The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, Nov. 1.

Sreerkartoe strives in vain to find a key to
the extraordinary course Loris Naroxxos has
adopted in giving his Admiral before Gaeta the
orders we reported yesterday. Doss he want to
maintain FRANCIS IL T No ; we may be sure helm
not the slightest intention to identify himself with
the most rotten cause in Europe, and that it is
far from his purpose to give that unfortunate
Betimes any effective help. What cause then
do those four French men-of-war represent before
Gaeta I We know what is the effect
of their presence. It is to double the
difficulties and the labours and the tomes of
the Italian army; it is to keep Gaeta open
by sea for reinforcements of every kind, and it

threatens to adjourn indefinitely that settlement of
Neapolitan affairs which is so important to the
consolidation of Italy and the peace of Europe. It
will be for French diplomacy to justify this gra-
nutous indiction of trouble on the world. Teeter-
day, looking the facts in the face, we characterised
the act of the Eximaoa as an intervention. W.
did so without thinking whether the French Go-
vernment would accept that designation of its
conduct, and public opinion ratifies our judgment.
The question thus retunm—for what purpose, and
in what interest, has the understanding by which,
as all Europe believed, intervention was excluded,
been broken through T Loris Narothos has
not been held responsible for the conduct of
the King of SARDINtA in Naples; but from the
moment that he comes forward, and, without being
able to allege any rightful French interests in
Gaeta as • justification for his conduct, arrests the
action of the Piedmonts's in one particular diree-
he amunies a position which makes him
auswerable for all that has been done by them else-
where. If the ZIIPIIIIOII is the " Moderator of
" the revolution " in the sense of active inter-
ventiou, the Pore may well complain that
his army has been destroyed and Ancona
taken. But the world has never recog, ,
nixed the Ennuis in that character. As the '
Coiisiiletiouncl has so recently said, Europe is not
prepared to ?align itself to the spectacle of •
" French Italy."

Although the influence of France is now put
forth apparently on the side of Faancis 11., we
acquit Loris Narouroc, as we have said before,
of all intention of rendering the least real terries
to that Prince, beyond keeping the door open for
his ultimate escape. The ingenuity of the ex-
pounders of the Imperial policy will doubtless be
tasked to find some special reason for an act which
it would be inconvenient to refer to principles.
We shall be surprised if we do not see it recon-
ciled, after a fashion, with the alliance with Pied-
mont and the Merinos's unshaken interest in
the organization of a powerful Italy. The world,
however, will look at the natural and necessary
consequences of the Imperial policy, and will con-
clude that when the Estreaoa willed the cause
be willed also the effect.. It is in this way only
that the motives of Loris NA 'OLSON will be
sought out in England. The nentraliaation of the
fleet which compelled the surrender of Ancona is
a humiliation to all Italy : then LOVTI Name ox
wishes to make Italy feel dependent on his will.
This dependence, again, will inevitably strengthen
the hands of the anti-monanlical party, whom
greatest weapon is the allegation that Italian policy
in the hands of Carom is one of subserviency to
France : then the Emperor of the Facrien 'leeks
to promote disunion among Italians. Most im-
portant of all, the action prescribed to the French
Admiral throws the burden of the war entirely
upon the Italian army, and thus will, in all pro-
bability, prolong the resistance of the Hot:aeon
for months. Then Loris NAPOLJIOII is averse to
the rapid consolidation of Italy, and has some end
to serve by keeping the Neapolitan question open
indefinitely. That is the way in which people are
already reaso .iug here, and we believe they rea-
son right.

(I WT Britain has lost the last of her ancient
Bea-kings. The paragon of the British navy in
Its heroic age, the brilliant rival in desperate
service and dauntless exploit of NILSON himself,
the cynosure of Botany's bravest captaina—
Taos's'. CoeNSANI, ESA of DI•NnoNALD, is gone,
in the fulness of years and honours, to rejoin the
company of his departed countrymen end com-
rades. In the peaceful quiet of his English home,
this illustrious captain, whose name was the terror
of the enemy's coasts, and a legend in every ma
from the sunrise to the sunset, when as yet our
grandfathers were boys, sinks at last into well-
won repose. When the present century wee
only dawning, young imiasna was doing
deeds by ma and land which will be remembered
as lung as Europa haa a history. From his boy.
hood he pursued death and glory with all the
eager passion of a lover. The fag of his country
Was his lodestar, and, by day and night, through
battle and tempest, through the iron had of the
enemy's guns, he watched over its stainless glory
with unsleeping jealousy and insatiable devotion.
The Denali of Co.aasx a me to this hoar, and must
ever be, a living and Spooling memory and tradi-
tion in the noblest national service in the world.
From 1795 to 1814 it was the astonishment and
of all the gallaut one of England.
" Nut even the British Navy could do it," is a

