The illustrated London news . rmer the latter, aa was the universalprevious opinion. Nor is this all. On the 20th inst. the Confederate Congress met at Richmond, unless, indeed, thesanguine anticipations of the Northerners have been realisedand Richmond was then in their hands. The reassembling of thisCongress will have extracted another Message from Mr. Davi3,who will hardly fail to improve the opportunity to demolish inthe eyes of the world the novel constitutional theory of In the complicated and interminable suit of Jarndycev. Jarndyce none of the advocates retained could speak
The illustrated London news . rmer the latter, aa was the universalprevious opinion. Nor is this all. On the 20th inst. the Confederate Congress met at Richmond, unless, indeed, thesanguine anticipations of the Northerners have been realisedand Richmond was then in their hands. The reassembling of thisCongress will have extracted another Message from Mr. Davi3,who will hardly fail to improve the opportunity to demolish inthe eyes of the world the novel constitutional theory of In the complicated and interminable suit of Jarndycev. Jarndyce none of the advocates retained could speak forfive minutes on the case without being irreconcilably at issuewith every other advocate on every paint of fact and law. It ,ismn- in the complicated and costly Buit of South v. North,only that in this there seems to be superadded an inabilityin any leading counsel to be^onsistent even with himself. However much they may differ in their premises and con-clusions, all these constitutional argumentations have a wonder-. 1 r -. _ UFA IXnm. STAT],- l,KVi;n,>N V.\ 1,1 UIK1LI A BY OUR SPECIAL, -SF,L PACE VI THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS [July j ltd family likeness lo each other. They are all evidently theoffspring of the legal mind. They are all plentifully chargedwith splenetic humours against the representatives of the otherride. Their utterers seem willing to go over the Bame groandagain and again, hot the conrt of public opinion to which theyappeal is fast settling down to the conviction that this part ofthe case has been dwelt on long enough. The allusion of the President to the foreign relations of thecountry will be reassuring to the soberer portion .of theAmericans of the North, and is couched in terms not offensiveto the nations most nearly connected with the United inkling he gives of his future policy towards the rebels is hardly definite enough to satisfy anybody. As it ia, perhaps,the moBt important passage in his Message, we quote it entir
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