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Lorooir. 72IDAY, NOV. 12.

SPORTING INTSLIAGENCII.

4 SPECIAL EDITION of the "EXPRESS;
esstmistag the resets of the day's Races, Is pub-
lished every evening dartag the Sportiag Susses, at
slit o'clock.

The Daily Ncics publishes to-day certain alicial
docaments which record, in terms of preolsim
and plainness that leave no room for cm-
troversy, the practical failure of all the
efforts we have made to conciliate the Greeks
of the lonian Islands to permanent acquiescence
in our rule. They know that at the Congress
of Vienna Russia proposed their establishment as •
free and independent State, under the title of the
Beptinsular Confederation of lonian Isles; that
Great Britain objected, and claimed instead to be
invested with their absolute sovereignty in the same
sense and for the same end. as she desired to retain
polemic's of Gibraltar and Malta; and that finally
it was agreed and stipulated by the Treaty of Paris
that they should be constituted into a free and
independent State, subject to the Protectorate of
England. For thirty years the so-called Protectorate
was treated by our Government ae tantamount to
an irresponsible as well as a supreme authority. At
first there were few murmurs, but after the Greek
Revohition, the inhabitants of the Islands began to
chafe incessantly at their political condition. They
had not been consulted in any way when handed
over to oar custody in 1813; and their subsequent
experience was not calculated to wean them from
their natural and instinctive longing for union with
their kinsmen and co-religionista on the main land.
How these feelings might have been appeased or
tempered had a liberal policy been even then
adopted, it were useless now to discuss. But comer
Woo was unfortunately delayed until the canker of
national distrust and hatred had eaten tato the
popular heart ; and when at length a scheme
of representative government was prontalg•tad
by the Loan Mon Conetwoorran, it was readwed
without gratitude, and speedily converted, at the
instance of native demagogues and Remian propa-
gandists, into the means of subversive attack upon
the executive power. By a legislative coop d 'fiat
the British Government put en end to the state of
things thus engendered, and Sir Haney WARD wee
commanded by Earl GREY at any oast to restore
order. How these instructions were executed we
need not say. After tranquillity had for some time
been re-established, a modified version of the con-
stitution was restored, and Sir JOHN Yovso has for
the last three years been labouring diligently and
honestly, but we regret to add with but indifferent
success, to make the population regard it with con-
fidence, and to make their representatives confide
in hint.

In his despatches of last year addressed to the late
Government, as well as in those addressed by him
to the present, Sir Joryt has frankly admitted the
hopelessness of the most important part of the task
assigned him. By a temperate and judicious nee of
his administrative powers he has, indeed, been able
to tranquillise some suspicions, and to satisfy many
minor demands. He has had the courage to deal
openly, yet calmly, with ill-disguised disaffection;
he has bad the good untie to meet popular peta-
lime with equanimity and gooci hamou; ; he L
endured the sinister criticism of a provincial
press without wincing ; and, above all, he bee
permitted the election of representatives to
take place without even the imputation of Govern-
ment isterferenoe. The result is a degree of quiet,
and the appearance of contentment generally, such
44 bee not existed for a considerable time. That all
this, however, is superficial and unsubstantial, he too
well knows; and he would have been wanting in
duty to his Sovereign and his country bad he failed
to point out its real nature, and the unchangeable
tendencies which abide in undiminished force draw-
ing daily and hourly tae thoughts and aspirations of
our reluctant proleirce towards union with the
rest of their kindred. He feels that after
having done his best to propitiate, palliate,
and appease, the in' durable desire remains
untouched, of recosrnition as a free Greek
community. It is not insular independence, it is sot
Republican forms, it is nut any lore of Russia, or any
insane coolidence in the wisdom of 07110, that We
the repose of the Zentiotee or Cephalonians, and
spoils every boon and benefit that England can con-
fer. It is liss passionate and inappeaseble feeling
natienality—that feeling which through long
seat arise of degradation and suffering has been kept
alive in the Hellenic race, and which neither Ottoman
emulous nor British policy has ever been able to
subdue. Sir lone Yorvo cannot help seeing that
we are wasting our strength ignobly and unwisely
in the probegation of such • struggle. With the
szeeption of Corfu, none of the islands yield
sedleiest revenue to pay for our anneal
expenditure upon them. Federalised or otherwise
seined with Greece, they would gradually Merano
the strength of the only Christian State in the
Levant ; and their neutrality in war might be jut
as effectually guaranteed as that of the Mores. Cos*
has not, according to Sir Jolts Younces repro-
soutatins, evinced the maw dissatisfaction with
oar rule; while the whole of the advantages
we are supposed to possess in a naval and military
point of view, by reason of our itoodled Protectorate,
are concentrated in that prolific and comparatively
contented island. We cannot, therefore, be stir-