The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-29 00:00:00

POLICE GRIEVANCES.

Mr. Hardy, Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, has just received a deputation from various police
forces, at the Home Office, Whitehall, relative to the
present unjust workinz, of the Police Acts. Mr. R.
Eykyn, M.P., introduced the deputation and explained
its object to Mr. Hardy. A memorial setting forth
the grievances of the' police was presented to
the Home Secretary. In this memorial the depu-
tation asked that no chief or head constable should
have the power to dismiss any officer at his pleasure,
but that a police officer should by law be entitled to
appeal to the justices in petty sessions ; that no chief con-
stable of counties or head constable of cities or boroughs
shall be allowed to stamp, obliterate, or deface any con-
stable's testimonial, but give a certificate as to character
and qualifications when requested ; that the police super-
annuation fund shall be so constituted that any police
officer, having served a given number of years, can by law
claim a pension similar to a soldier, officer of the Poor-
law Board, or revenue officer ; that any police constable
of any county, city, or borough shall be allowed at any
time to apply for a higher appointment in any other force
when a vacancy occurs, and that the chief constable or
watch committee where the constable may be residing
shall he compelled to give him a certificate, without malice
or ill-feeling, and if he should not obtain the appointment
he should not be deprived of his-rank ; that a new and
higher scale of pay shall be made. The memorial also
prayed for some better security as regards pension, and
that, should any officer he injured in the discharge of
his duties, so as to render him incapable of performing
the same, he should be entitled to a sufficient remu-
neration for the remainder of his life, and that the
police superannuation 'fund in every city, county, and
borough be consolidated into one fund, under the control
of Government. The chief and head constables present
testified to the unsatisfactory working of the Police Acts,
while Mr. Inspector Miller, who- was recently dismissed
from the Surrey constabulary for simply subscribing to
a newspaper, and whose testimonials had been branded
and defaced, also supported the prayer contained in the
memorial. The Home Secretary, after patiently listen-
ing to the observations made by the members of the depu-
tation, intimated that he would give his serious considera-
tion to the important subjects which had been laid before
him. The deputation then withdrew.

FALSIFYING A M_IRRIAGE REGISTER.

At the Royal Court of Jersey a charge has been pre-
ferred against the Rev. Abraham Le Sueur, rector of the
parish of Grouville, in that island, of wilfully falsifying
the parish register and a marriage certificate, and making
a false declaration to the superintending registrar of
births, marriages, and deaths. The facts of the case are
briefly these :—On the 15th of May, 1865, the defendant
celebrated a marriage between William Stanbury and
Susan Machan, in the parish church of Grouville. The only
persons present were the contracting parties, a sister of the
bridegroom, and Mr. John Poingdestse, the reader (clerk)
of the church, between whom and the rector 'there had
for some time previously been a disagreement. At the
conclusion of the ceremony the defendant requested the
parties to accompany him to the parsonage house to sign
the marriage register, as he had not the books in the
church. When they reached the house the rector refused
to allow Mr. Poingdestre to enter, and shut the door in
his face. The books were signed by the newly-married
couple, the sister of the bridegroom, and the rector, no
other person being present. A marriage certificate was
obtained by Stanbury, who, after leaving the parsonage,
found that it contained the name of " Peter Henry, x his
mark," as one of the attesting witnesses, while no such
person was present at the ceremony. It further transpired
subsequently that there was a material difference between
the copy given to Stanbury and the entry in the register.
In the latter the name was entered " John Stansbury,"
whilst the copy gave the name as " William Stanbury,"
and in the copy supplied to the iegistrar of births and
deaths it was written " William Stansbury." It appeared
in evidence that Peter Henry was a servant of the de-
fendant, employed about his grounds. He deposed that
he had been requested by the rector to go into the church
and witness the ceremony of marriage. He did so, un-
known and unseen by any of the wedding party, having
entered bya side door. He stood behind a high pew, from
which position he saw and beard all. He csnld neither
read nor write, and made his mark in the books in a different
room to that in which the other witnesses signed their
names. He made a second mark in another book a week
afterwards. The rector told him "it was about Stanbury's
marriage." The court found the conduct of the defend-
ant " blamable and reprehensible," fined him £5, and
enjoined him to be more careful in future. The Attorney-
General, who prosecuted on behalf of the Crown, in very
severe terms criticised the judgment of the court, which,
he contended, meant nothing, as it failed to state whether
the defendant was guilty or not of the charges alleged
against him,

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN

sical force. Such is the moral disease which
more or less affects the vitality, the stability
of European society. In the land question in
Ireland, we may remark, in passing, are but
too clearly seen symptoms of the same disorder,
which we shall in vain seek to cure by the doc-
trines of political economy which Liberalism
alone believes in.

