The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-23 00:00:00

tion, and if the re-constructed Southern States are other; who into back and who is to go on, can
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there represented that they will give a solid vote only be decided by the strength and persistency of
for the Chief Justice. the combatants. The most curious part of the story,

Wilkes's Spirit says: —" The J. F. Booth who is play-
ing- in England as ah American actor, is a half-brother of

our Booth," but• Mr. Booth says that the name is assumed.
An other items the sporting journal has the follow-
ing :—" During an alarm of fire at the Westminster Hotel,
Dickens caught up Dolby and four coats, and fled through
the corridors. A lady seeing the great novelist thus en-
veloped surmised that ho was in character for old Peg-
gotty. General Sickles passed Christmas evening laugh-
ing at " La Grande Duchesse." Kate Denin is in Australia.
So is John Collins. If Mrs. Yelverton, as asserted in London,
is attracting " large audiences to her entertainments in
New York," the lady has very modestly kept the fact
very quiet. Don John Lester Wallack makes his reap-
pearance on Monday evening, the 6th of January. Ball's
statue of Edwin Forrest may now be seen at 812, Broad-
way. The last steamer carried a large quantity of prairie
game ordered by Miss Laura Keene. She intends to give the
London critics an American game supper—not such an one
as Artem us Ward once invited us to —crackers and chess at
the "Morphy Rooms." A great spectacular ballet, intended
to amuse the Philadelphians, is called " Sozo ;" perhaps it
is a❑ abbreviation of sozodont. J. G. Burnett, the original
" Von Puffengruntz" of the Black Crook, is stage manager
of Do Bar's, St. Louis. Mark ' Smith plays " The
King of the Bells" in the new place at Nibio's, and our
faith in his success is strong enough to float an egg.
Dan Bryant, has returned from California, his purse and
person " swelled wisibly" with gold and good cheer. A
drunken peon fired a pistol at Peralta's mother in the city
of Mexico, but fortunately missed the old lady. Lieu-
tenant Hill spends holiday week among the Quakers, and
intends to "live off the country," a la Gordon Granger.
Lawrence Barrett comes home from England soon, and
then to California ; Harry Wall accompanies him. R.l-
- the great pianist, refused three thousand ouuds
to perform to the barbarous Americans. A five-act
comedy by Eugene Gadot, one of the editors of the Liberte,
has been accepted at the Odeon. The Davenport-lowans
aro going wild over their new opera house, which is to
seat 1,400 people. The Pittsburg Museum advertises a
" genuine Havana gorilla." Miss Irene Worrell, in a card,
says she "is not married, and don't intend to do so." Mrne.
de Felcourt (Wanda) is a niece of the famous Widow Cliquot.
Offenbach's " Lisehea and Intzchen" will be produced at
the London Olympic. Carlotta Patti's first month in the
French Provinces realised 7,000 f. Big injun Proctor is
or was playing in Boston. Mrs. Lander,played iu Pitts-
burg. Lady Don took a benefit iu Detroit. Mr. Joseph
Jefferson, the comedian, was married lately to Miss Mary
Warren, of Chicago. No country in the world possesses
a better actor, and no lady in the land has a cleverer
gentleman for a lord and master."
The following were the receipts of the principal places
of amusement in Philadelphia, with the internal revenue
tax paid on each, up to December 1 :
Receipts. Ta x.
Walnut-street Theatre 5138,929 $2,770 96
Chestnut-stre t Theatre 105,200 2,121 94
Academy of Music 101,056 2,082 12
Arch-street Theatre
Carneross and Dixey's 63,144 1,302 94
American Theatre
Seventh-street Opera House, two
and a half months

