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

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1868.

MISLEADING INFLUENCES OF PARTY
POLITICS.

By the great discussion and collision of prin-
ciples which the proposed disestablishment of
the Protestant Church in Ireland is provok-
ing, the people of England are being led to
consider the momentous consequences involved
in the connection between Church and State.
The risk they incur by such a discussion,
which, however, could not anyhow have been
long averted, is that they should be educated
awry—that the nation should be brought to
sacrifice its religious character, as Mr. Bright
suggests, to the spirit of the times—to forego,
that is to say, the religious principle in politics,
to foreswear the most characteristic feature of
our constitution, to become a nation of secular-
ists. In spite of the rapid growth of intellec-
tual scepticism and irreligious Liberalism in
the country, the nation, we trust, is not yet
ripe for such an apostacy. It is one of the re-
tributive consequences of injustice that repa-
ration in many instances presses heavily on
the wrong-doer. Not only are his motives mis-
construed, but his acts are in danger of being
perverted. And so it is with the abolition of
the Irish Church Establishment. The desire
for its abolition is interpreted, by those who
wish to uphold it in its injustice, as an avowal
of hostility against the principle of State
Churches ; and its actual abolition will, doubt-
less, be made use of by the enemies of the re-
ligious principle in politics as a lever to abolish
everywhere and under the most opposite cir-
cumstances the salutary union between Church
and State. The abolition of so long-standing
an abuse ought to be carried out with extremest
caution, and in such manner as not in any
way to give countenance to the false idea—so
readily propagated under the misleading influ-
ences of party politicians—that the disestab-
lishment of the Irish Church is a renunciation
of the principle of union between Church and
State. Mr. Bright, the extreme Liberal party,
and the Liberation Society, may endeavour to
make political capital out of an act of national
justice, and may hope, by the agitation caused
by such a conflict of opinion as is now going
on, to give an impetus to the movement
for completely secularising the State. At
any rate, Catholics can take no part in such
a movement. To uphold a Christian State is a
primary duty. The part which Catholics, with
few exceptions, are taking in the question of the
Irish disestablishment is one in strict confor-
mity to Catholic principles, as we have endea-
voured to show in our recent articles on this sub-
ject. We are glad to find that so uncompro-
mising and staunch an upholder of Catholic
principles as the Univers manifests its cordial
concurrence, in an article quoted in another
column, in the views on the Irish Establish-
ment advanced in the WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.
Nothing is more important than that, in a mat-
ter of Catholic ethics, there should be no dis-
agreement in principle among Catholic writers.
It is natural, perhaps, for Protestants to be at
sea in such a question, but it is lamentable to
see Catholics uncertain and shifty where they
ought to display clearness and fixedness of
principle. Of course, in some instances, such
shiftiness can only be ascribed to political bias
—to the necessity of opposing Mr. Gladstone
and of supporting Mr. Disraeli. No unbiassed
writer at all familiar with the state of public
opinion in Ireland in regard to the Established
Church, would deliberately and publicly state,
as the Tablet did last week, that the grievance
and the wrong which the people of Ireland
suffered under, was the undue depression and
non-recognition of the Catholic Church. The
undue depression and non-recognition of the
Catholic Church, as every one in Ireland,
bishop, priest, or layman knows, are not the
wrong and the grievance which the people take
to heart. The wrong is an alien Church founded
in violence, and forced for three centuries on
an unwilling people. The maintenance under
any form of this Church, originally established
by a guilty act, is the flagrant injustice com-
plained of, the removal of which will alone
satisfy the bishops, priests, and people of Ire-
land. Anything short of this act of national
justice on the part of England would be re-
garded as an insult, and rejected by Catholic
I Ireland with one voice. Any attempt at traffick-
in..'' with a people's sense of justice is the worst
of policies. The Tablet, by shifting the ground
and assuming that Ireland's grievance was not
the existence of an alien Establishment, but
the undue depression of the Catholic Church,
was able to construct an argument in favour
of Mr. Disraeli's plan of partially endowing
and recognizing the Catholic Church so as to
preserve the Irish Establishment and keep up
Protestant ascendancy in Catholic Ireland. But,
since the Tablet's assumption is in direct con-
tradiction with the facts of the case, as vouched
for by the bishops of Ireland, and by a con-
currence of impartial testimony, its argument
in favour of the Disraeli compromise falls to
the ground. •
Party politics are, indeed, great soporifics.
How otherwise can we account for our contem-
porary's view that the most strenuous oppo-
sition to Mr. Disraeli's measure of relief, and
the most earnest expression of opinion in favour
of a policy which aims at removing altogether
a flagrant injustice, springs from a desire, not
of " reparation " but of " revenge"—that the
motive which actuates this opposition is not
a love of justice, but " the satisfaction of
seeing how the Irish Protestants like it when
the State robs their Church." Not to put too
fine a point on our contemporary's vagaries,
we simply ascribe them to the misleading in-
fluences of party politics. When the effect of
the recent party defeat has somewhat subsided
we make no doubt but that these vagaries will
be recanted or written over with some newer
and less unwise reasons for rejecting Mr.
Gladstone's resolutions. In the meantime,
however, it is but right that our Protestant
fellow-countrymem, who are closely scrutinizing
our public conduct at the present crisis, should
be informed that a Catholic—be he bishop,
priest, or layman—in rejecting Mr. Disraeli's
plan for propping up
the Establishment in
favour of Mr. Gladstone's for its abolition, does
not on that account, as implied by the Tablet,
necessarily " adopt the creed of English Dis-
senters, and become a Cromwellian, an Inde-
pendent, a Voluntaryist, and a Secularizer of
Church property;" nor, what is still worse, in
violation of the infallible authority of the
Church, " affirm a condemned proposition."
—Westminster Gazette.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From, the Anglo-American Times)

