The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-10 00:00:00

THE CHILDREN OF THE RICH.

TIIII mothers of the upper and middle chaos
are the people really to blame for the sins laid at
their nurses' doors. The correspondence now
taking place in the columns of a contemporary
treats of grievances which are patent to every ob-
server, and which aro but the outward signs of
other and graver evils. The physical harm in-
flicted on a child left in the hands of an ignorant
and careless nurse-girl is but a type of the more
serious injury done to its disposition, its tamper,
and its heart. Can there be a more delicate-or
important duty than that of training the infant
mind, of guarding it from hasty and
erroneous impressions, and of guiding it to
a fitting appreciation of what is good and true
This is so far acknowledged in externals that
nunse are often selected for accent alone, and in
the northern and midland counties it ie no un-
common thing for the well-to-do to import a L.mi-
don nurse for the purpose of ensuring that young
children shall have the trio metropolitan pronun-
ciation of English words. French and German
Donna are in request fur similar reasons;
and it seems strangely inconsistent that the
moral and mental qualities of a nurse are
not estimated with equal care. The contrast be-
tween the sweet innocence of childhood and the
blotted and blurred page so much of our
manhood and womanhood represent might be
considerably decreased if proper influences were
exerted in the nursery. This rests with mothers
alone,. and is a duty which cannot be transferred.
Given, an ill-conditioned, nndieciplined, ignorant,
and prejudiced woman as the oompanion and di-
rector of childhood ; and a perverted nature and
a warped mind are as harvest is to seed-time A
writer do this morning's Times remarks : " If a
" man neglects his business and comes to grief it
" only serves him right, and he receives but little
" pity ; and if a mother neglect* her children,
" which she does by having them nursed by
" anyone but herself, and her children come to
" grief, which they very likely will, it is but the
" just punishment for her unnatural conduct. The
" children are to be pitied, and have reason to
" envy a tiger's cub." These are hard words, but
they are true. We repudiate as calumnies the
I assertions recently put forth concerning girls
of the period and fashionable matrons; but
that the sweetest duty of maternity is too often
neglected to the irretrievable injury of the child,
is unhappily indisputable. Good mothers make
good nurses, and good and happy children. Bad
—and by bad we mean neglectful or careless
mothers—bring all other evils in their train.

Her Majesty the Queen will hold a Oouncil on
Monday next at Windsor Castle.
TEA RETURN Or RED. MAJESTY TO WINDSOR.—
nu Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal
Highnesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice and Prinoe
Leopold, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the
court, will, according to the most recent arrangements,
embark at Cherbourg to-morrow morning, and return to
England. The Queen and royal family, upon their ar-
rival at Cherbourg from Paris, will embark on board the
royal steam yacht Victoria and Albert, Commander hie
Berens Highness Prince Loiningen, early in the morning,
and steam across the Channel to Portsmouth, which har-
bour, it is expected, will be made about 3 o'clock in the
afternoon. Her Majesty and the royal family will take
luncheon on board the yacht, and land at the loyal Cla-
rence Victualling-yard at half-past 3 o'clock, and will at
once leave fur Windsor by the South Western and Great
Western railways, arriving at the Castle about 6 o'clock.
Her Majesty, with the younger members of the royal
fumily and suite, will, it ix expected, leave the Castle On
Monday next for Balmoral.

His Excellency Baron Bruunow has loft two
Unnisa embassy for Darmstadt.