The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

Father's dud &ad nother's buried ;

Bee and bless you from above."
" Mrs. Plumper" acknowledged that it was so. " Very
likely, ma'am, very likely indeed." said Ouineavote,'
" nothing more likely. And I dare say some of their
fathers were dead and their mothers 1)1'6(41; but I
tell you we are not an orphan asylum for all that. We
are open to ALL of every nation—lVEßT nation—
ORPHANS or NOT."
We find that it certainly is so. There is no doubt
about it %hetever. We have carefully gone through
the list of the children in the asylum, and in the day
school connected therewith, and of which we may
have to say something another time. The circum-
stances of each child in these schools, "as they were
when ovanitted," are in the said list carefully recorded.
It is distinctly explained whether they were "ORPHANS
or NOT." And we find that out of 288 of them 143
were NOT, and three or four are doubtful.
In running our eye over the list of those who were
NOT," it struck us to examine what were the pecu-
liar claims of this class—whet were the distressing
circumstances that could have indwed e preference in
their favour er er the claims of the fatherless and
motherless, or of the poor stricken widow pleading
for on" of a numerous and tender-aged family. Some
of the " claims " are certainly curious. The first case

on the list is described thiLll
Peri nts of highly respectable emmesions ; have lost firs
children, and unable to give due cars to the surviving two.
One would have thought the stronger cam would
have been, had the entire ,even children survived. We
have heard of agricultural societies that gave a pre-
mium to the labourer who n ared in respectability the
I most numerous family ; but the St. Anne's Society's
principle would seem to be to give the advantage to
those who low the tirgest number. Talk of burial-
clubs—what is this? But we go to the next case.
The claim here is thus given :

Father a grocer.
Well, and a very respectable and lucrative trade,
too. The next ruse thus:
Father was a brewer; now in Canada with six children.
Most probably very much improved in position by
being there, and, having six children with him, the
seventh might very fairly, we should have thought,
have been supported by its friends at home without
being tacked upon a charity. Tre next case is this :
Father was an hotel keeper, but failed. His addreu is
Railway Station, London•bridge.
Well, a thousand hotel keepers have failed, and
very few of them have been so lucky as to get ap-
pointments from railway directors. Here a man, not
succeeding in one line of business, gets an office of
another sort, and this is considered a claim ! If he
had died instead of failed, the claim, upon the St.
At ne's principle, would not have been half so great.
Now we have rot selected these cases. They are
absolutely the first four upon the list of children, NOT
orphans, in this :ilium. Of course we cannot go
through that list of the whole 143: if we could, we
should show that the majority of cases were ve,y
little stronger. But we must be content with taking
a few specimens. One of the next children named is
*sister to a boy now in the school" That is her
claim. And turning to the .ccount of the boy, we
find that he was houyht in at a cost of a hundred
guineas: evidently showing that his friends bad
means. The very next name is one that we recognise
as among the very best in one of the largest wholesale
businesses near Charing Cross: a name as familiar to
all men as the names of DAT and MARTIN. The
claim here is stated:
Father unfortunate is business.
He must, we suppose, have " made losses," as the
term goes, the month before the election. The next
case is thus presented :
Father (uncle to the African traveller) wee a lieur..colonel
R M., ; served 38 years; now in his 73rd year; reduced by
distr‘ wing circumstances to poverty, but much esteemed.
Whether it was the relationship to the African
traveller, or the lieut.-colouelship in the Marines, or
the distressing circumstances that constituted the
claim here, we leave others to decide; but is this a
case to put beside that of the destitute orphan or
fatherless? and this lieut.-colonel has interest enough
to obtain the election of two of his children ! The
army seem favoured by St. Anne. Here are three
other eases:
1. Father an artist: grandfather an officer in the army.
L. No mother: grandfather was a general in the army.
3. Father a retired officer in the army.
With the exception of the two last, all the above
cases are cases of children who have been elected by
the votes of the committee and subscribers. We do
not hesitate to express our regret that in the face of
such cases we should have described the St. Anne's
Society by the very erroneous title of an " Orphan
Asylum." It clearly is nothing of the kind. It is a
place of shelter (not a school, we (onset concede that)
for the children of persons of respectable position,
who have money and influence enough to get
them in. Whether or not the institution goes to the
public for donations, contributions, and subscriptions',
upon proper pretences, is another question, but that it
is nest an orphan society is very clear. In fact, the
higher your standing the better, apparently, your
chance of success. The report of the present year is
somewhat interesting for its pedigrees. Mr. BURKE,
of heraldic reputation, might consult it with advan-
tage. The children frequently appear to come to the
asylum, as applicants for admission into the French
army used to go to the French Xing, with the roll d
their ancestry In their hands open for examination.
They go down to Brixton as a Welshman goes abroad,
with their pedigrees in their pockets. We are told of
one young genn, that
He is the lineal deeteadant of Sir Ralph Sadie's, the last
knight bannerat and privy councillor of three English mar
reigns, and that his archer a:so is of good family.
We wonder if the tax collector of the parish has
ever looked after the armorial bearing* of this esta-
blishment! Their use among the boys is no doubt
sufficiently 'sterol A pole-oat proper or a weasel
asleep probaNy decorate the interesting communica-
tions of half these young gentlemen to their epsuletted

