The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-27 00:00:00

MB. BANCROFT'S ADDRISS.

The Times Hods is Mr. Bancroft's oration a proof of the
wisdom of the Cambridge senate in declining to sanction
Weaned to their undergraduates by a member of a New
England University. Mr. Bascroft was some years since
minister to England, he is advanced in years, has written
history, end obtained a respectable literary reputation ;
but his production wee worthy of Elijah Pogram. The
taste which could invite an English minister and his strff
in order to inflict upon them a coarse invective needs no
remark, end the Times can well understand that
there were many among the Americans themselves
who were shocked at the indecency. Such an
harangue/ ran have little result on this side of
the ocean. but the effect in America is of importance.
Can this mischievous old men believe that any purpose
can be served by slandering two such countries as England
and France in the presence of their represeu.itives? The
Americans know their own rights, and are sufficiently
watchful in maintaining them ; they do not require to be
continually hounded on against us, nor will it tend to the
enlightened conduct of public affairs if they are made to be•
Bove that England i■ a country where the mass of the
people is powerless and oppressed. It is to such declama-
tions as these that ws owe the arrival of a few score
Fenian adventurers in Ireland. Stich misrepresentations
might be properly left to a lower class of politicians ; they
do not deserve to be countenanced by one who claims the
high titles of historian and diplomatist.

)08 TOPICS.

The wisp in the supply services will figure only, says
the Times, as petty cosh in the gte t t 1 sec' sheet of the
cation. Indeed the demand is so ambiguously presented
that it is doubtful whether we ere to lose or gain. True,
the civil service estimates proposed do show a decrease,
but wh►t if a supplement should ag►in be found neces-
sary?

The argument of Earl Russell yesterday that the Irish
Roman catholic clergy desire no aid from the
state appears to the Post, at brat sight, a curious
one, for if it is sound we must infer that the maintenance of
• system which leaves them dependent on the voluntary
contributions of their co-religionists, constitutes no
grievance. Earl Grey has given notice that he will, in the
oourse of next week, formally submit certain resolutions o•
the state of Ireland, and on that minim the Irish ques-
tion will be fully canvassed in all its beariogr. The
rospensioa of coastitutioaal government in Ireland is
admitted by Earl Grey to furnish such conclusive proof
of something radically wrong in the government of th►t
country es imperatively to demand the intervention of
parliament, with the view of discovering and correctiog the
cause of mischief.

The Herald would be glad if it terold feel at all sure that
the demands of the discontented part of Ireland will mess
wish sny more thoughtful consideratien than a few civil
words, end pr-rhaps tie tossing of the Irish church as a
sop to Cerbern•. With some of them, sr with the proposal
of Lord Liford for the endowment of the priests, it has no
sympathy at all, they are simply impoesibilities. With
others it is very possible to deal satisfactorily, if the at•
tempt is honestly made. It is true that we have to add to
Irieh grievances a few which he present spokesmen either
do not see or do not appreciate. Bat of ail these in their
timer,

The Telegraph inclines to the belief that the Roumanian
insurrection is attributable rather to the vicious incapacity
of Lout► than to the intrigues of Austria or the enorosch-
mints of Russia. In the telegram which ban already
reached our government from Prince Gortcbakoff, eaves.
sive of his desire to proceed in this matter paripasru with
Groat Britain, we have a promising assurance of Russ'as
good faith. It may be too early to lay this flattering unction
to our soul, nor is it possible to doubt that the internal
°sedition of Turkey, berimpecuniosity, her declining credit,
her ill-judging prodigality, afford materials for very serious
apprehension and anxiety. The Eastern question is far
from having been settled ; but the Telegraph is incased to
distrust its resurrection in connexion with what may be
nothing but the deposition of a corrupt, viciors, and worth-
less Prince.

The &ar has some belief in the national almost* of
lkumatila, and regards the recent revolution as the first
clear proof of energy, decision, and united purpose. There
is the material for at least one new and independent state
among the peoples who inhabit the regions between the
Pruth and the Adriatic. They will never be Turkish, or
Russian, or Austrian ; and the Sear does Dot believe they
will ever be Greek. But into what form or forms they
may crystallise hereafter it would be idle to attempt to
conjecture. This Roumaia movement is a healthy symptom
of activity and purpose. It ought to be fostered in that
negative way which alone is worth anything in each cases
—that which keeps off intervention and leaves the national
of onies and instincts to mead themselves and find their
own principle of cohesion.

The telegram announcing the surrender of the
Bhootan saes received at the Indio, oouseifolloe yesterday
morning, at 8 o'clock, I. dated Oalentta, 5 o'clock, Sunday
afternoon. Allowing for six hours' difference of longitude,
the time thus taken La taimemiesion was only 21 horns.