The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-06 00:00:00

Mr. Stevens can argue or not, there is one thing he
certainly can do, and that is to stick most perti-
naciously to the conclusions he has extracted from
his on n reflections, and therefore we back them
against the telling sarcasm of the Nation. That
gentleman has asked for the re-committal of his
bill to admit Alabama, so his reflections on that
subject have, we presume, led him into a mistake,
an admission not often made by " the great com-
moner."

The bill removing the internal tax upon domestic
manufactures has called forth a letter from Mr.
M'Culloch, the Secretary of the Treasury, who ad-
dressed the Finance Committee of the Senate,
stating that the revenue would be reduced if it be-
came law over $100,000,000, and that there would
be an insufficiency in the next fiscal year to meet
the interest on the public debt and the current ex-
penses of the Government. It was not, however,
thought that the loss would in reality exceed
$60,C00,000, as the committee propose to increase
special taxes on certain manufactures, which, wi.;h
one-twentieth of one per cent. on sales of large
quantities of manufactured goods, will reduce the
deficiency to that figure.
Should Andrew Johnson be removed we should
have thine Presidents in one year from this date —first ,
Andrew Johnson; second, Benjamin Wade; and third ,
whobver is elected in November next. This has happened
but once before in our history, then we had three in about
one month —Van Buren on the 4th of March ; William
Henry Harrison, successor for one month ; and John
Tyler, who succeeded Harrison.

On the 17th March the House of Representa-
tives discussed the removal of disabilities from general
Longstreet, Mr. W. W. Holden, and Mr. James L. Orr, but
on the motion of Mr. Schenck decided to wait before pro-
ceeding for a few weeks.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr.
Hezekiah G. Wells as Consul at Manchester for the 'United
States of America.

It was announced by the .New York Tribune that
General Hancock and Jefferson Davis attended a proces-
session at New Orleans in the same carriage, and in
passing the General's head-quarters that the bands played
the "Bonnie Blue Flag." The Tribune has, however, con-
tradicted its statement.

On the 14th of March the President and his
daughter attended the funeral of the late well-known
negro steward, at the White House, William Slade.
A man named Maguire, who robbed a Missouri
bank, was taken by some citizens from the Richmond gaol
of that State, on the 17th of March, and hanged. This
was curious treatment for an Irishman on St. Patrick's
Day.

Report says that General Halleck will be named
for the command of the Fifth Military District, now in
charge of General Reynolds during Hancock's absence at
Washington. General M'Dowell is also named as likely
to succeed to that district. It appears nearly certain that
Hancock will not return. Halleck is well known for his
works on military tactics, but ho is. considered a better
soldier theoretically than practically.
R. D. Butler, the Tennessee representative, is to
be admitted into the House, Congress having passed a
bill relieving him from the necessity of taking the test
oath—an oath it would have been impossible for him to
have swallowed, having been a well-known rebel soldier.
He swung round at the right time, and obtained his elec-
tion through negro votes.

Mr. John H. Wells, a citizen of Washington, but
for some time past the chief of an Indian agency in Mon-
tana, recently committed suicide by shooting himself.
Ho had just returned home, was in excellent health, and
no cause is known for the rash deed.

Mr. Bingham reported back the bill for the relief
of the following persons from the disabilities imposed
upon them : —Wm. W. Holden, C. J. Rogers, Wm. A.
Smith, Calvin J. Cowles, Thos. Settle, Rufus Barranger,
Victor C. Barrauger, Luke Blackmer, of North Carolina ;
J. L. Alcarn, Benjamin B. Neighbors, of Mississippi ;
Robert W. Flourney, . Joshua Morris, James R. Berry, of
Arkansas; James Longstreet, of State of Louisiana ; Robert
B. Kingsbu►y, of Texas ; Thomas J. Mackey and Jas. L.
Orr, of South Carolina; and Joseph J. Brown, of Georgia.
On Tuesday week the American banker at Rome,
Mr. Hooker, gave a splendid soiree in honour of Admiral
Farragut. Most of the members of the diplomatic body
and the Prefect of Naples were present.

The Wall-street Journal says General George W.
Tew, General Treasurer of the State, is a defaulter to the
amount of $4,000. He has resigned, and Samuel A.
Parker has been placed in charge temporarily.
Mr. Rose, the Canadian Minister of Finance, has
received a deputation from the Montreal Board of Trade
suggesting as a remedy for " the silver nuisance" an issue
of Legal-Tender Notes.

Minister Thornton left Washington for New
York, it is said, upon private business.
The Pall Mall says :--The latest excitement in
the political world in America has been caused by a pro-
position, which is meeting with considerable favour, that
the Democracy shall, at their National ConVention in
New York, July 4, nominate Chief Justice Chase as the
Conservative candidate in opposition to General Grant.
Mr. Chase was originally a Democrat, and Separated from
his party on the single issue of the abolition of slavery ;
that issue being now in the past, it is believed that ho
is willing to become the standard-bearer of the Demo-
cracy.

The Pall Mall Gazette remarks ;—" The rights of
women in England are fully recognised in parochial if
not in Parliamentary affairs. On Saturday last Mrs. Sarah
Wooster was appointed by the Aylesbury magistrates to
the offices of overseer of the poor an I surveyor of high-
ways for the parish of Illmire ; and last year four women
filled similar offices in the Aylesbury district. Among
other places for which it has been held that women are
eligible are those of high chamberlain, high constable,
common constable, sexton, and returning officer at an
election to Parliament.

Secretary Seward lately left Washington for his
home at Auburn, and the report at once spread that ho had
decamped in alarm at the progress of Impeachment. This
has brought him back, and when the last mail left he was
in his roomagain at Washington. On his return he was
stopped by the floods at Utica, New York, on the 16th
March, and at the hotel into which ho was thus involun-
tarily thrown were Anna Dickenson, Dr. Mary E. Walker,
and Charles Dickens.

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