The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-31 00:00:00

THE VXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1863.

as the case is, we do not often see it this stripped
of all illusion and disguise in its purely human ele-
ment of pain and misery, of anguish and remorse, of
madness and despair. When it is thus brought home
to us, it is impossible not to feel that the relation
which produces such results must somewhere involve
an enormous amount of cruelty and wrong. And
after all it is a serious question where the respon-
sibility rests. Baron MARTIN justly said, "There
" was no doubt that under the combined feelings
" of jealousy and shame the mind of the pr;soner
" had given way." And some will no doubt ask
who or what wrought up these essentially womanly
feelings to the pitch of madness and despair. We
have no desire to speak harshly of Mr. CRAPPLZ.
He, no doubt, stands acquitted at the bar of con-
ventional honour. He proposed to provide for his
victim, and was thus ready to make for the
wrong he had done her what the code of
worldly custom would probably consider the only
repaution in his power. The relation he bad
fo •med with Miss Mrrcusu. is one that has latterly
been regarded with • good deal of fashionable
ts'ersece, if it does not actually enjoy d;rect
social recognition. It is talked of freely in good
society. It figures largely in the light literature
of the day, being not unfrequently represented in
recent works of fiction as greatly superior to the
marriage state. Letters to the same effect
appear now and then in leading organs of opinion.
The theory of the relation is thus familiarized and
indirectly applaudcd. Under these circumstances,
it is well that we should sometimes see to
what it actually leads in practice see in
its naked reality the hopeless misery and desola-
tion it produces. In the light of such • revelation
it is impossible not to see that the accepted maxims
of worldly custom, the code of conventional honour,
are in this point not only directly opposed to
the higher laws of social duty and the first prin-
ciples of Christian morality, but perfectly com-
patible with the worst forms of refined cruelty
and bitter social wrong. Had Mr. CUAPPLE been
as ready to break through the cruel maxims of
cies convention as he was to disregard the higher
laws of morality, he might undoubtedly have
made his victim a real reparation. He might
have given her a legal claim to the title he had
W-nself accorded her, and no doubt led her to
b3lieve would be hers. She was respectably con-
nected, and apart from the error into wbich he
had led her there does not appear to have been
the slightest reproach against her character. She
was evidently strongly attached to him. He had
taken advantage of her dependent position to gain
he!. affections, and make her completely his own.
But the poor girl's love and devotion having been
secured only as a temporary luxury soon palled.
The bloom of her life having been crushed out, she
was to be left with a settlement as soon as weari-
ness set in. But without him life had no charms
for her, and if she was to be leftaloneinmisery and
shame, her only care was to be quit of it at once,
and lie down in peace with her child. The result is
madness, murder, and attempted suicide. This is
the pr.oe at which a gentleman takes his pleasure.
But society must divide with the individual the
responsibility of the cruelty and the wrong.

We believe we may state that there is no truth
in the rumour circulated in some of the Irish papers
that Canon Stanley is to be the successor of Arch-
bishop Whately.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge aad the Primer Mary hared to have Cambridge
Oohs,. Bow, ea Saturday next, to paw a few weeks at
13r;gbtoa.

Prince Ladislas Czartoryski and the Prinoeu
Mathew d'Amparo) have kit Lando& for Park
The Marchioness of Salisbury and Ladies Cecil
left Hatfield Howe, Heats. yesterday. to pass a week with
Ur. Header lioseell. /LP., and Lady Elisabeth Hama,
at Oakley Park. Dear Bedford.

The Earl and Countess de Grey arrived at their
midges. is Caritosiardosi, last maim& from &milky
Roial, ow Ripos.

_ .
The Right Hon. Thomas IL Gibson, M.P., and
Yet Moos have evvt-oied a peer, tereaveasent by the
death at their eldest eat at Hoag Haag, intolliseace of
who's death was received yortiaday maraud by the tele.
1-44 i.

Among the fashionaMes sojourning at New-
market dot:og the wr 3k have been the Doke sad Dasher
d Beaufort the Seri sad Coutes el Chseterdeld. the
Sari sad Count= el Weekaorelaad, the Bed sad Casatre
af Oudigari, lard sad Lady Gimp Maarten, and Mr. G.
W. sad Lady Nary Craves.

The marriage of the Marquis of Tallibardine,
rely sea of hie Orme the Duke of Athol% and Lowist
AM* daughter of Sir Thomas Moverieffe, But, of Yew-
aisle, wee celebrated on Thursday afternoon at Nenerieffe
Benet Bridge of Fire, the madame of the bride's Whet
Owing to the Mews of his Orace the Dabs of Atha, the
eiremeny was emsdocted is the mat prim** rawer prank,
the only parties relent being theme conneeted with the two
familia and a few intimate friends.