It is the duty of every one in his sphere, in
such a crisis as we are witnessing in Europe,
not to stay his hand if he can do aught to
arrest the progress of this impending war of
classes. The first need, if European society
is smitten with sickness, is to have as accurate
a diagnosis as possible of the state of the patient.
In the hope of being able to contribute some-
thing, however slight, towards the formation
of such an accurate knowledge, we propose
to supply, by the means of various writers of
experience, a series of sketches, with the view
of giving a picture of the religious and social
state of the different countries of Europe. If
we can add something to the general stock of
knowledge, if we can succeed in putting facts
and their consequences in their proper light,
or in their due relations—if we can produce a
sketch of Catholicism in Europe, however
slight, yet accurate, as far as it goes, in facts
and statistics, we shall not altogether have
failed in our object.—Westminster Gazette.

NG, APRIL 29, 1868.

level of the brute, he was held up to reproba-
tion as a Jesuit, or a retrograde, or a fossil, as
a man of weak intellect, a deceiver, a hypocrite.

The man who never went to church even on

Sundays, who never said a prayer, who yielded

to every dictate of his passions, who did not
believe in the. immortality of the soul, who said
there is no God, was 'considered to be free from

superannuated prejudices, was regarded as a
man of progress and of sound intellect, worthy

,o be the counsellor of the nation. He was called

young France. He was allowed to smoke in the
presence of ladies, to wear top boots and jockey
coats, is l' Anylaise, to make use of immodest
language in presence of women, to boast of in-
fidelity, of the freedom of mankind when freed

State Department, testified to this.

from the commandments of God and of the
Church. Such was the fashion and the result

of human respect in those days. Such were
the seeds sown over the whole of France by
means of the public press. To be virtuous in

those days, to go to Church on Sunday, to lead
a moral life, to say prayers, fast, abstain from
meat in the restaurants or public eating-houses,
required the greatest courage, because such a
man was looked clown upon as a being of the
past, as a being unworthy of liberty, as a man
wanting in intelligence, as unworthy of the
new school, as a man fit only for the dark ages
of that ancient, decrepid, prejudiced, and de-
graded old France, which believed in God,
in the immortality of the soul, in paradise,
in hell, which believed in the sacraments of
Confession and of Holy Communion, which
_ . _ _

believed in the necessity- of doing penance by
abstinence, fasting, which believed in the pre-
cept that Sundays were to be kept holy, that
life on earth ►vas only a short pilgrimage—a
life of probation to prepare the immortal soul
for heaven. All such men were called Jesuits,

retrogrades, men to be avoided, fit only to be
spit upon, to be despised, to be persecuted, vili-
fied, to be pointed at, shown up as friends of
tyranny and enemies of liberty, progress, and
everything that can elevate man in this world.
Such was the teaching of the public press ;
and as everything printed was taken as Gospel,
the journals were considered as true as the
Bible, and what was called the intelligent part