11,111 223 22

A change has come over the New Yorkers, who last
year went mad over Ristori ; now she plays to poor houses.
Mr. Maretzek has lost $lO,OOO on a season of the Italian
Opera. The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein is about to en-
tertain the Puritan population of Boston. What a scandal
to the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers!
The following is the order in which the original
thirteen States adopted the Constitution of the United
States. According to the provision in the Constitution it
became binding upon the States ratifying it when adopted
by nine States. New Hampshire was the important ninth
State:-1. Delaware, December 7, 1787. 2. Pennsylvania,
December, 12, 1787. 3. New Jersey, December, 18, 1787.
4. Georgia, January 2, 1788. 5. Connecticut, January 9,
1788. 6. Massachusetts, February 7, 1788. 7. Maryland,
April2B, 1788. 8. South Carolina, May 23, 1788. 9. New
Hampshire, June .21, 1788. 10. Virginia, June 25, 1788.
11. New York, July 16, 1788. 12. North Carolina, Nov
21, 1789. 13. Rhode Island, 'gay 27, 1790.

During 1867 243,141 immigrants arrived at New
York, as compared with 233,418 arrivals at that port dur-
ing 1866, an increase of 9,723. In 1867 there were 116,288
immigrants from Germany, 65,327 from Ireland, and
34,288 from England, being, as compared with the pre-
ceding year, an increase of 9,572 Germans, but a de-
crease of 2,720 Irish and 1,898 English. The Germans in
1867 have mostly gone to the States in the Mississippi
valley, while the majority of the Irish have settled in New
York and Pennsylvania. Very few immigrants have
gone to the South, though many landed at New York
with the intention of going there ; but the unfortu-
nate condition of its politics, the slight encouragement
offered, and the difficulty of com.nunicating with the
planters, have almost entirely checked emigration south-
ward.
WASHINGTON ON NEW-YEAR'S DAY.—The Pre-
sident's levee commenced at eleven o'clock, when the mem-
bers of the Cabinet and foreign Ministers, the Judges of
the Supreme Court of the United Kites, Senators and Re-
presentatives in Congress, the Judges of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia and of the Court of
Claims, were received, followed at half-past eleven by army,
navy, and marine officers. A quarter of an hour after-
wards the Soldiers of the War of 1812, and members of
the Oldest Inhabitants' Association of the District of
Columbia, paid their respects to the President, and at noon
the doors were opened for the reception of citizens, from
which time until two o'clock p.m. the rooms wore thronged.
Secretaries Seward, Wells, M'Culloch, Browning, Grant,
Attorney-General Stanbery, and Postmaster General Ran-
dall were among the first to pay their respects to the
President. Secretaries Wells, M'Culloch, and Browning,
Postmaster-General Randall, and Attorney-General Stan-
bery were accompanied by their ladies; Assistant Secre-
tary-of State F. W. Seward and lady followed. Then
came die Diplomatic Corps, who were presented by Secre-
tary Seward. Of the Senators and Representatives there
were present Senators Reverdy Johnson, Sherman, Mor-
gan, Doolittle, Morton,' Corbett, Cole, Fessenden, Dixon,
Morrill of Vermont, and others ; Representatives Banks,
Pruyn, Eldridge, Marshall, Trimbel of Kentucky, Nichol-
son, Kerr, Ferris, and others. Of the Army there were
present Generals W. T. .Sherman, Townsend, 0. 0.
Howard, Hardie, Balloch, Shiras, Eaton, Ekin, Dent,
Ricketts, M‘Ferran, Humphries, Williams, Pelouze, Vin-
cent, Breck, Surgeon-General Barnes, Quartermaster-Gene-
ral Bucker, Assistant Quartermaster-General Miller, Pay-
master• General Brice, Colonel Scott, Colonel M 'Gowan,
Major Bradley, and many other officers of lesser rank.
Of the Navy there were Admir4ils Ra'iford, Smith, Bailey ;
Commodores Jenkins, Sands, M. Smith ; Command.irs
Breese, Queen, Davis; Paymasters Bridge, Cushing, Boggs;
Surgeons Dearborn, Williams, Campbell, Horwitz, Tyron;
Captains Price, Patteson, Meads, Lieut. Dyer, and many
other officers of lower grade, all in full uniform. Of the
marine corps there were Gen. Zeilan, Major Cash, Major
Slack, and a number of captains and lieutenants. The
Judges of the Supreme Court and Court of Claims were
all present, and were presented by Chief Justice Chase and
Judge Casey ; several of the Judges were accompanied by
theirladies. Judge Olin of District Supreme Court, and lady.
The officers of the navy were presented by Admiral itad-
ford ; those of thQ marine corps by Gen. Zeilan ; the offi-
cers of General Grant's staff by Gen. Grant ; those of the
Adjuvant-General's office by Gen. Townsend; those of
the Freedmen's Bureau by Gen. Howard; those of the
Quartermaster-General's office by Gen. Rucker; those of
the Surgeon-General's office by General Barnes, and the
others by the senior officers of their department. The
association of the soldiers of the war of 1812, headed by
Col. J. S. Williams, were presented at a quarter be-
fore 12 o'clock, and were followed by the Associa-
tion of the Oldest Inhabitants of the city of Washington.
The fresident expressed his gratification to receive these
associations, and took the members of each by the hand.
The President received in the Blue Parlour, and stood
near the entrance leading from the Red Room, with Mar-
shal Gooding and Deputy Marshal Philipps on his left.
Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Stover stood near the centre of
the room, with General Michler on their left, who pre-
sents the guests to these ladies. Colonel Robert John-
son, Private Secretary; Colonels Long and Rives, and
Mr. Cowan, of the President's staff, were also present, and
entertained many of the guests who lingered in the parlour.
Notwithstanding the unpropitious weather, the day was
generally observed, and all the Cabinet officers, many
Senators and Representatives, and many of our firs'
citizens, kept open houses and received their friends.—
Baltimore Commercial.