The Army and Navy Gazette mays :•—" There are
prat diflcultioi about the Orsoley eourtmartiaL Mary
a the soldiers' dos% masa; Ws so bog ago.' Tleo mole
mei riasrdo is a very eintsemasiag mow, sad Mr. Desk=
ma, ve fear, make little art el the ease so far as them
Mismees are comereed. It i sot likely he will be ready
belay the sad of this south. We twit to boar of the
per talsooadoet of some of the kid batch of idioms;
who arrived at Aldershot is a most umessoly
sad were osly restorsd to order by a large gaud from
map."

Monday next, November 2, is the last day on
whisk fatties of Hue Mack tat the tertheamies settle show
.1 the Smith!lekl slab au b. received. The dad et Mr.
B. T. Bandreds Gibbs. the bus any ..matey, is at the
sense at Half Meeeetreet, Plead Sly. The entries far the
tattle show at Binh* Hall, Birmingham, aloes this day.
The extraordinary depression of the barometer,
sad rapidity ol its fall (Gee lash mad upwards la 12 boos).
oa Thursday has suited mach intoned. There hod bees a
gradual diminution et temperature, sa well se fall et
kereesster, ors the lad three sights, with sr rly duller
"and by day.

The French court will sot, it is said, proceed to
Compiegne until about the TN d November. That N/I.
jetties will ramie there mall the ant weak i• December.

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WILLS AND BIIQUINTII.—The will of the Rilht
Hon. Sr Crigswoll Crugswoll. Haight, woo pond in the
mind* milky. Tb. porgoualty was swots ander
36,000 f. Sir Onsowoll stt load tho ago of 70. The
family sass was loalarby, which his father anhangni
for 011111111.011 is 1821. The testator was mina to the
Ur at the Inge Temple in 1819 ; appointod a Si*
I. the Omar' of Commas Plan in 1842 ; transferred to the
Clout of Probate sad Divorco. December. 1857 ; and
cotweiontariguntiot a. P. for Liverpool ia 1837. Sir
azointMd his will in 1861, which is entirely
in his own handwriting, and has bequeathed to his sitar
num. so &assay of 2501., together with sal immediate
lapsy of 5001., sod loaves her all big fondling, as., alostot
law boob ; thin bdirect. to be as welly his shares
ia this Sock Amman Moo, sod wproosids, togititor
with .11 other 'negotiants adasoarit to be bald in
Mast. Lopcios are loft to some Mating, to each of his
a. to arms pommel fetlock and to big oximithrs.
tebraareeddim of his property, subjoin to eastinganglas. ho
rraito lb. twin slabs, of Oamsaandor Wm. Arthur,
71.1111 will of Jobs. Humphrey, Esq.. of Clapham-
cesinoon, ono of the sideman of dm city of Lenora,
woo pawed is kW Ilajiny's Omni of Pro-
, km. oo the 15th inst. The psionalty woo swam
=dor 180.0001. Thin rispostal aldsoman owned hi wilt,
with a eadieil, on the nun day—tho 96th of floptamhor
lin. bang two iloys priming to his Mignon H. divides
his property. nal gad porootiol, into them imwal path and
=this to his relict anir-hull shore beyond all gthar pro-
in bar favour, leaving bar also the giloctio• of for.
niter, for a residence, and as immediate lorry of ROL ;
tho other half-share b becistatlis to his daughter. To
of his ten lOW he looms a. eleventh sham in biz *tiro
=y. Moro are legatees to his executors, to his cloths,
other poison, as also to his servants. Dlimirstel
Lowden Nam

AMERICA.

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(Per the Penis, rid Etoehe's Point, Oot. 31,10.36 ii.te.)
WILDNISDAT, 001% 21, 11 A.IL

The latest despatches from Virginia report that
General Lee's whole army has returned to the
south aide of the Rappahannock.
The Confederates have so thoroughly destroyed
the Orange and Alexandria Railway, from Manas-
sas to Rappahannock Station (a distance of twenty
miles), that the repairs can only be effected at the
rate of one mile per day.
It is stated that General Burnside has possession
of 40 miles of the East Tennessee Railway, and is
advancing upon Lynchburg, Virginia, General Lee's
__ Abingdon,
base of supplies, having already reached
which has necessitated the hasty falling back of
General Lee.

Despatches from Louisville, of the 20th, declare
General Thomas the successor of General Rose-
crans.

General Grant hasbeen put in supreme command
of the departments and armies of the Cumberland,
the Tennessee, and the Ohio.
General Rosecrans is ordered to proceed to Cin-
cinnati, and report by letter to the Adjutant-
General at Washington.

In consequence of the directions of the British
Consuls at Richmond and Charleston to British
subjects taken by conscription into the Confederate
army, to throw down their arms if required to
engage in actual conflict with the Federal forces,
the exercise of the functions of office of these Con-
suls has been suspended by President Davis, and
themselves ordered to quit the Confederacy as
quickly as possible.
Gold, 146. The Persia takes 294,516 dols. in
specie.—Tina (Second Edition).