The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-12 00:00:00

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will be wade up on August 1 . '
The nails for Havanaah, Honduras. Nessus, Janne,
Chill and P•01..rj4 be Redel, on Aged 17.
The math kr Rebus, r-pa , isdßiftaltar wM be made
eue on August 17
The naafis toe Gibraltar, Malta, Orme, the law Islenes,
Egypt, Ceylon, India, mid Mist, Mu Sowthamptori, wif
be made up on the moraine of hapset 20.
The wells yid Mareeilleo, to the Mediterranean, Egypt,
Ceyloo, ladia, Home-Kong, Le., will ho nude up of the
amnia; of Menet 24.
The mails kw Meaner will be made up ow September 2.
no main for Illaderia,lna lirazib, tad Buenos Ayres, will
he made ap ow tho maim( of Sept. 4.

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LONDON, 3fONDAY: Auousr 12.

Ws must confess that we never blushed more for
a liberal party than when listening to Lord Ansn-
DIIIN'S most jest and forcible denunciation of the
'Bite rat and inhuman conduct of a whig governor of
the lonian Islands, which his lordship contrasted
with the mild Folicy and reforming efforts of the tory
and the soldier, Lord SutoN. And that blush was
renewed on bearing Lord JOIIN RUSSELL on Friday
night volunteer a defence of hie friend, " Dead or
Alms " WARD, whose coartmartials and whose flog-
ings are thus stamped with the approbation of the
Eterhah champion of civil liberty.
The melancholy fact is, that men, even the first
men, in the House of Commons now-a-days, take a
side and blurt out an opinion, for or against liberty,
approbatory of a policy, or condemnatory of a people,
with no more consistency or consideration than the
merest schoolboy. As to the real management of
public affairs abroad, whether in colonies, or in
embassies', they seem in general left to the care of
providence, or the caprice of individuals. When,
however, some blunder or disaster calls public
attention to any parti ular country or case,
then the whole effort of ministers is to excuse what
has taken place. The British government has agents
all over the world; and necessarily, we will admit,
some of them most be ill chosen. The wisest of
selectors must now and then make mistakes. But
ministers have made it a point of honour never to
admit this. Let Lord TORRINGTON " play pranks
before high Heaven, such as would make aogile
weep," the colonial office seems instituted not to
reprove' but to screen him. Let MORE OTERRAL,
chosen from generous motives, as a liberal catholic,
to eovern a catholic island, show himself contrary to
all expectation, the veriest Jesuit, not only in his con-
ciliation of Maltese priests, but in his treatment of
pour Roman refugees—and behold! Lord OBEY, in-
stead of frankly admitting that O'F•ftnar. is a fool
and a bigot, and more tit to be a lord abbot than a
British governor, on the contrary upholds him as
the first and the wisest of MOP, and not only applauds
him for his past bigotry and cruelty, but actually
encourages him to continue and repeat it.
Then again comes the case of Sir HENRY WARD.
All Euro?, hoots at us for the conduct of O'Faanat.
and of WARD. The Times with perfect justice de-
fended the conduct of HATNAU in Hungary, by in-
stanciug the hangings and floggings of WARD. Lord
Jonx Itusszu, thinks fit to denounce the one and
to manctioa the other. All England was indignant
at the vile treatment of the Romans by the French.
But although the French government crushed the
Romans, and deprived them of their civil and religious
liberties, Moan O'FEartat went further, and treated
them as criminals and wild beasts. All these grave
Equostione, so deeply affecting English honour, and with
English honour English interests abroad, are treeted
by ministers, and indeed by parliament, with • non-
chalance,which in truth amounts to rendering England
itself an accomplice in the vilest and most cowardly
acts of our time.

The good people of England may care very little
for all this, and probably will not even read the
debate. The members of the houss were, no doubt,
all thinking more of 3.lte moors and, ihe groom. than
of Sir games. WAagfs Urphalonise ballet Ist the
Hogliohliow who travels, the Englishman who trades,
those whoa interim* and seatimeats, and tebparty,
land prospects, are hound op with our relearns to-
wawa foreign ooestrissoind with the ammeter which
Britain acquires there, will feelotot only hi their
hearts, and on their cheeks, but iniheir very pockets,
the dieste of es& favolous inoomistsay as that
which marked the language of minirers in the late
debate, and of such a seandaloas disavowal and be-
trayal of the liberal mow, by men who affect to
stick!, for it, nay stand or fall by it, upon other
occasions.

