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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 26.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

A SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS,"
containing the results of the day's Races, is pub-
lished every evening during the Sporting Season, at
six o'clock.

LORD CHELMSFORD has been showing how much
better he can sing the ministerial song of triumph
than his celebrated colleague and rival, whose recent
performance at Slough drew down on him each a
storm of criticism. With some slight omissions and
variations the song is the flame. Several roulades
and florid passages were left oat by the accomplished
and experienced minstrel, to whichexception had been
taken in the case of Mr. DtsnAttu ; but the theme is
identical in the two—it is a hymn of praise to the
political Company to which the singer himself be-
longs. Individual self-landation has generally been
objected to as a violation of good taste; but
joint-stock self-puffery, or what may perhaps
be denominated collective egotism, appears to
be a new and ingenious style of histrionic art to
which her MAJESTY'S servants at Westminster have
specially devoted themselves. Whether their efforts
are inspired by sheer love of fame, by desire for the
public amusement, or by the hope of profit to them-
selves as a Company, we do not undertake to say
but there are certain considerations which on behalf
of the public we cannot refrain from recommending
to whichever of the Chancellors may next f►vour us
with a romantic ballad about himself and his
friends.

To that portion of Lord CHELMSFORD'S speech at
the Mansioft-house which relates to the conduct of
foreign affairs daring the last four months, there
will be little disposition to object. Ministers came
into office in the midst of the general cry that the
honour of the country had been sacrificed to foreign
despotism. The sins of their predecessors were
before them, and they must have been more dense
and dull than ordinary mortals if they had not kept
a wide offing of the shoals on which those who
went before them I`'s4 foundered. They have un-
doubtedly done well in proillptly obeying the man-
date of public opinion regarding the Conspiracy
Bill, and respecting the Cagliari and her crew ;
although what else than that which they have done
any Ministers could have ventured to do under the
circumstances, if they hoped to keep their places
for six months, it would be difficult per-
haps to say. These initiatory acts, however,
of their official existence are over, and we now look
with something moss than curiosity for proof
that in their forttn policy the present Administra-
tion is animated by a spirit more a.`inCidOnt than the
last with that of the nation. In the two signai
instances above referred to they were called in as
drummers to inflict well merited punishment on
deserters of the national flag ; and now that justicehas
been vindicated they amuse themselves by marching
up and down, playing an uproarious tattoo to their
own honour and glory. The people don't mind
this—they only laugh at it. But they seriously
desire to know what their present rulers are
thinking about and what side they mean to
espouse in the far graver and more per-
manent questions of foreign policy that still
await a settlement. Is Austria still to be allowed to
pursue her insidious and grasping system on the
Danube, and her policy at once provocative and
paralysing in Italy, without let or hindrance, frus-
tration or remonstrance, just as if Lord CLALRERDON

were still in Downing-street ? Are all the promises
made during the war to the over-ridden Principali-
ties, and all the professions of sympathy made at
the Conferences of Paris on the conclusion of peace
respecting the state of Italy, to be utterly repudiated
and ignored? The Derby ite Cabinet can hardly as
yet lay claim to any foreign policy of their own.
All they have acne hitherto has been done in prompt
obedience to specific directions by the Howe of Com-
mons, It may 1m that they aspire to no other function
than that of dutifully obeying the behests of Parlia-
ment. If so, it is only right that it should be so un-
derstood, and that measures should be taken accord-
ingly. But assuredly it will neither conduce to the
contentment of the country nor the stability of the
Administration that the Session should be allowed
to close without say declaration on the part of
Government as to the Foreign Policy they design to
pursue, or any definite instructions from the House
of Commons u to the course which the nation on
certain great questions desires to au adopted.

Withwrespeort to domestic Obits, there are some
oMiliioDS in the LORD CHANCELLOE'S speech more
significant than commendable. While Mr. DIS-
RAELI make' it his bout that he has put together a
Tory Administration with what he calls a Radical
platform, the unchanged and unchangeable CHAN-
CELLOR vetoes silently the hopes of progress which
his fellow-dignitary of the Exchequer holds tanta-
lisingly forth; and far all the symptoms of Reform
betrayed in the noble Lord's elaborate harangue we
might as well have been listening to an oration of
Lord ELDON'S. The truth is—and we regret we are
obliged to say it—that the fine gold of Derbyite pro-
mise has in this respect shown signs of growing dim
sooner than even we could have expected. Up
to Easter a cloud of many-coloured promise
hung over the immature purposes of the Ca-
binet. Between Easter and Whitsuntide more
than one shape and form seemed to have
been revealed, indicating • desire to body
forth the impatient longings of the nation for practi-

sal measure; in advance : But somehow of late
these forms and shows of progress have one by are
vanished from the some ; and nothing more is even