The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-01 00:00:00

THZ LUGGAGB OP PABIBIBff 14.1.D1Z9.

"An accident took me yesterday," aye the
Perin oemespendest of the Post, "to • great rail-
way esti" the iron seism of which wander from
Paris rotted about many large cities and towns of
Feasts., and finally end at various German watering
places. There were • number of the debar Ohio
going by this train ; is hot, it seemed se if by some
odd oombisaties the winos won to be filled only with
the polite and fsehioestde world sad their servants.
Nose of the humble ohm, it was quite evident, were
going to Baden, Homburg, or say of the fishionable spa
by that not very long line of flat-elses carriages. What •
wonderful amount of luggage these petal people were
soils( to take with them. There were perhaps
twenty boxes palatal drab odour, mealy boned
with black plates not lees than 8 feet long
and 5 feet high. Thies fell-grown parental-looldeg
COMO ware suneended by • very numerous family of smaller
boxes of all ages (or aims), eommenciag with an latent form ,
of 2 feet by 1 foot, end getting begot up to seedy the dm I
of the gigantic cases above referred to. I fell into • half
melaneholy mood as I thieght of the easily sad
enespliseAed imitate of those bola. I knew that
they ware fell of voluntaries and meet alabaster
dresses, very email somethings sew celled babas,
regiments el boobs sad ahem, and mete elf glass. Then,
thought I, there meet be sederclothing also. Is fanner
days web neeemaries need to occupy • very small spa.
There are those living who remember packing a wife's
toilette, and placing ell that we generally called linen at
the bottom in a small compose. But now, if one may judge
from the article of ladies' dress in the shop windows of
Paris when lingerie is sold, nothing can be flattened with
propriety. The most intimate under garment is ear trilled
and had es much as were oar mothers' ball dreams. What
a lot of money, and what • lot of boxes, and what • num-
ber of bills, and what • number of strange histories must
grog out of this tux: of the toilette. Ah ! thought I, Id.
Depict, you have not yet brought about your toilette re-
form. 1 was becoming se sentimental as possible, and
wondering bow much Providesce might decree anyone of
us to contribute to this age of female ruination, when •
pretty little French lady, to whom I am ocossionally in-
debted for explaining toilette mysteries, rushed up and ex- 11
claimed, ' Now, you are not going to Homburg? Of
course I wished I was, and said more pretty things than a
man at my time of life ought to utter. But we soon got
into a business conversation (bow delightfully a
clever woman opens a new vein of oonvereatiou).
dame 1. Comte*, told me (we woo began to ad-
dress each other with the utmost propriety) that H.
Dupin's suggestion about forming what is called a COO -
frerie de la Bimplicite,' for the purpose of checking the
alarming luxury of dress of our day, had been taken up by
a number of ladies of distinction. They had precipitately
sect away their crinolines, cut their trains or tools off their
dresses, unpicked so many somethings from something else,
the name of which we have no right to remember ; sod I
was further assured that ere loog ladies would return to
the toilette of the First Empire, when the dress followed
the graceful lines of nature, sod you knew if people had
pretty feet sod ankles. I could not help remarking that
these giant boxes around us were no signs of reform.
All the ladies present were actually sweeping the
floor of the railway station with some 10fr. a yard brushes.
I beard one fair creature say, on being interrogated es to
how many dresses she was taking with her, 'Six pour is
motif), six pour Faroe smidi et Is Meer, quatre pour le teal.
Noise savors pas fait yam d'i,the hermit's, o'est le strict ne-
cessaire.' I was more doubtful, however, about reform a.
I saw those ladies get into the carriages In all their wealth
of Bounties, with maids almost en expensively got up, ac-
companied (the 'when) by husbands wearing an aspect of
most profound resignation. Ab ! thought I, Id. Dean, •
men may cut a railway through the Isthmus of Suez, make
a revolution, invent a steam-engine, perform more labours
than AL Hercule., but he cannot influence or dictate female
fashions. Women will be burnt to death rather than be
influenced on that subject."

The Rev. Dr. Boyd, of St. Bernard's—more
widely known by bin literary disguise of A. H. H.B.—bas
accepted the call to the first charge of Bt. Andrew's • sad
the translation has been agreed to by the Edrantrgh

liresbytery.
FATAL ACCIDENT FROM A GRAVESEND STEAMBOAT.
—Yesterday afternoon a fatal accident of a peculiarly die-
treacle( nature took place off the pier at Woolwich. It
appears that a gentlemen named Smith, residing at 17, St.
James's-place, Clarendon-road, Nottiorphill, with his wife
and only child, Henry Robert, aged 10 yearn embarked at
}Nagel-ford on board the Ibis, passenger .team vessel, for
Gravesend. The vessel stopped as usual at the Woolwich
pier to embark passengers. and had scarcely stopped when
the lad by wane means fell from the side of the vessel near
the stern into the water and immediately disappeared under
her keel, all efforts to save his life being unavailing. It
appears that the lad had not been lost eight of more than
two minutes before the accident happened. As may be
imagined the distress of the parents at their sad and sudden
bereavement was painful to witness. The body has not

