PERFIDE ALBION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1308, 25 January 1868, Page 5

PERFIDE ALBION.

The following may bo accepted as tlio viefc to be adopted by the Abyssinian Expedition, and of the real objects whicli it is intended to promote. It is derived from the very best authority —no other, in fact, than that of the principal French papers, which, not being allowed to treat of matters which concern themselves, are of course, all the more free and competent to concern themselves with the affairs of other people, and to instruct their readers as to their signification and bearing. To our translation then :— " So tho old England is about to send an Expedition to Abyssinia, in order to liberate three or four prisoners. " Ah bah! " She knows very well that she cannot, and will not, liberate them—that, as far as they are concerned, the greater her success, the worse will be their fate. " She knows that she can never catch, much less punish King Theodore. " Why, then the Expedition ? We are going to say, Have you never looked at a map of Europe ? You have ; and you have noticed that that Mediterranean which Napoleon I. said he would make a French Lake is dotted with Hnglish Forts and Colonies, and bristles at all its entrances with English cannon. "The Mediterranean instead of being a French lake, is an English canal. It was bought with intrigue, with blood, with gold, with any means in short which could be employed. "It was bought as a road to India ; but to complete this road another sea is required—the Red Sea. " Once established there, the highway to India would be for ever in the hands of England. " The Turk might then live or die as he pleased and our engineer might be encouraged to make his canol. For when made it would be English. " She would fortify Massowah, Perim, and Aden, as she has fortified Gibraltar and Malta. " And if that is not enough she will make herself the ally and supporter of Arabia, as she has made herself the ally and supporter of Turkey. " And she will reign for ever in the Bed Sea, as she reigns in the Mediterranean. " IV ow do you understand why England sends a fleet and an army to Abyssinia ?" Of course the entire French people does immediately -understand it, and as we should not like the English people to be in the dark about it, we give them the news.—The Tomahawk.