The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-24 00:00:00

and opportunities have qualified him to be
a middle-class, and we might add a quasi-mediss-
Tel, MICZNAII in our religious and political world.

Tim promoters of industrial training establish-
mend for destitute boys are asking the Admiralty
to give some help to one of the most interesting
educational experiments of the day, and have met
with but a lukewarm reception. There are in
London and our large provincial towns a large
population of outcast boys, who are willing to
work, but who have been thrown helpless upon the
streets from childhood, compelled to beg, or steal,
or starve. Early in 1860 the Earl of Surxrdsuar
obtained from the Admiralty the grant of a
disused Government vessel, the Chichester, and
after fitting her up by voluntary subscriptions,
!sent a hundred London street boys on board
to be taught seamanship and the common
duties of humanity under an experienced and able
hand. The result was marvellous. A few months
after their admission these lads, many of them
thieves and the sons of thieves, were, to quote their
captain's words, "as well disciplined and with as
"keen a sense of personal honour as any set of boys
" from Eton, Harrow, or any public school in the
" kingdom." Afters few trifling escapades, break-
ing into the meat-locker, running away from the
cricket-ground, and perpetrating falsehoods, the
little community settled down into a well-ordered
family, which might challenge comparison with
establishments of far higher pretensions. Further,
the:

)3, have become expert seamen, and are readily
received into the merchant service, though in
some cases refused by the Admiralty for the
Pedantic reason that a certificate of birth is
necessary before they can be accepted by a Queen's

ship.
The example of the Chichester has been followed
elsewhere ; and the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
has asked for and obtained the hull of the Diana,

a frigate which it is said has been idle in the Mersey
for the last five-and-twenty years. But the masts,
spars, sails, and rigging are wanted, and the Ad-
miralty are petitioned to supply these out of the
old stores at present sold to dealers. In the case
of the Chichester these fittings cost 2,6061. out of
the money subscribed for the education of the
boys ; and the Government are asked to make the
Diana a useful instead of a costly gift. The Admi-
ralty not only refuses absolutely, but " fears" that
the movement may continuo to spread, as it already
has to Sunderland and Hull, and protests it
cannot bear the expense of assisting. What-
ever the official reasons for this course, the direct
effect is to throw cold water upon useful benevo-
lence, and to check a valuable supply of trained
seamen to the Royal Navy.

TH$ DA'
smart CHARM.
Tho Daily News says that shareholders at largo
of railway companies have not been convinced, even after
all that has transpired, that it has become necessary to in-
crease tho capabilities of their Una oat of capital. The
question seems to be treated by them very meek es a
matter of personal experience. There are some com-
panies as there are some individuals, who cannot gevees
themselves by ordinary rules, and so they must pus a
self-restraining resolution as a man Oakes a vow. Some-
times even this cannot restrain them, and they must then
be restrained by a chancery injunction, us man is I
proceedings in lunacy. The shareholder' of a well-
managed company might not nnameonahly ask to
have the net profit of the. line distributed among
them as feat as it Is earned, leaving their suc-
cessors to practise the same vigilance as that which
has hitherto guarded their interests. Of course they run
a risk in so doing, because the money with which improve-
' manta are made may be expended so unprofitably as to
reduce their dividend ; but they prefer doing so to fore-
going profits and letting them accumulate for the advan-
tage of others. The fact L, if the dividends of •
[ great lino were to be withheld for one year for the
[ purpose of augmenting its capabilities, the 'harm
would inevitably fall in the market, and as the railway
shareholding public is composed, as a rale, of annuitants
rather than great capitalists, railway directors are not
permitted to ignore this fact. If, however, capital as
counts are to remain open, it is of vital importance that
only that expenditure should be charged to them which
rerlly increases the permament value, that is, the perma-
nent earning power of the line.

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OSBORNE, Vs 22.
The Queen drove out, accompanied by Princess
Louise, and attended by the Duchess of Athele and M 1

Macgregor.
Primo Leopold drove out in the morning and afternoon.
The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel
Koppel, arrived at Osborne.
The Queen went out with the Prince of Wake and
Princess Louise.

Fn. 23.

ANT member of the legislature who has a taste
for curious information might elicit tome interest-
ing facts by moving for an aggregate return of the
expenses incurred in exercising ornamental objects
about the royal parks. Some fifteen years ago the
Marble-arch was transported from Buckingham
Palace to its present site, at a cost to the country
of 11,0001. About ten years afterwards, Mr.
COWPER induced parliament to consent to a
scheme for pumping the water from one end
of she Serpentine through a pipe to the
other end, and then pouring it back again into the
lake, and this wonderful method of giving to a
stagnant pond the excitement of a natural stream,
cost, including some asphalt. gardens which the ,
Chief Commissioners of Works thought tasteful,'
about 60,0001., and, we need not add, was found on
completion to be utterly useless. Still later,
many hundreds of men were employed
during two winters in carrying earth
from pits to the tops of mounds in that
part of Hyde-park which is from 12 to
2 o'clock the) chosen resort of the classes
of society characterised by our accurate neigh-
bours as " the world" and " the half world."
Just now his successor has been transplanting an
alcove which for the last hundred and fifty years
formed the architectural termination of the avenue
in front of Kensington Palace to a spot in the
neighbourhood of Mr. Cowraa's plaster fountains
and coal tar gardens, where it has been
re-erected in a corner, with no rela-
tion to anything in particular. This amuse-
ment must have certainly coat a hundred
pounds or two, and it would be interesting to know
with what public advantage. The baihling will
afford shelter to the nursemaids of Bayswater
during a shower, as it did hitherto to the nurse-
maids of Kennington, but one scarcely sees a
sufficient reason for thus favouring the ono locality
above the other. Itlhad an architectural fitness
in the place where it stood, which it wants in its
new position. We may hope Lord JOHN
MANNERS will inform us of the reason for
the removal when he next moves the esti-
mates for the keeping up of Kensington-gardens.
He may at the same time satisfy the curiosity of
the neighbourhood, by telling them why the
brick wall which flanks the Gardens on
I the side of the Palace-gardens-road has
been for the last six months pulled down
and a wooden hoarding subatituted resem-
bling that which he has so long maintained at
the other end of the Park as a memorial of Mr.
BEALEB'd triumph over Mr. WALPOLE. Tho victory
may have been a great one, but a single monument
to it might have sufficed. At all events the capri-
cious waste of the public money according to the
uncontrolled fancies of successive Commissioners of
Works is a matter not unworthy the notice of Par-
liament.