of France—Paris and its neighbourhood—was
subject to a miserable printing machine, type,
and ink. That printing machine was looked
upon as the only infallible authority ; to con-
tradict what was printed was looked upon as a
crime, as a want of intelligence. Such was
the confidence placed in the public press, that
the public took their opinions from it ; that
means their intelligence was held in slavery
by the public press. This kind of slavery was
carried so far that nobody dared to arrive
at a conclusion before he had been instructed
by the journal of his choice. Fashion and
human respect did the rest ; the world, the
flesh, and the devil triumphed in that way
over God, the Church, the King. Vice itself
was regulated by law. Religion was insulted
and injured because every kind of out-door
work was allowed on Sundays, and every kind
of amusement was encouraged on that sacred
day—such as racing, fairs, shows, reviews, boat
races, everything in fact that could tend to
keep the people out of Church. Public works,
even the paving of streets, and Government
buildings, were allowed on Sundays.
Such was the state of things, such the liberty
under the restoration of the ancient monarchy,
when the Church was helplessly tied down by
the Concordat, and the KingAiad his hands
tied by the charter ; such was the extraordi-
nary way of understanding liberty in the year
1828, that it was possible for a decree to be
issued declaring that the Jesuit fathers were
no longer to be allowed to keep a school or
college open in France. Those saintly fathers
were expelled by the cry of liberty; the greatest
tyranny that the world can place upon mankind
was to be substituted in the place of liberty.
Education was to be placed entirely in the hands
of infidels, men who never went to Church on
Sunday. The present writer was at the time,
1828, at the Jesuit college of St. Anne, near
Auray. When the papas and mammas came to
take away their sons for the holidays, the boys
were struck with the general gloom, in place
of the joy which always welcomes the breaking
up of a school for the holidays. Every boy
exclaimed : what has then happened that our
good fathers arc to be exited. Wo oan +.ll son.
papa and mamma, that those who exile them
will soon have to go into exile themselves.
The prophecy was fulfilled in 1830. From. St.
Anne's the present writer wasAent to the Uni-
versity Lycoe of Nantes, wherd there were 800
boys and the requisite number of masters. Out
of these 800 boys only about twenty went
to their Easter Communion, and not one
of the masters. It is true they were made
to go to Church on a Sunday, but it was worse
than mockery ; every kind of ill-conduct was
carried on during divine service. Such, then,
was the state of France when the King thought
it was time to raise some barrier against the
flood of iniquity—iniquity supported by the
free press and secret societies of every nation.
when the royal ordinance was published to
curb the licentiousness of the public press,
the entire Press of France and of England
cried out against the tyranny of that measure.
They were too well aware that if the ordinance
had been accepted, religion, as well as public
order, would have been saved in France.
Everybody knows the hatred entertained by
unworthy Catholics and Protestants against
the Christian Kings of France, and against
every Catholic King who keeps holy the Sun-
day, and believes in the divine institution of
the Church. Dissenters of very denomina-
tion, whatever may be their creed or their
nationality, are all leagued together to prefer
any tyrant or power to Catholic Kings. They
can write leadinc, articles in newspapers to
prove the tyranny of Kings who wish to have
the Sunday, at least, respected; but they have
not a word of blame against the real tyrant
of Poland where religion is trampled down and
exiled into Siberia; of Italy, where every kind
of spoliation and corruption is the order of the
day ; of Ireland, where the restoration of the
ancient Church is called a destruction. Tithes
and church land revenues are considered right
things in the hands of Ministers engaged in
the affairs of the world. It is wrong to ask
what they do with the money of the poor ; but,
the loaves and fishes are considered bad in the
hands of priests and monks, although they
are the fathers of the poor,, and consider
charity the first of virtues.
The natural result of such a state was, as
we all know, that the Kings of France were
again sent into exile ; the flood of iniquity was
too strong for them to overcome. France
was delivered over to the hands of the impious,
to perjurers and traitors. Next week we will
consider the desolate period dating from the
Revolution of 1830 up to the republic of 1848.
—Corre,spondent of Westminster Gazette.

The illumination of Rome on the 18th was car-
ried out on a magnificent scale. There has been no dis-
play to match it in Rome since the'Pope's return from
Gaeta, says the Roman correspondent of the Pall-Mall.
The Pope visited the principal points of the display in the
afternoon, but saw little of the illumination itself, as this
bad hardly begun when he returned to the Vatican. The
streets were densely thronged with the population.
[AnysfinsEt4Rwr.]—Dyspepsia(lndigestion), Constipation, De-
bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and livei
complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelerated
by thugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du
Barry's health-restoring Revalenta, Arabica, Food, as proved by
thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, such
as—cough, asthma, also diarrheas, htemorrhoids, liver com-
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diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and
cars, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia,
ttability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitatiop, heartburn, head-•
ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness,
even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, -Stronehitis; scrofula,
tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and
between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health
restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,413.—" Rome, July
12, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially
since, abandoning all other remedies, he has unlined hivaselt
entirely to DutEarry's Revalenta Arabic& Food, of which he
consumes a Ilateful at every meal. it has produced a sur-
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praise this excellent food. too highly."—From the " Gazette du
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merchant, of Fritnlel; -SiCrrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs,
spitting of - Jiver • derangement, and partial deafness
Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart do Decies, Lord Lieut. of
Waterford, of Many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,83; "Fifty
years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness.
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency. spasms, sickness and
vomitings—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the many
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, withou'
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PROGRESS OF IMPEACHMENT.

