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PROSPECTUS.
Manufacture of Ordnance upon the principle patented
WerPtain Blakely has for upwards of five years been. car-
of elAs_by Private enterprise. The demand for this class
we "'lance has, however, so largely increased that the
0141:1 established at Southwark by the present Blakely
and ;,a',l_oe Company have proved altogether inadequate,
ou ""las been found necessary to establish a manufactory
ct much larger scale. Extensive works are in course of
struetion at Greenwich, to which it is proposed to
'rarer the operations ompany.
1314,11 in Europe and America,, as well as at home, the
and
~Ly Ordnance is daily coming into more extensive use,
cuter:cling the last six years large orders have been exe-
arid Aor
„„,Russia, Portugal, Italy, Egypt, Sweden, China
fn -1"4, Morocco, Turkey, and several important States
qe °rth and South America, including the Confederate
veruraent.
scri4st.an evidence of the remunerative character of this de-
-1314 101 l
of manufacture, it may be stated that the net
in the current year amount to nearly £60,000.
with 8 the view. of providing the increased capital which
ft ,Fsegnisite to carry on the manufacture on so large a scale,
Ina-,Preposod to form a Limited Company, to b caP.I. the
"IY Ordnance Company (Limited). The services of
Blakely have been retained as Managing Director.
folio efficient staff will also continue in office, as.
Vavasseur Esq., C.E., Resident Engurer ,
Su• CamPbell (late of the iloyal Laboratory, Woolwich),
tuPerintendent of Laboratory and Shell Factory ; Colonel
payee
Royal Artillery Proof-master.
pui,e'dill llsDeiorefctthoersehaxisvteinegntel'earesdes,inpranat,
interYeesta.rs'
fo • and good-
nparegzseemse,nt for the
good-
two r thßand £150,000 in debentures bearing £6 per cent
n_ t.
In fo • their estimate of the value of the
fixtures,rmm machinery, stock, and woodwill,
by
a"1 ectors have been guided by a valuation of the same
twe competent Petent Engineer. The goodwill has been rated at
4"sane a half yews' purchase.
the an evidence of their confidence in the undertaking,
ki,jeildors have agreed to guarantee that the profits of the
ruartaking shall amount to a sum sufficient to pay a
fel.••irlina dividend at the rate of £l5 per cent. per annum
th three years on the paid-up capital for the time being of
° Present issue of shares.
abiks it has been considered impossible to estimate equit-
tbj, the value of the patents, it has been agreed that they
t,ri,t be transferred to the Company, the present Pro-
uealer receiving £2O per cent. of the net profits for the
Tbseven years.
So le, Company will enter into possession of the works in
141_--,,arx and Greenwich on the 30th of June instant, but
Prefir entitled to the benefit of all contracts executed, and
me,_ made, since the 30th June, 1864. The vendors Te-
e!' Yu: to themselves the light of subscribing for one-third
e present issue of shares. A. co
eau be py of the Memorandum and" Articles of Association
cinePected at the Offices of the Solicitors, 43, Chan-
be ob°,BPectuses and Forms of Application for Shares can
and of of the Brokers of the Company,
tile sme applicants may desire to take full advantage of
two p 0 dividend, by paying up their shares in full,
sires °llnB 'of Application are annexed, one for Ordinary
- the other for fully paid-up Shares.
FOn
OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
TO he Directors of the Blakely Ordnance Company
Gaul; (Limited).
"aft —Havingpaid to the Agra and Masterman's
attit the sum of £ being £1 per 'Share on
Shares, I request you to allot me
,L 8 in the above Company, in conformity with the
Ittic°Getne issued by you ; and I hereby agree to accept
Me 'are; or any less number that maybe allotted to
all' and t
-etru ° pay the further sum of £4 per Share duo on
You tnenit thereof, and the calls when due ; and I request
the
S- piace my name the Register of Shareholders for
hares allotted town
I am. Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
Name in full
Usual signature
Address in full
Trade or profession
Date 1865
ANIL
Directorsß FULLY PAID-UP SHARES.
'0 the of the Blakely Ordnance Company
Gentle. (Limited).
-a.hk the-e,g paid to tbe Agra and Masterman's
Sinn of £ , being £1 per Share on
„ Shares, I reqaest you to allot me fully
by‘; ‘,"P Shares, in conformity with the Prospectus issued
less' ''„11, and I hereby agree to accept such Shares, or airy
further sum of £24 per Share due on allotment thefeof.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
Name in full
Usual signature
Address in full
Trade or profession
Date 1865.....

E CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBTLTER

OF ENGLAND (Limited).
4nthOrised Capital ...... .... .
ealittal Subnribed . x 000 000
,Pitil Paid-up-,eserve Fd Di • lin
ridend Reserve Fund 70,000
Ili - 24
: 50
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00 00
::
00
0 04 00
4 A..1t0,1 , DIRECTORS.
-..41p, ..on JAMES STUART WORTLEY, Governor.
~ 41kr,„ LEVICK, Esq., Merchant, King's 1
lAt,t-Yard Deputy-
"ltne,:,,,' ICII4ENT DANIELL, Esq., London,
Alex; ,nilds, EB-
- London. Governors.
44(1801ijnllbclAe:nDis,unbar' Esq . Old Broal-street, London.
Eaq.: L.'s.
QC-"v- -claitim, E q .(Messrs. Pinto, Hakim Brothers, and
The •ti. London 8' ( Oq'en°e.,,n. A- C.. Haliburton, M.P., Chairman of the Canada
ilha,,J ssociation, London.
115,r;',,,, Harrisonti Esq. (Messrs. Young, Harrison, and
Ilieeheln-Dmahnpirector' of the Thames and Mersey Insurance
1.01.4 Stuart Lane, Esq. (Messrs. Lane, Ilankey, and Co.),
481.") don.
.e 8
a '4ry p,* IN wbon, Esq.. London.
°Reph „..)vnall, Esq., J.P.. Russell-squar.3. London.
1, o,) f‘llackrill Smith, Esq. (Messrs. &fackrill Smith and
,i(oal;s4Broad-street, London.
',,1 WeBtarner, Esq . M.P., I.ondon.
Aliciiipat,.r)ll2rolnand, Esq. (Director of the Royal Insurance
i Gi.4 y-c. don. .
4 t Esq., Managing Director.
The
tTAQ.,- BANKERS.
'eti3r,rna and Masterman's Bank (Limited).
A h -• qrnith Payne, and Smiths.
,leretaticnal Bank, London, Dublin. and its Branches in
the lid.
Allian
cheater ce Bank (Limited), London, Liverpool, and Man-

Co
"48. Newbon, EvansLl, and Co., Nicholas-lane, E.C.

This r, BUSINESS TRANSACTED.
-'e'''e4-,:ernPany negotiates Loans for Colonial and Foreign
ts •
qh " -era.es '.
't 118.11 - in the Financial arrangements of British and
waYs
41)11„, • Advances to C orations Town Councils, and other
tte orp .
A4l(l4:tes foams for Public Works :
iltenr‘takii!a_ the introduction of Industrial and Commercial
te(.s
,t!advances upon approved Stocks, Shares, Bonds,
hold4keecuritieß t
Loans 8 erdporary upon eligible Freehold and Lease-
°lldo. Lease-
ALFRED LOWE, Secretary.
17 and 18, Cornhill, May 4, 1865. •

DEBENTURES
ISSUED BY
IPIIBBII CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILIER
u 4 n„ OF ENGLAND (Limited),
Th 4500,000 DEBENTURES WITH INTEREST
PAYABLE QUARTERLY.
Vie enPireetora have decided to issue Debenture
asßonds of
,Q —.pan
• :-.. Y for the amounts and bearing interest under,
,I 4
4113°11114? f f
acned.
10, 420, £5O, £lOO, £250, £5OO, and .£!,001, with
Poi, three INTEREST.
,_IIN3 five Years 6 per cent. per annum.
~ vo: —R:e Years
} 91 11
atiTte ;:t en Years
tortlarOet-i; sneapYteabrniebqu—arterly;viz., on the 30th March, 30th
and 30th December in each year, at the
11141e4?4! Ilankertr' Thefirst payment of interest will be
vpie dcte :10th June next
:10,14Dab:Iinative feature in the debentures issued by this
;„"acri,—,s their Perfect it y ; the amount of the capital
ifrte4...,Daid.
, and secucarlled, and the general invested
''',,,)‘rill the Most
asunwell as the large reserve fund,
th'ileas i,'" Most ample security to the investor.
etZerbre-ueben are issued payable to bearer, and can
'.llrseit4l4;'s haresil delivery from hand to bandm, wit o t
he are 102_ and are free from any turtherstoaL p duty.
le tt?there... issued—to meet the requirements f Trustees
their e cool -transterrable by Deed only, to be duly registered_
Pl. 481 DanY's Books in the names of the Investors or
or '-glts
1111° 419 of „ •
41 all
~,,Pplteation can be obtained of the S:cretary, to
ellirautlications must be addressed.

By order of the Cou
Lo rt,
r,,,_
ALFRED LOWE,Secretary.
"n, 17 and 18. Cornhill,
May 4, 1865.
DEPOSITS
I[IIIRECEIVED BY
oREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILIER
OF ENGLAND (Limited).
Thia SATES FOR MONEY ON DEPOSIT.
I 1 ‘Ta ri- u"rja ds stthe undermentioned rates from this
°at 4 ° en°llld pang receives MONEY ON DEPOSIT in sums
At on
RUKTIIER NOTICE, viz.:
1,,,At on "Ye' notice
,ul,l, I.,,eanonth's notice ,nt 1 . ~,xts
ptliii en ‘
OF
4 per cent. per atti.nuerman
11eyouess th,4l. ,
luo ODS 0
h.- d 6 —_, nths and up to 6 months,
14_—rescl ''""Lna and up to 9 months
-,..ey0"
ijitiOnth 4 per
p :t.
perp an..
5/ per ct. per an.
up to 12 months
per an.
to
Whorel'° rti-14"tia'61analidd to 24 months ...• 6 per et r liij.,` aPhlicatiottucpanbe obtained of the Secretary, smnntuic•ltions must be addressed.
By order of the Court,
11 abA 18, ALFRED
LOWE, Secretary.
--% corahm,
London, June 1,1865.