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yet been foiled.
DISCOVERY OF GUNPOWDER IN THE WIEF.SLY.—
LivEnrooL, THUESDAY.—This morning, as a boat in the
employ of the receiver of Admiralty droits was craisiog in
the river they picked up 650 barrels of gunpowder. The
(swoon of the powder are not as yet !positively known, but
it was supposed to have formed a portion of the cargo of the
ship Stella, Captain ClittbrillTO, which caught fire this morn-
ing near the lightships, bound for Port Natal and Ceara via
Havre. At the tme the Stella caught fire three steam
tugs were fortunately near her, and by their assistance the
flames were extiognished, and the vessel towed to New
Ferry, where she was scuttled and beached. It is impos-
sible to conceive the consequences which would have ensued
(supposing the gunpowder in question did form part of the
Stella's cargo, though there was none in her clearance
papers) bad the flames, on board the ship not been so
promptly subdued.
STRIKE OF THE SAWMILL LABOURER.% —The
labourers employed in the metropolitan sawmills, whose
wages are 1/. Is. per week, have made a request to the pro-
prietors of the mills for as advance of 6a. per day, grounded
on the high price of provisions and house rent. The ad-
vance asked for cot having been cooceded, yesterday the
men employed at desire Robinson and Barmen's mills,
Belvedere-road, Lambeth, the York-road Mills, the Ber-
mondaey Mills, and one or two smaller estoblishmenis, to
the ',umber of nearly 300, struck work, and subscription'
are befog orpoiaerl for their support by the workmen in the
other mills. The men also have a trade society from which
they will receive support. A general meeting of the men in
all the mills his been held, and they have pledged them-
selves to support the movement, and insist upon the ad-
vance asked for.
ANOTHER STRIKE IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—
Considerable an aisty has been occasioned in North Stafford-
shire, by the turn out of 500 colliers and ironstone miners
in the employ of Mr. H. If. Williamson, of Turista, who
had refused to secede to their demand of an advance of 6d.
per day in their wages. The men hose this demand oe the
state of the markets and the increased price of provisions,
which, they say in a published address, justify the course
they have taken. Their combination bee been met by •
counter.combination on the part of the North Staffordshire
0.1 and Ironmsaters' Association, who have resolved
unanimously :—" That the present condition of the trade
does not justify au advance of wages." They have also sp.
pointed a committee to organise a system for • contribution
per ton of coal and ironstone raised by each member of the
association, to go to a general fund for supporting ironstone
and coal mestere in resisting any unjust demands on the
part of their men. The movement fur an advance has not
yet extended to other collieries in the district, but it is said
a large ournber of men will be influeoced by the result of
the dispute at Messrs. Williamson's colliery.
THE HUNIIINO-BIRD HAWK-MOTH.—This insect
is everywhere common this season, even venturing into
the heart of London, and sporting in Teenologardoes
and the courtyard of the British Museum—Bardinckes
Science Gossip.
THE CHILDREN OF THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.
—A list of names is made out beforehairi, and as the
children arrive they are fitted to them in replier order.
As sone as they are baptised they are despatched into the
country, where wet nurses have been provided for them.
Within a distance of twenty mile% io Kent and Surrey,
there are always about 200 of these foundlings at nurse.
Every child hes its oame sewn up in its frock. and also •
distinguishing mark hung round its neck by a chain, which
the nurse is enjoined to see is always in its place. There
children are regularly inspected by a medical men, and the
greatest care is taken that due nourishmeet is afforded to
the babes. When the nurse cannot do this • certain
amount of milk is iequired to be given. The foster chil-
dren whilst at puree are under the observation of visitor'
in the neighbourhood. When Hogarth lived at Chiswick
be and his wife took charge of a eartaie number of them
little ones, and it is pleasant to read the faded amounts in
the handwriting of the great painter, in which be shows that
the interest he took in the charity was of the most intimate
kind—that be not only enriched it with the gifts of his pen-
cil. as we shall presently show, but also with his tender
solicitude for the foundling, who could make hint no TAWS
for the care with which he watched over them. The foster.
children as • rule are very well taken care of ; • large per
esertege indeed surviving the maladies of childhood, which
they certainly would not have dose, under the peculiar cir-
-1 ennistaness of their birth, outside the walls of the asylum.
--Aillimp llagazies for September.