April 4.—The attendance this day in the Senate

Chamber has been less than usual, and the vacancies
more than ever filled by uegroes. The Managers
continued the examination of reporters on the speech
at St. Louis, Sept. 8, 1866, of which copies, includ-
ing newspaper reports, were put in in evidence. The
next object was to show that after the passage of

;he Tenure-of-Office Act the form of the old com-

mission was 'changed by the President in con-
formity, and Robert S. Chew, chief clerk of the

The change

consisted iu striking out the words " during the
pleasure of the President for the time being," in-

serting instead " subject to the conditions prescribed
by law." Mr. Chew produced the record of a search

Lrough the archives of the State Depart►nent,

showing that an acting appointment of a head of a
department, except in the temporary absence of the

Secretary, had never been made, and only one re-

['md by the;Presideut of such art official while the

Senate was in session, that of Timothy Pickerivg,
Secretary of State, 12th May, 1800, and then John
Marshall on the same day was appointed in his
place. General Butler alleged that President

Adams in this case had beforehand consulted the
Senate, and the removal was with their advice and
consent. Mr. Creasy was recalled, and a letter in
the archives
.of the Treasury produced from
Andrew Johnson to Secretary M'Culloch, dated

14th August, 1867
"Sir,—ln compliance with the requirements of the
eighth suction of the Act of Congress of the 2d of March,
1867, entitled An Act to regulate the Tenure of certain

Civil Offices,' you are hereby notified that on the 12th inst.
the Hon Edwin M. Stanton was suspended from his office
as Secretary of War, and General U. S. Grant authorised

and empowered to act as Secretary of War ad interim.—
I am, Sir, very respectfully, " ANDREW JOHNSON."
This was tendered to show the President's assertion
that he suf erseded Mr. Stanton under-the Constitu-
tion indefinitely and at his pleasure, was false.
After several of the President's messages to Con-

gress had been put in evidence, Butler said the case
for the Managers was substantially closed, reserving

the right to add if necessary some cumulative
testimony. Then the President's counsel moved

to adjourn until April 9, giving the defence
three clear working days to prepare. Little