TEET 11.—No Fancy Names or Advertising
Chicanery. Fixed Prices, and all completed for the
charges named-3s. 6d., 55 , 7s. 6d , and the very best that can
be made, on fine gold, at 10s. each. A full set at £3, as good
as those advertised at £ E and £5 ; and the very best that can
be made, on fine gold, at £lO the set. Partial sets in propor-
tion. Stopping, 2s. 6d. ; extractions, ls. Repairs effected
whilst waiting. Teeth remodelled, and every case attended
to at fair but moderate charges, by Mr. ALBERT, Old-
established Dentist, 34, Great Russell-street, W.e. Con-
sultations free.

RUPTURES CURED BY
CHANDLER'S NEW LEVER TRUSS.

I t has the following advantazes :—No steel spring required
round the body, is easily applied, does not chafe or excoriate
the skin, admits of any kind of exercise being tr ken, and is
imperceptible when worn.
PRICES.
Single- -10 s. 6d. and 215., postage Is.
Double-21s. and 425., postage, 2s.
Sent on receipt of post-office order, and size round hips.
Sure to fit.

PILES, PROLAPSUS ANI, and UTERI
Instantly rel'eved and ultimately cured by some entirely
new and very ingenious appliances. Prices irom 10s. 6d,
sent by post on receipt of size round hi, s.
Elastic Stockings, Kneecaps, Surgical Belts, and appliances
of every description, with all the latest improvements, and
of the best quality, at considerably reduced prices.
ROUND SHOULDERS, STOOPING HABITS, and
DEFORMITIES cured by CHANDLER'S IMPROVED
CHEST EXPANDING BRACES, for both sexes of all
ages. They strengthen the voice and lungs, relieve indiges-
tion, and are esnecially recommended to children for assist-
ing the growth, knd for promoting hearth and symmetry of
figure Price 10s. 601.
All the above instruments are highly recommended by the
leading members of the medical profession. Illustrated
catalogues forwarded.

MR. H. P. CHANDLER,
SUEGICAL MECHANICIAN,
66, &Mere-street, Oxford-street, London, W.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to acid another
home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
• han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected irom
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in aye years. Hero are brief details of a few
of the most recent cases;
F. F., aged 16. ft Ilen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged 13, homeles., both parents dead..
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, timeless, deserted by her parents,
M. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
•
C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fatten, father dead.
E. K,, aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
S. 8., ag•ed 17, f4llen, both parents dead. '
M. A. W., aged 17; fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged is, fallen, both parents dead.
The new borne the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of s to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 55, Queen 'street, Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.

Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Has-
ierruan, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by VI essrs. Coutts and Co. ;
Drummond and Co. ; G;yn and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom
and CO. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; W .Iliams, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; I. Barned and
Co., Liverpool; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.
STANFORD lIMITU, kleadary.

Betting-6 to 4on Bessie, 2to 1 ag,rst Budworth, and 4
to 1 agst Fravolina. Directly after the flag fell Fravolina
bolted, and was not afterwards in the race. Budworth and
Bessie came sway :together to th.l-tirn into the straight,
where Bessie got in advance, was never afterwards caught,
and won in the commonest of canters by a length. The
•
*inner was not sold.

The West Kent Handicap of 10 sons each, h ft, and 2 only
to go to the fund if declared, Scc., with 100 added ; the

second saved his stake ; winning penalties ; two miles ;
17 subs., nine of whom pay 2 sovs each to the fund.
Mr. La Mert's Basquine, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (G. Sopp) 1
Mr. Wodson's Boleno, 3 yrs, 6st 91b (in. 71b ex. (S. Mordan) 2
Capt. Vibart's Llangollen, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Hibberd) 3
Betting-2 to lon Boleno, sto 2 agst Llangollen, and
6to 1 agst Basquine. Llangollen made play to the Stand,
which he passed two lengths in advance of Boleno ; at a
similar interval Basquine came on third. Again, on
passing the Stand, they grew into closer order, but no
change occurred until rounding the far side of the Maid-
stone turn, where Basquine and the favourite went to the
fore. From the entrance into the straight run in the pair
raced home together, the outsider beating Boleno on the
post by a head. Llhingollen was an indifferent third,
Hibberd having broken a stirrup-leather before proceed-
ing a hundred yards after the flag fell.
The Welter Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, for three
year olds and upwards ; weight for age, with winning
penalties and maiden allowances ; gentlemen riders ;
professionals 71b extra ; one mile and a half.
Mr. NightingallN Surney, 3 yrs, Oat 31b (in. 71b ex.
(Owner 1
Mr. Sacul's Chelmsford, 3 yrs, 9st 121 b (in. 51b ex.
(T. Price 2
Mr. Provin's Sacrilege, 5 yrs, 10st 21b (Owner).3
The following also ran :—John Gully, Staring Tom,
Budworth, Fravolina.