Mow
An " Orphan Anima! • We do indeed retract!

ROME, Ocr. 26.
The war party here has, of course, made the most
of events at Vienna. Happily Rossi had just entered
into arrangements for the hire of two thousand addi-
tional Swiss mercenaries (the only sort of troops Otto
cope with the invent sof the Cravatte) ; and, as the
war fever is at full h. ight in Tuscany, we too are on
the alert, and keep our powder dry.
By way of a sham-fight, our city yesterday we-
minted the spectacle of miniature warfare, with a
small siege. The Jews in the Ghetto having ill-
treated some civic guards from the other side of the
Mir the Trastevertni roes en maws and beleaguered
du Israelite settlement with hostile shouts and cries
et vengeance. Thu assailed, the sons of Jacob, cloa-
oftheir shops, showered from their windows all sorts
obnoxious materials on the invaders, and gave
them a rather warm reception. Several /ewe were
killed, and a peat number of Trasteverini badly
wounded, skulls !Vectored, and limbs scalded with hot
it. The dragoons and carabineere had to interfere,
and they now guard the entrances, and patrol such of
the passages of the Ghetto as admit of cavalry.
A curious question of jurisprudence has been set
at rest here just now ; and as it may bear on the right
f railroad directors to close their concern on Sundays
(for we have learnt here with disgust the conduct pur-
sued in Scotland toward the Duchess of timberland), I
briefly give it. Torlonia is owner of the two theatres
the Apollo and the Argentina. He objects for some
reason or other to open the latter, which is
the leading house for ogees in Rome. The
municipality • insists en -its being handed over to
an impresario on the usual terms. The banker do-
arm' and his lawyer quotes the pandects of Justi-
nian and other learned authorities on the right to do
as one likes with one's own property. But the tribu-
nal here has drawn a pointed distinction between
public establishments belonging to private individuals
and property not so circumstanced. It is ruled that
private parties become possessed of such establish-
ments subject to the strict right of anuses in the pub-
lic, against whom the doors cannot be closed ; foes
such as the exigence of these theatres has precluded
the erection of others, and it would be monstrous to
say that Rome should depend on the caprice of Toe-
lonia tar the enjoyment of its centrum
This week will see the end of the " Irish Colleges "
litigation. I augur thertanent an equally sensible

and liberal decision. Yon ought to have in London
a Human monsignor just now, u one left here on the
14th inst. with despatches for Lord l'almerston from
Count Rossi.

