LATEST EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1313, 31 January 1868, Page 3

LATEST EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Panama Star and Herald, Dec. 24.) New York, December 16. The Congressional news since the sailing of the last steamers amounts to but very little, unless perhaps it be a resolution to censure the President for his course, introduced in the Senate bySenator Drake, of Missouri, and supported by him in a very sharp and fiery speech. This, however, was replied to by Senator Heverdy Johnson, of Maryland, in defence of the Prcsisident and in denunciation of the resolution,

and the probabilities are that the resolution of censure will fail just as did the impeachment project. A negro delegation from the Southern States recently called upon Thaddeus Stevens. He received them very kindly, and said ho would do all he could to protect their interests, and he hoped ere long that all the.ir rights would be pluced on so firm a foundation that they never could be deprived of them again. He also said the day for impeaching the President had passed, but that if it had been done a year ago the country would have been the gainer by it. The delegation then called upon General Butler, who told them that they must take no step backward, but stand firm and fight for their i rights if need be. General Butler now aspires to bo the leader of the negro party in this country, and proposes to make a tour through the States shortly to ascertain the wishes and desires of the negroes in these States. Hannicutt, the incendiary leader of the negroes in the city of JJichmond, has promised to receive him with a procession of four thousand of our coloured brethrei:, and give him a grand ovation. It is said tho purpose of tho General is to try and divide tho Kadical party into two hostile camps, with tho object of defeating General Grant as a candidate for the Presidency, whom it is well known that General Butler utterly detests for daring to " bottle him up so unmercifully." The members of the .Fenian Brotherhood in this country aro very much stirred up about the execution of Allen, Larkin and Gould in England, and threaten fearful things against that government. They are passing resolutions almost daily insisting upon the Uniied States government demanding the release of all naturalized American citizens in England and also reparation for tho iujurics already sustained by such citizens. It is rumored that overtures have been mado to Spnin by the United States for the purchase of Cuba and Porto Uico. How much truth there is in the statement, time will tell. The accounts from tho Southern States represcut that the greatest distress is prevailing there among all tho poor white classes, and to bo added to this there is a fear that there will bo a general rising of the negroes against the whites on the Ist of January. In several of tho Southern States military precautions already are being taken to prevent any such rising. The news from Mexico is not very encouraging. Jiobberies continue to be frequent, and organized bands of brigands aro spreading terror all over that unhappy country. So disgraceful has the state of affairs become that the best of the Mexican people would be glad to get rid of the Juarez Government and have the country annexed to the United States. England, London, Dec. 10,1S67.—The Times, in »n editorial on the correspondence with the Unued States Government in regard to +h •■•• e-ivs troversy about the Alabc::' > -aim . :-.^y'\ — " Lord Stanley is right in refusing .to permit *ae foreign policy of England to be reviewed by vny foreign power, whatever. On all other \->i cs England will gladly meet tho I'uited States lialf way, as she is thoroughly tired of the di- uission." On the 7th inst., in the House of Commons, Lord Stanler, alluding to the European Congress on the .Uonian question, said he could not see that any good would result from the meeting of the representatives of the European Powers in a General Conference without a previous agreement as to the basis upon which their deliberations should be conducted. At a late hour on the night of the 7th Parliament adjourned to meet on the 13th of February, ISCB. Preparations for a demonstration of sympathy for the executed Fenians were making in Liverpool yesterday (10th). As the Orangemen of that city threaten to break up the procession, a serious riot is anticipated. The Fenian General " Nagle" has been captured in Sligo, and is now in close custody.