The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBItUARY 1883.

before they come back to school at sit years old.
Thus, at six years old, leas than a third of the
children remain alive.

But it may be imagined by patriotic citizens that
the course of affairs would be different in England.
Here the parents would not sin so flagrantly, nor
the children die off so fearfully. Well, then, let us
look at the operation of our own Foundling Hos-
pital
The institution was opened with ten inmates in
1740. The infants must be under two months
old ; and no questions were to be asked of those
who brought them. It is no wonder that by
1756, a Parliamentary grant of 10,000/. was
wanted, and that provincial branches were called
for. In the year when the plan of hanging
a basket outside, for the unwatched deposit of in-
fanta, was adopted, the number increased in seven
months from 117 to 1,783. The next year the
number was 3,727, and in that and the two next
years the receptions at the gate and by the basket
amounted to nearly 15,000. Of that crowd of
infants—of those very 15,000—how many lied to
be apprenticed? Only 4,400 ! Let our East
London Coroner and his audience thick the matter
over egain before they setup such a cure for child-
murder as this. Of every eight infer ts sent up
from the country to this institution, seven died.
All this was very startling ; and so was the fact
that within fifteen years Parliament had voted
considerably more than half-s million of
money in maintaining the baseborn of society—in
other words, as a premium on profligacy. The
country took warning. Society was pledged to the
support of the actual inmates till they were ap-
prenticed, hut the branch establishments we-e
sold off, strict rules were framed and enforced,
end the Hospital was henceforth to depend on its
own resources. The institution was made as little
mischievous as possible ; and this is the best that
can be said for any sort of asylum for foundlings.
It really seems incredible that, nearly a century
after such a discovery and reform as we have de-
scribed, a proposal alma arise from any quarter
to retrogress to the point from which our grand-
fathers advanced, full of shame and sorrow for the
mischief they had done. There is no mystery
about the natural operation of Foundling Hoe-
paid'. The commonest good sense can ma
beforehand that they must work in one
of two ways. First, either they must
take charge of all the illegitimate children
that can be offered, or they will have held out a
delusive promise to the parents. And rext, not
only is this a shocking encouragement to illicit
passion, but it is murderous in its effect. It
seems abundantly strange to propose to save
infant life by a policy which long ago got the
name of " Herodian," and which increases infant
mortality ten-fold ; but it is a yet graver consider-
ation that child-murder prevails to an unparalle'ed
extent within the range of Foundling Hospitals.
However many babes are received, there are more
who must be left out : and the number of thr
who are murdered far exceeds that of the mur-
dered infants of a society where the safeguards
of female honour, and the sacredness of the insti-
tution of the Family are not relaxed, and in fact
dissolved by this most pernicious clams of charities.
If our East London Coroner and hisneighbourshave
a conscientious desire to reduce infanticide to the
lowest average, they will study the operst'on of
Foundling Hospitals ; and then we shall bear no
more from them of a scheme which would carry
us back into the grossness of manners and the
foulest crimes of a former age. No such enter-
prise can be supposed possible now ; but, at a
time when the question is how best to check the
practice of child-murder, there is mischief in the
mere proposal of a project which would increase
the crime, and the corruption of morals from
which it arises.

DIVONPORT Esecnoir.—The conservative mem-
ber has been returned for Devonport, and the go-
vernment may be said to have been defeated in its
own dockyard. This is s surprising innovation.
Constituencies like Devonport, where the govern-
ment is a great employer of labourers having
votes, have hitherto been considered almost,
as nomination boroughs. Mr. Ferrand contested
Devonport at the last general election, and twice
subsequently, when Sir Erskine Perry and
Mr. Wilson successively vacated their sesta.
'He polled yesterday 120 more vMes than
on either of those occasions, and Sir Frederick
Grey, his opponent, also polled more than were
required to defeat Mr. Ferrand in any of his
previous contests. This may explain to a certain
extent the victory, but further explanations will
doubtless be offered. The numbers at the close of
the poll yesterday, as received by telegraph, were
Ferrand, 1,234 ; Grey, 1,204 ; majoi :Ay for Fe..-
rand, 30. Great excitement prevailed at the con-
clusion of the voting, and Mr. Ferrand addressed
the electors.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF
WALES.

