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London, England, 1865-02-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15.

Ir is not necessary to magnify the importance
of the news from the United States which we
publish this morning, its critical character being
apparent at a glance. For some time past it has
been obvious that events have been preparing I
the way on both sides for peace ; even the
false starts which foolish men have made in that '
direction being among the signs of the same general
tendency. But the meeting of Mr. Liscoxst and Mr.
SEW•ED with Mr. STEPHENS and Judge CAMPBELL
is unlike anything that has taken place •
since the war began. It is the meeting
of those who can make peace, if peace be possible; '
and we may safely presume that they had well
considered that point before leaving their re-
spective homes. It would be rash to predict the
immediate conclusion of pesos as certain to follow
this interview ; but circumitaeoee are favourable
to that result, and in any case the Conference can
hardly fail to hasten the event which it leads the
public mind, both at the North and at the South,
to contemplate. The cheers which went up from
both armies as the Confederate Commissioners
passed down the river in General WUXI'S
steamer, no doubt represent truly the hearty
desire of both sections for the cessation of
this protracted war. There is no longer anything
worth fighting for. The military experiment has
been tried long enough to leave no doubt of the
result, and the preservation of slavery in the South
—which, by the unanimous consent of all Southern
statesmen, was the cause of Secession—bas be-
come impossible. The great hindrances to reunion
wettest falling sway. The chief obstacle to peace will
no doubt be found in the personal position of Mr.
DAVIS and his colleagues, and this is an element of
the situation which it is very difficult to estimate.
We know, however, from previous assurances that
the Government of the United States is ready to
do all that is possible consistent with a due regard
to the safety of the Republic to make the condition
of these gentlemen easy and honourable. The
war has been waged by the North for the
restoration of the Union, in which all the
States have equal rights, and not for the subjec-
tion of one portion of them to others, and after
reunion the position to be occupied by the leaders
of the Secession would be settled by the free
choice of their fellow-citizens.

Peace is the hope of this last, best message from
across the Atlantic ; but righteousness is its
assurance. The Congress of the United States has
passed the Constitutional Amendment abolishing
slavery throughout the Union. Slavery waaabolished
in the Territories at an early stage of the war ; now
it is abolished in the States, and everywhere. This
is the great result of the war, not to be mentioned
without feelings of gratitude to the Providence
which guides and controls the course of human
affairs, and ever evolves good out of evil. One
more auspicious occurrence must be mentioned.
The Passport System on the Canadian
frontier, with all its annoyances and irritations,
is at an end. As it was established under a feel-
ing of distrust of the Canadian Government, its
abolition must be taken as a sign of the return of
confidence and good feeling. Even Sir JoHN
Wer.sa will probably now perceive that Lord PAL-
MIULSTON was right is his reserved language on
Friday, and iu his disposition to trust in some
measure to time and patience to remove miscon-
ceptions and overcome unfounded suspicions.

OSBORNE, Fia. 14.

Her Majesty drove out in the morning with her
Royal Highness Princess Louise, and in She afternoon with
Priames Beatrice and Primo Leopold.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Make Teesdale, west
yesterday to the exhibition of the works of the late Mr,
David Roberts, R.A., at the rooms of the Arehitectural
Society in Cooduit-etreet.

His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
the Ottani= Appeeyi entertained the Bari Itemell and
Lady Georgina Russell, Lord Bloomfield. hie Erselimey
the Spanish Meister and Madame Corm, his Breaßelay
this Netiteriands Minister, his Emslimey the Saxon Minis-
ter, Count Bahian, the Right Hen. Sir Hamilton Seymour.
Sir Chilies Lama Wylie, Court Wirepten, Prince Yens-
bum, Baron Masher& Mr. Arthur &mill, IL P., Be., at
dinner yesterday evening at t►e Austria' Bagmen is Chan-
dos•stnst, Careedishaquare.
The death is announced of the Hon. Catherine
Harriet Maynard, third daughter of recount and Vis-
°mamas Maynard.

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DEATH OF CARDINA.
(THIS DAY.)

Cardinal Wiseman died at his town residence in
Yoelnplass, Pertmaa•egeaw, this seendag at 8 o'clock. He
bad ben for mew yearn suffering hoot a painful and ta•
outage diary hat his labours on basalt of Ms ootamtudoe
were uninterrupted, wept ♦a intervals of great pan. and
Ittihad sot withdrawn hem active work until very nasally,
the bet sign of his serious Blame being Ms isability to
fall isie promise of lecturing at the Royal Institution.
Dr. Wiseman, the son of an Irishman, settled as a men
*haat la Spain, wee bars at Seville Angela 2,1802. He was
adulated at Se. Cuthbert's College, Usbaw, near
Durham, sod retained in mature years the atm-
Noe of his youth for that seminary, composing a
drama (The Hidden Gent) for its jail's in 1859. By the
way, the VionPresident of Usbaw was the celebrated
Dr. Lingard, of whom Dr. Wiseman spoke moat anon
thealady. The young Ilegtish student was Dart sent to
to the Raglan College at Rome. At the age of 18 he pub-
lished a Latin work out the oriental languages, and he
corded off the gold medal. Next he became a priest and
professor in the Roman catholic University, and rector of
the English College at Rome. He preached sermons is
Faglish is 1827, by desire of Lee XIL, before all thsoolleges
and religiose communities of Raglan in the Clausen of
Gest E Maria, sod in the same year travelled in Italy,
weeding Vona= and Elsa. The youthful priest then
returned to England and delivered lectures on the doctrines
of the church of Rome in the Sardinian Chapel, Lincoln's-
inn-fields. At the election of Gregory XVL he wee present
in Rome, and that Pope, who had hem prefect of the
Propeganda, had rosined the proob of a wan written in
Italian by oommand of his habitue Usforkeinatitly the else.
tics of Gregory XVL was the signal for en insurrection
to Bologna, and the attempted mime of Fort St. Angelo.
At Dr: Wham's instigation Gregory XVL Wormed the
number of vimn apostolic in England, and the doctor him-
gaff was made coadjutor to Dr. Wash, of Its Midland din
trick and Presides; of Oscan College. la 1847 and 1848
the doctor was at Rome seas. He was next appointed
pro-vicar apostolic, subsequently coadjutor to Dr. Wald
in the London district, and in 1849 succeeded Dr. Walsh,
calling himself " Bishop of Malipoterens." It was in
1858 that the event occurred which, while &leg
high rank in the Papal court to Dr. Wiseman,
sensed an excitement in England which will not
soon be forgotten.
Amosgst his works are " &nays on various subject."
(3 volume', 1853), "Fabriola" (1855), "The Perception of
Natural Beauty by !the Ancients" (1856), "The Influence
a Wards oe Thought and Civilisation" (1856), "The
Hake Gem" (a drama written for the jubilee at
Casa (1889), " Points of Contact between Science and
Art" (1863), " Architecture in London" (1864).