The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11.

a *illy boy and girl, barely arrived at the marriage-
able age, enter, as too frequently happens in this
city, into the bonds of matrimony. Without instruo.
tion, secular or religious, thriftless, devoid of guiding
!principles, they fall into poverty, thence into
squabbles. She scratches him, and he thrashes her.
Unmanly the young scoundrel is, no doubt, bet
fitter fur the punishment of the nursery or school,
than of a prison. Even the deep degradation of the
wife-beating class we see may have its "extenuating
circumstances," as our French neighbours phrase it ;
but what extenuation can there be for the cold-
blooded and intense selfishness of the " respectabili-
ties " who can conspire to abandon two helpless
female infants to a fate at which the most
thoughtless must shudder when they reflect for a
moment?

THERE. ii really nothing to be said about the re-
venue returns for the year and quarter ended yester-
day. They continue to indicate an increasing
revenue in the face of all abolitions or reductions of
taxos.
.. .

.Ismodeus, should he visit London in our day,
might make shocking revelations in the houses of the
outwardly decorous and regular. Our civilisation is
after all little more than skin deep. The surface is
seemingly sound, fair with flowers ; but every now
and then a piece of it breaks in, disclosing the un-
quenched fire of human passion that smoulders,
glows, and withers beneath. For child-sacrificers

Under all the heads of "ordinary revenue" there
is an increase fur the year; except under the petty sup-
plementary• one entitled " Miscellaneous." Customs,
Excise, Stamps, Taxes, Property Tax, Post-office.
and Crown Lands—all have yielded more in the year
ended 10th October, 18.53, than they did in the year
ended 10th October, 1832. Their aggregate increase
for the twelve months is no less than 1,669,8971.;
deducting from which the year's decrease of 110,0331.
under the head miscellaneous, there remains an in-
crease of 1,339,8641. on the ordinary revenue.
There is also an increase for the year of the re-
ceipts of " Imprest and other Monies," and " Repay-
ments of Advances," of 133,8801. from the former,
and 618,0081. from the latter.

there is no punishment—they walk unscathed, un-
deterred by the penal law. Some of the aberrations
of the "respectable," when detected, do consign
them to the mercies of gaolers and turnkeys.
It is this class of delinquents whom our theorists
are but too apt to have exclusively in
view when they speak of reformatory and
intimidating punishment. This class know some-
thing, have acquired certain habits of self-control,
whether the motives for it be virtuous or not. They
can feel their fallen state and be led to aim at regain-
ing a position. The unfallen of their circle in
society may take warning from their fate. But the
immense majority of the inmates of our prisons are
totally different beings. They have been left to
grow up ignorant or perverted. Language con-
veys to them either no ideas or ideas quite different
from what it conveys to the " respectables." With
all the exertions of philanthropists for more than
half a century, we have scarcely advanced with this
clans of prisoners beyond the rude and inefficient
method of locking them up from time to
time, to keep them out of harm's way, and
making their abode as unpleasant as possible, in
the hope that this may deter them from doing any-
thing to cause their being brought back. These poor
wretches require to be humanised—we require to

The total increase for the year is 2,311,7321.
On the qua:ter ended 10th October, 1833, there is
a decrease, as compared with the corresponding
quarter in 18.52, of 29,996/. on taxes, and 25,0001. on
the Post Office; but, on the other hand, an increase
of 22,1001. on Miscellaneous. There is a decrease for

the quarter of 16,2391. from " Imprest and other
Monies," but an increase of 207,2121. from "Repay-
ments of Advances." The increase on the quarter is
464,9621. ; the decrease, 71,23.51.; leaving a net in-
crease of 417,727!.

We hinted a few days ago that the tide had taken
a temporary turn. This having only happened a
week or two ago, does not appear on the face of
the present returns. The return, for the year and
quarter ending sth January, 1834, will probably
show a greater amount of decrease to be deducted
from the increase, and spread over a greater number
of heads. We mention this, not for the consola-
tion of Protectionists and other growlers, but to fore-
stal them; for, all deductions being made, enough will
still remain to entitle us to add the year 1853 to
those which have preceded it, bearing witness, in a
financial point of view, to the wisdom of a Free Trade
policy.

THIS is a most philanthropic age. To listen to its
language one might fancy it, lit* CHAUCER'S
Prioress, all "gentleness and tender heart." But
awkward facts will occur at times that betray a
fearful amount of old induration of heart beneath
this specious exterior._

On Saturday but a brace of " well-dreesed " young
women presented themselves before the police magis-
trate in Marlborough-street. Their object was to

learn from him by what means the St. Pancras
guardians might be compelled to take charge of
" two beautiful female children, of the ages of about
three and six years," whom they brought along with
them. Whether the children were beautiful or not
is unworthy a moment's consideration. Were they
ugly u sin, or—what ia uglier far—the hearts of
their relations, stiU their story would be sad and hu-
miliating._

learn some language which both can understand,
before we have any chance of making an impression
on them. Can they be intellectually or morally
trained by one half-hour's prelections in the week
for a few months or even years ? Can they be taught
to love labour by being rendered emaciated from
turning a crank which produces nothkng ?

LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT.

(lIT ELECTRIC TELIO/LAPIL)
CONSTANTINOPLE, Strr. 27.

The Duke de Nemourv, his brother-in-law, and
the Duke of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, accompanied by
General Reille, have just visited the Russian army
in Moldo-Wallachia, where they encountered a
brilliant reception. They afterwards visited the
Turkish camp, and are at this moment at Shumla, at
the head-quarters of Omer Pasha.
Four steam-frigates hare been sent to Syria for
new troops, and two others to Asia with ordnance
stores for the Anatolian army.

VIENNA, O. 6.
The Czar has coaferred Russian orders on eighty
officers of the Austrian army.

7, Barr. 26.

Their- father has deserted them and their mo-
ther. The mother is in • state of destitution
and "out of the way." Their paternal grandfather
—" a tradesman of respectability"—" apparently
quite able to keep the children "—refuses to support
them—turns them out of doom The maternal grand-
mother—mother of the two " well-drnned • youn
women—refuses to take them in. The kind an
well-dressed aunts conduct them, with a happy in-
difference, to workhouse or polies aloe; anxious
only to drop them by the way, as lieu. Thema
and his brutbers and sisters were carried out to be
left in the forest by their starving parents. The
father who dosses his family, the mother who "gets
out of the way" leaving her children to chance, the
grandfather "of respectability," the grandmother
" determined not to shelter the children again," and
the " well•dreesed " aunts who cheerfully take upon
them the office ascribed to the lee hardened of the
two ruffians in" the Babes of the Wood," are indeed
an unrivalled family group. What can the souls of
the poor children have done in any pre-existent
state to incur the doom of being born into
such a family ? And yet to look upon them, father,
mother, aunts, grandfather, grandmother—ell appear
of the highest "respectability," talk like other
mortals of the lapses of their follow-creatures, shed
tears over melodramas oe romances, nay sabeeribe, it
may be, to missions and philanthropic institutes.
And yet the winds( ways of children of three and
six years old—their own flesh and blood—leave
their stony hearts untouched.

Prince Oortschakoff is busy on the Danube per-
sonally superintending the works going on there.
Hs is rarely seen in Bucharest. On the Turkish side
of the river Tarim defensive works are in progress,
but nothing indicates an intention of crossing for
an attack.

Father, mother, aunts, grandfather, grandmother,
run away from, or bar their doers against, or carry oat
to get rid of, these belpkes innocents. They throw
them on the parish, knowing all the hardships and
temptations to which fleas of the parish are
exposed. The children are girls, and said to be
beautiful ; who can read this without feeling
certain that in this overgrown metropolis they
are, if parish-bred, all bat certain to live
to curse the fatal gift of beauty ? They may, indeed,
live to be, for a few short months, as " well droned"
as their aunts—bet at what a pries? This is the
future upon which their callous relatives oomph
oently throw them. We can cousin the refusal of
the Pancras Giardina* to receive these children into
the workhouse to have been prompted by humanity.
They, good easy men, may have imagined that in a
family of "respectability" the infants might be
better eared for, better trained, than in the public
almshouse. If so, they are mistaken. Be the lot of
a workhouse child what it may—be the future fate
of these girls as dark as we have sought to fore-
shadow—they cannot be more heartless, more inca-
pable or =deserting of happiness, than the example
and preempts of relatives like theirs would make
them.

We bar mach talk of the depravity and inunora
lity of the times daspreine ! We will not be sus-
pected of any disposition to palliate the unmanly
brutality of wife-beaters. Yet there are some-
times two sides to these revolting stories which
have obtruded thmisuipse upon su with such
terrible frequency of We. If we more fre-
quently find the tyrant. husband a drunken, un-
provoked brute, we also Aid occasionally faults on
both sides. A hard-working, steady, though coarse
and ignorant man has, we gall suppose (the case
has occurred), a wife who constantly drinks his earn-
ings, makes his house too hot to hold him, outrages
htai in other ways. Some day provoked beyond en-
durance, forgetful of his superior strength, forgetting
the sex of the un-womanised wretch, he strikes
her. We will not apologise for him, but as.
suredly he ought not to be classed with the many
Nabrated evasion wits-killeee we beer of. Apia

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1853.