The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRFSS,` Tli FSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1863.

claim gave rise to in Parliament. It was rumoured
at the time that the matter was to be compromised
by the purchase of the house for government
purposes, but such is not the fact. His grace
still retains his noble town mansion, and, as we
are happy to add, improved, not injured, by
the embankment. Montague House has at
present a garden stretching a hundred feet down
to the water, and to tbis will be added another
hundred feet of reclaimed land, lying between the
present garden wall and the proposed roadway.
This space his grace proposes to plant with quick
growing trees, so as in a very few years to interpose
a sufficient screen between his premises and the
pairing public. From Charing-cross-bridge the
embankment will preserve its original breadth until
it reaches Waterloo-bridge, the limit of the work
with which we at present have to deal. Within
this limit there is plenty to be done, provided the
provisions of the act of parliament be faithfully I
carried out. There is to be a main approach from,
Westminster-bridge, which is 14 feet above the
embankment, and from which the descent is to be
at a gradient of one foot in 80. There is to be an
approach from opposite the Horse Guards at White-
hall, by a roadway 80 feet wide, and a high level
street from Whitehall-place to Wellington-street,
from which there will be approaches at intervals to
the embankment roadway, each with a gradient of
lin 42. A very interesting feature of the design
will be the laying out of the reclaimed land in
front of the Whitehall and Charing-cross approaches
in gardens, which, if they only look as well when
finished as they now do in the coloured plans, will
prove a very great metropolitan attraction. These
gardens will be raised sixteen feet above the river-
side roadway, iu order to keep them on a level with
the ground at the back, and, under them, facing
the river, will be a handsome row of shops opening
on the terrace. Independently, however, of the
reclaimed land thus disposed of, there will be a
great number of pet corners and nooks of large
pecuniary value, and it will require great vigilance
on the part of the public, whose money has paid
for them, and to whom they properly belong, to
prevent them being jobbed away or otherwise
appropriated by private individuate.
We have endeavoured to convey to the reader
some idea of the extent and scope of that portion
of the great Thames embankment, the construction
of which may be said to have commenced yesterday
by bringing the first of the great caissons to the
ground. The placing of it, however, in its proper
place will be a work of time and labour, and the
same may be said of the other four, which are still
in course of construction. The filling of each after.
wards with concrete and masonry, the work to be
done in great part under water, and the mov-
ing of each by its own length forward, ac-
cording as the work inside it has been com-
pleted, until the sea wall is finished from bridge
to bridge, will exhaust a long period, not to reckon
unexpected interruptions from accidents, the
loccurrence of shifting &ands and a score of other
contingencies, which must be expected in a work of
this kind. However, patience, perseverance, and
money win ultimately overcome all obstacles, and
the public may expect to walk on this river-side
promenade in about two years hence, and to have
the whole embankment completed in about five years
from the present date.
The Metropolitan Board of Works have been a
good deal grumbled at for the preliminary delays
which have obstructed this great undertaking ; but
there is a good deal to be said in their defence.
Rome was not built in a day, and neither ought we
to expect wouli be the Thames Embankment.
The inexorable Mr. Gore, the official guardian of
the foreshores of the Thames, drove a hard and
tedious bargain, and made the commissioners pay
30,0C31. for his permission to wall in his territory.
Then the Duchy of Cornwall had to be
placated, and months were exhausted in
negotiations with the custodians of its
rights and interests. Preparatory to making the
designs extensive borings were necessary, in order
to find the substratum, and to fix the proper depth
for the foundations ; and then came the making of
the designs themselves, a work of great labour and
magnitude, but which was completed by Mr.
Bazalgette at Midsummer last. Finally, the
Thames Conservancy and the Board of Trade had
respectively a word to say to the Metropolitan
Commissioners, and it was not until all these diffi-
culties, physical, scientific, and official, had been
disposed of that this much abused body were able
actually to commence operations. Now that they
have really begun, the best thing to be done will be
to let bygones be bygones on all sides, and to wish
the great national work God speed.

