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London, England, 1865-05-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 22.

Ayres a long period of excitement, the Ameri-
can mails are again becoming uninteresting. That
by the Africa contains less news than any which
has arrived since the beginning of the war. On
the other hand, there is abundance of that specu-
lative assertion with which a certain class of Ame-
rican newspapers never fail to supply their readers
in the absence of intelligence. To this order of
statements we unhesitatingly refer all that is new
in the telegraphic summary on the subject of
Mexico. Mr. J/EFFERSON Davis had gained the
centre of Georgia by the sth of May.
Powell, the town which he is said to have
reached on that day, is about fifty miles east
of Milledgeville. If be could get a hundred
and fifty or two hundred miles farther west his
kinsman, General DICK TAYLOR, might be able
to reach him a helping hand, and place him on the
other aide of the Mississippi. It may be with such
an intention that TAYLOR is delaying his surrender.
The New York Times is likely to be well informed
when it states that President JOHNSON'S offer of •
reward_or the arrest of Mr. Davis was Hanoi
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upon the opinion of the Judge-Advocate-General
that he was connected with Boom's plot ; but
only to the extent that the conspiracy was formed
and prosecuted with his knowledge and consent.
The disarmament is proceeding rapidly on both
aides, the Government taking the lead with a de-
cision and promptitude which shows unbounded
confidence in its ability to maintain its authority
even to the extent of destroying the State govern-
ments which have sided the rebellion. General
Rau% JOHNSTON, in his farewell address to his
army, exhorts the men to go home and become
tranquil citizens. KIRBY SMITH and DICK TAYLOR
were severally negotiating with the commanders
of the armies of the Union. MAGRUDZR, at Gal-
'veston, was enoouregindthe people to hold out,
having apparently taken the view of Lzz's defeat
which Mr. Davis put iforward in his proclamation
from Danville. Neither he nor KIRBY SMITH
had beard of JOHNSTON'S surrender at
the date of the latest advices from their head-
quarters. The Union Volunteer Cavalry, whose
term expires before October next, have been dis-
charged. The main bodies of the armies of SHER-
MAN and Means are moving northwards, and
paroled prisoners are being dismissed to their
homes. SCHOLRYTILD% corps !Maine in North
Carolina, where a new State government is to be
formed. That commander has declared the slaves
free under Mr. Luccotas's proclamation, and has
advised their late masters to employ them as hired
labourers ; while in order to facilitate a return to
productive industry the mules and waggons in the
army are to be lent to the inhabitants.
The course which has been taken with reference
to the loyal and rebellions State governments of I
Virginia may be held to indicate the policy which
Mr. JOHNSON will follow elsewhere. The disloyal
governments will everywhere be destroyed, and the
loyal population only be recognised as entitled to
exercise political rights. All the acts of the State
Legislature which lately sat at Richmond are de-
clared null and void, and the restoration of a re-
publican State government will be entrusted to
Governor PIRRPOINT.

Fos the last two or three days a certain amount
of uneasiness, not entirely confined to speculators
in Mexican stock, has existed with reference to the
future relations of France and the United States.
A number of disquieting announcements are pub-
lished. It is said that the President of Mexico
hat been able to raise a large loan in the United
States on terms more advantageous than those upon
which the Austrian intruder was lately compelled
to borrow in Paris, and, although the rumour is
unconfirmed, it is discussed as if it might be true.
Then the appearance in the New York news-
papers of advertisements inviting soldiers to
Sonora, as emigrants, is supposed to imply that
President Joaxaox is ready to encourage and pro-
tect the agents of the Mexican Government in re-
cruiting openly and to any extent from the dis-
charged and paroled soldiers of the American
armies. This may prove true, but at present
it remains to be proved. A loan to either
belligerent is not inconsistent with neutrality, as
many of our fellow-countrymen know to their
sorrow ; it must therefore be the preparations for
recruiting that cause alarm. But as yet we do not
know by direct evidence what course the Govern-
ment of the United States may pursue with respect '
to these. We know that it has been from the
first adverse to the French invasion and
to the attempt' which the Archduke MALL-
miu•iv is making to settle down upon the
country. Mr. LINCOLN refused to acknowledge
any authority in Mexico bat that of the national
President, and the agent of JrAILLZ is the cooly
Mexican Minister received at Washington. Very
recently Mr. SWARD accepted and acknowledged
the energetic protest of the Mexican Minister
against the authority of the Archduke itfAXIMI-
-11•21 to bind the Mexican nation by his acts.
The attitude of the Government of the United
States which these proceedings disclose was as
clear and definite six months ego as it is now.
The only new feature of the ease is the
opening of the recruiting offices, and we have yet
to pee what course the Government will take with
respect to them. But while this is still doubtful,
there are some things which are :t OW plain and

important. No one can :I thit Inodants
arrive from Washington New Yeah:
after mail without being impressed with the belief
that the Government of President Jonxsox is not
contemplating war ; still leas a war so vast and de-
structive as one with France must be. When we
road of secret interviews with the Mexican
Minister, or grand schemes of assistance which are
to be made known to-morrow, it is well to fix
attention upon what is open and obvious to view,
and to consider how far the present constitutes
a pledge of the future. If President JOHNSON
intended to give France cause to declare war
he would not now, as it seems to us, be disbanding
armies and selling ships. That the Franco-Ana-
trian adventure in Mexico may be seriously en-
dangered by the help which the President of that
country is likely to get from the United States, and
which he may get in ways which will give the
Emperor of the FRENCH no right to remonstrate
with President Joussott, is most likely ; but the
whole undertaking was from the first so clandestine
and speculative that it invites attack ; and it has
also from the first shown so many symptoms of the
weakness of its origin that no disaster that could
betel it would excite surprise.