The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-09 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

From the Anglo-American Times)
The cable news mostly relates to the specie now
being forwarded from New York. On the 25th
December the Cuttarders took out $1,000,000, and
the North German Lloyd's steamer, on the 26th, car-
ried out another million. On the 28th the vessel
that left had on board $1,250,000 in specie, and on
the 2d of January the steamers that left for Europe
had $1,500,000. These remittances are mainly on
account of the large payments due from Govern-
ment in January.

We also learn by the cable that General Grant,
by order of President Johnson, has removed Gens.
pope and Ord from the commands of their respec-
tive districts, and Generals Meade and M'llonell
have been appoint-.d to succeed them. General
Sway ne also has been removed from the head of the
Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama. All which argues
great confidence and strong action on Mr. Johnson's
part.

General Hancock is winning golden opinions
from Mr. Johnson. He has reinstated numerous
additional civil officials in Louisiana, removed by.
General Mower during the period he acted for Han-
cock. So strongly does the President approve of
the new administration of the Fifth Military Dis-
trict, and of the order issued by the General on the
29th November, that he sent a message to Congress
calling attention to it, and suggesting that some
public recognition was due, if not to him, to. the
friends of law and justice throughout the country.
Mr. Johnson remarks :—" Of such an act of his
at such a time it is but fitting that the dignity
should be vindicated and the virtue proclaimed,
so that its value as an example may not be lost
to the nation." In this message he gives
another indirect slap in the face to Congress,
nor to it only, as may be perceived in the following
passage :—" I am far from saying that General
Hancock is the only officer of the American army
who is influenced by the example of Washington.
Doubtless thousands of them are faithfully devoted
to the principles for which the men of the Revolu-
tion laid down their lives. But the distinguished
honour belongs to him of being the first officer in
high command south of the Potomac since the close
of the civil war who has given utterance to those
noble sentiments in the form of a military order."
Congress adjourned on the 20th December until
January 6, postponing the Finance and Cotton Tax,
Repeal Bills. The House of Representatives passed
the Deficiency Bill, appropriating $12,000,000 for
army supplies and transport, the enforcement of the
Reconstruction Act, and other expenses. The
Ilouse has passed an amendment to the Reconstruc-
tion Act, introduced by Mr. Stevens, providing
that only a majority of those voting, instead of a
majority of registered voters, be necessary to rectify
or reject the new State constitutions in the South.
Mr. Sherman, from the Finance Committee of the
Senate, has reported a bill similar to the one he in-
troduced in November, providii:g for the funding of
the National Debt in Forty Year Six per Cent.
Bonds, the principal and interest payable in coin
and redeemable at the option of the Government
after ten yearol and .tc) be free of taxation; and

also authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to
issue Forty Year Bonds to the amount of five hun-
dred million dollars, bearing 4i interest, payable in
coin at London and Frankfort, to be sold or ex-
changed at par for Five-Twenties, and redeemable,
at the option of the Government, after twenty.
years. The bill was laid over until after tlw hnli-
days.

Mr. Charles 11. Van Wyck, a representative from
New York, has exposed the Gettysburg Asylum
Lottery swindle. All lotteries are inwe or less
fraudulent; but lotteries for charitable and patriotic
purposes are, to use the words of the New York
7 ribune, " sVing the livery of the devil to serve

'leaven in, which is rather aworse off,aAca than its
opposite." One of the farms in this most patriotic
" do," worth S6,WO, is advertised as worth VA,009;
and the rubbish of a New York tobacconist was
announced as diamonds, valuel at $200,000.
" These, with other traps, miscellaneous p'under,
and old junk, were made the b Isis of a lottery for
the pretended benefit of the soldiers."

The New York Citizen, in an interesting article on
General Lie's position, arrives at the conclusion that
that gentleman may be regarded as master of the
Presidential situation, so far as the vote of the
eleven Southern States in the electoral college can
affect that issue. The Citizen considers that more
than half the negroes will follow General Lee, and
that the white vote of the ex-rebel States will be
solid for w'hatever candidate Lee may chose. " How
then," says the Citizen, "is ' Marsa Bob ' likely to
go in our national struggle? for we again reiterate
our belief that, as General Lee goes, the wholp
South will follow." This question it answers by a
summary of the events which followed the surren-
der, under the apple tree, near Appomatox Court-
House, very distinctly insinuating that Lee will
cast all his influence for Grant, the chivalrous op-
ponent for the chivalrous conqueror, convinced that
the qualities which enabled Grant to reach such an
eminence, and more still, the generosity, the mode-
ration, and the good sense he evinced in victory,
peculiarly fit him, under present circumstances, for
the difficult post which it is the clear wish of the
nation he should fill.

Mayor Hoffman's message to the Board of Alder-
men on the rights of foreign-born citizens natu-
ralised in the United States, fairly enough states the
case. Putting the question aside of the Irish-
American soldiers arrested for treason-felony in Ire-
land, of the rights of which Mayor Hoffman cannot
be a judge, the argument he urges is admitted
in England to be sound, and proves the British law,
as well as that of the United States, which is
similar, requires revision. " Suppose," he says,
the late war to maintain our national existence, in
which our adopted citizens fought with such devo-
tion and valour, Great Britain had openly taken
sides against us, and had sent its soldiers to fight
under the iiritish flag on the side of revolt for our
national •destruction—the principle contended for
by England would have made every adopted citizen
born in any part of England's dominions' fighting
on the side of the Union a traitor liable to be igno-
miniously executed." He adds, the first duty of a
State is to its citizens, to maintain their rights and

it in

protect their persons. But, he might haveadded—
arid to control their acts. No country could endure
the emigration of foiled conspirators reorganising
their plot across her borders, and re-entering her
territory under the shield of a foreign nationality, to
carry into effect the purpose they had already failed
to achieve. The common sense of mankind would
be outraged by such a doctrine, and there is no
nation under the sun that would be less inclined to
endure it than the United States. It cannot be for
the interest of any nationality to retain as citizens
those who have left the country and desire to throw
off their allegiance, and we believe that this is fully
recognised and would be willingly acted on by
Great Britain.