The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-07 00:00:00

TAN AMU!? UPON THI LIFE OF TEE CZAR.

Awaiting further details respecting the attempt
on the life of the Czar, the Times suggests that it is
possible the excessive precautions taken by the police
against such untoward contingencies, have acted as bun.
mat suggestion, if not as downright provocation, to the
ill-inclined. It is a singular policy, the Times adds, that
just in the first smart of a wound inflicted on French
self-esteem, the King of Prussia and Count Bis-
marck, by whom the blow was inflicted, should be
pompously promenaded along the line of the Paris Boule-
vards as the honoured and cherished guests of the French
sovereign, and proper objects for the French people's ac-
clamation. However, no polished people can indulge po-
litical prepossessions to the extent of treating as an
enemy an invited visitor. Not only ought the persons of
the Czar, of the Prussian King, and of other illustrious
visitors to be inviolable in France, but every honoured
Frenchman ought to feel answerable for any unworthy
treatment to which political fanaticism might expose
them.

The Daily News was struck with a disagreeable sur-
prise on hearing of the reception which was given
to the Czar at the French law courts. The auto-
cracy of the Emperor Alexander represents the na-
tional will of the gre►t majority of the Russian people,
and an insult to him in the present state of the civilisation
of Europe is resented as an insult to 70 millions of people.
The most eminent of the Polish refugees had left Paris ;
but one was left behind, it seems, who staked his life upon
the awful venture of slaying the Czar before a multitude
of people. But for the accident of overloading his pistol the
result of this point blank aim and discharge could not
have been doubtful. The consequences of such an event
we forbear to dwell upon ; indeed, they are incalculable.
The effect of the arassination of the Czar in Paris upon
the relations of the two Empires who can estimate? For-
tunately, such attempts are not easily committed in cold
blood ; the hand that holds up the knife trembles, the
pistol is made too sure of killing, or fired too soon, and so
court preachers and flatterers are permitted to take the
name of Providence in vain.

A prince seems to be feted, vivaed, says the Herald, clad
in purple and fine linen, and bowed down to by the com-
mon herd of men, on the tacit understanding that he is to
be an occasional target for the discontented who are weary
cf their lives. Fortunately for him, very fortunately for
the world, the Power on high I. stronger than the power
below ; a Divinity interposes to shape the ends of the
smassin ; his knife glances, his bomb explodes prema-
turely, his pistol bursts, his shot misses its mark. This
seems to h►ppen in about ninety-nine cafes out of a hun-
dred, and it ought to dash the hopes of those who aspire
by such violent and brutal means to influence the desti-
nies of nations and shape the course of events.

" NO IRISH NEED APPLY."

The Tines thinks it impossible to deny that the recruit-
ing orders of her Majesty's Foot Guards excluding Irish-
men and Roman catholica is a substantial wrong an well as
a slight to national feeling. The Guards are distinguished
by many advantages, and Ireland pays her quota for their
maintenance, and natives of Scotland freely enter either of
the three regiments. It would be most absurd if any
sectional jealousies, or any fear for the trustworthineas of
Irish catholics, should cause so unjust an exclusion to be
maintained. There is not the smallest reason for sup-
posing that Roman catholics in the present day are less
loyal subjects than protestant' ; and as regards the loyalty
of Irishmen in England, it surely may be counted upon
when it is found that throughout the whole of Ireland, at
a most dangerous crisis, the constabulary, the most com-
pletely Irish and catholic force which exists in the
country, did its duty without a single instance of treachery.
The beet thing would undoubtedly be to rescind that part
of the recruiting orders which gives offence, for if these
may be disregarded at pleasure it can be of little use to
maintain them.

This exclusion, the Star rays, is full of the spirit which
has to be fought against and conquered before Ireland will
be fairly treated by the nation which governs her. Irish-
men are welcome enough—they are sought after moat
eagerly for other regiments, but these Guard regiments
are crack corps. They take higher rank than other regi.
meats ; they have better pay ; they are never sent to an
unhealthy climate, and they live in better barracks than