The Express. — 1866-12-11 (London, England)

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 because 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 interior 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 deplorable 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."