oral testimony would be offered, but time was
necessary to arrange documentary evidence. Not-
withstanding the objection of Senators Sumner
and Cameron the motion was carried by 37 to 10,
and the Court adjourned till April 9.
April 9.—Another great day in this great trial ;
for the defence was now to open, and Mr. Curtis,
with all the powers of his oratory, was to announce
the position assumed by the President. The day
was brilliantly fine, and again the galleries of the
Chamber were bright with gay colon's and spark-
ling with diamonds. The front rows were occu-
pied by ladies, who eagerly pressed for conspicuous
places, not so much the better to observe the Sena-
torial stage upon which the Impeachment scene was
being enacted, as to hand dawn their own sweet
faces to posterity, for this was the day and the
event chosen by the photographer to represent this
great historical episode. After the usual Procla-
mation the Managers were asked by the Chief Jus-
tice if they wished to introduce further testimony,
to which hir. Butler replied by calling two wit-
nesses. W. A. Wood, a Federal soldier, testified
that the President refused, at au interview in 1866,
to give him a Government place, as his influence
was cast for Congress, and those the President em.
ployed, Andrew Johnson asserted, must stand by
him ; Foster Blodgett, appointed postmaster at
Augusta, Maine, in 1865, and suspended in January
last without the Senate being notified of the cause,
as required by the Tenure-of-Office Act, as proved
by certificates of officers of the Senate, showing
that no reason for the suspension had been sent to
the Chamber. Butler closed the prosecution with
a letter from General Thomas, accepting the ap-
pointment of Secretary of War ad interim, and
announced that the Managers rested their case on
the evidence they had submitted. Then arose
Judge B. R. Curtis, senior counsel for the Pre-
sident, and bowing to the Chief Justice, he turned
to the Senators and said—" I am here to speak to
the Senate of the United States sitting in its judi-
cial capacity as a Court of Impeachment, presided
over by the Chief Justice of the United States."
WA may hpruk nhaorvn 1-10-. Mr Curtis, micirocmpri
Mr. Chase as " Mr. Chief Justice," the invariable
habit of the President's Counsel as well as of the
Democratic Senators, while the Managers studiously
call the Chief Justice "Mr. President," being imitated
in this by the Republican Senators. The President's
party proclaim the Chamber a Court, the Con-
gressional party a Senate, and even the absurd dis-
tinction is seen when the Chief Justice orders the
Sergeant-at-Arms to make proclamation, as Mr.
Chase says to the Court, the Sergeant-at-Arms
shouts that the " Senate," &c. The importance of
the trial, the oath to do impartial justice, was
touched upon by the eloquent counsel who closed
the opening portion of his address by the statement
that the only appeal the defence would make would
be to conscience and reason, their at guments being
based solely on questions of law and fact. First,
he demolished the Managers' position that the Se-
nate was not essentially a Court, and then pro-
ceeded to deal with the charges, which he summed
up in four or five propositions, showing that the
Managers' real ground was the violation of the
Constitution by the President, and failing to sustain
this, the case must fail. The first eight Articles
alleged the violation of the Tenure-of-Office A:t
and the Constitution in the removal of Mr. Stanton,
while he maintained that case was not within
the scope and provisions of the Act ; the de-
scription of his office and its tenure mate-
rially differing from the cases described in the Act
Stanton was appointed by President Lincoln, in
1862, to hold office during the term for which that
President was elected, and not for the subsequent
term to which he might be elected. The case was
of a Secretary holding under the law of 1789, which
implies a power in the President, though not ex-
pressly to remove, by directing what a President
shall do after such a removal. The Constitution
does not forbid this exercise unsanctioned by the
Senate and Congress in passing that law affirmed
)3T implication this power to the President. The
necessity for Stanton's removal was shown in 'the
correspondence, and the circumstances attending his
suspension. Then he discussed the duty of a Presi-
dent to assume judicial functions at times, although
technically such power is solely vested in the Su-
preme Court. The highest patriotism might require
him to test the validity and binding force of a law,
and it was his right to disregard Acts manifestly un-
constitutional, and above all in defence of that Con
stitution. Suppose, be said, " a law is passed that
he shall not be Commander-in-Chief ; that is a plain
case of an infraction of that provision of the Con-
stitution which has confided to him that command
in order that the head of all the military power of
the country shall be its highest civil magistrate, and
the law may always be superior to arms." The
considerations influencing the President were enu-
merated, and all authorities and law-writers were
examined to show how they supported the Presi-
dent's power of removal from 1789 to 1867, every
Congress recognizing that power as established,
after full debate, by the first Congress held in 1789.
To apply the Tenure-of-Office Act to Stanton would
not be in agreement with the Contract by the
Senate in confirming his appointment, which was
to hold the office during the pleasure of the Presi-
dent. All the. Articles, except two, were founded
on the alleged unlawful removal of Mr. Stanton by
the President while the Senate was in session. But
instead of being removed, he remained in the War-
Office, and at the present time acted as Secretary
of War,
and it could not be assertednorthatltritsuactili
attempt to remove was removal ;
attempt justified Impeachment. After showing
that the President could not be impeached for an
attempt to procure a judicial decision on a disputed
point, lie took up General Butler's admission quot-
ing his opening speech, stating that in itself the
removal was not perhaps an impeachable offence if
made with the foregoing motive, and unaccompa-
nied by a defiant Message to the Senate, being pre-
cisely the view lately expressed by the Pall Mall
Gazette. These are the words of the counsel :
" So that it seems that it is, after 4117 not the removal of