We are authorised to state that onthe arrival of
her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of
Denmark in London on the 7th March the route of
the royal procession from the Bricklayers' Arms
station to Paddington will be as follows :—Brick-
layers' Arms, Old Kent-road, Borough, London-
bridge, King William-street, Mansion-house,
Cheapside, St. Paula Churchyard, Temple-bar,
Strand, Trafalgar-square, by the Nitional Gallery,
Pall-mall, St. James's-street, Piccadilly, Hyde-
park-corner, through the park to the Marble Arch,
Edgware-road, Grand Junction-road, past the
Great Western Hotel, to the Paddington Station.

At a public meeting of the inhabitanta of the
borough of Southwark, bold yesterday aftemoos, at the
Brdge-house Hotel, Londonhridge, it wu resolved that
an address be mounted to bis Royal Highness on the occa-
sion of his pawing through the borough on his way to
Windsor with hi bothrothed bride, offering to him the
hearty oonuatolationa and good wishes of the inhabitants
on, he approaching marriage, and a committee was ap-
pointed to make the mossaary arrangement..

trbt Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Fn. 12.
The Queen, accompanied by the P6llOOllB Louis
of Reese, drove in the Home Park this morning.
The Prince of Wales, attended by Lientenant.Genentl
Hardly* and Major Teesdale, went to London, and returned
in the afternoon.

A deputation, introduced by Lord Alfred Churchill,
M.P., and consisting of Major Sanford, Colonel Phillips,
Colonel Graham, Mr. Charles Wittinoom, Mr. William
Fel-
gate, Mr. R. H. Habgood, Mr. H. Gullet, Mr. W. F.
Moore, Mr. Frederick Mangles, Mr. Henry Manning, sod
Mr. T. N. Yule, bad an interview yesterday with the Duke
of Newcutle at the Colonial-office, and presented a
memorial, numerously signed, by old settlers and others, in
favour of the continuance of transportation to Western
Australia.

A deputation from the Thames Embankment Committee
of the Metropolitan Board of Works to the First Commis-
sioner of her Majesty's Works, on the subject of the
proposed southern embankment, consisting of Mr. John
Thwsites (chairman of the board), Mr. Doulton, M.P., Mr.
le Breton, Mr. Derma, Mr. M'Donnell, Mr. Newton, Mr.
Bennett, Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Moreland, Mr. Pew, Mr. Har-
ris, Mr. Hall, Mr. Phillips, Mr, Savage, Mr. Deputy Har-
rison, Mr. Freeman, Mr. John Pollard (clerk of the board),
and Mr. George Viilliamy, architect of the board, had an
interview with the Right Hon. William Cowper, M.P.,
yesterday, at the office of her Majesty's Works and Public
Buildings in Whitehall-place.
Mr. M. B. Sampson, Consul• General of the Argentine
Republic, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-
office.

Mr. Croebie Ward, of New Zealand, bad an interview
yesterday with the Duke of Newcastle ; Colonel Hill also
had an interview with his grace at the Coloniaboffice.
The Judith] Committee of the Privy Council oat yester-
day. An appeal from the Cape of Good Hope, "The
Rev.lW. Long v. the; Bishop of Cape Town " (part heard),
was resumed. The lords present were Lord Kingsdown, the
Judge of the Admiralty Court, Sir J. Coleridge, and Sir E.
Ryan.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the governors of the Settlements on the West Cwt of
Africa, New Zealand, Quads, and Malta.

We are authorised to state that two Drawing-
rooms and two Levers will be held on the put of
the Queen at St. James's Palace after Easter.
Presentations may take place under the usual regu-
lations at all these courts, and wilt be considered as
having been made to her Majesty.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is ex-
pected to arrive at the &remake station, by special train,
about 3 or 4 o'clock this afternoon, and will then proceed to
Tottenham Hones, on • visit to the Marquis of Ailesbury,
and enjoy • day's shootieg on the estate, and on Monday,
the Tedworth hounds are to meet at Lye-hill, after which
it is expected that his royal highness will return to town.—
Stanford Mercury. _ . .

The Marchioness of Salisbury has issued cards
for assemblies on Thursday, the 19th instant, and on Wed-
nudity, the 25th instant, at the family mansion in Arling-
ton-street.

Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for assem-
blies on Saturday next and cm Saturday, the Slat instant, M
Cambridge House.
Viscount and Viscountess Enfield have arrived at
their residence in Charles•street, Illerkelepequare, from a
tour of visits.

Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley entertained
at dinner on Wednesday evening, at their residence in
Dover-street, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl and
Count of Airlie, Lord and Lady Wodehouse, Lord Chief
Justice Cockburn, Yr. Oliphant, &c. _ .

