The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-16 00:00:00

UISCELLANEOCS TOPICS.

Referring to the recent intelligence from Australia, the
Tones observes that the questions engaging the public mind
at the Antipodes are precisely such as might have been
discussed at our own Social Science Congress, and only in
the matter of income and expenditure do we recognise the
features of political youth. The resources of the colonists
are practically unfathomable, and the people of New Zea-
land are almost vain of the ease with which they can sus-
tamtt a rate of taxation above that of the mother country.
The colonists of Victor;a are complaining just as we do of
the price of meat, and looking in all directions for new
sources of supply. Deep sea fishing has just been tried
for the first time, and 14 th apparent success.
It is creditable to the people of Frankfort, observes the
Daily Noes, that they are ready to lose their independence
far the sake of the unity of the Fatherland, but their
insisting that they must not be absorbed until after all the
rest enables us to understand why it was that German
unity could only be accomplished by the sword. Every
king, assembly, and people, saw that national unity
was necessary, and was ready to clamour for it,
but always upon the understanding that its own
independence must not be sacrificed ; so that an amicable
agreement between them for the purpose was impossible.
The Frankforter' do not perceive that the work of confis-
cation cannot be done everywhere and all at once, but they
may tranquillise themselves. Prussia will in time rise to
the magnitude of their ideas, and they will yet be grateful
to the Prussian people for making them citizens of a great ,
and united country.
The Post presumes that when General Dix arrives at
Paris as minister of the United States he will find all the
unpleasant business already done so far as diplomacy is
concerned, but observes that, so long as there is a French
soldier and a French flag on the republican soil of the
wide American continent, whose great and growing family
has no desire to greet imperial European visitors who
bring crowns in their portmanteaus, the relations between
France and the United States cannot be thoroughly
cordial.
The Part ani Herald comment on the Frankfort protest.
The latter has but few words of regret for the position of
the German city, and thinks that, though the means by
which its independence has been forfeited are only such as
can be justified by the privilege of usurpation and the laws
of force, and that though it is possible a time will come
when Europe may wish it had never repudiated the prin-
ciples of political right, still the fate of Frankfort is not
the most disastrous that might be imagined.
The Star defends the course taken by the Jamaica
Committee in the prosecution of Mr. Eyre, and in another
article condemns the conduct of Mr. Lawrence, the Liver-
pool magistrate, in anticipating his own acquittal, and for
the terms in which he referred to the subject on Saturday
from the bench.

"We mentioned the other day," says the
TeulonnaiP, "the arrival within a space of twenty-four
hours of sixteen vessels laden with oorn ; we have now
something even better to report—the arrival in a single
afternoon of twenty-two cargoes of wheat. If the sliding-
scale were still in existence, we might have to apprehend
famine-prices this winter, and the quotations of wheat in
our marketiwould be already exceedingly high, because
the imports would be inconsiderable. How different is the
cue at present