The Week.

This article presents information on political and social issues of several nations. U.S. President Andrew Johnson, has delivered himself to a "distinguished senator" on the subject of Afro-American suffrage in the District of Columbia, as well as upon the proposed amendments to the Constitution changing the basis of representation. If his remarks upon the attempt to establish Afro-American suffrage in the District be correctly reported, he will probably veto the bill. There is rumor of an alliance between Austria and France, which it is said Austria greatly desires, that she may be the better able to carry out her plans for internal reconstruction, and at the same time oppose an added force to the pretensions of Prussia. A good illustration of the difficulty of protecting the public against corporations by any system of inspection, has just been afforded in the case of the Columbian Marine Insurance Co., of New York City. This company suspended payment about ten days ago, to the consternation of its stockholders and creditors-but without surprising many people actually engaged in the insurance business.