LATEST INTELLIGEI4(4

(ssurviee Turowts.)
AMERICA.
FRESH ADVANCE OF LEE'S ARMY.
(Per the Africa.)

NEW YORK, Om. 21, 1 P.M.

(By Telegraph to Bt. John's.)

Lee's infantry is reported to have crowed to the
north side of the Rappahannock on Saturday, re-
pulsing Gregg's Federal cavalry with heavy lose.
After a slight engagement with two Federal
infantry brigades, the Confederates then passed
forward to Beaton station, where they again
attacked the Federal cavalry, with what result is
not known.

Lee occupies a line with his left resting near
Beverley Ford, crossing the railroad near Beaton
Station, and extending towards Stafford Court-
house. The object of this movement is unknown.
The remainder of General Lonptreet's corps has
reinforced General Bragg.
Another Confederate incursion into Kentucky is
reported.
The steamers Canada and City of Cork passed
Cape Race on the 26th instant.
Gold 491 per cent. premium. Money easy.
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EIFIIMMB FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAY Evumo.

Some of the ministers who naturally preach
smooth things have dictated the following article to
the Pays :
There are those who seek to spread alarm about the Em-
peror's forthcoming speech just as if some thunderclap were
at hand, and as if some veil which conceals the policy et
France were about to be torn to the astonishment sad dir
comfiture of Europe. We cannot admit that soak spree.
hoodoos are founded. The Emperor does not speak
merely on the occasion of the opening of the leer
Wive session. Ilia idea u incessantly sposkieg and
acting. It is never absent from an act of his government.
Nothing is ever done—we will sot say aphid his wish—
that would be to speak too absurdly—bat even without his
will. We are well awl:* of the exeeptiocal authority of
the Emperor's words. It it natural that these words
should excite universal and respectful interest. But hie
Majesty's speech at the opening of the session appease to us
but the supreme expression of the policy followed by his m-
elon. We cannot understand how anyone can expect to find

in the speech • condemnation or an abaecloutoest al the
policy. The policy of the Emperor's goverwneet eta be
nothing else than the policy of the Emperor. That
is a tic* which moat strike aver/ mind. It is also
well known that that policy is ever loyal and consistent.
And how could it be loyal if it had deceived the country by
preoeding manifestations! How could it be conatent if it
were to be modified when the situation has not changed?
Will it be pretended that the Emperor's policy as to arid.
ing questions is not sufficiently known! We answer that
it it obscure only for them who will not see.

According to the Pays, therefore, be who
runs may read already tho imperial speech, which
you will have by telegraph almost twenty-four
hours after the receipt of this letter. Some people
reflecting upon the history of Napoleon 111. may
remember that he loves surprises, and has over
and over again complained of being misunderstood,
and has put himself forward in the interesting situa-
tion of un homme incomprir. The Pays stands
surety that nothing of the sort is to be appre-
hended this time. You will see.

The Freese makes the following observations on
the startling news of the semi-official journal, the
Pays, that Marshal Forey has left Mexico for New
York, with a mission :

It is Workmate that the Pays madam dealt to this
announcement. Why speak of a mission whet it is unable
to vindkate either the object, the character, or the oppor-
tunity ? The Ina and most obvious Mamma:Wee of such
Whoredom is that they open the door to all sods of cap
*tares, sad, moreover, on such ground pessimists are
demo the In* to gain the oar of the public.

