The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-11 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
Instances of great events springing from small
causes are constantly occurring. The Foreign-
Office put the letter of a despotic African savage
into a pigeon-hole, and forgot all about it—hence
one of the most expensive expeditions in which
England has been engaged, with what result—no
one knows. The Johanna men, who abandoned
Livingstone, thought it a small matter to fabricate
a lie in excuse. The tale they told of his
death spread indignation and sorrow through
Christendom, and led to an expensive expe-
dition to trace out his fate. People express sur-
prise that they should have had the impudence to
send to Zanzibar for their wages. If such impudent
people did not send for their wages surprise might
really have been felt. Sir Samuel Baker must
" shut up" as an African prophet, and Sir Roderick
Murchison be pushed up a niche or two in the
Temple of Fame. But Livingstone himself when
he returns will be the great African lion ; and if he
arrives about the same time as the Abyssinian expe-
dition gete back, the kingdom will be overrun with
these roaring beasts. We hope that, as in Boin-
bastes Furioso, " the first lion" will not " think the
last a bore." _ _

On the 25th March the President sent to the
Senate the Veto of the 13111 to amend the Judiciary
Act. Mr. Johnson's Message is temperate, but it
had no effect either m the House or in the Senate.
The Senate passed the Bill over the Veto by 32
to 9, and the House by 112 to 32. Mr. Johnson
thus alludes in the Message to the Supreme Court :
The Supreme Court of the United States has
been viewed by the people as the true expounder of
the Constitution, and in the most violent party
judgments and decrees have always
and deferred to with confidence and
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w a respect in public estimation. It combines judicial
wisdom
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greater degree than
any to the Constitution ;
and any act which may be construed into or omis-
taken for an attempt to prevent or evade its deci-
sions on a question which affects the liberty of the
citizens and agitates the country cannot fail to be
attended with unpropitious consequences."
Mr. Jeremiah Black has withdrawn from the
defence of the President. If report be true, he
endeavoured to improve the occasion by using the
President as a tool for carrying out another object.
He had been employed by an American gentleman
named Jerry, who claims the guano island, Alta
Vela, in the Gulf of Mexico, although the claim is
not allowed by the Dominican Government. On as-
suming possession he was expelled by that Govern-
ment, and another American took his place, while
he sought Mr. Black's aid to recover the pro-
perty. When Mr. Black was requested by the
President to act as one of his counsel he proposed
that a vessel should be despatched to reinstate his
client in Alta Vela. This the President refused to
do, and Mr. Black withdrew in dudgeon. Apropos
of this style of bullying, we may state that the Hon.
Ben Wade is beginning already to taste the sweets of
power. The mercenary gang have fastened on him,
and his life is being made a burden to him.
Mr. Frederick Hall has published his book. He
was one of the counsel for Maximilian at Queretaro,
and he throws a good deal of light on the circum-
stances that occurred. The Mexican Judiciary
Courts have now decided that the law was uncon-
stitutional under which the Prince was executed.
General Lopez, who betrayed him, is in prison in
Mexico.

The Cincinnati Inquirer has made a grand dis-
covery! the last good thing of an afterthought. It
holds that if President Johnson should be deposed
from the Presidency, ha would revert to the office
t
to which he was elected, the Vice-Presidency, and
he Presidency being vacant, he would ag tin suc-
ceed to the superior office. Of course Congress
would collar and impeach him when he again
emerged as President, and so the ball might be kept
rolling in this profitable little game.
The cash in the Treasury on the let inst., ac-
cording to the telegram datel Washington, April
6, was $122,500,000 against $128,000,000 on the
let March, being a decrease of $5,500,030. This
was balanced by a decrease of $6,003,000 in the
total amount of indebtedness, which was on the
Ist April $2,642,000 against $2,618,000 on the let
March last, leaving the gain to the United States
of half a million during the month.

The only telegram not elsewhere noticed is the
following from New York on the 4th instant
According to Messrs. Neill's report, the week's
receipts of cotton at all ports are 37,000 bales ;
since let September, 1,942,000. Week's exports to
Great Britain, 37,000 bales since Ist September,