The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-11 00:00:00

A FRENCH VIEW OF IRISH POLITICS.

The Patrie publishes the following against the
English cabinet for its mode of governing Ireland. The
writer says :
" For some days past the telegrams from Dublin have
not varied : Numerous arrests have been made,' or The
arrests continue.' And what is still more remarkable is
that these telegrams every day find • place in the beat
French liberal' journals, without one word of protest or
regret being uttered. If they were dated from Madrid,
what would Lot the liberals say!! If they came from
Florence or from Venice with what amenities would they
not inspire the clerical publications against Italy ! But
that comes from Dublin, from England, from the country
of liberty, as it is called, and it is hardly noticed !
There is in that corner of the world an entire
people who does not know if it will have • to-morrow ;
there are whole towns occupied by the police ; there are
villages which their inhabitants are obliged to desert to
make room for the soldiers arriving from England ; and
the French liberals' show themselves perfectly calm, they
who have, however, the sentiment of the universal family
so strongly developed ! The Cretans are to be pitied be-
cause the Turks demand from them respect for the laws,
but the Irish merit no pity from the moment that it is
England that arrests and imprisons them, or places a
price on their beads. Ah! if ever a Turk should
be rash enough to offer a price for the head of
an insurgent Candiote ! Ah ! if Marshal Narvaez
should distribute to all the Spanish policemen the portrait
of General Prim as that of Stephens has been. To this it is
said that England is defending herself. In fact she is,
but against the evil which she has herself crested and
aggravated ; she defends herself against a people to whom
Mr. Bright was not far the other day from counselling •
general distrust of the authorities and landowners. She is
right to defend herself, but Turkey is wrong, the
Spanish government is wrong, the Italian government is
wrong. The French Liberals' have decided so, and the
telegraph from Dublin will continue to say in the midst
of general silence, Numerous arrests are being made
here.' "

The Countess Anna Apponyi, rife Zichy, mother
of the Counts Charles and George Apponyi, has just died
at Presburg, aged eighty-six.
The General Correspondence of Vienna announces
that the definitive plan of recruiting the army has been
adopted in principle. By an approximate calculation, the
effective, in time of peace, will, according to the new
system, amount to 850,000 men, and, by addition of the
first levy of the landwehr destined to join the colours,
1,100,000. The second levy, which is to garrison the in-
terior of the country, will be 200,000 men. The other
arrangements, such as the duration of service, the yet
of the men belonging to the landwehr, &c., are not yet
settled.
The Journal de in Vienne, published at Poitiers,
has the following :—" The double arrest may be remem- I
bered which followed the failure and flight of the head of
the banking-house of Sousigny and Co. One of the aaaig.
nees of the bankruptcy being sent to prison with the chief
accountant, banged himself the next mominsr. This de-
plorable affair has now led to another frightful catastrophe.
The second prisoner, whose case was down for hearing
before the Assize Court in the course of the present week,
has now in his turn °omitted suicide. At half-past 6 a
warder had handed him, as usual, a portion of his clothe.;
when the officer returned at 7 he diaoovered hi 1 suspended
by his handkerchief from the window bar, and completely
dead."