Among the questions that have caused much
argument, arising out of the Impeachment Trial,
are the status of the Chief Justice and the position
of the Hon. Ben. Wade. Both are more intimately
associated than is apparent at first glance. As Pre-
sident of the Senate, that is as successor to a va-
cancy in the Presidential Chair, Mr. Wade is not
permitted by the Constitution to preside at the
trial. It would be manifestly unjust that the pre-
siding Judge of the Court should be the successor
to the impeached officer, and as this would have
been the case had the Vice-President been permit-
ted to preside, the Chief Justice was selected under
the Constitution to take the Chair when the
Senate becomes the Court of Trial. So also
in the Constitutions of New York and other
States the Lieutenant-Governor is not permitted to
sit or vote as a member of the Impeachment Court,
which tries the Governor. But though the Con-
stitution provided for the President vacating the
Chair and the officer who was to fill it, it neither
stated whether the President of the Senate was to
vote nor whether the Chief Justice was to vote.
The Chief Justice is not a member of the Senate,
yet, as presiding officer of the High Court, he
claims to vote, and that claim has been allowed.
The question whether Mr. Wade should vote has
also been di,cussed and decided in the affirmative,
although clearly against all legal procedure. There
is no precedent to help in the case, and con-
sequently the United States goes back as
usual to English history. The Senate, al-
though in some degree resembling, yet is not
by any means a House of Lords. Mr. Chase has
carried his point, and rules on matters of evidence,

of form, or of law, subject, of course, to the deci-
sion of the Senate ; but Senators have not now the
right to scream—" We object !" a cry by which,
before this rule was adopted, the proceedings were
so frequently interrupted.
Governor Burnside and his associates have been
re-elected by Rhode Island by an increased majo-
rity over last year, the returns for Burnside giving
9,769 votes against 5,458 for the Democratic can-
didate. Last year the votes stood 7,372 to 3,178.
Senator Sprague is certain to be re-elected as the
Legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. The
subordinate State officers for the ensuing year arc :
—Lieutenant-Governor, Pardon W. Stevens ; Sec-
retary of State, John R. Bartlett; Attorney-Gene-
ral, Willard Sayles ; Treasurer, Samuel A. Parker
—all being re-elections except Treasurer Parker,
who succeeds George R. Tew, of Newport, the de-
faulter.

