The Express. — 1867-07-10 (London, England)

TOPICS.  Discussing the advisability of an expedition to Abyssinia on behalf of the captives, the Times observes that anyone judging the matter calmly and with the views of civilised policy, would conclude that Theodore ought to yield, and must yield as soon as he sees that we are in earnest. But this conclusion may ►ttribute to him more good sense and moderation thsn he possesses. Experience has shown that despots of the temperament and education of this Abyssinian do notgenerally subject:their passions to their policy. A king who seizes diplomatic agents and rushes recklessly into collision with the greatest of eastern powers is not likely to be a reflecting monarch, and it may be that Theodore will believe that to frighten us by a general execution would be better policy than to oonciliate us by a surrender. It is no dishonour to look upon this King Theodore as • sort of brigand, with whom it will be fair to deal smoothly—at any rate, as long as he holds hie prisoners.  The Daily News contemplates with profoundest pity the tragic destiny of Maximilian, but cannot perceive that his fate bears any sort of analogy to any of those " judicial murders" of groat personages which history records and milder age condemns. The apologists of that savage decree of October, 1865, which the French persuaded Maximilian to sign, are doubtless justified in asserting that the unhappy and amiable Prince was overborne by the pressure of military met, who, as all Europe well knows, are never slow to shed blood, and who have not learnt to respect human life inAlgeria orin Paris. la it, then, unreasonable to suppose that President Juarez, whom those whe know him intimately declare to bo "a brave, humane, and honest citizen," was overborne by the military officers who sat on that court-martial at Queretaro, some of whose comrades, friends, and relatives, perhaps, had been shot in cold blood in pursuance of th►t imperial decree? The Standard cannot envy the mental constitution of him who, calling himself an Englishman, pretends to justify such a deed as the execution of Maximilian upon the ground that some of the opposite party had been executed under a decree of Maximilian a year and a half before. Even if Maximilian's complicity in this act could be proved it would not justify Juarez in his useless and wanton murder. Those who were shot by the French were taken in open arms against established authority, after due warning bad been given of the penalty they were incurring by opposing the government. The cane of Maximilian was essentially distinct from all others, inasmuch as it could not be pretended that he was an insurgent against authority, that he was a freebooter, or an invader without warrant. Nevertheless, we have no choice but to accept Mexico as she is ; and as for our representative in Mexico, it would he only punishing ourselves to withdraw him.  The official correspondence relative to the Paris Exhibition, which has just been laid upon the table of the House of Commons, leads the Post to remark that this one fact comes out with unfortunate distinctness, viz., that every exhibition which is held costa more than the last. If it is true that they are increasing in popularity and utility, some means must be found, if they Cr, to be continued, of charging the expense upon those to whom they procure pleasure or profit, instead of coming to the state for such enormous grants of public money. A strange question is put to the gl.:•.bY• correspondent in reference to the case of Captain SimpOu, of her Majesty's whip the Meg:ers. He asks whether it can be true that the government intend to pay the costa of Captain Simpson's defence, and even to make good to him the fine of 1001. which was imposed on him. To the Star thewhole ease is unspeakably disgusting. It ia shocking that there should be found English officers who cAld think it their duty to order the flogging of a wretched little boy ; it is