The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-02 00:00:00

ANOTHER ATTCHAN WAR.

If it be tree that orders have been given for an official
estimate of the probable cost of holding and fortifying
Herat, the Daily New considers the danger of England
drifting into a third Afighan war is by no means so chime-
rical as Englishmen may think. Hitherto Sir J. Lawrence
has steadily offered resistance to the violent and propa-
gandist imperialism of the Anglo-Indian community, but
the wave gathers force the more it is repressed,
and unless English opinion speaks out in strong
language in favour of the Viceroy's policy, all
that we have gained in India and in Europe by ten years
of peace may be hazarded and lost in an hour's folly.
England, however, the Daily News does not doubt, will
set its face against the wild career of aggrandisement into
which it is sought to force the Governor-General. What
would British India have to fear were Russia, either as •
conquering or • civilising nation, to overrun Central Asia,
and to approach the northern slopes of the mountain
barrier of English rule? If she came to civilise, we could
but welcome her gladly. If she came bent on conquest
would any enter prise be more hopeless than the invasion
of Ilindostan from the desolate countries of the north-
west? While the Sikhs are faithful to their salt we can
defy in the l'unjaub any foreign foe ; and if the Sikhs
rise, it will not be to put a Russian governor instead of an
Englishman in Lahore. Our Indian frontier now is all
but perfect.
The Times maintains that we had better let Herat be
beseiged once more than occupy Affghanistsn for the sake
of protecting it. In the first place it is by no mean certain
that Persia could take Herat ; still less that if she got it
she could keep it. The chance of her afterwards dealing
with it for the benefit of Russia is still more remote,
while the advantage to which Russia could turn it is almost
invisible. Not so the conditions on the other side.
The last Affghan war cost us 17,000,0001., and the
money was the least part of the loss. The " barrier
against encroachments" which we hoped to raise by the
expedition remained, and still remains, as imaginary
as ever.

the wart.

OSBORNE, TAN. 1,

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon, and her
alajesty drove out this morning, accompanied by Princess
Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold.
The Equeryin•\Vaiting was in attendance upon horse-
back. _ _ .

Princess Beatrice, Prince Christian, and Princess Hen-
rietta of Schleswig-Holstein, walked in the grounds.

:NVITATIUN OF PRINCE ARTHUR TO LIVERPOOL.

—His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, Prince Christian,
and Princess lieurietta of Schleswig-Holstein have
accepted an invitation of the Mayor of Liverpool to s
the town during their stay with the Eul and Countess of
Derby, at Knowsley, and to attend a ball at the Town-hall
on the evening of the 9th inst. Yesterday the Town
Council passed a resolution to provide for any expenses
which might be entailed by the event. During the con-
versation upon the subject, Mr. Spiel (an Irishman) and
Mr. it. Gladstone made some allusions to the anxieties
which the Queen must naturally feel on account of the
reckless and misguided acts of Fenian agitators, and ex-
pressed their pleasure at an opportunity being afforded to
the inhabitants of Liverpool to display their loyalty and
devotion to the sovereign by courteous attentions to the
junior members of the royal family.
William Carroll, M.D., was installed as Lord
Mayor of Dublin yesterday.
A detachment of Lancers and a park of artillery

paraded the city of Cork yesterday. Lord Strathnairn,
commander of the forces, hes arrived to complete the
military arrangements. The left wing of the 92nd High-
, leaders has come from the Carmel.
An anecdote is circulating in Rome of an indi-

victual having ordered • funeral service at the church of
St. Andrea della Fratte, in honour of three Irish Zouaves
killed at the battle of Mentana, professedly at the request
of the superior of the Irish convent of St. Isidore. But
an English prelate, wishing to verify the names of the
defunct Zonaves, no three Irishmen being mentioned
among the slain at Montana, found the unconscious
superior of St. Andrea about to perform solemn funeral
obsequies for Messrs. Larkin, Allen, and Gould, such being
the names that had been given him. The superior of St.
Isidore ignored the whole affair, and the ceremony was
prevented.

The opening of the theatres at Rome took place
on the 26th ult. without any of the disastrous conse-
quences which were apparently apprehended by the police
authorities, judging by the formidable display of force
made by them on the occasion. The opens house was
very well filled, chiefly with the nobility, diplomatists,
and foreigners in the boxes to the exclusion of Roman
families of the middle claws, and in the pit with officers
and government employes, in the absence of the habitual
connoisseurs who are supposed to decide upon the respec-
tive merits of a soprano, a baritone, or a prises ballerina.
The Dreaden Journal announces that the Prus-
sian troops which were in occupation of Lairds commenced
to evacuate that town on the 27th December. Colonel
Wnlffen, addressing the soldiers, said:—" We, Prussians,
bid a oerdial adieu to the city of Leipsie, which has re-
ceived us so well ; the beet mode of expressing our yeti-
, tud• for the friendaldp we have met here is to give a warm
and deem cheer to tho beet of Saran—to the model of
I every Saxes ; Long live his Majesty King John el
' hg.areartnyony!" The soldiers and a numerous crowd responded