Degouve Denunoques, a veteran liberal
writer of Louis Philippe's time, who was an un-
successful opposition candidate at Arras at the last
elections could not find any printer in that town
who dared to print the protest against the return.
which he desired to send to the Corps Legislatif.
He has, however, now found one in Paris,
and his petition will therefore challenge discussion
at the same time with the eloquent one which has
just been published by K Casimir Perier. I re-
commend to the consideration of the few people in
England who believe with the Revue Coniemporaine
that, after all, France enjoys as much real liberty
as any other nation, this simple fact, of which
instances are frequent—that printers, being entirely
at the mercy of the government, continually refuse
to lend their presses to the publication of mere
formal documents when the writers are obnoxious
to power.
It has been rumoured for some time that the
government meant to attack M. Eugene Pelletan's
election for Paris, but the Prance now announces
that after a fresh examination of the papers it has
been thought advisable to withdraw the opposi-
tion. The great fact that all Paris has returned
opposition deputies will therefore stand forth in
undisputed glory.
The Duke de Morny has returned to Paris, and
is sufficiently recovered from his accident to take
the chair at the opening of the session.

• -
The settlement at the Bourse was going off
better than could have been expected, when news
came that the Bank of England had raised its
discount, and ultimately prices left off with
scarcely any change from Saturday.

SIE W. ATIIIIMON. —We regret to announce the
minim Muse of Sir William Atherton, the late Attorney-
General Hie Wpm has indeed assumed so* a form am
Ito slam his reloads.

The Right Hoa. Sir Robert Peel, Bert., M.P.,
arrived at his residesee in Whitehall-is:dem yesteeday
trots Ireland. Lady Ugly Peel mann in Ireland.

The Earl of Dudley has arrived at Dudley Rouse,
Park-Las, free Wit* Omni, Woreestarshirs.

Lord Chesham is lying dangerously ill at the
family resides.. is Grosvenor -noire, sad but slight hopes
ars eetertaleed of his lordship's recovery.

We (He►ald) are gratified at being able to state,
la reply to atuseroas *airier, that there is so foundation
for the reports that have appeared in the eolantes of some
oar contemporaries respecting the indisposition of Mr.
Disraeli. We are happy to ray that the right boo. gentle-
man was never in better health.

The Archbiahop of Canterbury has collated the
Rev. Josiah Bateman, rector of North Orey, Kent, to as
honorary canonry in the cathedral church of Canterbury.
In an interview between a deputation from the
°or/meeting' of :Maecheeter and Mr. Villiers. on Friday, •
loan of 220,C01. was obtained under the Public Works Act.
Of that amount 130,0001. will be expended L constructing
additional waterworks for Manchester.
A

istic letter from Mr. Ruskin has
appealed, is which that eminent critic exessee ►imself
from attending an am t meeting in Liverpool, booms he ill
so shocked at the condition of Polish affairs. He says that
a country "which will not fight for its idea is not likely to
have anything worth painting."
Two persons were fined by the Stalybridge magis-
trates yesterday for quitting a railway carriage whilst the
train was in motion. nocideats have frequently happened
at Stalybridge from this canes, and those persons were only
saved by the activity of the many servant&

A letter from o,oukum-lial4 says :—" You are
of mune, aware that Solway' some yams back, forgetting
his brilliant career, accepted • Denali° sad a pession of
1,500 roubles par meth from Russia, whir& he now enjoys
at Kaluago. He bad thee as lieuteaent Mahomed Ernie,
who has been at St. Petersburg, where he was well re-
ceived by she Emperor. Ho is now in the Turkish tent.
tory, and the chief mountaiseen hens( beard that be
wishes to return to anemia, hays iatimated to hien that
if he does so it will be et hie owe peril, as they cannot
ooridar hits anything but a Remise employe."

"The mortal remains of Robespierre, Saint-Just,
and Wes," says the Patric, "bane just been disoovered
by soros workmen occupied in digging the fonadatioes of a
booms at the Itstigeolles, at the angle of the Rae du
Roche, and the old Obemin de Ronde. Theme men, who
played no important a pert in the moieties', were buried
at the abo►e spot, the cemetery of the Madeleine being too
full at the period of their death to admit of fresh inter.
manta"

Chestnuts are so abundant this year in the south
of Freon that they are selling ►t ld. a pouod weight.
Farmers in Normandy have commenced the
gathering of Muir apples, whish is an important crop in
that *matey. The proclaim is abundant In valleys sad
sheltered places, bat very light in the plains. The price
has not yet been exert in oteesotteoce of buyers beiag
deterred from offering on account of the unreasonable
domande of t►e farstsrs.

