The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-20 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

A SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS,"
eeetaining the results of the day's Races, is pub.
limbed every evening daring the Sporting Season, at
aix o'clock.

Ovirant notices of the last American mails tell
us that there is no particular news. Yet we have
rarely known so interesting a set of newspapers and
political letters from that quarter u those which
arrived last week. They exhibit the rebound Cl the

conversations in Parliament and the discussions in
our newspapers on the events is the Galt We
suspect the surprise in America at the way in which
the matter was conducted and ended here will he
ri‘ ailed by the surprise in England at the way in
which the news was received in the United States.
The whole vocabulary of amazement, vexation, per-
plexity, and indignation seems to be exhausted by
the various parties in the Great Republic who were
expected to unite in a shout of triumph and delight.
We heard something at first of hurrahs and saucy
speeches among a few political leaden : the mate-
rials before us, however, exhibit nothing of the
sort, but, on the other hand, every conceivable
form of dusiatisfactioo. We direct attention
to this, not because we see any necessity, or feel any
inclination to spy into the uneasy moods of our
neighbours, caused by incidents which are gone by,
but because in the diversified forms of the uneasi-
ness generated by one affair we see more hope than
we have eve seen before of obtaining our object.
Any thinking lean, experienced in political affairs,
who would take the trouble to read what is said by
all parties in the United States about the reported
collisions in the Cuban waters and their consequences
in the respective Cabinets and Parliaments would,we
think, declare that there is more prospect at this
moment of the retrieval of the American flag, and
of the release of the Federal Government from the
dishonour of Slavery, than there has been from the
day when that institution began obviously to im-
peril the Union.

The Federal Government finds itself charged with
the duty of protecting and vindicating the national '
flag ; and in its annoyance at having so embarrass-
ing a function devolved upon it, without aid, while
bound by treaty and by the constitution of the Re-
public to halal it thoroughly, it is almost inclined to
complain of England for leaving it to deal with the
difficulty alone. The United States, in the early
years of the present century, by statute law declared
the Slave-trade piracy ; and every successive admi-
nistration is, and has held itself, bound to control
that piracy by constant vigilance and the strong
hand. The present Executive advised and invited
us to station our anthers in the Cuban waters. We
did so. The American Executive complained of our
doing the work for which we were there ; and we
have desisted from it. The Executive complained
of our presence in the midst of the American mer-
chant vessels; and we have withdrawn from the
Cuban waters, and returned to our African station..
It would be too absurd to complain that, by com-
plying thus far, we have left the American Execu-
tive to deal alone with her special embarrassment:
bat there is a good deal of murmuring which means
this, though fear of ridicule prevents its articulate
expression. The journals which represent leading
parties and leading statesmen are all asking what
the PRESIDENT and General Casa mean to do, and
how they propose to do it. "Hundreds of cargoes
" of humsn flesh pass in every year under the shelter
"of our flag," they assert. Now that the British
decline to search, the American authorities mast
do so. It is no easy task for any American govern-
ment at any time ; and never was it so dif-
ficult as now, when the nation at large is
declaring that the best possible assiitance has been
driven away in the rudest and most mischievous
manner, to serve paltry purposes of political in-
trigue. Thus, behind the fireworks of triumph, and
the illuminations of vanity, we see the Cabinet
sitting, grave and mortified, to consider the means
of rapprresing the slave-trade in the American ports
and on the high seas, where the national honour is
pledged to extinguish it.

Everywhere else throughout the Republic, " the
" newt from Washington, rid London," seems to
have awed more depression than excitement. The
great puzzle is what to think of the Times newspaper
—not how to feel about its recent virtual advocacy of
the alave.trade ; for that is obviously regarded with
contempt in one section of the Union as much as in
the other. Hot what to think of it? Some ask
whether the Times is really a popular organ, and
whether we, the people of England, have really
changed our minds about the slave-trade being
" the sum of all villsnies." The division on Mr.
HUTT'S motion will answer that question foe
*brae who need an answer; but we °beery,
that the previous loss of character by the
Times operates well in this lest case. In
the midst of a hubbub of amazement' and regrets
at such a new sort of morality coming from Eng.
land, we find admonitions and reminders that the
Times is not, and never was, the voice of the Fag-
liah nation; and that the fluctuations, levities, ill.
humour., self•contradictious, and false prognostica-
tions put forth by the great journal within this very
year, show that it is no organ at all, and therefore
not accountable in regard to doctrine till it has
parsed through its present critical stage (whatever
that may be caused by), and become onoc more the
mouthpiece of some authority or other.
In America it is pretty clear that a deep sensation
of shame has been spreading from mind to mind, from
party to party, and from state to state, about the recent
bluster, and yet more at tha carelessness and levity
on which it ass bawd. The friends of the dema•

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