The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-20 00:00:00

INSURRECTION AT CORFU.

The Vienna paper Of the 14th inst. contains the
following later particulars of the insurrection at
Coda.
The last accounts from Cephalonia represent the
inearrection as on the increase. On the 2nd a
steamer returning from that island to Corfu brought
sews that the number of troops sent was too small
to produce any effect, and that the appearance of so
ineafficient a force had emboldened more than die-
turd the rebels. The Lord Commissioner repaired
in woos, with reinforcement', to the scene of the
oatbroak, whiter all disposable troops from &tate
were also seat. It seems that Mr. Ward had a narrow
escape, a soldier havisg ben shot at his side. The
courts-martial are in foil swing : seven insurgents
have been shot and hanged, and tour more are to-
morrow to suffer the same fate.
The governsient of the lonian 'sirs has allowed the
debarestion of the Venetian emigrants Mania,
Toatueo, and others, which arrived by the French
steamer Pluto ; but on account of the prevalence of
cholera in Venice all passengers from theses were
subjected to a quarantine of 12 days. The Lord
Commissioner, in a note to the Fret ch consul, ex-
pressed the millings'ss of the government on this
occasion to make an surplice in favour of the re-
fugees; bat that, se a general rule, fugitives would
not be allowed to land, on account of the small force
present in the islands to remedy any mischief that
might arise Thos the agitation of such dangerous
gnats. Tenneco and Mania were going to London,
Pepe to Paris ; many of the others to Constantinople
and Alexandria. But the :equity remain in Greece.

THE MINISTERREFUGEE& THE ITALIAN

Ma. HOUR TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
To the Right Hoe. Len Jelin RewelL
MT Lona,--As chairman, for the time being, of a
committee of members of parliament and other gen-
tlemen, which has been formed in ald of the Italian
(Roroan) refugees in this country, I ant desired, in
their name, to address your lordship, as the head of
her Majerty's government, with revisit to the recent
conduct of the governor of Malta in refusing as
asylum to the refugees hut Rome.
The broad facts of the case, as brought to the at-
tention of the government and the House of Commons
on the closing day of the late session of parliament
(facts which have been corroborated and developed is
greater detail by subsequent information), are more
than sufficient warrant to address your lordship, with-
out reference to any individual MN.
The Gorerror of Malta has thought fit to refuse •
landing at Milts to political refugees from the Roman
States, who took ship for that island, relying with
confidence ea passports sited by the English consul at
Civil& Vecchia or at Rome,

Had there been rye:seeable mums to apj ehend any
telsoooduct on the part of than unarmed refugees the
garrison of Malta was rarely a place where sufficient
security could have been taken agaiast such a con-
tingency : whilst, in considering the probabilities of
so unworthy a rs, urn for the hospitality they claimed,
it should not have been forgotten by a -British °Warm
40 high in office as the Governor of Malta that the
unfortunate wanderers were of the number of these
defenders of the city of Rome who had won the re-
spect of the civilised world by an observance of law
and order and of constitutional government within
its walls es remarkable as the valour and humanity
they displayed in ka defence.
Amidst all the diversities of opinion, in this and in
former times, concerning the foreign policy ot our
country, there is one rule of conduct which has been