The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-28 00:00:00

TREATMENT OF FINLANII DI THE AMT.

When it is remembered from whet class the regiments in
Ireland are continually recruited, the Times seee nothing to
wonder at in the fact that a good many youths have been
taking the Fenian oath and the Queen's shilling at the
same item. If we pity the heedful actually caught, our
pity is still more die to the loyal soldier who, besides the
enemy he meets face to farm hes one at his elbow and an-
other at hie back. It is evident th►t if Fenianism is not

"stamped out,' u they say of another plague, it will
unread, for cit is • question, not of reason, but of
parity. Which way, then, does the argument of
humanity point? We assume that oar people have faith
in their own cause, and enter the question before us
without say secret misgiving. We have no such misgiving
ourselves. The universal spread of this conspir►cy and its
evidently foreign origin prove that it has nothing to do
with national wrongs and national sufferings. It has no
justification, and there is nothing to remove it out of the
category of treason and rebellion. How is it to be stopped?
Will it ever be stepped if we shrink from recognising its
true character as • treasonable and wicked rebellion ? We
do not envy those with whom rests the responsibility of
these painful questions ; but should they think it necessary
to be *evert, we trust they will be supported by all the
loyalty and common sense of the nation.

The Tinto says the entire question of turret-ships Is
now opened, and the Admiralty will be called upon to show
not only that it is necessary to build ships of 5,000 tons,
bat also, probably, on Sir Marto. Peto's interrogation,
that it is wise to build them at all in national establish-
ments, indeed of contracting for the work in private yards.
The Daily New cells upon the liberal members to be
present at this morning's sitting to support the Qualifica-
tion for Offices Bill, observing that the "declaration
which it is proposed by this bill to abolish is a relic of an
order of legislation which is contrary to the whole °mule
of modern ideas coneersing political society, and is justly
offensive to large elegem of the most loyal subjects of this
realm. Only by means of lammed emphasis being given
to the parliamentary expression of public opinion can the
unreasoning obstinacy of the House of Lords be overcome.
Discussing the fall of Prime Goma the Daily News re-
make that it is not merely in the question of sovereignty,
or in its relations to the Porte and to the Great Powers,
that the new government of the Principalities will Sod
serious Make. How will it deal with the constitution itself ?
Oars it recall universal suffrage ? Dant it restore the
Boyer& to influence by re-establishing the constitution
which the Great Powers approved ? Will it dispute Prince
Conies settlement of the Laud Question, or his line of
policy with regard to the secularisation of the Greek con-
vents? The new government, however able, will have
questions before it calculated to try its utmost capacity.
The Post urges those who would effect real economy to
devote themselves to the consideration of the several items
of the national expenditure, and, wherever they detect
waste, expose the errors of the government and demand
the support of the house. It is by this means, and not by
abstract resolutions, which pledge no one to anything end
do not diminish the expenditure bye single farthing, that
they Imo alone hope to effect real retrenchment.
The Herald finds it impossible, at a respectable distance,
not to admire the pertinacity with which Mr. Chisholm
Anstey keeps himself before the public. It seems that the
attorneys of the presidency of Bombay, on his return to
the ranks of the bar, have entered into a written combina-
tion not to give him any briefs ; but Mr. Aostsy, on
appeal, has obtained leave to plead in a ease which has
been brought to him by • client, under direct instruc-
tions, and it may be supposed that • similar
privilege will not be denied him for future business.
But in any case the combination will entail upon
him considerable injury, even if it leave his position worth
keeping ; and the penalty mud be considered severe upon
• men whose wont faults may be summed up in the fact
that he is, as far as his moral nature is concerned, a bad
tempered Doe Quixote. Oa other hand, the attorneys
may suffer by their movement ; for if the natives find that
their intervention can be dispensed with, they are just the
people to decide upon paying only one lawyer instead of
two for the future.

A writer in the Advertiser says that though the At.
torney-General informed the House of Commons that Ame-
rica declined an arrangement by which the laws of neu-
trality could be mutually altered, he did not give the rea-
son assigned by Mr. Adams. The American ambassador, in
answer to Earl Russell's proposal to alter the neutrality
laws of both countries, writes:—" So long ■s the
heavy list of depredations upon American commerce, con-
sequent upon the issue of hostile cruisers built, fitted out,
manned. and navigated from British porta with perfect
impunity, continues to weigh upon the minds of the Ame.
Titan people, it would be the height of presumption In me
to hold out any encouragement to the acceptance of pro-

postai the practical effect of which might be to place Great
Britain in precisely the same degree of security in dangerous
emergencies which she herselforhen applied to, deliberately
refused to accord to as."

The Bishop of Norwich has placed his episcopal
palace at the disposal of the committee for conducting the
Norfolk and Norwich Festival, with a view to the becoming
reception of the Peace and Prisms of Wake, who will
honour the festival with their presence. The festival is
likely to be postponed far a month, as the Prism and Fria-
°ass will travel from Boatload in order to attend it.

The Owi believes that Lord Clarence Paget, who
will worse the command of the Mediterranean fleet aa
coos as the navy 'adman% are pawed, will be anomeded at
the Adtarslty by the Hoe. T. G. Barb& sow Under-
Semetary of State for the Home Departmeat ; that Lord
John Hay will mewed Admiral Drummond at the

Admiralty, sad Urntecant-O.seral the Han. C. Grey will
sensed Sir Charles Phipps as Keeper of the Privy Pone.
Colonel Ponaonby, at present extra equerry, will be ap-
pointed equerry.