The only telegrams not alluded to elsewhere are
the following:—New York, April 15.—The steamers
leaving to-day for Europe take out $250,000 in
specie. New York, April 11.—According to
Messrs. Neill Brothers' report the week's receipts of
cotton at all United States' ports have been 48,000
bales, and since the Ist of September 1,990,000
bales. The week's exports to Great Britain are
49,000 bales, and since the Ist of September
1,010,000. The week's exports to France are 2,000
bales ; and since the Ist of September 188,000. The
week's exports to other foreign ports are 3,000
bales, and since the Ist of September 212,000.
Taken from the ports for American consumption
14,000 bales, and since the Ist of September
381,000 bales. Stock at all the ports 280,000 bales.
A large speculative demand set in to-day, forcing
prices up tic.
Men in New York are asking, did Horace Greeley
see the article published in the largest type at the
head of the editorial columns of the Ti ibune when
in manuscript? stating that
" General Grant finds it not inconsistent with his duty
as a soldier, to announce it as his opinion, that the only
hope for the peace of the country is the success of the
pending impeachment trial. lie feels that national secu-
rity demands the removal of the President. . . . When
the General of our armies entertains this conviction there
is no room for doubt as to the duty of the Senate. The
lbyal nation demands the President's removal."
These were the words of the leading organ of the
Republican party on the 3d of April, and coming
from such a quarter they have not unnaturally
excited great attention. The idea of a sol-
dier commanding the army of the Repub-
lic expressing his opinion that it would be be-
neficial
from a political point of view to remove
the Chief Magistrate of the nation then under trial
is too gross almost for belief. Privately he might
express such an opinion, although that would be bad
in taste and bad as an example, but that it should be
thus published to the world makes it an outrage on
Republican institutions, and on
justice. If the
Tribune considers its party
purposes can be for-
warded by such means, let it have the decency to
cloak, not to blazon abroad, the infamy. It is
well for the country that General Grant is a man
of moderation and sense, or he might lose his head.
If Andrew Johnson is about to head a rebellion
surely the Managers of Impeachment can show it
without the aid of General Grant's opinions. The
Tribune will find that such spurring will not
quicken the pace.
Judge Black has published the promised letter of
explanation why in his straits he deserted the Pre-
sident. It appears the guano island difficulty
was not with the Dominican Government, but
with Secretary Seward. Had it not been for
" Earthquake Billy," it is considered probable
that Mr. Black's little game would have been
successful, and he and his client enthroned
on the guano island under the guns of an American
man-of-war. But, unfortunately for the counsel,
who desired to kill two birds with one stone and
lost both, Mr. Seward also had a client who wanted
the guano island, and though the Dominican Go-
vernment might safely be defied, " Earthquake
Billy" might not; so Black was refused his soft seat
in the savoury place for which his heart panted, and
in high dudgeon he threw up his brief as leading
counsel. The President in his usual style retaliated,
by accusing him through the papers of attempting to
extort black mail, and the lawyer, stung by the
reproach and sensible of the awkward appearance
of the case, replied by this letter addressed to Gene-
ral Garfield, dated the 2d inst. It is against Secre-
tary Seward that the bolts of the writer are directed,
and that statesman is accused of criminality and
fraud. While pretending to favour the claims of
Black's client, Mr. Seward was all the time work-
ing for a transfer of the island to Spain and its
purchase by a New York Company of his own
friends. He declares Mr. Seward's proteges to be
thieves, and the Secretary himself to be mentally
and morally unfit for his place. The President
averred that a memorandum of facts made by Mr.
Seward was wholly untrue ; and finding himself,
continues Black, " unable to impose upon us a
fabricated decision, it became necessary that he
should give a new phase to his correspondence,"
and this he did by putting a military gloss upon the
vulgar and commonplace thieving of his proteges.
Judge Black's extraordinary letter concludes in the
following words :--
"I have selected his strongest points, and stated them
as fairly as I could in a space so brief. Perhaps diplo-
macy is a business in which a man is not required to be
perfectly honest. It may be that some allowance ought
to be made for the tricks of the trade. But surely it is
discreditable to the United States that they should have a
Secretary whose principles are so loose that he volunteers
the influence of his office to defeat justice, and employs
his time in making false defences for foreigners who have
wronged and dishonoured the nation.—Most respectfully
yours, &c., J. S. BLACK.
"Hon. J. A. Garfield, House of Representatives."
The Baltimore arrived off Cowes at 11.35 p.m.
on Tuesday, and went on to Bremen. She left
Baltimore on the Ist inst. with 38 passengers and a
large cargo. The City of Monuments is rejoicing
loudly in the establishment of this steam line, and
the citizens assert that Baltimore is the proper ter-
minus to the Western route, being nearer Buffalo
than New York by 36 miles, and in a more direct line
with San Francisco. A very large emigration is
expected this spring from Germany, and we believe
that the establishment of the new line will be at-
tended with all the benefits anticipated to Mary-
land. We may here mention that European travel
and freight are rapidly increasing between America
and China, and the Pacific Mail Steamship line
running from San Francisco to llong Kong, has
proved a great success. It was anticipated that
at first there would be a loss on the voyages, as the
trade in some measure had to be created, and the
distance between Japan and California is 4,700
miles, to be steamed without stopPieg•
rado, which made the first trip, The Colo-
cleared £lO,OOO,
and the total profits on the five round voyages
made during last year was £25,000. At first the
trips were made quarterly, then every six weeks,
and now they wiil be performed monthly. We are
not aware of the reason, but the stock of the Pacific
Steamship Company has lately fallen in Wall-
street, the last quotation being 96—a consider-
able reduction.
The New Jersey House of Representatives passed
Resolutions over the Governor's veto, withdrawing
the consent of that State to the 14th Amendmentto the Constitution of the United States. these
were presented to the Federal House on the 30th
March, but that body, without permitting the reso-
lutions to be read, ordered them to be returned as
disrespectful and scandalous. The California As-
sembly has also rejected the 14th Amendment by a
vote of 46 to 24.
The bill to restore Alabama to the Union was
adopted by the House on the 28th March by 102
votes to 29 after much disputing and many failures.
The bill reported by the Reconstruction Committee
was defeated, and the measure is a compromise.
The Jonstitution lately submitted to the people is
made the fundamental and organic law for the pro-
visional government, and the officers the chosen
1 he new Go-
are to assume office oa the Ist May.
vernor is to convene the Legislature and to provide
for again submitting the Constitution to the people
of the State with amendments for ratification sepa-
rately. If adopted by a majority vote, the 14th
Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States is to be sanctioned by the Legislature, when
the State Constitution may be sent to Congress for
approval, and, if accepted, the Representatives from
Alabama will be admitted to seats. In Alabama