A Washington paper states, on the authority of
am officer in the quartermaster's departamad, that so loss
than 1359,00 soldiers passed threirgh that city last year.
This bnags to mind a forcible remark of I"Ltrideat Limas,
that paths( dowe the mitailise is a "big
During the first nine months and-a-half in 1862,
7,208,282 ranee, of petroleum were exported from New
Yo,k. Duneg a similar, period this year th• number of
gal.ous exported was 22,076,767.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

001JBT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

Sittiop in Bsixo.--psfore-Lard cldslJustkospsekkurs sod

Justices Wiihmen, Blaekbern. end Yeller.)
This was the second dsy of tam, and from the want et
motions the court bad to proceed with the new trial paper-

1117T7111013 V. TIMPLI.
Tbis was • very peculiar hue. It was an action
brought by the plaintiff spinet the defendant, mother
sad administratim of a female with whom the plain-
tiff had cohabited, for the maintenance and the ex-
penses of the burial of her illegitimate child after her
death. The action was tried before the Lord Chief Justice
at Westminster, when the jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff, damages 251. The plaintiff, it a
had cohabited for some time with Xise ?lreirpele.
As is frequent in such owes, the parties die.
agreed and separated, mad the female some months
afterwards died in a lying-in hospital, after giving birth
to the child in question. The plaintiff then took the child,
end after its death, two mouths afterwards, caused it to be
buried. A rale was subseckneotly moved for sod obtained
co the ground of miadirectioo, the action not being main-
tlinable in point of law. It was oonteeded that the puta-
tive father, if any one, was liable for the maintenance of
an illegitimatei child.
Mr. Serjeant Parry showed cause against the rule. He
contended that if • mother was liable at common law
during her lifetime to maintain her illegitimate child, surely
her effects ought to be liable after her death.
The Lord Chief Jurtioe said that did not appear to be the
and if Dot, the law ought to be amended.
The Solicitor•Geoeral, in support of the rule, contended
that the court had, in reference to this case, to consider
what were the duties of an administrator, end by that rule
decade the case. An administrator had first to pay the
debta, and where the person died intestate, distribute the
residue ma the statute of distribution provided. The claim
37 thlt cue was not • debt. . .

lir.JustierlFlnnibrtri said he thought it was a legal
obtatioa if not a debt.
Solicitor-General said the plaintiff had not main-
tained the child daring the mother's lifetime. There was
no debt or obligation on the part of the administratrix to
pay this demand.
lir. Woollett followed on the same side.

FLU Imrd Chief Justice sold the We must be laid.
absolute. The statute, the 4th and bth Wm. IV., chap. 76,
imposed on the mother of an illegitimate child the lity
for its =latecomer'. That liability was a personal we, and
it woe much to be regretted that no provision was made by
that statute in the cue of a mother dying leaving sufficient
to provide for her illegitimate child, that the aemite left, or
any part of it, should be so applied to ite =Je-
ttisons*. In the absence of any such statutory
obfigatioa he did not pther from the authorities that
bad been quoted that any liability exists at common law
whereby the administrator or adininiAratriz of • woman
leaving an illegitimate child should be bald liable for pro-
viding or paying for its maintenance out of the suet..
This was merely a personal obligation, and it might
have been a different question if the payment
bad been made by the plaintiff in her lifetime,
whetter, dying without a will, the assets eame
to the whdaistranix, who we. to administer them ac-
cording to the statute of distributions, which made no pro-
vision for the maintenance of an illegitimate child, or of any
share of the aunts beiniLsli to plied by the administrator to rte
inaintemeace. It ap him that an administratrix
could not be held liable, and there must bee nil, absolute
for entering the verdict for the defendant.
Rule absolute smordiagly.