The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-26 00:00:00

1118 H AVFAXM.

Although the Fenian trials have proved to the
satisfaction of the Times that the middle clans of Ireland
are entirely free from disaffection and, in the desire to
enjoy the fruits of their industry, are willing to forget the
Saxon in the customer—still, owing to the influence of the
Irish-Americans, there is reason to think that Fenianism
is increasing throughout the country. Its agents, it is
said, have succeeded to a considerable extent in making
the Brotherhood coextensive with the island, making all
their treasonable communications by word of mouth.
It is ascertained that on the county of Dublin being pm.
claimed several of the malcontents migrated elsewhere
shifting their arms from a proclaimed to a non-proolaimeil
distriot. The time therefore is come, the Times believes,
when it would be prudent for the government to proclaim
the whole of Ireland, so as to be able to search for end take
arms wherever they may be secreted. It is almost certain
that a considerable number of weapons of various sorts
are in the possession of ill-disposed persons, and these
may be used at any time for the purpose of doing some
local mischief. When the government has the power
of seizing and confiscating the arms that are found in the
country, and also of watching the seaports so that none
can enter, it will have done a grant deal to render even a
partial disturbance impossible, end will have probably
saved itself the necessity of suspending the Habeas Corpus
Aot.

It seems strange to the Daily News that the suggestions
as to the disposal of the Pops so soon as the Emperor's
f his perfect security may induce him to lease his
Holiness to his fate, have not included his removal to
the Irish capital, to which his temporal power has
been already transferred. The British government shaping
the Irish policy in conformity with mandates from the
Vatican, it would be easier to go to him straightway, and
possibly the shopkeepers of Dublin would be willing to
compound for the abolition of the lord-lieutenancy on the
basis of such as arrangement. In illustration of this divided
authority the Daily News mentions the announcement
made in effect by Lord Wodehouse, that with the Irish
Colleges, founded by the Queen and the imperial Parlia-
ment, the rival institution founded by the Pops and the
Synod of Thurlee is to be associated. His excellency did not
conceal the fact that personally he is in favour
of t►e system of united education ; and their free recourse
to the Queen's colleges show that the Irish people share
his opinion. Had they only wanted degree., the London
University, with which several Roman catholic colleges
both in England and Ireland have for years been affiliated,
being them to their gates ; but more than this is in view :
the sectarian principle is to be admitted, and the innate of
the Queen's University—with which institution the govern.
meat intends to affiliate the catholic, and all other acade-
mies which may apply to be so connected—is to
be reconstructed by reference to the religious pro-
fession of men, and not, as heretofore, by con-
siderations of intellectual eminence alone. The business
of the Senate of the Quelles University is to prescribe the
worse of education to be followed in the affiliated insti-
tutions by selecting the subjects and the text-books of
examination, and appointing the persons who are to con-
' duct it ; and the object of the Irish hierarchy, in demand-
' fag the nomination of catholic' as such, is to set aside as
haresiiis what non-catholics treat as open questions of
• science, persisting in this course until the catholic element
in the senate will absorb the rest, and the Queen's Univer-

city will become the catholic University, leaving Trinity
College ss a refuge for the banished protestantei. And this
great change which u to re►olutionise all education in Ire-
land, ie, it seems, to be effected by the mere action of the
executive, without the Howe of 00M0101111 being troubled
is the matter. Whether parliament will submit to be thus
quietly shelved a very few weeks willdetennine. The minis-
terial speeches of last session pledged the advisers of the
Crown to nothing more than to place university &gross
within the reach of the handful of Irish catholic students
whom scruples of conscience and reasons of convenience
keep from the colleges of Belfast, Cork, and Galway ; and
parliament may very properly confine concession withia
these reasonable limits.

Is the speech of Mr. Dillon, N.P., before the National
Association. oe Tuesday, the Telegraph finds evidence of
the fact: that, Feeianism is an ngly reality. Lot ns not
blink the fact that Ireland is disaffected. We question,
indeed, whether the discontent is not more intense. more
indisaint, than it was a reseration ago, and whether
Mr. Chichester Fortes:me has not a harder task to
perform than that which was deputed to Lord
SR °trinities. Let this be met by a • fair tow
sure of tenant right, sod the Warn if not the
abolition of that most iniquitous and initiated institn.
ties the Isiah establishment. Nay. if the statesmen of
baud, going a step farther, wen to seek by mesas of an
eadomosat from the state to give the Romeo catholic
eler of Ireland that indepandewee which they asst lack
so bag es they are the peamienere of the mob, they would