opposed to one of its ministers conduct-
ing the service of another communion, the Episco-
pal minister ought not to do it. His course is clear
enough. If he strongly disapproves of the rule,
and cannot get it changed, he can secede. If it be
not a point of sufficient importance to enforce on
him such a course, he ought to observe the law, and
if betrayed into infringement, quietly to submit to
the admonition ; but it is deplorable to see the
Church pursuing such a squabble, while atheism,
infidelity, and immorality stalk through the land,
and jeer at the-fighting ministers of peace.
The action of the Supreme Court in the M'Ardle
case has not tended to raise the reputation of that
great legal body. . Justice Grier seems to have been
peculiarly sensitive to the action of his colleagues
in shirking the judgment they were in truth bound
to deliver. When the case was called upon the
30th March he read the following paper, which has
taken the public by surprise, as it did the Court,
and has been much commented upon at Wash-

ington :

"EX PARTE WARDLE.
" This case was fully argued in the beginning of this
month. It is a caso which involves not only the liborty
and rights of the appellant, but of millions of our fellow-
citizens. The country ha,,l a right to expect it would ro-
ceivo the immediate and solemn attention of the Court.

By the postponement of this case we have subjected our-
selves, whether justly or unjustly, to the imputation that
we have evaded the performance of a duty imposed upon
us by the Constitution, and awaited for legislative interpo-
sition to supersede our action and relieve us from our re-
sponsibility. I have only to say, Pudet hoc opprobrio

licet non potuisse repelli.' "
The Pacific mail steamship China arrived at San
Francisco on March 31, from Yokohama, March 8,

and Hong Kong, Feb. 25, with ISlinister Anson
Burlingame and his Chinese embassy among her
passengers. She brought 900 passengers and 1,200
tons of freight. ' The civil war in Japan still con-
tinues. A battle of four hours' duration was lately
fought at Osaca, which resulted in driving the
Tycoon to his ships, and in his immediate departure
for Yeddo. The Foreign Legations have left Osaca
and Yokohama, and will concentrate at Hiago for
the present, their quarters at the former place having
been burned. They recognize two Governments,
those at Yokohama and llakodadi paying customs to
the Tycoon, and those at Hiago and Nagasaki to the
Mikado. The Japanese authorities have forbidden
the Ministers to sell arms to either party, and Prince
Satsuma and Choisen have been ordered to take
charge of the foreign settlements, with instructions
to avoid any conflict with the foreigners. A large
number of the high native officials have been be-
headed for treachery, and many have committed
hari-kari on account of the Tycoon's misfortunes,
who has himself been declared an outlaw. The
United States steamer Iroquois lately arrived at
Yeddo, many of her crew being sick with smallpox.
The supply steamer .Niphon was wrecked off the
Amoor river, in the month of January, and 12 or

15 lives were lost. The steamer Osaca was lately
damaged $BO,OOO worth by collision with the
steamer Herman.. The bodies of Admiral Bell and
Lieutenant Cotninsnders Reed and 111'Kenzie,
drowned near Osaca, will be sent home in the store-
ship Supply. One of the Chinese banks at Hong
Kong has failed, and many of the foreign merchants
are heavy losers. The United States and English
Consuls have laid the matter before the Viceroy of
the province, but there is no prospect that the loss
will be repaired. The Chinese credit among fo-
reigners, however, is entirely lost. The Chinese
Government has consented to allow foreigners to
work the coal mines of North Chins.

The Chicago Tribune asserts that the Repudia-
tion lieresy 13 confinca to I.cliann nnrl oi,Ls_that
it is not the universal sentiment of the West, and
that it is even declining daily in these two States.
It says that Butler and Stevens, the arch repudia-
tors, are Eastern men. On this subject the Nation
writes as follows :—" Gen. Butler has written a let-
ter to a friend, explaining and defending his course
with regard to the national finances. lie says he
proposed his plan because he saw that the De-
mocratic party was going to propose to issue
$2,000,000 in greenbacks to pay off the bonds,
and that, therefore, he advocated a ' counter-pro-
position" to pay them off in the greenbacks already
in existence, which should take all seeming or
actual wrong'—we use his own words—' from the
public debt.' He advocates this, he says, in the
interest of his constituents and of the Republican
party, because nine-tenths of all the bonds were
held east of a meridian drawn through Lake
Ontario, and three-fourths of all the votes on which
the party must rely were west of that meridian,
where there were tio bonds.' In this last sentence
the cat jumps out of the bag—as the popular saying
is. The desire of taking the actual or seem-
ing wrong' from the public debt has really had no
more to do with the Butler-Sherman-Stevens
counter proposition' than the desire of christian-
izing the Jews. General Butler knows perfectly well
that there is no ' actual wrong' in the public debt,and
'seeming wrong'
the way to take
from it, or from
anything else, is to enlighten those who think they
see the wrong where it does not exist, not by falling
in with their delusion, as if they
Were hypochon-
driacs. The counter proposition' iBl in fact, as we
intimated last week, a base bid on
the part of some
Republicans for the votes of base or ignorant men,
and the special pleading of the Butlers and Sher-
mans is simply a feeble attempt to disguise its real
nature. Some of the leaders act as if they thought

that when a good citizen Meets a band of rioters on
their way to burn a man's house, his duty is, not
to remonstrate with them, or oppose them, or call
the police, but to put himself at their head, and
superintend the execution of the crime, represent-
ing it as perfectly justifiable, taking care to deprive
it as far as possible of all features of unusual atro-
city, such as the roasting of the family or the destruc-
tion of valuable papers."
The Washington National Intelltgencer on the
3d instant published an argument against Mr.
Wade's right of succession to the Presidential
Chair, in the event of Mr. Johnson's removal. It
denies that the presiding officer of the Senate is in
the Presidential succession, asserting that the Con-
stitution does not designate the successor, that the
Senate does not possess the power to elect a Presi-
dent, which it would in truth do if it could depose
one President byitsdecrees as aCourt of Impeachment,
and elect another ; and it concludes by arguing that
the acting President of the Senate is not an officer in
the Constitutional sense. The value of such an
argument is best shown by quoting the words of
the Constitution, which by the way we have to
translate from the French, and may not, therefore,
use the exact words :--" Article 11. Section I. Para.
6.—ln the case of the President ceasing to perform
his duties, or that he dies, gives in his resignation,
providete as
e
or from any cruse whatever, is unable to discharge
his functions, he shall be replacedlv for the by h
Vice-Pre-
sident. Congress can by
a
of a vacancy, decease, resignation, or incapacity
alike of President andVice-President, by designating
the functionary who shall fill the office of President,
and he shall act as President till the incapacity is
removed, or a new President is elected." It is not
contemplated by the Constitution, under any cir-
cumstances, to elect a President, except at the, fixed
periods its pro: ides, nail whether the lion. Ben
Wade be the person whom Congress has selected to
succeed in cl.se of a vacancy or not, there cannot.,
we believe, be an election before the expiration of
the regular Presidential term.
One of the rumours in NI, ashington is that the
Arkansas Senators will be brought in to vote upon
Impeachment. It appears to be held over the Pre-
sident's party as a threat, that if the trial be delayed
to bring General Rousseau from California, that
Arkansas being admitted during the postponenien t