Lord and lady Ebury are expected in town early
next week from Moor Park, Herta.

The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., has
issued cards for parliamentary dinners on Saturday next
and Wednesday, the 18th inst., at his residence, Orastenot•

The arrival of the flotilla conveying the Princess
Alexandra and mite at the Nore is to be made the occasion
of a grand n ,val display, orders having been received at
Chatham for the Formidable, 84, Capt. Luard, flagship of
the Vice-Admiral of the Red, Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone,
K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief ; the Cumberland, 70, Capt.
Thompson, guardship of the steam reserve in the Medway ;
and the Leander, 51, 500 horse-power, attached to the first
division of the steam reserve, to proceed oat to the Nom on
Thursday, the Bth of March, to salute the steam vessel
containing the illustrious princess on her snivel from the
Continent. At present only the above ships have been de-
tailed for this service, but it ia expected that some others
may elm be selected from the steam reserve, in order to make
the display as imposing as possible. The Formidable and
the Cumberland are both at present only jury rigged, but
they will be at once taken in hand in ender to be ready for
the occasion. The mameuvring of two sailing line-of-battle
ships ander canvas at the Non will be a novelty in these
days of steam.

The deanery of Stamford, lately held by the
VannesUs H. IL Bonney, D.D., Archdeacon of Lincoln,
dammed, has (says the Stamford Mercury) been conferred
by the Bishop of Lincoln upon the Rev. E. R. Manta%
M.A., rector of Oretford. The office is a vary ancient
and was formerly a peculiar one, and although now only
honorary, and without ordinary jurisdiction, ita duties
are important, as the dein is joint governor, with the
vicar of All Saints and the Mayor of Stamford, of Brown's
Hospital; and in conjunction with the vicar of All
Saints, has the appointment of the warden, confrater,
and almapeople of the said hospital.
The Dublin Evening Mail states that, in reply to
a deputetion, Mr. Benjamin Lee Guinness has consented
to stand for the representation of Dublin in the room of
Sir Edward Grogan.

Mr. Cochrane, on Friday next, will call the atten-
tion of the House of Commons to our relations with Greece.
Mr. Hennessy will move an Address to the
Crown on the subject of Poland, on Friday week.

On Tuesday evening hat, Daniel W. Harvey,
Req., read the tragedy of " Oato " to a very numerous sad
respectable audience in the hall of the Witham Literary
Institute. The Rev. Sir John Page Wood, Bart., presided
on the occasion.

A oorreapondent at Melbourne describing the
pommel:gess on board • vessel just starting for New Zealand,
rye :—" What curious odds and ends of humanity. What
a congress of nationalities—Europeans, Mongolians, Afri-
ma, Americans, sharp-freed Yankees, Irish labourers, sal-
low, bet ounicalar Cornish miners, serious-looking me-
chanics, seedy-looking gentlemen, auction-room haunt-
ing Jews, dissipated shopmen and clerks, all huddled to-
gether. Pressing their way towards the steamer are poor,
anxious-looking mothers with infanta in arms, and almost
infanta dragging at the gown, while shrill-voiced, red-
headed Highlanders manoeuvre leashes of perverse shep-
herds' dogs towards the gangway, and human patience and
ingenuity are exhausted in persuading hones in the same
direction. On a truck commanding a view of the deck strode
a sheriff's olScer, thinking of nothing but executing his
ca. ea. On another truck is one of the owners of tke
Aiding', • mole Soot, unmistakeably doing (aa his pros-
tiled eye glances over the ship) a mental balance sheet be-
tween the expenses and the freight. In a few hours all
them: various wanderers will be knocking about in Bess's
Striate. What a life for women and children."

The Prince Imperial was allowed to witnenn till
midnight all the extraordinary doings that took place on
the 10th is the state and private apartments of the Tuile-
ries. His tutors, who are very numerous, attended him.
Both they sad their youthful charge were dressed alike,
with the exception of the mantle and stockings of the latter,
u his imperial highness wore a black velvet vat and oniti-
nuations. He looked hke a very tiny page, and his crimson
stockings and Venetian mantle gave him an odd, old-fa-
shinned air that greatly &mama the spectators, who, for the
most part, being in the habit of seeing the Emperor and
Empress, dad not treat them u though they were what the
Preach call "un spectacle gratuit."