Mr. Stanton, but the manner in which the President com-
municated the fact of that removal after it was made, for
which the President is to be impeached. That manner is
hero called ' The defiant message of the 21st of February.,
I have read that message, as you have all read it. If you
can find anything in it but what is decorous to the Senate
and to all concerned, your tastes are different from mine.
But whether it be a point of manners, well or ill con-
ceived, one thing seems to be quite clear—that the Pre-
sident is not impeached here because ho entertained an
opinion that the law was unconstitutional. He is not
impeached here because he acted on that opinion and re-
' moved Mr. Stanton. But ho is impeached here because
the house of Representatives considers that this honour-
able body was addressed by a defiant message when it
should have been addressed in the terms which the boa-

ourablo Manager has dictated."
The position taken by the President was similar to
that of individuals in the courts who set up Pk"
with regard to a law they are charged with break-
ing, alleging it to be unconstitutional—that it doss
not apply to them—but if constitutional and ap-
plicable, they can maintain that they had not in-
fringed it. The President was justified in choosing
his own occasion for testing the Act, and not pre-
judiced by recognizing it in unimportant matters.
The change in the form of commission merely
acknowledges the power of removal as existing
somewhere by virtue of the law, without defining
that where. Supposing the law to be constitutional
and the President bound to act under it, still if it
does not embrace Mr. Stanton, the case not being
within that law, the charges affecting that law must
be without foundation. The theory that Mr. John-
son was only acting President serving out Mr. Lin-
coln's time was simply absurd. There was no more
propriety in assuming this than there would be
in
saying that one sovereign that succeeds another sove-
reign by death holds a part of his predecessor's
term. After speaking for three hours, Mr. Curtis,
at three begged permission to defer the re-
maining portion of his argument, pleading great

fatigue, and the Court adjourned.
April 10.—If General Butler emptied the House
with a voice like the rasping of
.a hundred saws,
combined with the rumbling of artillery over a
bridge, the oratory of Mr. Curtis seems also to have
worn out patient, long-enduring, and much"
suffering Washington. With the novelty went the
attendance, and on this day, while the spectators
had materially dwindled down, Mr. Colfax was
followed by scarcely:a score of Representatives. tits
Curtis recommenced his argument on the consti4
tionality of the Reconstruction Act, and the consi-
deration whether Mr. Stanton's case came within
the provisions of that Act. Of its three sections,
the two first refer to removals and suspensions dur-
ing the Senate's recess, and the third to vacancies
by death or resignation, the prescribed penalties
being solely for violations of the third section.
After claiming to have shown that Stanton's re-
moval was outside this act, Mr. Curtis considero
the charge wherein the appointment of General
Thomas to the Secretaryship of War ad interim was
alleged in violation of the Constitution. Several
Congressional Acts were cited authorising ad in-
terim appointments in Cabinet officers, and the
practice he declared to have been uniforni
of filling up vacancies as they occurred'
_Chen he came to the alleged conspiracy
between the President and General Thomas. rois
was charged as a violation of the Conspiracy Mt'
In the first place, that Act did not refer to the dis-
trict of Columbia ; next, employing an agent t'°4
support an alleged right could not be pronounce'
a conspiracy, and the private right which no one
disputed was much stronger in a public case. The
order to Thomas was that of a superior to a military
subordinate, and such instructions could not be COw
strued into plotting. It would be shown that neither
directly nor indirectly had the President empowers`;
Thomas to use force or threats. As to the charge
of attempting to procure insubordination in the
army, the Managers had not only failed to prove it'
but had disproved it by the testimony of their wit-
ness, General Emory, who confessed that he, all
not the President, introduced the subject. PO°
would be furnished showing the reason why the
President sent for Emory, which would effectually
demolish the 9th Article. He then went on to eeh"
sider the President's speeches, and ridiculed the ids
t
of impeaching and removing from office a President
on such a charge. Evidence would be tendered n'
reports by competent reporters produced Whaicha
materially change these speeches from what ha
generally been accepted. Having discussed the legal
bearing of each Article, he took up the general sub-
ject of Impeachment, and explained what were
really impeachable offences. Then he contrasted
the acts and motives of the President with these;
showing that Andrew Johnson had not render'
himself liable to such a trial, having always beetio
influenced by the noble motive of preserving th
Constitution and liberties of the country, conclud-
ing with these words :
" It must be unnecessary for me to say anything (3°,1;
corning the importance of this case, not only now, but' I
the future. It must be apparent to any one in anY
concerned, or in connection with this trial, that it is, 233 r
will be, the most conspicuous instance that ever has boon °cc
can ever be expected to be found of Amorican justice, u 0
of American injustice —of that justice which Mr. Burg'
says is the great standing policy of all civilized State
of that injustice which is certain to bo condemned, W41c.,1
makes ever the wisest man mad ; and which, in the gS-d
and unalterable order of God's providence, is sure to re-
turn to plague the inventor."
Adjutant-General Thomas was then called, au
in full uniform came forward to give his testime°l'
detailing the history of his appointment as Seerf;
tary-of-War ad interim. Butler objected to tt'o
question whether the President advised Thomas .
use force in dispossessing Stanton, and after chs...
cussion the objection was over-ruled by 42 to VI
On resuming his evidence Thomas gave a detaile;
account of his interview with Mr. Stanton aft
Stanton had procured his arrest by the Civil Cour;
Thomas described Stanton as then being 0° the
most familiar and affectionate terms, putting u`„,
arm round his neck and running his fingers throng'
his hair, after which he treated him to some whisll,;
George Washington Karsener, one of Stanteliog
spies, had suggested the expression about " s,
out," and not the witness Thomas. After er°s3
examination by Mr. Butler, the General retire
and the day's proceedings closed.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 17 ... 11 PI
Ditto
Rotterdam..._..... — ... 11 19 ... 12 ,„
Antwerp — ... 25 35 ... 25 74
Brussels ' ... 25 35 ... 25 nj.
Ramburgh — ... 13 94 ... 13 ‘,l`,‘
Paris Short ... 25 124 25 :4„`.,
Ditto 3 Ms. ... 2", 274 •... 2' "0"
Marseilles ... ... 25 30 ... 25 0
Frankfort-on-the-Main . 120} VOL,
Vienna •• ••• •••
"..'
••• 11 824 ... 11 92
Trieste — ... 11 85 ... 11 9,"
Petersburg - ... 324 ... 22;-1
Berlin ... .. 6 264 -. 6 21*
481
Madrid — ... 484 ...
- - 19