the whites predominate, having a hundred thousand
out of the 174,631 votes, as lately reported by
General Meade. Of this total, 71,817 voted, being
15,500 less than the requisite half of the registry.
Of these but 6,702 were whites, the colour of 2,921
were not given, and 105 freedmen voted on the
Conservative side. The General considers the
proscription of the whites to bc the cause of the
failure. He says :--
"I am of opinion that a revised Constitution, more
liberal in its terms and confined to the requirements of the
Reconstruction Law, would in Alabama, as I have reason
to expect it will in Georgia and Florida, meet with the ap-
proval of a majority of the registered voters ; and I beg
leave to call your attention to the difficulty of carrying on
a Government in a State where so small a proportion of
those qualified to take part in the Government aro in fa-
vour of the organic law, and to secure a larger proportion
of what must be the governing class a more acceptable
Constitution."

It is asserted that the object of the Republicans is
to keep out the State till after the Presidential
election, and pending the Reconstruction of the
State the new Act provides that the Military Go-
vernment remains supreme.
The Virginia Convention has prescribed for office-
holders the iron-clad oath, and adopted the Article
whereby judges are to be chosen by the Legislature,
the Attorney-General by the people, and the other
State attorneys by the Governor. It has also adopted
the report of the Committee on representation,
which adds 47 members to the Legislature, and ap-
pointed a Committee to negociate a loan of $90,000
for its expenses. A resolution was postponed in
Judge Underwood's absence to inquire into his con-
duct as President, as he is alleged to have said that
if the Convention favoured Chase for United States'
President, Senator Sprague would give $lOO,OOO for
the use of the party. Richmond sent a delegation
to Washington to work for the removal of General
Schofield, charging him with favouring the rebels,
but they will work in vain, for the General's charac-
ter stands too high to be thus affected, although the
movement has been strongly pushed lately.

