The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-14 00:00:00

TIM EXPRESS WEDNESDAY FAYENING,

tell Lord MALMEIBURY plainly that in doing so he
is acting an unmanly and unpatriotic part; an un-
manly one, becalm it is sheer cowardiee in the head,
of a department to throw overboard a thoroughly
efficient, able, and honest man, for a single and a,
first fault ; and an unpatriotic one, because Lord
MALIIZIOURY knows that he could not do any act
better calculated to fill the enemies of England in
Italy with exultation than the withdrawal of
Mr. Hamm from Turin.
And what, after all, is the heinous offence with
which Mr. ERSKINE stands charged ? Towards the
end of December, Lord PALmzuroN, feeling that
the public mind of this country was daily becoming
more irritated on account of the conduct of the Go-
vernment of Naples as regards the 'miscue of the Cag-
liari sad the imprisonment of her crew, urged Lord
CLAZINDON to write a despatch instigating the
Piedmonteee Cabinet to take the initiative in re-
monstrance, if not resistance, to the outrage in ques-
tion. The then Foreign Secretary undertook to
do as be was bid, and penned a despatch accordingly,
in which were set forth with stimulating care every
topic of importance, and every circumstance of aggra-
vation. The whole drift and tenor of this composition
was calculated to pique the national pride and
to stir the gallant blood of the Fiedmon-
tees ; and if one-half of what was therein
set forth were true, it naturally and irresistibly fol-
lowed that the honour of Sardinia and of England
was equally concerned in taking prompt measures
for reparation and redress. But, as usual, when it
came to the point of saying definitely and plainly
what was to be done, Lord CLAZENDOWB pen
faltered, and his official courage died within him.
He could point out clearly enough all that ought to
be done, and suggest ingeniously enough to another
Government reasons for doing it; but when he
came to the point of saying the only thing
worth saying in the whole despatch—viz., that
he and his colleagues believed in the truth of
what he bad written—as usual, we find him
wanting. Instead of drawing the only intelligible
inference from his own arguments and statements
and offering to co-operate with Sardinia in peremp-
tory measures for the release of the captive subjects
of the two States, Lord CLARENDON instructed our
Minister at Turin to ask M. CAVOUR what he and
his colleague. were disposed to do. Mr. Easing—
well aware of the sentimental and impulses which the
substance of the despatch was calculated to excite,
and unable to conceive perhaps the possibility of a
British Cabinet deliberately seducing a weaker
State into taking a perilous course and then desert-
ing it—committed the mistake of reading the despatch
in a spirit of English truth and English honour;
and when he came to transcribe it literally forgot
the one unworthy inconsistent sentence which now
makes the whole read like a farce or a fraud, and
unconsciously substituted for what he omitted the
only expression which its author, is a British
Minister, could have honourably penned. And for
this Lord MALMEBBITRY now threatens publicly to
disgrace Mr. EISILINS

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The Queen and the Prince Cowen, tooompeaied
by Prince Arthur end the Meese Latin, took a drive ye.
tardily elterpoce to en open terrine es 4 dee Colonel the
lice. A. N. Mod and Captain Do Pidt web in attendance
on horseback.

The Penne Consort, attended by Captain Da Plat, rods
at leanninek In the forenoon.

The Maser= Alio and Helena took a carriage drive.
The Qum end Prince Consort, accompanied by the Pen-
ons Alloe, honoured the performance at her Majesty's
Theatre with their presence in the evening. The royal suite
consisted of Lady Churchill, Hon. Mary Halted, the Earl
of Sheffield, Colonel the Non. A. N. Nood, and Captain
Da Plat.

The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard
and Sir George Cooper, arrived at her mildews, Clarence-
hones, St. James's, yesterday afternoon from Frogmore.

A deputation to Tyree the memorial of the Church of
Ragland Education Society, urging certain alterations and
asoilifloatioiss of the Minutes of the Committee of Council,
had so interview with the Right Hon. C. B. Adderle , yes-
terday, at the Education Department, Privy Qooaorder.
The deputation oonsisted of Mr. J. C. Colquhoun (chair-
man), Lord Charlea. F. Rummell, Rev. Prebendary Bargees,
and the Rev. Reginald Gunnery (clerical morMary).
A deputation from the Justices' Clerks' Soolety.ocomistimg
of the following members of the managing oommirtes—Mr.
Richard Grove Lowe, of St. Albans; Mr. Robust II
al Br ; Mr. John Henry Hem, of the Isle oiCrattaa:
Kr. e Hart, of Reigate ; Mr. Charles Augustus Sralth,
EGreenwich (secretary); Mr. William Toobili, of
dgware; and Mr. John Drummond, of aroydos—hed an
interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole, yesterday, at the
Honte-ofice, on the subject of the justices' clerks' fees In
criminal prosecutions, and also as to allowances to prosecutors
mad witnimata.

A deputation from the Liverpool Pilot Committee, con-
of Mr. R. W. Houghton, Mr. W. J. Jacob, and Mr.
David Rowland (ascretexy), accompanied by Mr. T. B. Hors-
lien, M.P., and Mr. J. C Betel, M.P., tad an interview
J with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley: and the Earl of
Donoughtaors, yeekwday, at the office ofthe Board of Trade.
The committee of the vestry of the pariah of Cluietchureh,
Spitatilaida—the Rev. John Pettence, rector; Mr. Joseph
Jones, upper churchwarden; Mr. Thomas Brushfield, trea-
surer; and Mr. John Thomas Hart—had an interview with
Lord John Manners, First Commissioner of Public Works,
yesterday, at the COW of Works, Whitehall-plam.
A deputation from Breetwood, Brea; had an interview
yesterday with the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P., at the
Council-office, Whitehall, with reference to the application
of the Public Health Act to that place. The deputation
consisted of Messrs. C. T. Tower and T. Tower, the Rev.
Dr. English, Dr. Butler, and Masers. Buiwer, Tabor, G.
Winter, Daytime, and Cordes. The deputation was accom-
panied and introduced by Mr. 8..
Dr. (pruriß. Wingfield, M.P.
• tte=cafrom then Epidemiological Sodey, consisting
of et of the society), Mr. Maroon, Dr.
M'Williera esereery of the society), Dr. William Camps,
Dr. fleMee (searetery of the smallpox end vaccination com-
mittee), and Dr. Waller Lewis, hadan Interview with the
BOA el yesterday, at the official redolence of the First
Lard el the in Do
met neelved yesterday at the Colonial-aloe
trempirrovemiono at Ceylon, Hong Row, and Malta.

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