Cadiz
3°
Leghorn — ••• 43k 49
... 28 20 ..:. 28
Milan
"
Genoa — ... 28 20 ...
Naples
Pa •—lermo ... 28 20 ... 28 .'„'
Messina - ••• 28 20 ... 2851
'
Lisbon
Oporto
511
i
... 514 ...
_....

Births. tbe
DUFF—On the 26th inst. at at The Elms, Sunderlavnti, $.
wife of Commander Geo. . Graham Duff, it.N.7
Durham, of a daughter. ,sCI t
LAIRD—On the 27th inst , r'
Park-road south, Birke
the wife of Henry St. Laird, Esq., of a son. hire,
MATHEw—On the 27th inst., at Wenn, Carnarvons
the wife of E. W. Mathew, Esq., of a son and heir.
Marriages.
BANNISTER —MARCHANT 011 the 28th inst., at a•
Abbotts, Kensington, William, eldest son of T. 133,%ter
ter, Esq., of Litlfleld, SussexAo Mary, second day,'
of the late T. Marchaut, Esq. ,rcht,
RADCLIFFE JAMES— oft the 23d inst., at L illesh all 01-i of
Salop, Thomas, eldest son of John Radcliffe, k:s4.lsfe
Liverpool, to Catherine, youngest daughter of ftw,,
Thomas James, Esq., of Cheswell Grange, Newt'

Shropshire.
Deaths. , (leo.
AOLEN—On the 26th inst., at Upper Easton, /3, isti, -
A glen, Eeq., of Shepton Mallet; Somerset, aged 61h tat
BADAUT—On the 27th inst., at Roupell-park, 8t036
Francois J. Badart, Esq., aged 61. ~-, mtoOt
Jornisorr—On the 27th inst., at Canterbury-roacl, i-'l.--
Robert Johnson, aged 49. t 1101)t.
Tbaturt—On the 25th inst., at Dame Court, Thane'
Jackett Tomlin, Esq...e.

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