As yet the State Constitution of Arkansas has
been defeated by a large majority, though the polls
are kept open in the hope of a change. The Con-
servatives believe they also can defeat the Consti-
tutions proposed for Louisiana, South Carolina,
and other States, and are actively at work for this
end. General Hancock has addressed a letter to
Governor E. M. Pease, of Texas, who declared war
and not peace existed in the " Lone Star" State,
making other assertions which appeared equally ob-
jectionable to the General. These he takes up to
controvert, alleging that the ill-feeling proceeds
from Radical intolerance, that at the worst the
crime of the Texans is " unwilling obedience." He
accuses Mr. Pease of temper excited by imaginary
causes, of overweaning confidence in himself, and
intolerance of others ; of a desire to punish those
who differ from him ; of magnifying the shortcom-
ings of officials as competent as himself, and of nn-
unsoundly concluding that persens wanting in affec-
tion and respect for Government, or in obedience,
from motives not approved by Mr. Pease, are pro-
per subjects for military penal jurisdiction. In
Georgia the Republican candidates are likely to be
elected, and if so; the Governor will be a Northern
man Mr. Bullock, the agent of Adams' Express
Company, and president of a lately formed railway
company. Mr. Irwin is announced as an indepen-
dent candidate, and he will gain the Conservative
vote, as Judge Reese has withdrawn. The railway
interest of the State will vote for Bullock.
The Supreme Court has at last set the fears of
Congress at rest by postponing the further consi-
deration of the M'Xrdle case until the ensuing term,
which begins in November next. The only Justices
who opposed delay, voting for an immediate deci-
sion, were Judge Field and Judge Greer. An im-
portant decision was delivered on the 24th March,
whereby deposits in savings' banks were declared
taxable, even when invested in United States secu-
rities, as taxes accrue on deposits whether invested
or not. On the 23d March the Court gave the
State of Georgia leave to serve on General Grant,
Secretary Stanton, and others, notice of motion for
a special injunction on their execution of the Re-
construction Acts, returnable on or before the fol-
lowing Friday.
Seven brigades of troops are ready in Canada, be-
sides volunteers and field batteries, to resist an
expected Fenian invasion. According to the New
York Herald, two days' rations have been served
out to the troops in Montreal. In the ,United
States it is thought either that the Government of
the Dominion has been hoaxed, or that it is raising
the cry for a political object. A bill will soon be
passed enabling Americans to take out patents in
the Dominion on the same terms as Canadians do
in the United States. The new postal arrangement
has come into operation ; the half-ounce letters
being carried throughout the Dominion for three
cents, and to the United States for six cents pre.
paid, or at the old rate of ten cents unpaid. From
the Dominion to England, via New York, fifteen
cents :per half-ounce is the charge. From Cana-
dian ports 121 cents, and on manuscript to pub-
lishers one cent an ounce. The present system
also provides for deposits for savings' banks or
money-order offices, from $l. to $l,OOO, on which
four per cent interest is payable. Apropos of postal
treaties one came into operation between Italy and the
United States on the Ist of this month. The cost
of letters, weighing 15 grammes, to all parts of
America, is now reduced to 80 centesimi. Letters
not prepaid will be charged on delivery lfr. 40c.,
and those insufficiently prepaid lfr. 20c. Letters
containing patterns of merchandise have been
fixed at 60 centesimi for every 100 grammes.
Newspapers, books, &c., will have to pay 12 cen-
tesimi for 42 grammes. The American cent, it is
moreover stated, will be considered as equal to an
Italian soldi. •
Since the Hon. Ben. Butler's great speech on
e. the case against the President, numerous
descriptions ?e umerous
descriptions of his person, his manner, his voice,
have appeared. The Standard's correspondent says •
Butler is a man of decidedly unattractive .
per-
sonal appearance. He is of the middle stature, and
& awkwardly thrown together;' a face that speaks
of physical excesses ; abdominal protruberance that
does not dissipate this impression ; a man of the
sanguine bilious type. As he talks, or reads, he.
fidgets with one foot or the other, twiddles his
thumbs, or suddenly and unexpectedly carves the
air with his ungraceful hands, his strange eyes per-
petually misleading the observer. His voice is
harsh and inflexible, and when he attempts
pathos the listener feels very ill at ease. Mr.
Butler is in his best when wielding the weapon
of sarcasm, a sardonic grin sits upon his face, and
Lis words are helped by certain not unsuggestive
gestures." The correspondent of the New York
Herald thus alludes to his voice :—lt is " the
strangest ever mortal speaker saluted the public ear
with. It resembles in its intonations the combined
and varied noises of a cracked barrel organ, and a
chorus of bull terriers in a street fight—now sharp
and snappish, and again wheezy and rasping." The
Tribune man says that " when he began that por-
tion bearing on the New Orleans riots, he ground
it out between his teeth like the screeching of a
hundred saws, commingled with rumbling of an
artillery carriage across a rugged pavement." His
Speech has caused some surprise from the way in
which he soared above the small, contracted, and
pettifogging law points anticipated. All expected
that in his peculiar style his pleading would be ex-
cellent, but that style was held to be better adapted
for the defence of a criminal trying to escape the
gallows than impeaching a President, and discuss-
ing and arguing great constitutional points that re-
quire a broad political survey. He sho wed a com-
plete mastery over all the details, subordinating
every portion to the ruling charge that Andrew
Johnson had conspired against the peace of the
country and the legal authority of Congress. Ile
is said to be fruitful in resource, quick to detect his
opponent's drift, skilful in exposing sophistry, keen
in retort, courageous in meeting exigencies, com-
manding sharp, incisive language in collecting and
grouping the points of a case, and vigorously driv-
ing them home.
The quarrel of the Rev. Stephen Tyng, jun., is
likely to lead to a split in the Episcopal Church.
The friends of his cause have resolved on an appeal
to the General Assembly of the Church. Fifty of
the most popular ministers passed a resolution of
sympathy, and decided on calling a public meeting,