Betting—Even on Surney, 3 to 1 agst Chelmsford, 5 to
1 agst Fravolina, and 6to 1 agst any other. At the word
" Go" Sacrilege took up the running, with Surney and
Deerhound close up, the others in a ruck. • They passed
the Stand inthis .order, with the exception of Staring Tom,
who fell back in the extreme rear. After rounding the turn
and repassing the Stand John Gully drew upon the leaders,
and Deerhound falling back his position was taken by
Chelmsford. At the Maidstone Turn Sacrilege gave way
to Surney and Chelmsford, and three-quarters of a mile
from home J. Nightingall went in front, and finally won a
good race by a neck ; four lengths between second and
third. Deerfoot was fourth, Fravolina fifth, and Staring
Tom walked in last.

The Members' Stakes (Handicap) of 5 sous each, 1 ft to go
to the fund, with 50 added bythe members of the western
division of Kent and for Maidstone, with winning penal-
ties ; one mile ; 23 subs, 11 of whom pay 1 soy each to
tho fund.

Mr. T. Price's Turcos, 5 yrs, 7st (W. Gregory) 1
Capt. Vibart's Llangollen, 4 yrs, 7st 21b (C. Gray) 2
Mr. Wodson's Jevington, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (inc. 71b extra)
(S. Hibberd) 3
The following also ran :—Rapture, Rossina, and Bessie.
Betting—Even on Jdrvington, 5 to 2 agst Rosins, 6 to 1
agst Bessie, and 10 to 1 agst any other.
To a good start the flag was dropped at the first attempt,
when the favourite, Turcos, andßapture alternately showed
in front until Turcos tookup the running, was novel after-
wards caught, and woneasily by a length ;two lengths be-
tween second and third ; Rosina was fourth, Rapture fifth,
penalties ; heats, one mile and a
and Bessie sixth.
each, With 40 added ; weight
nsinsgovpse
half, over four hurdles.
Mr. Kelly's Ephemera, 6 yrs, 9st 61b (40 soya)
The
f 0 r hurdleage,
(R. Smith) 1 1
Mr. F. Kipping's King of Sardinia, ageA
lOst 21b (75)
(Cawston) dis.
witaitheewinof
Mr. R. I'Anson's Breechloader, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (25)
(R. I'Anson, jun.) die.
Betting-5 to 4on Ephemera.
The favourite made all the running, and won easily, dis-
tancing the others.
Tho Consolation Stakes, for beaten horses, of 1 soy each,
with 10 added; weight for age ; three quarters of a
mile.
Mr. Sacul's Chelmsford, 3 yrs, 9st 31b ......(W. Gregory) 1
Mr. Ethel's Deerhound, 5 yrs, lOst 911) (Searle) 2
Betting-4 to lon Chelmsford, who won easily by two
lengths.

THEIR ENGAGE-
HORSES STRIJei OUT

MENTS.

On the 3d inst., at 4.20 p.m., all Mr. Pardoe's horses out
of their Chelmsford engagements.
_

On the sth inst., at 9 n.m., Black Deer out of an engage-
ments.

On the sth inst., at 9 a.m., Ring of Utopia out of the
Union and Salford Borough Cups at Manchester.
On the sth inst., at 9 a.m., Weatherglass out of the
Prince of Wales's Stakes, Ascot.

On the sth inst., at 9 a.m., Edinburgh out of the Union
Cup, Manchester.
p.m., Thalestris out of the
Aloexnantdhrea
Plate, Ascot.
Ast.s'coatt 12.40
.

On the sth inst.,' at 12.40 p.m., Tennyson and Lazzaroni
out of their Ascot engagements.
On the sth inst., at 12.40 p.m., Exchequer out of his Not-
tingham engagements. •