;hough in keeping with its policy, is the passage of
;he bill through the House of Representatives,

requiring a majority of two-thirds of the Supreme
Court to pronounce on appeal, an Act of Congress
to be unconstitutional. If it be in the power of the
Legislature to decree the requisite majority they
ought to have insisted on the Judges being unani-
mous, and as Judges are known to differ only in a
less degree than doctors, unless some glaring absur-
dity was enacted, Congress would be safe from the
verdict of the Court. The bald facts, as they come
by the cable, create alarm and surprise, as the ob-
ject is not gradually approached and seen more dis-
tinctly as it is neared, but is thrown on us with
the suddenness of a convulsion or a revolution.
The general impression was that Mr. STANTON
would be left out in the cold. There were many
telling points against him in the PRESIDENT'S
Message; and the fact that GRANT managed to
effect enormous retrenchments within a few
weeks after succeeding the late incumbent, had da-
maged the prestige of Mr. STANTON'S valved service
during the war. The opinion, too, was widely en-
tertained that Congress was cowed by the condem-
nation implied in the late Northern elections, but
it is not improbable that the determination shown
by the PRESIDENT to exert his authority to the ut-
most in the dismissal from their commands of such
officers as POPE and SWAYNE may hive again
roused in Congress the full spirit of opposition.
ANDREW JOHNSON appears bent upon goading the
Legislature into the most extreme measures; and
this impulsive body seems to be easily played on. The
bill passed through the House requiring a two-thirds
mijority of theSunreme Court to pronounce an Act
of Congress unconstitutional,looks like an usurpation,
and following the reinstatement of Mr. STANTON
by the Senate, it has the appearance of a plot. The
object is to strip the PRESIDENT of his power, and
to saddle him with a Minister wholly opposed to
him in politics, and whom he person,dly detests. Mr.
SUMNER, who has just seperated from the wife of
his bosom on the plea of incompatibility of temper,
may have an idea of what poor ANDREW JOHNSON'S
feelings must be. The PRESIDENT is responsible for
the acts of the Cabinet ; and, to maintain that re-
sposibility intact, he should have the power of dis-
missing the heads of Departments. if it is necessary
for a President to remain in office for four years,
and he is accountable to the nation for the actions
of the Executive, those whose offices are less digni-
fied, and who have smaller trusts, should give way
when they come into collision with him. Somebody
must, and that man cannot be the PRESIDENT. It
is equally clear that the Cabinet must pull together.