Ivo
Itode'saying which the career dmight West
justified, if a Biria and a Nemo had obit,
lived. Nowhere, we believe, is this great name
more honoured, nowhere will the news of this
death be received with • thrill of more generous
emotion, than among the gallant countrymen of
Lritots and Diosa•Lx. For as all the world is the
tomb of heroes, so among the brave even an
" enemy" is cherished as a comrade when the
battle's done.

The scroll of Lord DENDONALD'S services is
nothing more nor lees than the naval history of
that "war of giants." In the Channel, in the
Mediterranean, in the Bay of Biscay, in the
Atlantic his energy end activity were übiquitous
and incessant, and fortune favoured his audacity.
But his daring did not surpass his genius. In
fertility of resource, in instant perception of
opportunity, in calm, decisive forethought, in
unwavering judgment, in tenacity of will, the
most dashing end reckless adventures, as they
seemed to the timid or the dull, were never want-
ing. Detesting and despising pedants of the sea-
lawyer species, and martinets, Lord Cocniwis was
a stern disciplinarian. But sternness in such a
captain as Commis is the salt that savours a
ship's company ; and it will be an ill day for Eng-
land when her navy has lost that savour !
To say that COCHRANE scoured the seas and swept
the enemy's flag from every bay and creek where
an enemy's flag could lurk, is to record literally
the exact nature of the services which were per-
formed by him on the coast of North America, in
Gibraltar Bay, in the Gulf of Lyons, along the cords
of France and Spain. Conetantly opposed to
forces 'redly superior in number and metal, be
never paused to take the measure of an enemy,
because he never believed that any enemy could
get the better of his own resolute will. In cutting-
out expeditions, in boat actions, in sudden raids
upon the enemy's coasts, his life at sea was a con-
' banal romance, and will remain the wonder and
delight of sailors in all ages and of all nations.

It was the misfortune, however, of Lord
COCHRAN/ that he wa• a man of genius, and by
nature impatient of mediocrity, odious to offi-
cialism, and—in a word—intractable ashore, as
often as he found himself under the thumb of
privileged incompetence and intrigue. It is painful
to Englishmen of all parties, though the shame
belongs to the Tories, to reflect that this British
hero and worthy, whose loss we are now
deploring, was once branded by his Govern-
ment, deprived of all his hard-earned honours,
expelled from the House of Commons, and obliged
to break out of prison to take his seat for West-
minster. To his dying day he never forgot those
liberal electors of Westminster ; and in the dedi-
cation of his autobiography he identifies his name
for ever with their patriotic suffrage*.
The Liberal psi* has not upon its conscience
the reproach of hexing driven Lord Cocisasitz into
sae. But in sale the hero wen still the cham-
pion of freedoms. In South America, in Greece,
his flag wee the flag of national independenoe. At
length, the triumph of liberal principles at home
restored him to his country, and to the service
be bad covered with glory. Not with the best
grace, but by intermittent fits of tardy repentance,
the men in power atoned for the injuries
which their predecessors had inflicted. For
fifteen years the victim of party rancour has
survived the wounds of calumny and injustice.
His latest years were devoted to his country, and
to the interests of the service he loved so well.
Genius, science, experience, he freely and faithfully
devoted to naval questions; and at the age of more
than four-score years the latest theories of gunnery
or "reconstruction" were discamed by him with
all the buoyant zeal and far-sighted shrewdness of
early years. It is a happy thought that he had
finished the second volume of an Autobiography
which ought to be a classic in every English
library afloat and saber*. He leaves us at • time I
when the Navy is undergoing • transformation
which has yet to be tested. But of this we may
be certain—no transformation of materials can
dispense with Nsinoys or Cocaasirr.s, or replace
them. No substitution of steam for sails, or of
10-inch gins for carronades, can over persuade
British seamen to play at long bowls when they can
come to close quarters. Let us bear witness, then,
in the face of the world, by the honours we pay
to our national Captain, that his spirit still breathes
and burns in every seaman that serves under the
British flag, and in every Englishman who loves
that sacred and eternal cause of liberty which
counts among its heroes a Cecilia/is, • Caries
JAMES Names, and a GAltßAlDl—kinsmen fn
courage, in suffering, and in genius.