The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-08 00:00:00

one more favourablysituated for foreign intercourse,
inhabited by an intelligent race, are likely to make
quick advances in adopting the arts and sciences of
Christian nations. All European and American
fruits and vegetables are being introduced, steam
lines established, and the latest improvement comes
from Australia, as Mr. Hoyt, the well-known
coach proprietor in Victoria, has sailed for Japan
to establish there lines of fast conveyances. The
visitor to Yokohama will soon be able to take his
place on the coach-box for Yeddo, and drive through
rows of women bathing in their tubs, with a spank-
ing four-in-hand.

Miss Vinnie Ream has been restored to her room
in the Capitol, and the best of the joke is that the
resolution was offered by Mr. Stevens. It will be
remembered that the young lady was the victim of
the Impeachment Trial, and we presume that Mr.
S-evens desired to obliterate the last remnant
of that proceeding, before making his way over to
the Democrats. Bader asserts that to her influence
is due the President's aciuittal. She acted on M.
Henderson, and his vote settled the question ; but
the only ground for this is that the Senator lodges
in her father's house. A greater failure than the im-
peachment business and Butler's fire and fury -has
rarely been witnessed. 'lt is time that we should
drop the Fort Fisher business, al)out which he has
surely heard enough, and take up the Impeachment
exploit, which ended in the ;expulsion of Vinuie
Ream for a few weeks from a room in the Capitol,
at an expense to the nation of many hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and much time wasted.

The Senate confirmed, during the week endinr,
July 25, Reuben S. Torrey, collector of internal
revenue in the second district of New York; An-
thony F. Campbell, postmaster at Brooklyn ; An-
drew S. Hunter, postmaster at Chicopee, Mass. ;
C. B. Prescott, at Holyoke, and Eliphalet Wright,
at Derbyshire, Mass., L. Sherman at Chicago, 111.,
Samuel Kingman at Wakefield, Mass., George C.
Henry at Bedford, Mass., and 11. N. Barbour at
St. Albans, Vt., and also the nominations of S.
Day to be surveyor-general of California, T. J.
Bowers Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court,
11. 0. Warren chief, and 11. Knowles associate-
justice of Montana. The most important new no-
minations during this period were Edmund Cooper
for Commissioner of Internal Revenue, William P.
Wells for Assistant-Secretary to the Treasury, C.
C. Cox (of Maryland) for Commissioner of Pen-
sions, Elisha Foot (of New York) for Commissioner
of Patents; and for the foreign missions as follows:
—Russia, John L. Dawson, of Pennsylvania ;
Spain, Gen. W. D. Rosecrans, of Ohio ; Austria,
Henry W. Watts, of Pennsylvania ; and Mexico,
Gen. John A. M'Clernand, of Illinois. Noah
S. Jeffreys of Maryland was nominated for Com-
missioner of Internal Revenue with not Much
chance of confirmation, as he is a Johnson man,
and it is asserted that the President intends to re-
move Rollins when Congress adjourns, and to. place
Cooper of Tennessee in the office ad interim, and the
confirmation of Jeffreys would strengthen his hands.
There being no chance of Mr. Cooper's success he
was withdrawn, and the Senate COmmittee reported
against the nominations of the Ministers to Russia,
to Mexico, and to Spain, but in favourof Mr. Watts
to Austria, who, as our readers are aware, has been
confirmed. Oliver Smith Williams was rejected as
collector of the second district of Connecticut ; and
of the large number of minor nominations sent in
during the same week most, it is believed, will meet
that fate.
The bill for the Protection of the Rights of
American Citizens Abroad was warmly debated
in the Senate. Mr. Conness, the Senator
from California, by birth' an Irishman, offered
an amendment authorising the President to
adopt retaliatory measures. This Mr. Sum-
ner stigmatized as an unutterable barbarity,
to which Mr. Conness replied that the bill as
amended was an insult to the naturalized citizen,
and that Mr. Sumner's sympathy was all with the
negro against the white man. Mr. Conness was
in a hurry to reap some political capital as he feared
that the effete monarchies of Europe might be be-
fore-hand in granting everything that the United
States ask or require, but he met an able
champion in Mr. Sumner. The bill was so
far amended as to enable the President to de-
mand the release of prisoners unjustly im-
prisoned, to withdraw the Ministers until justice
be done, and after an ineffectual demand for re-
lease, to use such means as may be within his power,
other than acts of war, to compel the release, But
who is to judge as to the justice of the imprison-
ment ? If the President will not accept the decision
of the Courts of the country, is it likely that the
foreign nations will accept the decision of the Pre-
sident against the judgment of their Courts? Con-
gress ought not to permit itself to be driven on in
a hurry which cannot facilitate an international set-
tlement of such a question.
The lion. Thad. Stevens made a speech on the
Funding Bill, which created an excitement in the
House. He declared that sooner than see his con-
stituents taxed to death for the benefit of bloated
speculators he would vote for even worse men than
Seymour, although coupled with a Frank Blair.
The astonishment of the Representatives, although
accustomed to the hon. gentleman's vagaries, may
be imagined, remembering that many of them heard
the speaker on that floor when the Government
Bonds were first offered to the public, declaring that
A dollar in a miser's safe, unproductive, is a sore
disturbance. Where could they invest it ? In
United States Loans at Six per Cent.—redeemable
in gold in 20 years—the best and most valuable
permanent investment that could be desired." Of
course Thad. had not long to wait before that speech
came flying hack, hurled at him from the mouth
of Mr. Garfield, whose answer was able and straight
to the point. Mr. Stevens felt the sting, and replied
by two personal explanations, even denying the
correctness of the report, but in vain. The record
against him is too strong, showing that in 1862-63
he fiercely attacked Congressmen who even sug-
gested doubts about payment in coin. There never
was a more shameful exposure or one more in-
jurious to the reputation of the House of Repre-
sentatives—not that the people sent there such a
man, but that the Representatives should have
erected him into a leader.
Another movement was made at Washington by
the Southern members to impeach the President.
They affirm his action regarding the new State Go-
vernments to be sufficient ground, and they urged
Congress to remain in session to pass Impeachment
resolutions, and to protect the South until after the
Presidential election. They met in caucus on the
27th July, Representative Whittemore, of South
Carolina, presiding, and unanimously adopted re-
solutions to the above effect. When the Senate's
recess resolution was discussed in the House, Butler
said the Representatives ought to sit again to im-
peach the President, whereon Mr. Randall sarcas-
tically observed that Butler had already got the
glory out of Impeachment, to which Ben rejoined
with a back-bander, telling Randall that he would
remain long in that House before he obtained any glory
whatever. When the Republicans felt convinced that
the advocates of Impeachment were working for a
postponement to introduce new charges against the
President they changed their minds, and agreed to
the Senate's resolution of adjournment which they
bad before rejected.
General Meade has issued an order handing over
the State Government to the civil authorities, and
declaring the supremacy of the law in Georgia, and
on the 22d July General Bullock was installed and
delivered his inaugural address. He congratulates
Congress and the Republican party, and predicts
a glorious future for the State. The house of Re-
presentatives pass2d a resolution favouring the re-
moval of the political disabilities of the white in-
habitants. lii the Senate of the State the Com-
mittee of Investigation hal reported that none of
the members were ineligible, but in the house two
were declared to be so.
The Senate adopted resolutions expressing sym-
pathy with the Cretans, demanding in the interest
of religion, civilization, and humanity, the close of
the contest, and directing the President to instruct
the American Minister at Constantinople to join
the representatives of other Powers in effecting this
end, and to communicate the resolutions to the
Government of Turkey. In secret session the
treaty with China was ratified. Several important