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 tinder 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 ❑ot 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
enongh. 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 case which involves not only the liberty
and rights of the appellant, but of millions of our fellow-
citizens. The country had a right to expect it would re-
ceive 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 legislkiva interpo-
sition to supersede our action and relieve us from our re-
sponsibility. I have only to say, Pact 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 Minister 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 Hakodadi paying customs to
the Tycoon, and those at lliago 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 Nippon 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 Commanders Reed and M'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 China.

The Chicago Tribune asserts that the Repudia-
tion heresy is confined to Indiana and Oh'
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-
mocra tic party was going to propose to issue
$2,000,000 in greenbacks to pay
offthe
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.' Ile 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 no 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-
wtah y toe is
takeizing the Jews. General Butler knows perfectly well
that there
no' actual wrong' in the public debt,and
the
anything else, is toseeming wrong' from it, or from
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' is, 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 by itsdecrees 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 IL Section I. Para.
6.-1 n the case of the President ceasing to perform
his duties, or that he dies, gives in his resignation,
or from any cause whatever, is unable to discharge
his functions, he shall be replaced by the Vice-Pre-
law provide for the case
sident. Congress can by
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 provides, and whether the Hon. Ben
Wade be the person whom Congress has selected to
succeed iu case 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 IN 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 postponemen t

to representation her Senators will have the pri-
vilege of voting, which may give to the Republican
side two unexpected votes.

The efforts to unseat Mr. Hooper as delegate to
Congress from Utah will, it is now said, be success-
ful, the House Committee on elections having
decided the case. against the Mormon, though it
has not yet been reported. It is probable that Mr.
Hooper was selected by the " saints" on account of
his being a one-wife Mormon, and therefore more
likely to be accepted at Washington. lie has for
many years sat in the. House, but unfortunately
for himself, as a Democrat, he has fallen upon evil
times. The point against him is that the en-
dowment oath taken by Mormon elders is to " hate
and do all in their power to overthrow the United
States Government," and to teach this to their
children. The man who, after subscribing to such
oath, could take a seat in the Legislature shows
no small amount of audacity, and can scarcely be
acceptable to the Democrats as a type of their party
principles.

