The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18.

IT is with feelings of red surprise, and still
tester went we aenomer, that her blejeste'• Colo-
nteroisoy, Earl GIRT, and the Prime Mini. er,
fu eau eel louring the conduct if Mr. MUER o*Fea-
BALL and Mr. Wean, in refuges p to the
Imam refugees to land at hl.lta and Corfu,
h.ve, ea the contrary, given their appruba-
noa of that most illiberal and inhuman act.
We have beard it pleaded, not long since, that
asocial motive for keeping a bilge fleet in the
M. ci enemas, or at least for keeping it off Sicilian
pees, was that of humanity. And ham mitt
eret may that fleet did show by reeeivirg on board
may of the u*fortunate retagees from Messina and
him Palermo, who otherenee we old have fallen
vast sae to tie vindictivenees of the Neapolitan*.
'lbis p.l ey of mercy, of interfenne to save
human Le, was nohy acted upon by our
enrol sad by the American consul at Roue,
who by passions and ode r meats facilitated
the escape of i.emerous liberals who otherwise would.
tee obis, bare bee in Papal dungeons—perhaps in
those of the it quisition. The I.berey to emboli was,
however, of hale woe, unless Nome friendly shore
would also neeive the exiles. Preece, of mem, re-
pociated those who had fought against her tonnes.
Austo tams and Neapolitans closed the port. r f Italy.
Spain was one of the be'l g rent. 'I he hospitalloy
or Greece, under the tutelage of Austrian and
Busman dipl, nisei% could rot be reckoned upon.
Basked itself w, s too remote. To have leader:Amu
a trey age tl.itrer far surpassed the slender lamas of
those alio fled from Rome, after a pro tinged and
defence. Thieve remained, therefore, no sp,t
wler, on the foot of Italian 'Reevess wad rest, save
the British pone-sinus in the Met iterranean.
Tee Italian exile*, with their Bniieh passports.
betook themeless confidently to Malta and to Corfu
in so cession. Bet the governors of these pl.ces
reorehli. They would not permit a singe or e
M the defender. of Rams to touch their shorer. Three
Imes rasa had received& fitting tribute of praise, from
b. to. Lord PALMERSTON and Lod CAILLP.LIS, in both
Hoene. of Parliament. But the British governors in
the iteetterreneen could not rue ye them. Was
horror of *air deeds the motive with those governors,
ho "re omelet each thetr thousion .. a year from
the p chats of gee eroua Er gliehmen ? It might be the
ewe s ith Mr. OTERRALL, who has shown in Malta
sone of that religious liberality which he was wont
to el um for hi. co-religionists in Ireland. lodeed,
the to ly cl.im ever pot out or possible to be con-
ceived for Mr. O'FettanLL getting office was his
beino a liberal catholic. And • liberal cathilic he
may hay, affect dto b • in ord no be appointed• Lord
of tr. Treasury or Admiralty. But a bigot catholic
he shoes himself in order to recommend himself to
hie whit superiors as a fit governor of Malta.
And what was the excess for these acts of tyranny ?
P. are that these Pathan liberals would excite a revo-
lution. A revolution in Molts I an island teemirg
with BAWL soldiers and British gene, and epos
which English gold Las been heaped till it may be
said to have been paved w'th guineas. And yet we
cannot esfely keep Malta, if some score of Italians,
full 44 nepte t and gratitude to the British name, as
they were, and to Blitish protection, as they ex-
pected to 11 were permitted to land en the island.
Wt v, the plea is monstrous; it too ridiculous to be
met by any other argument than leughter, except, in-
deed, by the scorn that should overwhelm any gover-
nor oe mini.ter daring to put forth a plea at once so
pu, rile and so mendacious.
Fee, foci, force stories are told of these poor Roman
exile a, stories taken from the reports of the French
pipers and police, when it was the cue of there to
calumniate the m. It is alleged, that Hime was de
fended by • kind of nomadic band of revolutionists,
who appeared emcee Nivel)! in Berlin, in Rome, at d
in Batten. Lord CARLISLE himself hi.. given the fie
in the Hoe.. of Li rds to this base alone er on the de-
ferd re of Rome, who were all Italians, if not Romano,
and Italians, too, of bit th, education, and fortune.
And again we are told that orie of these terrible
foga Tre, who made Mears. WARD and OTSIRALL
tremble his drew tourist his way to Venice, in order
to teke part in its defence. How criminal ! how
astral ! And how do we know but that it was the
ref uml of our governors to receive this exile, whoever
be may be, that forced him to fling himself amongst
the time defenders of Venice?
The pleas, theref ve, pat forward for the conduct of
our Nlelteie and Corfu governors, are falsehoods on
the face of them. Such conduct was not inspired by
fears fat the Tom. of the garrisor, amidst which a
few I aliens could be but impotent. It was inspired
by a mean and dastardly desire to conciliate the
defogs governments of the new Holy Alliance
md to display EnBlielo authorities as sympathising
with Austrian snd with Russian butchers, rather
than with the victims of their oppression and
eleughter. We accuse Loma NAPOLEON of trimming,
and of duck ng a head, almost girt with an imperial
crown, before the potentates of Eastern tyranny.
Be' Loins NAPOLEON is incapable of so mean and
merciless an act, as that of *Fuming Italian exiles in
or.'cr to curry favour with Austrian diplomacy.
Lotus NeeoLxox crushed the Romans at least la
open war. England favoured them with her patron-
age whilst they were triumphant, but kicked them
from her threshold es soon as she found them ruined
sad in misfortune. We have not words strong enough
to cap ens ur opinion of the meatiness and cruel; of
our geveroment and of its cholea minions.

Two months have now elapred since the public
Peeling of the empire was startled and scandalised by
the partisan tragedy enacted at Doily's-Brae—a
tragedy in which the parts of deepest interest were
played by men of rank, property. and education.
Pubic seutiment was never more distinctly or deli-
berately expelled than en that occasion. It some
were sal,•nt none glowed any disposition t 3 screen the
guilty or to extenuate the guilt ; while from every lin
that gave articulation to the general sentiment, the
same indignant sentence fell—whoever and whatever
these men are, the judgment seat must be cleared of
them.
Two months, howe*r, have unaccountably been
suffered to elapse, and not only have the Orange
magistrates who heeded and harangued the mar-
dercue bards who paraded the country on the 12th of
July, been retained without censure or reprimand in
the commission of the peace, bat the euccennve steps
of preliminary adjudication rendered necessary by
the acts of their followers have actually been left to
them. The farce has followed the tragedy. The
"slaw ivre of the ill-fated persona who fell upon the fatal
it in qu-stion by Orange bayonets and builete, when
seeking to have informations taken out against those
who committed this butchery, Ind on the bench to
which their application is addressed, not men of the
lame faction merely as the ringleaders of the accused
—nut their known intimates, friends, or relations,
ealy—but the ringleaders themselves! Who ate the
victims ? Women and children. Who are the
claimants of legal inquiry in the ordinary way P
Fathers and eons. Who us the accused P The men
whom Lord RODEN feasted and reviewed three hours
befits the carnage was pesptrated. Who are the
aegis:rat* that at to adjitto upon the question
idle the r any investigation shall be legally made by
'jury into the facts alleged? A bench of 11 justices
et the peace, presided over t/eLotd RODEN. Of the
others, 3 were clergymen of established obureb,—
that church for the defence of whose monopolised
wealth Oe angeina was first invented, and by whose
desecrated influence it has of late been principally

revived. I
Still one would have imagined that being there.
these noble and reverend members of the court would