Ties.—Our last accounts from America give
only too clear and explicit a confirmation to reports
from which we have resolutely withheld our belief
up to this time. We hear there is no longer any
reason to doubt that Mr. Jefferson Davis, who a few
weeks ago was at the head of a great Confederacy
comprehending some six millions of the human race,
is now confined in a dungeon, and manacled with
fetters which imply far more disgrace to those who
impose them than to him who suffers such a degra-
dation. A newspaper, in which we utterly refuse
to recognise a fair exponent of American feelings,
dwells with revolting minuteness on these miserable
details, and exults with all the malignity of a vulgar
mind, over the misfortune of a fallen antagonist.
We sincerely wish this was all ; but the same ac-
counts furnish us with the indictment against Mr.
Davis—a document involving, as it seems to us,
some of the most important questions which can be
agitated among mankind, and initiating proceedings
likely to exercise a deplorable influence over the
future history of the United States. Mr. Burke
professed himself unable to draw an indictment
against a nation, but every State, and almost every
individual, in the South is really arraigned and
brought to trial in the name of its late President
and Generalissimo. This document, bating nothing
of legal prolixity and verbiage, is marshalled by the
appropriate heading, " The arch traitor to be tried
for treason." We say appropriate, for no words
could be found better to express the mockery of
justice which is implied in treating as one to be con-
sidered innocent until he be proved guilty a person
whose acts have been as notorious as anything in
human history. The overt act of treason is laid on
the Ist day of June, 1864, on which day it seems that
Jefferson Davis, " being an inhabitant of and resi-
dent in the United States of America, did unlawfully,
falsely, maliciously, and traitorously compass, levy,
and carry on war within the jurisdiction of the
Court." The second overt act charged is that he, in
conspiracy with a large number of conspirators and
false traitors, and " being their leader and Com-
mander-in-Chief, did command them, to the num-
ber of 20,000, whose names are to the jurors un-
known," and provide them with all sorts of weapons
and provisions, which are enumerated with the most
wonderful particularity, and that those traitors made
war on a certain fort called Fort Stevens, and killed
and wounded a number of the troops of the United
States of America. We now see only too plainly
what was the meaning of the repeated declarations
of President Johnson as to the necessity of punish-
ing treason. To him the matter is one of the most
absolute simplicity. He finds a law ; he finds that
law has been broken, and he puts in force the ordi-
nary machinery for punishing its violation. He re-
fuses to look at anything except the purely techni-
cal aspect of the matter. He allows no other consi-
deration 'to disturb or interfere with his judgment.
The government of mankind would be a simple thing
indeed if we could carry it on in this manner, if we
had nothing to do but to rank each case under its
appropriate rule, to draW the inference presented to
us, and then to proceed to judgment and execution.
It is the duty of us who believe there is something
in human affairs which does not admit of being
disposed of by this compendious logic to draw the
attention of those before whose eyes this sheet may
happen to be spread, to some few but we think not
unimportant considerations to which the Presi-
dent of the United States does not give attention.
We observe, then, that the offence with which
Mr. Davis is charged was committed in the fourth
year of a war conducted on a scale and with a
vigour and an equality of fortune almost unex-
ampled in the history of mankind. The act done
by Mr. Davis was done by him in no private capa,
city ; it was not done in a corner ; it was not done
under the influence, so far as we can trace, of any
of those motives which constitute the elements of
criminal offences. The indictment calls him the
leader and commander-in-chief. He was more ; he
was for four years the elected Sovereign of a great
and powerful Confederacy, which proved itself able
to bring into the field armies the support of which
would have drained the 'resources of a first-rate
European Power, which had negotiated on terms of
equality with the very Government against which
Mr. Davis is indicted for treason, and which but a
little while ago might have re-entered the Union
on terms very nearly approaching to equality. To
this Government belligerent rights have been con-
ceded; it has not only fought battles and made
truces and established cartels for the exchange of
prisoners ; it has been recognised, by the establish-
ment of a marine blockade, as extending over a
vast territory, no inconsiderable portion of a conti-
nent. Against it all rights of belligerents have been
claimed ; to it all the rights of belligerents have
been conceded ; in order to subdue it neutral
States have been burdened to the very utmost
with all the onerous obligations which attach
to neutrality. Of this Government and this
Confederacy Mr. Davis was the head and the
representative The act which is charged
against him, the levying war against the United
States, is not peculiar to himself ; the guilt, what-
ever it is, is shared by every officer and private in
the Confederate armies, by every sutler, by every
contractor, by every member of Congress or of
Administration. The blow that is levelled at him
strikes at the same moment hundreds of thousands
of gallant men, who are stigmatized in a compre-
hensive and bollective formula as " false traitors
whose names are to the jurors unknown." The
overt acts
incharged took place, as we have before
remarked, the fourth year of the war. Mr. Davis
is not arraigned, as he might perhaps have been, as
one of those who combined together to cause the
secession of the South from the North, as one of
the counsellers and contrivers of this ghat dis-
rupti▪
on ; he is ostentatiously put on his trial for an
offence of which the meanest sentinel in the
Southern army was as guilty as himself. Do not
I these considerations conclusively show that the
transactions which this indictment seeks to bring
before the jury are very far removed indeed from
the cognizance of a court of ordinary criminal juris-
dicti▪
on ? Let us, at any rate, be just to the fallen.
Two views may be taken of the Constitution of
America, which is absolutely silent as to the
method of dissolving the Union—the Union may
be regarded as a compact entirely indissoluble
and irrevocable, and by which each Sovereign
State for ever alienated its independent rights ;
or it may be considered as a solemn alliance,
indeed, but one which each State reserved to
itself the inherent liberty to determine. After
the result of the late Civil War no
one can
doubt what will henceforth be the American view
on the subject. America has become, by the nev.
able logic of the sword, a Republic One and
; but it is hard indeed to apply this view,
which is only the result of the great Civil War, to
acts done in that very Civil War from which that
result has been obtained. Every law should be
scanned with reference to the object with which it
is passed, and it is a cruel injustice to extend pro-
visions designed for the preservation of Government,
life, and property against individuals to acts of State
policy, to international relations, and to the conduct
of affairs in the name and in behalf of great and
powerful communities. So much for justice—give a
moment to expediency. What can the Government
of the United States gain by proceedings like those
they have just inaugurated against Mr. Davis ?
Will it heal the wounds of civil war ? Will it con-
ciliate the vanquished? 'Will it do away by these
retrospective punishments with the strong differences
of opinion which are known to exist among those
who have never taken up arms against the Union?
What is the view which, in the moment of
triumph—in what was expected to be the mo-
ment of amnesty—the Government of the United
States puts forward for the consideration of its
fallen antagonists? We know not how many
victims have been selected, but each successive
arrival brings ominous news of new arrests. We
see that the offences for which these men are to be
punished are exactly those of which every adherent
of the South must feel himself guilty. Not only
will these'inen be regarded as martyrs, but hundreds
of thousands will feel themselves punished, pro-
scribed, and degraded by their punishment: We
are often told that we must not judge of things in
America by a European standard ; but there must
be indeed a difference between the two sides of the
Atlantic if out of the blood thus shed there does not
arise monstrous -evil—if the cause which received