Therefore the practice .of putting horses into the
team expressly to pull in the opposite direction
looks very like the sacrifice of the public interest, to
gratify spite. In this we fear Congress is following
Mr. JOHNSON'S lead, and; if so, it will soon descend
to Mr. JOHNSON'S level. General GRANT has been
abused for signing the orders for the removal of
Generals POPE, ORD, and SINiAYNE. It was said he
was lending himself to the nefarious designs of the
PRESIDENT, and any one who so acted was unfit to be
nominated acaudidate for the Presidency. The colour
of Chief-Justice CHASE has too been coming out a
shade more distinctly among the jockeys on the
Presidential racecourse. GRA.NT is still in the
ascendant, and will probably reinit;n the favourite
till he is beaten, if he be so, by Borne skilful poli-
tical riding. But there can be no doubt that cir-

cumstances have for the moment rendered him less
conspicuous, and he has drifted more out of sight.
This may have had something to do with his speedy
retirement from the War-office, and the quick ad-
vent, on the Senatorial decision, of Mr. STANTON.
But it does seem unaccountably quick—the vote,
the vacancy, and the restoration all in one day !
What was ANDREW JOHNSON'S curse ? Was he
asked, or could a Secretary have installed his suc-
cessor without even a reference to the PRESIDENT of
the United States? A few days will unravel the
mystery ; but knowing the obstinacy of Mr. JOHN-
SON, and seeing the clear meaning of the action of
Congress, we are constrained to admit that affairs
at Washington have come to a dead-lock, and that
the crisis is not without its peril.
Senator HOWARD had prepared Mr. STANTON'S
defence before the last mail left America, and it was
-said so strongly to convince of the injustice of the
removal that his immediate restoration might be
looked for. The Military Committee of the Senate
ha l recommeridal this course, but grave doubts
existed how General GRANT would act. If Mr.
STANTON claimed the office on securing the vote in
the Senate, would the General surrender it? He
was said to be the personal friend of STANTON, and
to believe in the legality of the Senate's conduct; but
the most serious question remains :—The Senate has
adopted the predicted resolution, GRANT has turned
over the War-office to the ex-Secretary, but what will
the PRESIDENT do? Will he refuse to recognize the
Secretary for War? Will he as Commander-in-Chief
direct the officers in charge of districts to take their
orders only from him? To a bitter political feud
has been added a strong personal animosity. Bith
Mr. STANTON and Mr. JOHNSON have succeeded in
inflicting on each other humiliations and defeats ;
and now, without a keeper, they are in the same
cage, where it would be absurd to look for " a happy
family." The fight must come off, and who is the
stronger ? STANTON is but a member of the PRE-
SIDENT'S Cabinet, but he has Congress at his back.
The servant thus supported is equal to his lord, and
it may be that he is master of his master. But there
is a great tribunal who may take up these proceed-
ings, and speak with an authority that will silence
all. The Senate in this matter may have sacrificed
the national interest to the exigencies of party, and
if the people believe this, Mr. JOHNSON may receive
an accession of strength which will give him an
overwhelming ascendancy.— Anglo-American Times.

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Births.

CLOWES—On the 18th inst., at Torworth, near Bawdy,

the Hon. Mrs. Legh Clowes, of a soo.
EIARBoRD —On the Last inst., at Morden College, Black-
heath, the wife of the Hon. and Rev. John Harbord, of

a daughter.
M.AuNsELL---On the 19th inst., at 2, Prince's-buildingsi
Clifton, near Bristol, the wife of Lt.-Col. T. Alaunsolli
of a daughter.