As might have been expected, considering the
interests of California in the question, a State Con-
vention resolved on the 31st March, " Repudiation
of the national debt is a crime against the loyal
dead, an abandonment of the principles upon which
the war of the Union was fought, and a violation of
plighted honour." Repudiation means inflation
and permanency of paper currency—measures clearly
opposed to the interest of the great bullion-exporting
State. California has always taken her stand on specie
payment, and never permitted the general circulation
of greenbacks. Although this is manifestly for her
interest, it ought not to lessen the credit she de-
serves, for it is far from being a common rule that
communities act for their true interests. If they
did, those who advocated Repudiation and Inflation
in the United States would be pilloried instead of
cheered. It is also resolved, " That citizens must
be protected at home or abroad, and no foreign
nation should be permitted to punish an American
citizen for an offence committed on our soil ;" and
Grant was named for President.
Asahel Bush is an instande of the biter bit. He
was once editor of a Democratic paper in Westfield, and is
now a leader of the Democratic party in Oregon. When
editor he used his pen freely in abuse of his opponents,
but as a leader in politics he does not fancy being himself
abused. Samuel A. Clark, however, perhaps not aware of
this peculiarity, or that Mr. Bush claimed a privilege he
did not allow to others, did abuse him, whereupon he
called on Mr. Clark with a cane which he freely laid over
his shoulders, and in the scuffle Bush lost his cane and
Clark his hat.

Professor Goldwin Smith has sent to Brown
University, Rhode Island, an album filled with photogra-
phic views of the Oxford colleges as a souvenir of his visit
to the Rhode Island University three years ago, when ho
was made LL.D.

The Reverend Dr. Eldridge, of Detroit, minister
of the American Church in Paris, has, wo believe, re-
quested the committee of management who reside in New
York to send a successor, as he desires to bo relieved.

The Rev. Charles S. Robinson having resigned the post of
minister of tho First Presbyterian Church at Brooklyn,
New York, has been named as Dr. Eldridge's successor.
Mr. Cyrus W. Field has been voted a large gold
medal in commemoration of his work in laying the cable
by the Wisconsin Legislature.

Poor Charles Dickens is to be denied the pleasure
of James Gordon Bennett's company at the grand banquet
to be given him by the Pless of New York previous to his
departure, or of any individual connected with the Herald,
whose actions Mr. Bennett can sway. Talk of the des-
potism of the "bloated aristocrats," what is it compared
with that exercised by Mr. James Gordon Bennett, who
threatens instant dismissal to any man on the staff of his
paper who shall presume thus far to honour the great
English novelist. Horace Greeley is to preside at the
banquet.
A. A. Bradley, the coloured lawyer of Savannah,

is circulating through the city and the adjoining country

the following circular, which causes considerable excite-
ment: - " Notice.— To all bad men in the city of Savannah,
who now threaten the lives of the leaders and nominees of
the Republican party, and of the presidents and members
of the Union League of America. if you should strike
blow, the man or men will be followed and the house in
which he or they take shelter will be burned to the
ground. Take heed, mark well. Members of the Union
rally ! rally ! ! rally ! !! for God, life, and liberty."
Colonel D. E. Burl is expected to arrive in Lon-
don on Tuesday next, and if he does it will be an instance
of wonderful expeditious travel. Ile started from London
on the 7th of February last, and will have madetho return
trip to the State of Nevada in less than tvfo and a half
months if he gets back at the date announced.
Messrs. James G. Bennett, jun., Lawrence Je-
rome, Ike Barker, and Wright Sanford, who cruised off
South about a month since on a hunting and fishing cam-
paign in Florida, are still absent, but expected back dai'y.
Their letters report excellent sport.
General Canby has ordered that the public
charities of North and South Carolina shall be adminis-
trated irrespective of race or colour.
The trial of Mr. Davis has been further post-
poned till the 2d of May.
Colonel Greenfeldt has escaped from Dry Tor-
tugas.
The Senate has confirmed R. M. Sherman as
United States Marshal for Rhode Island, Charles Robin-
son of Vermont as Consul at Quebec.
Paul Jones was mangled to death by a circular
saw in a steam saw mill at Exeter, on Friday evening. lie
was married only the night before.
The Kansas Republican Convention favours Gen.
Grant for President, and Senator Pomeroy for Vice-Presi-
dent, and goes in for the removal of President Johnson
and the payment of the national debt in coin. The Ore-
gon Democrats have nominated Mr. J. S. Smith for Con-
gress, declared for Pendleton for President, and adopted a
platform of the approved Conservative stripe.

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