POST.—The long-expected proclamation of am-
nesty has at length been issued by President John-
son ; and although we are not yet in possession of
the complete tent of this manifesto, the substance,
which has reached us by telegraph, furnishes all the
information which we require. The course which
would be pursued by the North in the event of its
vindicating its supremacy over the South has during
the whole period of the war been a constant subject
of speculation ; but never has it been more anxiously
canvassed than during the past two months. It is
of course unnecessary to say that, disnaissing from
consideration those feelings of animosity which were
not improbably generated in the breasts of the
Northern population by the protracted resistance
of the South, the immense pecuniary losses imposed
upon the Republic by the long continuance of the
war would have a tendency to modify the policy,
which, had they succeeded in establishing their
authority at an earlier period, the Government at
Washington might have intended to pursue. But,
independently of this circumstance, an unforeseen
event happened which was more than anything else
calculated to unsettle any opinion which had been
formed in respect to the attitude which would be
assumed by the victorious North towards the South.
This event was the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, and
the consequent transmission of the supreme execu-
tive power into the hands of Mr. Andrew. Johnson.
Though both elected to their respective offices by
the same political party, and both pledged to pursue
the same object, namely, the re-establishment of the
Union, the late President and his successor were no-
toriously actuated by very different feelings towards
those whom they agreed in considering the enemies
of the State. Mr. Lincoln wished to see the great
Republic which he governed in the same position as
when he was first elected its chief magistrate ; and,
provided that end were attained, he would not, we
believe, have deprived a single Southern citizen of
his life or liberty, or confiscated a dollar of his pro-
perty. Slavery he would gladly have seen abolished,
but except on paper he never attempted to carry out
the extreme views of the Abolitionist party. Mr.
Johnson is, however, a man of a very different type.
Whether from personal conviction, or from less dis-
interested motives, he is an uncompromising Aboli-
tionist ; and having learned to regard the secession
of the Southern States as the most wicked and
heinous of all possible crimes, he has persuaded him-
self that the offence should not go unvisited by an
adequate punishment. Whatever, therefore, may
have been the speculations in which the world in-
dulged in regard to the future policy of the Ameri-
can Government before Mr. Lincoln's death, they
wore completely upset by that event, and the
measures adopted by Mr. Johnson towards the
more prominent of his vanquished foes, and, not-
ably, the proclamation which is now issued, demon-
strate only too clearly how well-founded were the
apprehensions entertained on his accession to office.
The substance of Mr Johnson's proclamation may
be very shortly stated. An amnesty for past offences,
and protection of the rights of property, save as re-
gards slaves, is granted (with the exceptions pre-
sently to be noticed) to all who have been engaged
in the rebellion, conditionally, on their taking an
oath to support the Government and all laws made,
or proclamations issued, by the Federal Government
during the war in connection with emancipation.
Considered without reference to the clause excluding
certain classes from the benefits of this proclama-
tion, we may, however, observe that much harder
conditions than those imposed by• Mr. Johnson on
the objects of his clemency it would have been diffi-
cult to devise. The denial of the right of property
in slaves, without any award of compensation,
amounts to confiscation ; and although ii,may justly
be urged that man should not lid property in man,
still when it is recollected that such property has
been held in the South until very lately with the sanc-
tion and approval of the established Government,
and but for the war would be held unquestioned to-
day, this sweeping act of emancipation can only be
considered as a purely vindictive measure of oppres-
sion, which the. North, in the mere wantonness of
victory, chooses to employ. In making the accept-
ance of a test oath a condition precedent to bene-
fiting by the amnesty, Mr. Johnson has gone farther
than he was justly entitled to go, because all that an
established Government can reasonably require from
those who do not seek admission to public office or
employment in its service, is, that they shall peace- \
ably conduct themselves and observe the laws. But
of these terms, hard though they are, one almost ,
entirely loses sight, on the perusal of the comprehen-
sive list of those whom the Government declare to be
undeserving even of the qualified mercy extended to
th'e mass of the Southern population. From the
amnesty the following classes are excluded :—All
persons holding civil or diplomatic office under the
Confederate Government, all foreign and domestic
agents, all military officers above the grade of colonel,
and all naval officers above that of lieutenant, and
all, of no matter what grade, who have been edu-
cated either at the Military College of West Point,
or at the Naval Academy. Those who treated pri-
soners otherwise than according to the laws of war,
who acted as border raiders or as pirates, or who
left the Northern States to aid the Southern popula-
tion, are also denied pardon, and finally (most signifi-
cant exception of all) those whose property exceeds
in value $20,000, or £5,000, are excluded from the
amnesty. That the American Government might
have resolved on refusing to a few individuals the
grace which they could not avoid extending to the
bulk of the nation would have been intelligible ;
but we confess ourselves entirely at a loss to un-
derstand with what object, or what design, large
and numerous classes are excluded from all partici-
pation in a general pardon. If none of the civil'
officers, no matter what their grade or the nature
of their employment, are to be pardoned, what will
be done with them ? And the same remark applies
to the numerous military officers who are placed in
the same category. Are they to be placed upon
their trial for high treason ? and, if convicted, are
they to be put to death, or sentenced to long terms
of imprisonment ? Again, why are all persons, no
matter what their position, who have participated
in the rebellion, but whose property exceeds £5,000,
regarded as such heinous offenders as to be unde-
serving of pardon ? Can it be that the Govern-
ment intend confiscating the property of the
wealthier classes in the South, and by this means
paying off the immense debt which the war has occa-
sioned ? There is, it is true, a clause in the procla-
mation which provides that members of the excluded
classes may make special application to the President
for pardon, in which case it will be within his
discretion to accede to or to refuse their petition.
It is not until we have ascertained the course which
the Government propose to adopt towards those to
whom the amnesty is not extended that we shall be
in a position to estimate at its true value this
singular proclamation. According to the latest
intelligence, Kirby Smith, together with the last
army the Confederates possessed in the field, has
surrendered ; and as the authority of the Govern-
ment is no longer questioned in the trans-Missis-
sippi region, the war is completely at an end, and
harshness towards the vanquished becomes still
more unjustifiable.

