NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE first step has been taken by the House of Representatives at Washington towards the impeachment of the President, namely, to instruct a Committee to inquire into the offences charged against him. The vote appointing this Committee was carried by 108 to 38, apparently on the 7th January. The Times' correspon- dent at Washington, who first sent us this news by Atlantic cable, added, "The Radicals are determined to press it." Congress separated before the vacation in much doubt as to this grave step, but the President having in the meantime vetoed the Negro Suffrage Bill for the District of Columbia, a Bill already voted hy more than two-thirds' majorities in both Houses, and which there- fore can be immediately carried over his head, the challenge has been accepted by Congress, and this resolution is the result. The President has now vetoed every Bill passed by Congress with a view to the real and final extinction of Slavery, and he has with- drawn, finally, the military check on the wholesale murder of negroes by whites in the South. If it be not possible to check him in his career, he will undo in the remaining two years of his Presidency the whole work of the war.
