The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-09 00:00:00

THE SOLDIER'S INFANT HOME.

The first annual meeting of this new association was
held yesterday, at Willis's Rooms, and wu very numerously
and fashionably attended. The Earl of Cardigan had been
announced to take the chair, but was (as stated by Major
Powys) unable to attend, in consequence of having received
• command from the lions Guards Logo down to Edinburgh
dee the purpose of reviewing a regiment of cavalry, and in
Ids absence the Duke of Wellington presided.
The CMAIRMAN said it was not necessary to seek to increase
the sympathy which they felt for the soldier, but their
duty was to provide for thou children who were too young
'to estimate the glory which bad fallen to them from
their fathers, and yet bad nothing to shield them from
poverty or the temptation to crime. They ought to do all
they could to raise the position of the soldier in the country.
The exertions of Major Powys in connection with
thiCentral Association must he well known to the country!;
but something was yet left to be done, u notbisg could be
more deplorable than the state of the unprotected female
elephant of soldiers. It was to meet this want that the new
association bad been formed. Details of its objects would
he more fully gone into by others ; and all he could say was,
that he hoped the time would soon come when to have bees
brought up by the association would be a passport for • girl
bkprosperity and happiness. (Hear, hear.)
The Rev. W. H. FOT (honorary secretary) said
that the provisional committee had only been called
together for the first time on the Bth March, and
Maas that time the public had amply fulfilled the anti-
' eipations of its support of the Soldier's Infant Rome.
The committee had felt it their duty to attend to a hist
given by the noble chairman to make the institution exclu-
sively a home for soldiers' daughters, although it had been
at first intended to include boys as well. Government was
by no means behind in providing for the boys left orpliaas
by soldiers in the two schools which they maintained. The
foliation of the institution was not only to train girls ro m
to hissome good domestic servants, but also to do sometbieg
Sonia up the children of einem who had fallen in the pre-
sent war, by sending some of them to training schools, that
pay m*ht be educated as mistresses and governesses.
The Rev. R. °tato (chaplain-general) observed that
Men were some things in ocianexios with soldiers' daughters
whisk ought to he well known. The ondition of thou con-
geal* with the Guards was sad, bat nothing when coca-
pared to the condition of those of the line. The former
rice seldom moved far, and had something like a settled
homey but the latter might I. truly said to be wisdoms on
Me fuse of the earth l mno llamas being seemed to care for
their souls ; sad the evils could hardly be imagined which
malted hot the nelemary mixing of young girls sad young
bum The two tabasis, at Dublin and Chelsea—one of
while ststalead SOO mud the Mbar 400 or 600 boys—had at
lest been lassudisel he both boys mid girls, but it did not do
to keep them tosather. sad so the boys bad been protected,
and the girls MAW for thamealves. Re did not blame
giwarneasst toss thk bet thought others ought to stop
annuli and wgste what was wanted. With regard to the
irsed a house had boss hired, and steps
lilies* assume its surdas of an edgiest metros, and that
Me paatmt an would be taken to selset the best of the
/Mohr the poems of training them so as to Woos, school-
mkirewes in ratisseaM, from whisk a large amount of good
Mast milt. (Am, bear.)

FLAGS OP TWICE AT BIBASTOPOL.-General Piin-
g., has issued the followtog gulag order relative to liege
of trues :-.' The General-is-Chief bee decided that the
soutinaniestions with the enemy should hereafter take
place by sea, and that the flags of truce should meet in
boats, off the harbour. Consequeetly, the general com-
manding the first corps expressly recommends to the
general, major, and superior oaken in the trenches, not to
admit any Russian flax of truce, either on the right or LONDON FEMALE DORMITORT.-Lest night a
metre of the attack of the first gape, or near the come- public meeting in behalf of this institution (the object of
Mob is to afford temporary protection to friendless young
tery, where it wee hiehertaireeel Weweh"lie messages mad which
and to effect tgr-eiene of fallen females) wu held
Wiiwailwicaiklis* Ewe" isfrwillww of the lime" order will at the National Sehool-room, Southampton street, Easton-
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be severely punished. (Signed) Pulsates, the General square. The chair was taken by the Rev. T. Dale, M.A
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Commanding the First Corps.-Before Sebastopol, April The proceedings, having been opened, as custonudy, with
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202, prayer, Lieutenant Blackmon called upon the meeting to Litt). Dime
TEE CAMP RAILWAY.-The line commences from
both aides of the harbour sod . direct up the
icLals support the society in its philanthropic work, and stated that Pitfall
although the number of inmates was reduced by want of et. Andrew .....
funds, from September, 1860, to Christmas, 1864, no less Kaffir .....
valley to Soda* where it term to the west, ronad
the foot of the MU m whisk is pima Sailors' or 4-glen than 664 poor females had been admitted into the home. Of ~,,.,et“e •
these 178 had been restored to society and enabled is obtain '
Batt? and theeetsthe Tema letWt_theete along the honest livelihoods ; 177 had returned to their friends; 34 .
side o the hips to Maggie MSeup of the plateau, had bees respectably married; while 27 had emigrated.
and about half a mile firm imeilmerters. The line they
The Chairman said that this institution was the first to
diverges° the Mir, lea Polmeft selet Is the Went's"'. grapple with the dreadful evil it was founded to remedy,
cads this shat ems _18112,,.." *5a1.._......A.,3111.111"1:0,T.h.reeke,11 and which existed in the very heart of society to so great as
—..e-ip......th. '.".'11,..g.,......... =12,5....----„ 1' the extent. It was the custom of the superintendent and others
d-713,- --t.k...:"...-"-.1,..... 1ia."'',....„,„„,m".w1, ''''" '-..,..;....'..,...,...7 to perambulate the meets of London by night, and they
-ag-'igiew-0-- wlit"-a......aaw...-"wraZZ*l=l42l...wiaa w.,7-r,f-95„, had been the means of rescuing many miserable women.
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------" meat, "'""""" ''''''-" —— - "'" The receipts for the past year had amounted ti 2,27111.
frost. T i the filleduitt it lei team up as twerp as ma be Si. 6d., and the expenditure to 20361. 12.., leaving a del-
-1," tae it dila ma elm, 81......._•ef smell elm' 316g° deny of 681. 6a. 71, together yak outstanding liabilities
teas ef ceumbessiet (Ml 941•12), b"..11.0. auto utast to 4451. 19.. 10d. The miutio4 was aubragneatly
"welds of
14" save et -Vil.' Wl"' ra. addeleisseilloy the Rev. T. Jseksoa, the Rev. W. Ashley, J.
fermi huts, Queblelmenni Gessiers lame, &a. TM nil- Pane. mg ,ma other, and the mating separated with a
ea the BIM AM Moab Om= alb sad shell to the TIM BATS POLICE are in future to he &Mod in
rat esnyliveyedis 411.1".11.11ememineedM.11 theemeeeSilislee=mbYththee26B4.l/I"Ldee 1 Gordis' vote of Masks ene reverend Manama.
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promote the comfort . In tho previous month of March the losses --
Balakiava to Kedii-a. Nelms upwards of *even miles of •. add to the appearance of the forte. and
149, is February 164, tnd in January 238.
nil laid down in tem Om Mon weeks. of the met

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