The Duke of Coburg was greeted as he entered
his box at the theatre of Goths on the evening of the Bth
with thundering applause by the public, who rose to their
feet and kept up a fire of "Heckle" for several minutes.
The sue of ibis display of enthusiasm was the announce•
. . .

meet that the duke had determined not to acee---ptti;e
Greek crown.

The Gazette des Tribunaux announces that the
Late ems el chanties at cards, which occurred a taw days
slaw is a prints hose° at Pans, is now undergoing investi-
gation by the judicial authorities.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

From letters published by the German jour
nals it appears that the Polish movement, though
stopped at some points, has at others assumed very
serious proportions. The tactics of thePolee are to
avoid serious engagements with the Russian troops,
and to allow them to exhaust themselves in difficult
operations, and then unexpectedly to strike a blow.

The National Committee at Warsaw has ap-
pointed a president, to whom exclusive autho-
rity is given. This president has issued a procla-
mation to the inhabitants of Warsaw, in which the
insurrection is spoken of as general—as a contest
for life or death—a war which shall " overturn the
giant despot who threatens European civilisation
and the liberty of peoples."
The Czar, the well-known Cracow journal, which
circulates widely throughout Poland, was seized
on the 7th by the Austrian authorities for publish-
ing a proclamation to the people of Cracow, signed
by one of the chiefs of the insurrection, Marian
Langiewicz, who states that he has been appointed
to the military command of the palatinate of Cra-
cow. In this document he says :

Considering that the palatinate of Cracow poetesses great
facility for procuring arms ; that the insurrection has burst
out in all the Polish provinces despoiled by Russia ; that
volunteers flock there ; that we are witnesses of the fright
of Russia at this slot d'ordre, " Vivo Poland, death to the
Russian oppressors !"—I believe it is my duty and my right
to summon our Crseovian brothers to rise. Sons of valiant
fathers, you will preserve unsullied the glory which was ac-
quired by them. Rise in little bands ; distribute yourselves
over the palatinate ; harass the Russian garrisons ; or.
genies yourselves in insurrectional detachments, so
as afterwards to form • regular army ; arm your.
selves with faith, hope, and courage, and the least pro-
bable results will become possible. Imitate the inhabitants
of the palatinate of Sandomir, who are the terror of the
Russians. Follow as, but promptly, for time is precious.
On the occasion of the shooting of some' insur-
gents, the committee of insurrection in Plock have
informed the Grand Duke that they will resort to
reprisals, and shoot all Russian superior officers
who fall into their hands.

Almost the whole of the railway between War-
saw and Cracow is in the hands of the insur-
gents.
The Russian and Prussian governments show great
irritation against the Austrian press, which mani-
fests remarkable sympathies with the Polish
cause.

The Siècle of to-day publishes an address from
the workmen of Warsaw to the workmen of France,
accompanying a BUM 'of money for the distressed
operatives. In it they say :

Two yeses ago we swore that punishment should come on
the Muscovites if the Czar did not keep his word. We have
already lost much time in attempting to gain peaceably
some reforms. All of our nation now feel that the pro-
mises of the Russian government are lies. Thus, then, cry-
ing to God for veogsaace, we go, young and old, to a despe-
rate combat. We are leaving our workshops and fields to
march with our brothers to death. The Russians are mad-
dened against us. They are armed ; they ►re receiving re-
inforcements. Yon know that we shall have to loge much
blood, for we have neither soldiers nor arms ; but we shall
willingly fight and die, for to live In this horrible servitude
is impossible. Our cause is good and just, and God will
aid as if no human power comes to our assistance. You
see, French brothers, what is passing amongst us, and we
pray you to be ever our friends.
(azorsa's rstscatme.)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fan. 13.
The Journal de Rt. Petersbonrg of to-day pub-
lishes news from Slew of yesterday's date.
A band of 2,000 insurgents occupied Dibienka
upon the frontier of the government of Lublin, be-
tween the districts of Rubeszow and Wladimir
Wolhinsky.

The Delta, with the heavy portion of the mail,
railed at sunset on the 10th inst. She may be
expected at Southampton on the 23rd.
The Jeddo brought the mail to Suez, arriving
there on the 9th.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(11118 DAY.)

EQUITY COURTS.
(Before the Muter of the Rolls.)
WIESITZR O. STOTON.

