The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-24 00:00:00

THE STATE o► IRELAND.

Reviewing the debate last evening on the state of Ire-
land, the Daily N,r•vi observes that Lord Nasues indignant
denial of the imputation of dallying with and fomenting
conspiracy, and of allowing insurrection to gather to a
head and to break forth, in order more effectually to crush
it, bore the plain marks of sincerity. Such a course, he
truly says, would have been in the highest degree scandal-
ous and wicked. We hope Mr. Roebuck is grateful for
this acknowledgment of his hxpothetical vindication of
her Majesty's government, Ile thinks them capable of,
because he sees no harm in, acts which they themselves
stigmatise as involving the extremity of disgrace. Mr.
Roebuck happily stands alone in his views of what
political expediency dictates, and political honour allows.
Rxperience forbids us to hope that these exceptional
powers can safely cease so long as Ireland is governed on
the principles of territorial and ecclesiastical ascendancy.
I Until Irish wrongs are redressed we cannot have the as-
surance of a lasting peace with America. It would be a
great mistake to suppoee that Mr. Roebuck speaks the
sense of the English nation. Were it so, chronic rebellion
in Ireland would be natural, inevitable, and almost pisti-
-1 Sable.

The Tines complains of a vagueness in the remedial
legislation recommended by Mr. Maguire, Mr. Bright, and
others, and contends that the speeches delivered show bow
little injustice Ireland has to apprehend from the British
House of Commons. Putting aside Mr. Roebuck's defence
of the Irish church as falling to the ground on a slight
examination, the Times argues that the questions of the
Irish church and of the tenure of land may be settled in a
single session as soon as the passing of the Reform Bill
clears the way. When this is done we shall be the better
able to despise the plots of traitors at home or the threats
of enemies abroad.

The Herald pins itself to the speech of Mr. Roebuck,
who told the whole truth, it says, about Ireland with such
force and conciseness.

The Pad hopes that the session even now will not come
to a close without some other and more acoeptable Irish
measure than tho suwpension of the Habeas Corpus, re-
ceiving the assent of the legislature.

The Star contrasto the liberal measures which the oppo-
sition are desirous to press upon parliament with regard
to the land question and the Irish church, with the merely
negative policy of the government.

The Teleyreph corrects itself in baring said the other day
that toryism was dead. It still exists in Ireland, and its
defender in England is the once r►dical member for Bath
and the preseut tory member for Sheffield. Poor Mr. Roe-
buck seems now to exist, as a political entity, simply to
oontradict himself. Fake to the faith of his youth and
his manhood, Mr. Roebuck offers a painful example of
ripe unwiedom, and those who are interested in the wel-
fare of a people too long persecuted and misused cannot
listen to a more dangerous adviser than the misrepresen-
tative of enlightened and liberal Sbellielit

Of Mr. Roebuck, the Daily .Netca observes :
" The rudeness and vio'ence of his language, and the
evident desire by which he is animated to inflict as much
gratuitous pain SS be can upon individuals and communi-
ties—the only thing in the course of his political life in
which be has ever succeeded —make him a public mis-
chief. Benefits conferred in the spirit which be be.
trays would embitter rather than conciliate. To say that
be fights with poisoned arrows is to my too little. He
poisons the surgeon's knife."

THE Trennomen BaamtareY.—The following ap-
pears in the Tim,".-" Sir,—Your impression of Tuesday
lad contained an advertisement of the birth of a son to
Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, Bart. As eerie.
setting the infant baronet, Sir Henry Alfred Joseph
Doughty Tithborne (only child of the late Sir Alfred Tich-
borne), will you allow us to say that the guardians of the
person and estate of the infant appointed by the Court of
Chancery utterly deny the right of the person calling him-
self Sir Roger Charles Doughty Ticbborne to bear the
name and title he has unwarrantably assumed, and that,
should he venture to put forward any claim in a tangible
shape, the guardians will be prepared to prove it wholly
without foundation!—We have the honour to be, sir, your
obedient servants, Doninsom and GEARL-57, Linooln's-
inn-fields, May Z."
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THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTlYES.—lntelligence has
been received from the captives in Abyssinia up to the 2nd
of ApriL They were still prisoners, and in chains, in the
fort of Msgdala. There had been no change in their treat-
ment by King Theodora', and no sign whatever that he in-
tended to liberate them. In fact, they are now fully per-
suaded that nothing but force will secure their liberation,
and are ready to take the risk which coercive measures
would entail upon themselves. One of them writes:—
"Her Majesty's government are fully aware of our posi-
tion, and it must now be clear to them that our release by
conciliatory measures is quite out of the question. They
must either resort to force or leave no to perish. Mean-
, while, the country generally appears to be in a state of
. complete anarchy, and almost every province is in rebel-
' lion. The road from Magdala to Debra Tabor, where the
King still resides, is unsafe for all travellers unless ac-
companied by a strong escort. Five more Europeans have
recently been added to the number of the captives—viz.
Wee Germans, Messrs. Steiger, Brandeis, and Schiller ;
Eisler, a Hungarian, and Makeni, a Frenchman. These
bad volunteered to enter the King's service when the
other captives were sent to Magdala, but getting tired of
their position they devised a plan to escape. The evening
before putting their plan into execution they were be-
trayed by Bardel, who had agreed to escape with them.
They were, in consequence immediately seized and chained
hand and foot. They are at present confined is a dungeon
as Dabs* Tabor.