The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-08 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLMENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.

Mr. Edward Thornton, the newly appointed
British Minister to the United States, was pro
sented to President Johnson to-day by Mr. Seward,
and was cordially received.

ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN.
(VIA QUEENSTOWN.)
New York, Jan. 29, Noon.
The House of. Representatives has passed a bill
authorising the State Legislatures to tax the shares
of the national banks.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Mr.
11. G. Welles as United States Consul at Man-
chester.

The civilian ex- State Treasurer of Georgia has
been arrested by the military authorities for with-
holding the- State funds from his military sue-

censor.

The Democrats have carried the municipal elec-
tion at Wheeling, West Virginia.
The Governor-General of Canada has recognised
Mr. Thomas F. Wilson as Consul-General of the
United States.

It is reported from Havana that General Ler-
sundi has ordered Santa Anna to leave the island.
QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 8.

The Royal Mail steamship Australasian, from
New York op the 29th ult, arrived here at 8.20
a.m. to-day with 25 cabin passenger; She landed
110 sacks of mails and three passengers, and pro-
ceeded at 8.30 a.m. for Liverpool. All well; She
was detained one day at New York by a snow
storm.

NEW YORK, Jan. 28.

The Senate has adopted a resolution asking the
President for information relative to the trial of
Father M'Mahon and Colonel Lynch by the British
authorities. The bill concerning the rights of na-
turalised citizens abroad has been reported by the
Committee of Foreign Affairs to the House of Re-

presentatives.
Gen. Meade has removed the State Secretary o:
Georgia, and appointed a military successor.
_ _ .

Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, has arrived in
Washington. It is reported that he intends to apply
to the Supreme Court for a writ of re-instatement in
the Governorship.
General Hayden, commanding in Alabama, has
ordered the election to ratify the new State Consti-
tution to be held from the 4th to the Bth of Feb-

ruary inclusive.
The public treasurer of North Carolina refuses
to pay the salaries of the Convention delegates.
A gang of armed negroes have waylaid some
constables in Jasper County, Mississippi. Two
were killed, and six were wounded.
The Attorney-General of Maryland has given an
opinion that the Civil Rights Bill is unconstitu-
tional.

General Beatty (Republican) has been elected
member of Congress for the:eighth district of Ohio,
to succeed Mr. Hamilton (Republican) who recently
died.

The Tennessee Radical Convention has adopted
a resolution in favour of the nomination of General
Grant for the Presidency.
Generald Howard has transmitted to the Senate
numerous petitions from Maryland, Kentucky, and
Tennessee, deprecating the withdrawal of the Freed-
men's bureau.

Advices from Vera Cruz to the 22d inst. report
,hat a revolt had broken out in Sonoro agains'

Juarez.

SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 8

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Germania, from New York, has arrived here with
65 pasgengers for this port, Havre, and Hamburg,
and 147 bags of mails for England, but no specie.
On the Ist instant she spoke the American ship
Villafranca, bound west, and the English ship
Ravenscraig, bound east, and on the 2d the English
schooner Harriet, bound west.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.

MALTA, Feb. 7.
The*Ceylon left at 10 p.m. for Marseille, where
she may be looked for on the 10th inst.