The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

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LONDON. TUESDAY. AUGUST 29.

NAY we be permitted, without reproach of
squeamishness, to express a modest hope that we
have heard the last of Min CONSTANCE KaNT, if
not of " the Road Murder," for some time to come f
That interesting young person, who, at an age
when most young ladies hive scarcely cut the
leaves of their first novel, had transacted with her
own hands a domestic drama compared with which
the full-bodied fictions of the circulating library
are weak as water-gruel, his achieved every sort
of sensational distinction. As a juvenile
murderess, as a pions communicant in a
Protestant nunnery, as • martyr to a too ex-
acting conscience, to the indefatigable clerically of
" Sisters," and to the discipline of amateur spiri-
tual directors ; as a penitent at Brighton and a
" wax work " in Baker-street, she has lost no op-
portunity since her early girlhood of exciting the
sympathy of a sentimental public, and qualifying
herself for cheap and popular canonization, if not,
as M. LAMM/TINE might Say, among " the angels of
" assassination," at least among the saints of crime.
And now, after refreshing Society in the season with
the record of her conversion in the Brighton con-
vent, and of her exemplary life of prayer and
spiritual exercises in that retreat from a sinful
world, this engaging young person, of whom the
gallows was not worthy, with the assistance of a
lunacy doctor and • solicitor, comes forward in this
dull time to describe in the form of a supplemental
confession, and with a fine dramatic instinct and
sense of the value of details, all the incidents of
" The Road Murder." No doubt she paints the
scene with a rather big brush, but she writes in the
bye-play and the "business" and all the accessories,
with the serious unction of • superior melo-
dramatist. Certainly a young person who can
move a fine horror an skilfully should have reserved
the capacities of her rare organization for that more
lucrative and respectable trade in crime which cul-
minates in the third volume of " the moat successful
" novel of the season." Instead of this, she wasted
• world of startling power in a single night's ex-
periment of thrilling situations that might have suf-
ficed to make the flesh of an admiring public creep
through nine hundred pages. Perhaps one of the
most refined, though not the most terrible, of cruel-
ties even Miss Kraft has committed was to throw in
this careless and sudden manner, to a public already
gorged with wholesale massacres of children, this
artfully mixed and sorted mess of horrors—the cot,
the razor, the closet, the candle, the footpan, the
nightdress—all touched with the hand of a true
literary artist of the nightmare school. We are not
going on any moral or other convenient pretext :o
linger upon these ►trocities for the edification of our
readers. All that we honestly ask is that Miss
CONSTANCE Karr's spiritual or medical friends and
advisers will be good enough to leave any question
that may arise about the nightdress and the
razor wound unsolved, and to entrust the fame of
their unhappy patient to its fitting shrine in the
" Chamber of Physiognomy." The public have
had more than enough of the subject. Let
it suffice to know that Miss KENT was no ordi-
nary young lady, and that even the most extra-
ordinary young ladies do not murder in so delibe-
rate and elaborate a manner their little brothers in
tolerably comfortable and conventional households.
Youth is sometimes said to be without pity, but its
want of pity is want of thought—the pitiless-
ness of the kitten, not of the tiger. There is
natural affection in young natures before what is
called love comes to soften them by suffering and
self-devotion. All astonishment at • crime, however
hideous, is idle ; for who that has ever paused
to sound the depths of the human heart can doubt
that if there are dazzling heights to which
it may ascend, there are also precipices
of passion and abysses of infamy down which it
may be swept by one perverted instinct the
moment self-control is lost or thrown away.
There is a profound meaning in these words of
LEAR, " That way madness lies"—for all crime is
madness, but madness to be punished, not exalted
to martyrdom.

The Grand Duchess of Oldenburg, accompanied
by the Princes Nichelai, George, and Goestantine, and the
Princesses Catherine and Theresa, with • DIIMCIVIL suite,
has arrived in Parishes)) Seleturc. _ .

Their Highnesses the Prinoe and Princess
Fkiesixonberg have left Claridge's Hotel for Veetuor, Isla
of Wight.
The Marquis Canavaro and son have arrived at
Claridge's; Hotel from Paris.
Viscountess Royston was delivered of a daughter
on Sasday at the British Embasay, Paris The mother
sod fault are progremlog favourably.
Lady Emily Peel has arrived at the Hotel
Bristol, Paris, from London, on her way to Geneva.
The marriage of Major Darell, of Calehill, and
Miss Eyre, of Lindley, is tiled to take plea early in the
ensuieg month.
The Bishop of London has on and from this day
discoatinued hie usual Tuesday weakly levees at London-
boom, St. James's-square, until further notice. The Bishop
of London and Mrs. Tait arrived at the Palace, Peter-
borough, oo Sataudsy night last, from Fulham Palms, ea
a slit to the Bishop of Peterboroegh and Kra. Jenne.
M. Gordillo has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from
Paris. _ _ .

111 Benedetti, Ambassador of France at Berlin,
has striver] ie Paris.

Mr. Manockjee Cursetjee, the well-known
Parsee judge aed ehileethropist, has WI Park ea a tsar
in Gernwey anti Russia.
" The Baroness de Budberg," says the Nord,
"hes left Treeeille for Baden, in consequence of news re-
mised of the death of her sister, Magma de Kaargias."