Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-06-29
Foreign News.

The Irish Church Suspensory bill was de-
bated in the British House of Lords on Satur-
day, and attracted great attention, the floor
and the galleries being crowded During the
debate some pretty strong language was used
by the opponents of the bill, one of whom char:
ucterized the bill as sacrilege, and declared
that the Queen coronation oath ought to bar
her sanction of it, The debate was adjourned.
The French Emperor has gone to the camp at
Chalons, where he was received with great en-
thusiasm by his army Advices from Japan,
received at London, state that the Tycoon was
so little able to defend the city that he had Of
ferred to retire and disband his army. The
kara. Prince Napoleon has arrived at Con-
stantinople.
Advices from Japan, via San francisco, OF
later date than those received by the Atlantic
cable, state that the late Tycoon has accepted
the terms imposed by the Mikado, had aban-
doned Yeddo, disbanded his army, ceded nearly
half of his territory, and in token OF subms-
sion had left Yeddo on foot His Admiral, in
stead of surrendering the feet to the Mikado,
had left Yeddo with the vessels, and gone, 1t
was supposed, to the Northern coast. it's be-
lieved that the civil war is far from being end
ed yet, notwithstanding the submission of the
Tycoon.
PAY DEPARTMENT INvEsTIGATIoN.-Th re-
port of the House committee appointed to in-
vestigate the alleged frauds in the Pay Depart
ment is delayed through the operation OF the
permission granted by the House to the incul
pated parties to examine and, If possible, to
refute the evidence taken by the committee.
1t is, therefore, probable that the report will
not be presented to the house for several weeks.
Another occasion for the delay is the recent
discovery of a ramifed ring in the Bureau of
Co|ored Troops of the Adjutant Generals
Office, 10 the same division in the Second
Auditors Bureau, and in the Pay Department.,
through which the Government has been rob-
bed of hundreds of thousand of dollars. It
seems that several clerks, if not officers of
higher rank, have for some time been engaged
in issuing certificates for the payment of boun-
ties to colored soldiers, who were enlisted as
slaves, for the sum of $500, when the law pro-
vides that they shall receive only $500. TO
carry out this scheme successfully 1T was ne
cessary that parties In the bureaus mentioned
should work in concert, as copies OF the mus
ter-rolls of all the coored regiments are deposl-
ted in them, and consequently some one who
had access to them was needed to make the
changes in them to correspond with the certl-
coates issued. OF course the soldiers received
but 800, and the remaining 5000 went into
the pockets Of the ring. The Hon. W. S:
Lincoln, chairman of the committee, informed
Secretaries Schofeld and McCulloch of the dis
covery of these gigantic frauds on Friday last,
when they issued orders suspending all bust
ness in the bureaus mentioned, and placed the
rooms in which the muster-rolls of colored
troops are filed In the possession of the CO n
mittee. Mr.. Lincoln. who has charge of the
KEYS Of these rooms, will proceed with the in
Vestieation this week, assisted by competent
and trustworthy officers detailed for that pur-
pose by Secretary Schofeld. Washington
Chronicle.