The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-12 00:00:00

SPORTII4IO INTELLIGENCE.

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Tge announcement made last night by Lord
Matmerrevee is the Roues of Lords that the Go-
vernment of Naples has OE length yielded to oar
just demands respecting the crew of the Cagliari.
veal be received by all classes of the community
throuaitiout the kingdom with feelings of satisfac-
tion. Not may has the ship %self been given up, bat
ear two long-suffering and much injured
fellow-countrymen ere to have a specified amount
of pieuniary compensation awarded them. We
waintot serer thinkthat the amount which the King
et the Tern Stctues has -consented to pay Messrs.
parr and Pane deserves to be acknowledged as
• either generous or adequate, but seeing we are not as
yet informed whether 3,0001, wee the sum asked for
'on their behalf by our Foreign-Office, we are hardly in
as condition to judge absolutely of the spirit in which
this part of the act of atonement has been per-
t Mooed. If it should tura oat that Lord MALAIESECRY
and Ms colleagues appraised the lose of health by
• ens Brit:sh subject and the loss of reason by another,
consequence of nine months' false imprisonment
endured by both, at no more than fifteen hundred
pounds 'o each---then we are bound to own that the
Italian despot has dope as much as could be expected
of him; and our regrets must be devoted to the
absence of more genuine and exigent sympathy for
these injured men, on the part of our own lordly rulers.
Can anybody give us a conjectural estimate of how
much would probably have been demanded by Lord
MALIABBEURT for two Englishmen of the privileged
order, had it been their unhappy lot to fall among
Neapolitan thieves? Still we may confess freely
that we are, as we ought to be, glad that a mulct has
thus been levied, in the face of Christendom, on the
insolent and obstinate wrong-doer. It is a valuable
precedent set, or rather added to those which in-
firm and timid diplomacy was tending to weaken
sad rat aside; and the righteous principle being,
thus reasserted, the practice may be gradually
im-
proved and extended as cases of a similar nature
arise, until at last we may hope to see a wholesome
fear of punishment infused into the militia of the
most incorrigible of arbitrary Powers.
The surrender of the Cagliari herself is likewise
a notable humiliation inflicted on the Neapolitan
Government. They try, indeed, to mitigate the bitter-
ness of their mortification, by offering to deliver
her up to England instead of Sardinia—ia stupid
and clumsy attempt at evasion, betraying only the
utter want of dignity and the pitiable reluctance to
acknowledge the superiority of Piedmont as the
rising power in Italy. Oa what nominal plea the
captured vessel can in point of form be tendered tie
a British naval commander it is mot very easy mar
the circumstances to see. All the world bum,
however, that it can only be is our capacity of Mat
that we could consent to recognise such a proffer;
and clearly it would be impossible for us to do so in
any shape or way unless the Sardinian Govern-
ment were acquiescent therein. Whether they
will be so, indeed, may be a serious question.
Nothing was said by Lard MALMESEVRT last
night of compensation to the innocent crew
of the Cagliari, on whose behalf demands
similar to our own for Warr PAIS
have been made by the Cabinet at 1 aria. Is it
intended by the Court of Naples to persist in the
refosal of these compensatory claims? And is it
part of the shuffling and jealous policy of Naples to
avoid the appearance of any concession to Sardinia,
at the very moment when reparation is yielded to
the subjects of Great Britain ? If such should prove
to be the case, it will be the manifest duty of our
Government steadily to abstain from affording any
countenance whatever to the invidious and injurious
distinction. Together the subjects of the two countries
have been injured; together reparation has been
demanded on their behalf ; it is, we are told, about
to be conceded to the menace of the moo
powerful country, while it is inconsistently and un-
justly refused to the remonersnees of the weaker.
Shall the stronger pocket its damages, chuckle in its
superior strength, throw over its ally, and go on its
way rejeicing ? Honour, justice, and policy alike
forbid it in this, as they would io any cue; bat is
this, unlike other cams, there is an additional sad
peculiar ingredient that ought to weigh conclestvely
with English statesmen, and which will assuredly
we'gh for all it is worth with the English people.
Austria has been the mediator in this business.
Austria would do !myth ing just now to humour, flatter
or please our Court and Conservative Governments
and Austria, as all men are aware, would do, procure'
advise, and counsel anything on earth which would
have the effect of humiliating and insulting Pied-
mont. Has the Cabinet of Vienna, then, devised
Ude scheme of Neapolitan concession to England, sad
Neapolitan refusal of the claims of Sardinia, for her
own twofold purpose--first, to propitiate the ruling
influences in this country? and next, to compel Pied-
mont to submit to gross and acknowledged injury
unavenged, or else to engage in a war the conso-
(limners of which no man can foresee ? If such
really be the design of our " apostolic and august
e ally," there is too much reason to fear that
countenance and sanction may be lent to it in
quarters where it ought to be repudiated and
spurned. Lords PALMERSTON and CLARENDON have
become so thoroughly identified in men's minds
with the system of foreign policy of which the
Austrian alliance is the keystone, that no one hopes
to hear from them any grave rebuke or generous
reproach should their summon in administration
desert the Sardinian cause : and their own deplorable
Itches during the six shameful months of WATT'S
W Patten imprisonment without trial, would in
itself mate them with ridicule did they now offset
to take the app....lite tone for the first time.
Rat the public opinion it this country which rose
up
in judilm'flt against one Admina:::°;°ll bee.'"
its foreign potiey was base and subservient to FiNieet

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