DANTE AS A POET.—When he was nine years
old his father took him to a fête at the house of a
rich neighbour, Pon tinari, who hada young daughter called
Beatrice, between eight and nine years old, and remarkable
for gracefulness and loveliness. Her appearance kindled
in the boy an affection so ardent that it became what we
now call a monomania. Tier image never left him,
and he sought every opportunity of beholding her features.
She became from that day for him a typo of perfection,
and, while still a youth, ho often gazed on the house
where she dwelt, • and declares himself that he always re-
turned the better for his visit. When he was, about
nineteen he met her in some public place ; she
was dressed in white, and stood between two ladies
older than herself. For the first time she bowed to him,
and for the first time his ears heard words spoken by her
since she had grown up.- Ho withdrew delighted and wrote
his first poetical effusion, a sonnet relating his emotions,
and which soon became public without his being
known to be the author. He wrote several others, until at
last his name became known, and from that., day he Was.
called " The Poet." In 1287, Beatrice became the wife of
a knight, Simon do Bardi, and died on the 9th of June,
1,290. Dante was overwhelmed with grief ; but she re-
vived in Ms imagination and prompted his genius and in-
spirations. He makes her his guide through the circles of
heaven, in that part of his great poem which is called the
" Paradise." •

THE ADMIRALTY.—Staff Commander E. Hoskyn, R.N.,
has been appointed to be superintendent of charts in the
hydrogaphic department, Whitehall, vice Captain G. A.
Bedford, R.N., appointed to the marine department of the
Board of Trade. Mr. Edward J. Powell has been promoe(l
to be chief draughtsman in the hydrographic department,
Whitehall, vice Staff-Commander R. Hoskyn, R.N., pro-
moted ; Mr. R. C. Carring:on has been promoted to be first
class draughtsman in the hydrographic department,
Whitehall, vice Mr. E. J. Powell, promoted ; Mr. W. li.
Malpes has been promoted to the office of 3d class draughts-
man in Devonport Dockyard, vice Purlds, promoted to be
a draughtsman of the 2d class:-

ECCLESIASTICAL COM➢LISSION.—A vacancy for a clerkship
has been caused by the death of Mr. W. F. J. Walton, 2d
class clerk, junior division.

GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE.—A vacancy for a clerkship
has been caused by the death of Mr. Win. Owen, superin-
tendent.

