The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-28 00:00:00

LATEST INTELL MENGE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

(By the Cunard Steamer Java, via Queenstown.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (Noon).
The Senate has passed a bill for effecting the
gradual reduction of the army.

The House of Representatives has voted an ap-
propriation of $50,000 for the relief of American
citizens imprisoned in foreign countries and subse-
quently discharged.

The House has passed a bill authorising the sur-
render of foreign convicts who escape from justice
and seek asylum in this country.
The bill declaring Alabama restored to the Union
was referred by the House to the Reconstruction
Committee.

The Judiciary Committee of the Senate, as re-
ported, declaring that a simple majority of votes
shall decide all elections under the Reconstruction
Act, also a bill declaring that the jurisdiction of
the national civil courts, does not extend to political
questions.

Mr. Sumner has presented a memorial from the
citizens of Boston to the Senate, praying the abo-
lition of the Presidency.
Chief Justice Chase has delivered an opinion in
the
_Supreme Court, overruling a motion to dis-
miss the M'Ardle Test Case for want of juris-
diction.

Mr. Seward has issued a circular advising all
American citizens visiting Great Britain and Ire-
land during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus
in Ireland to procure passports from the State

Department.
The official returns of the Alabama election have
been withheld from publication by General Meade.
The Florida Convention has been reorganized

hrough the mediation of General Meade.

General Gillem has ordered the Arkansas
election to commence on the 15th March, and
continue for five days.

The South Carolina Convention has asked Con-
gress to vote the State a loan of $1,000,000 in aid
of the poor. _ . _

A resolution to prohibit the marriage between
blacks and whites has been defeated in the North
Carolina Convention.

The Tennessee Conservative Convention has
adopted a resolution, recommending the nomina-
tion of Mr. Johnson for the Presidency.
The Ohio Senate, by a strict party vote, has
passed a resolution in favour of the Reconstruction
laws.

A Democratic mass meeting, to endorse the
policy of President Johnson, was held at New
Orleans on Saturday.
Democratic clubs are being organised in Georgia.
The Kentucky Legislature have elected Mr.
Thomas M'Creery, Democrat, as the Senator to
succeed Mr. Guthrie, resigned.
The Royal Mail steamship Java, from New York
on the 19th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 4.30
a.m. with 28 cabin passengers and $902,400 in
specie. She landed 123 sacks of mails and 6 pas-
sengers, and proceeded immediately for Liverpool.
All well. The Java made the passage in eight
days nine hours.

SPAIN

MADRID, Feb. 27, Evening.

In to-day's sitting of the Senate the report of the
authorities at Granada respecting the disturbances
which had recently occurred in that city in conse-
quence of the high price of bread was laid before
the House. The report states that order had been
re-established, one person having been killed and
several wounded.

In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the
Minister of the Interior explained the causes which
have led to the retirement of Senor Barzanallan a
from the Ministry of Finance.