The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

The Daily News lauds the calm, peaceful, and
business-like address of the King of Prussia. The honest
public opinion of all Europe will join in the reasonable
hope of the King that the task of completing the federal
constitution will be accomplished in peace, and will cry
Woe ! to the aggressor who under any pretext threatens
to disturb so good a work. France has no more right to
interfere in the family affairs of the German people than
Prussia would have to interfere in the financial, commer-
cial, or military administration of the French empire.
Cheese pour soi, chants chez soi, is equally applicable to
both emontrita i and it is only by the strict observ►nce of
that tolden rule of international relations that the peace
df Europe will be made secure.
The Tinter attributes the participation of Garibaldi in a
peace oongress to his affectionate disposition and his 1112-
perfect knowledge of men, which frequently place him at
the disposal of others. His visit manifests the sublimity of
his optimism and his belief in those Utopian theories
about the indefinite perfectibility of the human race for
which he finds a justification in his own boundless good-
ness—a goodness which indeed paaseth all understanding.
Any wrong estimate ever formed with respect to his
oharacter must have arisen from misconception, not from
any disguise or mystification on his part. Garibaldi at
Varese, at Marsala, on Lake Idro, is himself ; but at
Geneva, as at the Turin Chamber, he is what those who
love him too well, perhaps, but certainly not wisely, make

The Sta► contends that the English people have the
greatest interest in the consolidation of Germany, and these
Frenchmen who now utter their spiteful ones against the
noble nationality which has grown up in a day, will soon
be compelled to own that when they clamoured for war
they were the greatest enemies of their own country. The
result of France and England ceasing their insane jeal-
ousies has been to confer vast benefita upon both. France,
placed between two such commercial countries as Britain
and Germany, will reap results not so barren as the fading
glories of a victory in the field.
Though Lord Stanley's proposition to America has not
been accepted in its present form, there is no reason to
believe, according to the Herold, it has been formally
rejected. At all events, taking the matter at its worst,
Lord Stanley km rev,. road the situation as it was created
by Earl RusselL

EXPKDITION.

The Time is anxious the government and the country
should not be deceived with regard to the true character
of the new war upon which we are entering. The project
is one of the most unpromising recorded in our history,
and it is not too late even now for the government to con-
sider whether it has really exhausted all possible means of
gaining the object it has in view without despatching
English soldiers on so desperate an errand. The prestige
of the English name, concerning which our country-
men ia the East always evince the molt unneces-
sary anxiety, will not be increased by a fruitless, or even
by a successful, incursion into Abyssinia. The Tines be.
neves th• government might have done more than it has
yet affected with the Abyssinians themselves. A tenth
pert of the money which is being spent in fitting out this
expedition might, if judiciously disbursed in Abyssinia,
have produced us the missing men. Colonel Merewether
seems to know something of the natives. If the govern-
ment gave him the necessary authority, we c►nnot but
suppose that he wool I so make his cause understood as to
lead them to give up Mr. Cameron and his friends, King
Theodore notwithstanding.

The Star continues Co deprecate the idea of the expe-
dition. For those who discern the dangers of the enter-
prise, bat are afraid to oppose it, it cannot bat feel con-
tempt.

IS TOPICS.

The Herald mentions with confidence and satisfaction a
report that the government have come to the determine.
tion of granting an independent charter to the Catholic
University of Dublin.
Discussing the annual report of the President of the
Queen's College, Galway, the Times again condemns in the
strongest terms the attempt of the late government to alter
the existing organisation of the college. The success of the
Queen's Colleges, before the step alluded to, is now un-
doubted. From the statistics only one inference is possible
—the reckless promise of the late government that the
Queen's University should be so transformed that its
degreesmight be conferred on candidates wherever educated,
though it has proved to be incapable of fulfilment, has
been efficient to injure collegiate education everywhere.
The recent speech of Mr. Warren at Dublin appears to in-
dicste no unwillingness on the part of the present ministry
to purchaas the catholic alliance ; but the best guarantee
that no attempt will be made to interfere with the national
system of education in Ireland is found in the certainty
that it would prove disastrous.
It is observed by the Daily News that the evidence taken
before the Trades' Union Commissioners at Manchester
beam a melancholy family resemblance to that which was
given earlier in the year at Sheffield. The brickmaken of
Lancashire and Cheshire and the sawgrinders of Hallam-
shire mutt be bracketed equal in the honour-list of