JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Evening Post, Issue 173, 28 August 1865, Page 2

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

It is satisfactory to learn by the present mail that Mr. Johnstone admits that he was not justified in accusing Mr. Davis of complicity in the murder of Mr. Lincoln ; and we may therefore assume that the Federal Government will not venture to arraign the ex-Confederate Presideut on so odious a charge. We would also venture to hope that, content with extinguishing what they termed the rebellion in the Southern States, and with having made their Chief Magistrate a prisoner, the Government at Washington will not sully a great victory by an act which — on this side of the Atlantic at least — would be regarded as one of paltry revenge. If the American nation declare Jefferson Davis worthy of death, they will, by implication, admit, that George Washington would justly have been hanged by us if he had fallen into our hands. — London Morning Post.

A few days ago, the General Assembly of the Scottish Eree Church received the report of a committee which has now been in existence for two years, appointed to confer with a committee of the United Presbyterian Church, with a view to an incorporating union of the two churches. Some other Presbyterian bodies have also within the past year become parties to the conference. Last year in the Synod of the United Presbyterian Church, and in the Free Church Assembly, there were lengthened discussions on the quastion of union, which elicited a decided difference of opinion as to the duty of the civil magistrate towards the Church. This question the majority in both Houses indicated might be made an open one, all parties being independent of the State ; but there were minorities in both which called upon the committees distinctly to affirm the doctrines held by the Churches respectively. The joint-committee was reappointed by the majority on both sides, and the report now given in states that considerable progress had been made during the second year in comparing the opinions of the two Churches, in which generally great harmony has been evinced. The questio vexata was not, however, touched upon in the present year's report, and the joint-committee now vaiired reappoinfcment to complete their taslointi*

mating ''-hat a final report on the whole subject might be expected to Ijc made next year. In both denominations the joint committee has been authorised to prosecute the .matter to a canclusion. Several speakers having addressed the assembly, the report was approved, and the committee reappointed.— Home News.