The plaintiff is the owner in fee and occupier of No. 84,
Losedowne.place, and the defendant, a lady, is the owner of
No. 82, in the same place. The supply of water to both
the houses is derived from a large eider°, which is
situated as to one half on the plaintiff's and the other
half on the defendant's bad, but the service pipe
of the cistern is fixed on the defendant's land. The plaintiff
had the right of being oupplied with water through the said
service pipe, andhad, the-bill stated, till recentlyenjoyed such
right. The bill alleged an intended alteration by the defendant
in the sire of the cistern and a diversion of the water sap.
plied by the service pipe to another cistern, which she was to
erect on her own land. The plaintiff had objected to say
alteration without his sanction, and in reply was
assured on the part of the defendant that the alterations
contemplated were nectesary, but that a separate cistern
should be provided on the plaintiff's premises, and the
service pipe altered accordingly. The alterations by the
defendant appeared to have stopped the supply of
water to the cistern on the plaintiffs property, and hence
this suit was instituted, preying a declaration that the
plaintiff was entitled to the use and enjoyment of the usual
supply of water, praying also that he might be quieted in
the possession the
An injunction was also asked.
The defendant's answer stated that she had'offered even
to lay on the water to the plaintiff's hem's, with a separate
service pipe, passing entirely through the plaintiff's land,
and to separate the cistern effectually to the plaietiff's satis-
faction, at her own expellee, but that the plaintiff had de-
clined such offers. .
Mr. Si jilzn and Mr. Bathen were for the plaintiff ; and
Mr. Ba y and Mr. Davey. for the defendants.
His onour said if the defendant would undertake in the
terms of the above offer or make provision to supply water
to the plaintiff's half of the cistern, all proceedings must be
stayed, and the plaintiff must pay the costa up to the
hearing.
Liberty to apply.
-
(Before Floe-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood.)

This was • suit instituted by the plaintiff, as mortagee
of the ship Warbler, against thedefendanta Fogo, who pur-
chased the vessel in Louisiana, Macdonald, the muter of
the vessel, and Campbell the consignee—to have it declared
that the mortgagee was entitled both to the ship and
height, subject only to such proper disbursements, if any,
as the court should allow. The case was this :—Menre.
Klingender Brothers being the sole registered owners of The
Warbler, which was • British vessel, by en indenture,
dated the 25th September, 1864, and duly registered at
Liverpool on the 2nd October following, mortgaged the
ship to the plaintiff, as trustee for the Bank of Liverpool,
for the purpose of securing • sum of money then
due to the bank upon an overdrawn account,
and also sk • continual and running security
to the bank for all monies which then were or thereafter
might become due from the firm of Klingender Brothers to
the bank, with interest. On the 4th of December, 1857, the
mortgagors stopped payment. The ship was then on •
voyage to New Orleans, and arrived there about the end of
that month. She was shortly after attached by certain
creditors of the mortgagors under proceedings taken in the
mauls of Louisiana by the attaching creditors for the pnr
pose of making the ship available for their demands. The
Bank of Liverpool, before hearing of these proceedings,
sent out instructions to their agent, Mr. William Mum of
New Orlesns (the proceedings being in the district court of
Louisiana). to claim the ship under the bill of sale ; and
such agent with that view intervened in the proceedints, and
used his utmo-t endeavours to protect the Batik of Liver-
pool as mortgagees of the ship by from time to time assert-
ing and insisting on the title of the bank as mortgagee*
under the said bill of sale Such proceedings, however,
resu,ted after several hearings in the title of
the bank being wholly disregarded, the law of Louisiana
not allowing of mortgages of chattels ; and under the order
of the court there the ship was sold to the defendant Fogs,
• British subject then and still residing in Louisiana he
buying with full knowledge of the bill of sale executed in
favour of the bank, and of the bank asserting and insisting
on their title as mortgagees, and denying as they in fact did
that such defendant could acquire cry good or sufficient title
to the ship as against the bank. The ship arrived on the
22nd of gareb, 1860, at Liverpool, with a cargo of cotton.
This am / was then instituted by the plaintiff as public
officer of the bank. Since the suit, the ship bad been sold
by arrangement, and the money retained by the defendant
Campbell to sumer the purposes of the suit.
The Vice-Chancellor, when the ease was heard, reserved
his judgment, which he now proceeded to deliver. After a
lengthy examination of authorities and a condemnation of
the law of the Lousiata, which was unique in refusing to
recognise the law of other countries, a condemnation which
their own jurists did not hesitate to express, his honour
came to the conclusion that in justice to British citizens
that law could not be upheld here ; none quently the title
of the defendants derived under that judgment was null
and void, and the plaintiff must be declared entitled to the
value of the vessel.