A CORRESrONDENT has called attention to the
fact, that the Customs Bill introdnoed by Mr.
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER on the Ist of Au-
gust was, despite the remonstrance of commercial
members, making its way rapidly through Parlia-
ment. The fact is so. This truly scandalous mea-
sure has been pressed in a way so extraordinary, that
we own to considerable doubt whether it can now be
stopped. It was on Want sday that we called atten-
tion to this bill. On Thursday it was re-committed
in the Howe of Commons, when Sir CHARLES
Woon, without a word of observation, brought
up a clause, of which we shall speak pre-
sently. This clause was inserted, and on Friday
the bill was read a third time, and taken to the
Lords, where it received a first reeling. The House
of Lords met specially on Saluiday, and although the
bill had not been printed for their lordships' inspec-
tion, it was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed for today. We are only surFised that
the standing orders were not suspended, in order to
get it through at once, such baste and anxiety dces
there seem to be to get this measure passed into a

It will be remarkcd that upon the remonstrance of
the commo-cial members of the Home of Commons Sir
CHABLIS WOOD postponed on Tuesday, the second,
or most objectionable clause. On Thursday, however,
be proposed it spin, in a form but very little modi-
fied. Ibis is the way in which it has been carried :

Tue truth unfortunately is, that notlfng in foreign
or colonial policy interests parliament, unless it as- I
sumes the magnitude of a cabinet question. Who I
cared for King OTIIO or lion PACIFICO, until they i
became magnified into levers fordisplacing a minister ?
Certainly not Lord STANLEY. And now why are
WARD'S enormities, and MORE OTERRAL'S anilities I
such isdiff.rent things, that a prime minister scarcely
cares or considers what he utters respecting them; I
but that these atrocities or absurdities have not pro-
duced results of sufficient seriousnees to effect the
chsracter oe shake the stability of a minister?
In this utter dereliction of their duties, both by
parliament and by ministers, one might hope to find I
the interests of the public and the character of the I
nation cared for and vindicated by the press; but there
is scarcely one organ that even affects to care for either. 1
EogliA journals care just as little as nuni'mrs of par-
lament for any question that arises short of a minis- •
terial crisis. They too would make and unmake
cabinets, borrow ender or prop-up government. On
quesions of home policy, and home alone, they are I
compelled indeed to stand right before public opi-
nion. They will denounce a Bow•street miEtietrate,
or a railway director, should either prove in fault.
But on great questions of foreign policy, affecting
English character or interest abroad, our public
writers take it for granted that the public has neither
knowledge nor sympathy in the matter, and that
therefore they may with impunity render such ques-
tions subservient to the mere interests of party.
With respect to the lonian islands, we know
nothing, save what the accused governor has chosen
to iofnrm us. None of "our own correspondents" have
resetrated there. Ate. as to the lonian press,
the liberal Sir HENRY WARD made a
clean sweep of editor and writers, and
thus, in fact, made use of his power to destroy and
remove every witness against him. Mr. HUMS,
therefore, was reduced to make a case out of the
govtrnor's own admissions. If these hangings and flog-
gi ga did notcall for inquiry, then may all our governors
act the part of VERRES with impunity. Any of them
may seize the pretext of a case of robbery and murder
in excited times to subject a whnle island to martial
law, and then let loose the military upon it to flog
and to execute whomsoever they list. The execu
tioners were themselves the judges, and it is quite
evident that they did not understand even the lan-
guage of the witnerees they examined, or of the pri-
soners they condemned.
Had Sir HENRY WARD any sane of his duty, as a
politician, he would have shrunk from dimplaying a
dependency of England in en anarchic or revolu-
tionary state. The disturbance which took 'dace in
Cephalonia was decidedly agrarian, very like, both
in cause and effect, what used to take place in Ire-
land. By treating it as such, and inflicting punish-
ment on the guilty,Sir HENRY WARD would hays acted
justly. Instead of this, he trumpets it as a social
and political insurrection, puts an interdict on the
island, accuses the neighbouring King of GREECE in
most insolent language of fomenting insurrection,
and then he gets up the claim of Cerny and Sapienza
to retaliate on the King of GREECE—RE absurd piece
of vengeance, in which Lord GREY had the folly to
become an accomplice. Mr. Hums seeks to let off
Sir HENRY WARD, by attributing all this mass of
folly to his want of confidence and moral courage. But
the fact is, that fright alone cannot account for Sir
HENRY WARD'S net-work of blunders. There
was cowardios in them, indeed, bat there was also a
straw admixture of vanity, an exuberant desire to
enact the hero, and to swell a village riot into a revo-
lution for the mere sake of quelling it.
There is one thing of which we would be more
chary than lass of 'coin blood, and that is English
character. It is quite vain and absurd for us to be
exclaiming against the despotism of Huila, the
cruelty of- Austria, and to be setting op a standard
against them, when ;in our own dependencies we
adopt their policy, and emulate their barbarism—
when our governor excuses their atrocities by saying
he has semi-barbarians to govern—(lo, we should
; exclaim against such doctrines in the mouth of the
r CZAR!)—and when oar Prime Minister put hisproba-
tu upon all this in the House of Commons.
t Is it not monstrous that we should read in blue
' books letters of most stringent remonstrance and
• liberal advice from an English secretary of state to
the King of GREECE, reproving that monarch for'
leaving his people in semlbarbariem and for cruelly
and despotically treating than, whilst all the time
our own select and right radical governor in Cepha-
lonia is out-Otho-ing King Orno, amidst the escort-
/ ragements of my Lord GREY, and the downright
panegyrics of Lord JOEN ItUeelILL P

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1850.