FRANCS.—mau Elto/l MARBEILLES.—The follow-
ing notice has been given by the director of the post-office :
"The public is informed that the post-nfftee packets for car-
rying the mails and presagers between Marseilles, Alexan-
dria, and Beyrout, will henceforth, instead of the 10th and
27th of each month, start from Marseillie on the Bth and
23rd of the month, at 8 in the morning, for Beyrout, touch-
ing at Malta and Alexandria. The packets which leave
Marseilles on the Bth will arrive at Malta on the 9th, at
Alexandria on the 13th, and at Bayrout on the 15th. They
will start again from Beyrout on the 16th, at 12 o'clock,
reach Alexandria on the 18th, Malta on the 22nd, and Mar
*eines on the 25th. The packets wit:eh leave Marseilles on
the 23rd will arrive at Malta on the 26th, Alexandria on the
30th, and Beyrout on the 2nd of the next month. They
will leave Beyrout again on the 3rd, at 12 o'clock, and reach
Alexandria ou the 6th, Malts on the lltb, and Marseilles on
the 14th."
THE PALMS DU LUXEMBOURG hag become the
central point of all the military operations for the defence of
the left bank of the Seine. The ground-110,r of the palace.
comprising the immense corridors leading to the new stale,
is oceupird by a battalion of the line. The furnished apart-
ments at liberty hare been set apart for the officers of the
rigiment which occupies the temporary barracks in the ger-
den. These officers, about 50 in number, can thus receive
at any hour the orders of 0 1 Banboul, centmanding the
brigade. The general, in a few days, will take possession of
his head-quarter., and occupy the apartments in the pa. ace
set apart for the members of the executive government.
The erection of the temporary barracks of La Pepihiare and
the Carrefour de l'Oheervateire is nearly finished. The
troop, which occupied the Orangery are to take orsoeuion of
the new quarters. Part of the soldiers lodg. din the Pan-
this's are about to he installed in the newly-constructed
buildings of the Luxembourg. When all :he arrangements
'hall be completed, a large force will occupy that important
point, and by rapid movements he able to execute the striae-
getic measures necessary for the defence of the adjacent
quarter..
SPAIN.—SPANIBII MINISTERI3.—Nareaez ban been
heard to confess that, in 1843, he landed at Valencia with
20 francs ; and now, notwithstanding his reckless extrava-
gance, he is known to be worth 200,0001. in money, besides
pcesessing immense landed property, in the shape of
rooHy-
cited church property, purchased from the state. Fifteen
years ago Sart arias, the minister of the interior, was a poor
sopiaa (slur) in the University of Salamanca, and, iu 1840,
accepted with gratitude the situation of a copyist in the effices
of &newspaper entitled the Correo Nacional, for which drud-
gery he received two franca a day. His equipages and gene-
ral etyle of living now are wortl.y of a prince, and it is noto-
rious that he throws away thousands upon his numerous
mistresses, which, however, does not pmvent him from in-
vesting large sums from time to time in foreign stock. In
1842, Mon, minister of finance, was not worth 1001. a year,
and was celebrated amoarst his acquaintance for his "shock-
ing bad hat." He is now possessed of a fortune estimated at
400,0001., and has recently presented his illegitimate children
with wales worth 10,0001.
AMEItICA.—A TEMPERANCE Tow/Y.—The New
York Sun states .hatlastspring a few individuals proposed pur.
chasing • tract of about 30 acres of land on the hue of the
Harlem railroad, within convenient time and distance of
that city. Their object was to divide the land into about
one acre lots, erect dwellings, and make it their future home,
and thus amble their families to enjoy the free open air of
the country, removed from the vices and allurements of a
great city, and still attend to their usual business avocations. '
As soon en this movement became known among the work
shops, the number speedily increased to over 200, the
result of which has been the purchase of a tract of 200
acres of land front G. Moms. Esq., of Morrisania, which
has been laid out into streets and avenues, and on account of
the large number of applicants, into quarter, half, and one
sere lots. The purchasers formed an emaciation in taking
their lots, stipulating that no ardent spit itsshould be bought,
sold, or drunk on their respective premises, and that witein
three years they would erect dwellings of riot less than three
hundred dollars value upon them. Arrangements have been
made with the Harlem Railroad to go into op-tration next
spring for running an early and • late train expressly for the
accommodation of this village, and already the work of turn-
piece, five or six miles of streets and 11•0111.101, and the build-
ing of houses have been emaissood.