THE EXPRESS, ' MONDAY EVENING, 'FEBRUARY 24, AWL

Ma Prises of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel
Koppel. left Osborne.
The Queen drove out, accompAnieci by Princess Beatrice,
and attended by the Duchess of Athol'. Colonel de Ea,
was equerry in waiting.
Dr. Jenner kissed hands on being created a baronet.
Colonel and Lady Emily Cavendish and Captain Boyes,
RN., had the honour of dining with the Queen and the
royal family.

The Queen and Princess Louise, accompanied by the
Duchess of Athole and Colonel de Res, attended Divine
Serviee at the parish church, Whippingham.
The Rev. G. Prather° officiated.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel
Keppel, returned to Marlborough-house on Saturday after-
noon from visiting the Queen at Osborne.
The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the
Countess of Morton.

The Prince and Princess or Wales, with Countess of
Morton and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel in waiting, at-
tended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's,
yesterday.
The Communion service was read by the Rev, the Sub-
dean, the Rev. A. Sitwell, and the Rev. Dr. Vaughan.
Anthem, " 0 be joyful" (sung by Masters Coward
and Wood. and Meuteuns Barnby, Corn-
ming% and Winn) H. Smart.
Mr. Cooper presided at the organ.
The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Vaughan,
Psalm zevii., v. i.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present
were the Lord Chancellor, the Duko of Marl-
borough, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon.
Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of
Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Pakington,
Sir S. Northoote, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the
Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, the Earl
of Mayo, and the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole.

Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-
office to the Governor.Genend of Canada.

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold has pre-
sented to Dr. W. C. Hoffmeister, M.D., who was in con.
stant attendance upon him during his late illness, a hand-
some gold ring, as a token of the appreciation in which
the youthful prince held his services.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur has arrived
it Frogmen Lodge on a visit to their Royal Highnosaeo the
Prinoe and Princess Christian.

Her Royal Highness Princess Mary and his
Highness the Prince of Teck ware on a viait during last
week to their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess Ed-
ward of Saxe•Weimar at Molecombe, Sussex.

The Countess Waldegrsve and tho Right Hon.

Chishester Portman°, MP., were honoured by the cam-
pony of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
de Chartres at dinner on Saturday, at their residence in
Carlton-gardens. There were also present, hie Excellency
the United States Minister and Mrs. Adams, the Earl and
Countess Grey, Viscount and Visoountees Cranborne, the
Right Hou. W. E. and Mrs. °Metope, she Right Hon.
C. P. Villiers, M.P., the Right lion. Hy. Brand, M.P.,
and Mrs. Brand, &a. _ . _

The Right Ron. the Speaker gave his first parlia-

mentary fall dress dinner last Saturday evening, to the
following noblemen and gentlemen :—TLe Chancellor of
the Exchequer, the Earl of Mayo, Lord Henry Lennox,
Lord John Manners, Lord Robert Montagu, Lord Stanley,
Lord Royston, Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, Right
Hon. Sir John Pakington, Right Hoe. Gathorne Hardy,
Right Hon. Henry Corry, Hon. Colonel Lindsay, Hon.
Gerard Noel, Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Right Hon.
C. B. Adderley, Right Hon. J. R. Mowbray, Right Hon.
Stephen Cave, Right Hon. Colonel Wilson Patten, Sir
James Ferguson, Sir Graham Montgomery, Sir John
Hay, the Attorney• General, the Attorney-General for
Ireland, the Lord Advocate, the Solicitor-Genera, Mr.
Egerton, Mr. Whitmore, Admiral Seymour, Mr. Du Cane,
Colonel Taylor, Mr. Sclater-Booth, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Dod-
son, Mr. Hart Dyke, Colonel Hogg, Rev. Dr. Merivale
(chaplain), Mr. Alfred Denison (private secretary.)
The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thomson have
arrived at 55, Grosvenor-place, for the season.
Viscount Castleroase, M.P., has taken one of the
new mansions in Grosvenor-gardens for a term of years.

Lady Emma Talbot is expected to arrive at the
Earl of Derby's residence, in St. James's-square, on the
10th proximo, from Cannes, for her confinement. The
children will remain at Cannestill May.
_ .

A marriage is arranged between Colonel Bart-
telot, M.P., and Mars Boldero, only child of Mr. Boldero,
of South Lodge, Horsham. The marriage is to take place
(Hey in April.

FOREIGN NEWS.
(THIS DAY.)