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London, England, 1865-05-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 26.

Mr. JEFFERNON Davis has failed to make his
escape. He his been surrounded and captured,
and his family and staff are prisoners with him
at Washington. Thus has the boasting in which,
longer than any other of the leaders of the
Confederate rebellion—to the misleading ;of
European opinion and at a fearful sacrifice of

life—Mr. DAVIS indulged, come pitifully to I
nought. What, it is everywhere asked, will be his
fate t Willa terrible exception be made, and his
life be taken as the penalty of his acts t We can
reply with only such confidence as is inspired by
our estimate of the judgment and humanity of the
authorities at Washington. The large class of
writers and talkers who sympathised with and as-
sisted the Confederates while the armies were in
the field, now carry on the war with misrepresen-
tations, injurious rumours, hypocritical regrets, and
malicious counsels. If we listen to them, we shall
hear that DAVIS is to be hanged ; that the North
will brave the sentiment of the civilised world and
spend the blind fury of its revenge upon the body
of the captured Confederate. But men who have
been so utterly wrong throughout the struggle
have little claim to be trusted now. Impartial
readers will remember the past, and bearing in mind
the terms which up to this time have been allowed
to prisoners of war, and the leniency—which not
even the dreadful assassination of Mr. Liwroaw
could disturb—exhibited to chiefs whose hostility to
the North has been scarcely less effective than
that of Mr. Davis, will wait the result with com-
parative composure. Other reasons for this atti-
tude are not wanting. The Abolitionists, who
now possess considerable influence in the State,
are unanimous in the desire that Mr. Davis may
be treated with justice and clemency. The charge
brought—too hurriedly, it would seem—against
him of complicity in the plot against the lives of
Mr. LINCOLN and Mr. SEWANU is, we are led by
one portion of the telegram to think, likely to be
withdrawn, and this very mistake, so serious in
its injustice to Mr. Davis himself, will, so far as
it has any effect, help to turn the current of the
thoughts of a generous people in his favour.
The other pieces of iutelligence brought by the
Scotia tend to strengthen our hope that the course
of President JouNsoic's government will continue
to be marked by moderation, and by that calmness
which is the characteristic of strength. There is
a rumour of a new amnesty proclamation ; the
conspiracy trial is taking place in open court, and
the French Ambassador has received an assurance
which, while it shows that there is a point where
French ambition will be checked, will satisfy our
neighbours that the foreign policy of the United
States Government will be neither aggressive nor
nnconciliatory.

In the Catholic Directory, Ecclesiastical
.Register aid Almanac, for the present year, pub-
lished, as the title-page informs us, "Permissa
superiornm," we find a display of the strength of the
Roman Catholic hierarchy in England, showing the
number and names of the clergy, their churches,
chapels, and places of residence, as well as a de-
tailed list of all the convents, colleges, schools,
societies, reformatories, and other religious insti-
tutions now existing in the kingdom By this
it would appear that there are one Archbishop-
/3: and twelve Suffragan Bishoprics in Eng-
mad and Wales, the first being the see of West-
minster, to which Dr. biANNING has just been
named, the latter taking their denominations from
Newport, in South Wales, Birmingham, New-
castle, Sonthwark, Salford, Shrewsbury, Notting-
ham, Liverpool, Plymouth, Clifton, Northampton,
and Beverley. At first sight this list may appear
formidable enough ; the scale or framework is
large, but when it comes to be looked into,
we shall Snd that some of these disseees con-
tain fewer clergy than most rural deaneries of

the Anglican Church, and that, although the
machinery seems extensive, the power which
• it wields is comparatively small. Thus, in
the largest diocese, that of Westminster, which
include, all London north of the Thames,
as well as the counties of Hertford-
shire and Essex, we find there are 214 priests,
doing duty in 117 churches and chapels. Bat of
these no less than 34 live together in community, '
namely, 19 belonging to the Oratory in Brompton,
and 15 to the religious house in Bayswater of which
Dr. MANNING WAS lately the superior. Of the
214 priests there are, moreover, 10 belonging to
St. Edmund's College at Ware, 31 who are chap-
lains to convents, schools, and other institutions, 6
who do duty in domestic chapels belonging to noble-
men and other wealthy Roman Catholics residing
near London, and 5 who are returned as " un-
" attached." Thus in the chief and metropolitan