OFFICE or WORKS.—Mr. G. W. Philpott has been ap-
pointed an examiner in London_
THE POST-OFFICE.—Appointments : Mr. G. M'Murray
has been appointed to be a clerk at Nottingham ; Mr. F.
Field has been appointed a clerk at Tunbridge Wells.
Promotions—Mr. W. Hopkinson has been promoted from
the third to the second class of clerks, York.

CUSTOMS.—MT. Edward Corby has been appointed 20th
clerk, Dublin ; Mr. Henry Hogan has been appointed an
out-door officer, Liverpool ; Mr. Thomas Ritson has been
appointed an out-door officer, Liverpool ; Mr. A. Burgess
has been promoted from the sth to the 4th class of clerks,
Comptroller-General's-office, London.
INLAND REVENUE (Excise Branch).—Mr. Robt. Jackson,
officer, Sudbury, Ist division, Colchester collection, has
been appointed examiner; Mr. Isaac F. Ballard, officer,
Walsall, 4th division, Lichfield collection, has been ap-
pointed examiner ; Mr. John White, officer, Limerick, Ist
division, Limerick collection, has been appointed examiner;
Mr. Charles Douglas Stewart, officer, Alloa, sth division ;
Stirling collection, has been appointed examiner; Mr.
Fitzgerald Dalme Richards, officer, Liverpool, 11th divi-
sion, Liverpool collection, has been appointed examiner ;
Mr. Edward B. Richards, officer, Brechin, 2d division,
Dundee collection, has been appointed an .examiner ; Mr.
Henry Handley, officer, Royston, Ist division, Ware col-
lection, has been appointed to Sudbury, Ist division, Col-
chester collection.

TH.E EAST INDIES.—CoI. H. M. Durand, C. 8., has been.
appointed an ordinary member of the Council of the Go-
vernor-General of India ; the Hon. W. Muir has been ap-
pointed Secretary to the Government of India in the
Foreign Department. Major E. P. Lloyd has been appointed
to officiate as cantonment magistrate of Dinapore, and
Judge of the Court of Small Causes in that cantonment ;
Captain :J. F. Sherer has been appointed to officiate as
deputy collector of Kamroop ; Mr. J. W. Edgar has been
appointed to officiate as assistant commissioner of
Cachar ; Mr. W. E. Ward has been appointed to officiate
as joint magistrate and deputy collector of Burdwan.
Mr. C. J. Daniell, joint magistrate and deputy collec-
tor, has been appointed a municipal commissioner for
the city of Shahjehanpore, vice Mr. H. D. Willock.
Mr. G. P. Money, civil and sessions judge of Allaha-
bad, had been appointed to officiate as commissioner of Be-
nares, during the absence of Mr. Shakspear, or until fur-
ther orders. Mr. J. W. Sherer, officiating civil and session.
judge of Mirzapore, has been appointed to officiate as civil.
and session judge of Allahabad. Mr. M. W. Sandys, joint
magistrate and deputy collector of the second grade at Bij-
nour, has been appointed a joint magistrate and deputy col-
lector of the first grade ; Mr. J. R. Reid, officiating joint
magistrate and deputy collector at Budaon, has been ap-
pointed a joint magisteate and deputy collector of the second
grade, vice Mr. Sandys. Mr. W. C. Turner, joint magistrate
and deputy collector of Mirzapore, has been appointed to
officiate as magistrate and collector of that station. Mr. 11.
G. Keene, magistrate and collector of Boolundshuhur, has
been appointed to officiate as civil and session judge of
Allygurh. Mr. F. Wigram, officiating magistrate and col-
lector of Mynpoory, has been appointed magistrate and col-
lector of the Bustee district. Mr. H. B. Webster, joint ma-
gistrate and deputy collector at Boolundshuhur, has been
appointed to officiate as magistrate and collector at that
station. Mr. C. Grant, officiating magistrate and collector
of Futtehpore, has been appointed magistrate and collector
of J ounpore, vice F. M. Bird. Mr. J. Wilson has been ap-
pointed a joint magistrate and deputy collectorof the second
grade at Banda. Mr. L. Reid has been appointed collector
and magistrate Dhurwhar, Bombay Presidency. Mr. IL B.
Boswell has been appointed collector and magistrate of
Rutnagherry. Mr. J. C. White has been appointed sub-col-
lector and joint magistrate of Broach. Capt. A. W. Gillespie
has been appointed Ist class deputy collector and magis-
trate of llydrabad. Capt. C. J. D. Dodd has been appointed
Ist class deputy collector and magistrate of Shikarpore ;
Capt. F. J. D. Ross haS been appointed 2d class deputy col-
lector and magistrate of Kurrachee.

The Prince Royal of Prussia has just abolished
one of the numerous vestiges of religious intolerance which
disgrace Prussian institutions. hitherto Jewish volunteers
could not be admitted to pass as officers of the landwehr.
The prince, as general commanding the record corps
d'armee, has now removed that disqualification.

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