The Express. — 1863-10-31 (London, England)

CRAPPLZ. He, no doubt, stands acquitted at the bar of conventional honour. He proposed to provide for his victim, and was thus ready to make for the wrong he had done her what the code of worldly custom would probably consider the only repaution in his power. The relation he bad fo •med with Miss Mrrcusu. is one that has latterly been regarded with • good deal of fashionable ts'ersece, if it does not actually enjoy d;rect social recognition. It is talked of freely in good society. It figures largely in the light literature of the day, being not unfrequently represented in recent works of fiction as greatly superior to the marriage state. Letters to the same effect appear now and then in leading organs of opinion. The theory of the relation is thus familiarized and indirectly applaudcd. Under these circumstances, it is well that we should sometimes see to what it actually leads in practice see in its naked reality the hopeless misery and desolation it produces. In the light of such • revelation it is impossible not to see that the accepted maxims of worldly custom, the code of conventional honour, are in this point not only directly opposed to the higher laws of social duty and the first principles of Christian morality, but perfectly compatible with the worst forms of refined cruelty and bitter social wrong. Had Mr. CUAPPLE been as ready to break through the cruel maxims of cies convention as he was to disregard the higher laws of morality, he might undoubtedly have made his victim a real reparation. He might have given her a legal claim to the title he had W-nself accorded her, and no doubt led her to b3lieve would be hers. She was respectably connected, and apart from the error into wbich he had led her there does not appear to have been the slightest reproach against her character. She was evidently strongly attached to him. He had taken advantage of her dependent position to gain he!. affections, and make her completely his own. But the poor girl's love and devotion having been secured only as a temporary luxury soon palled. The bloom of her life having been crushed out, she was to be left with a settlement as soon as weariness set in. But without him life had no charms for her, and if she was to be leftaloneinmisery and shame, her only care was to be quit of it at once, and lie down in peace with her child. The result is madness, murder, and attempted suicide. This is the pr.oe at which a gentleman takes his pleasure. But society must divide with the individual the responsibility of the cruelty and the wrong.  We believe we may state that there is no truth in the rumour circulated in some of the Irish papers that Canon Stanley is to be the successor of Archbishop Whately.  Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge aad the Primer Mary hared to have Cambridge Oohs,. Bow, ea Saturday next, to paw a few weeks at 13r;gbtoa.  Prince Ladislas Czartoryski and the Prinoeu Mathew d'Amparo) have kit Lando& for Park The Marchioness of Salisbury and Ladies Cecil left Hatfield Howe, Heats. yesterday. to pass a week with Ur. Header lioseell. /LP., and Lady Elisabeth Hama, at Oakley Park. Dear Bedford.  The Earl and Countess de Grey arrived at their midges. is Caritosiardosi, last maim& from &milky Roial, ow Ripos.  _ . The Right Hon. Thomas IL Gibson, M.P., and Yet Moos have evvt-oied a peer, tereaveasent by the death at their eldest eat at Hoag Haag, intolliseace of who's death was received yortiaday maraud by the tele. 1-44 i.  Among the fashionaMes sojourning at Newmarket dot:og the wr 3k have been the Doke sad Dasher d Beaufort the Seri sad Coutes el Chseterdeld. the Sari sad Count= el Weekaorelaad, the Bed sad Casatre af Oudigari, lard sad Lady Gimp Maarten, and Mr. G. W. sad Lady Nary Craves.  The marriage of the Marquis of Tallibardine, rely sea of hie Orme the Duke of Athol% and Lowist AM* daughter of Sir Thomas Moverieffe, But, of Yewaisle, wee celebrated on Thursday afternoon at Nenerieffe Benet Bridge of Fire, the madame of the bride's Whet Owing to the Mews of his Orace the Dabs of Atha, the eiremeny was emsdocted is the mat prim** rawer prank, the only parties relent being theme conneeted with the two familia and a few intimate friends.  The Army and Navy Gazette mays :•—" There are prat diflcultioi about the Orsoley eourtmartiaL Mary a the soldiers' dos% masa; Ws so bog ago.' Tleo mole mei riasrdo is a very eintsemasiag mow, sad Mr. Desk= ma, ve fear, make little art el the ease so far as them Mismees are comereed. It i sot likely he will be ready belay the sad of this south. We twit to boar of the per talsooadoet of some of the kid batch of idioms; who arrived at Aldershot is a most umessoly sad were osly restorsd to order by a large gaud from map."  Monday next, November 2, is the last day on whisk fatties of Hue Mack tat the tertheamies settle show .1 the Smith!lekl slab au b. received. The dad et Mr. B. T. Bandreds Gibbs. the bus any ..matey, is at the sense at Half Meeeetreet, Plead Sly. The entries far the tattle show at Binh* Hall, Birmingham, aloes this day. The extraordinary depression of the barometer, sad rapidity ol its fall (Gee lash mad upwards la 12 boos). oa Thursday has suited mach intoned. There hod bees a gradual diminution et temperature, sa well se fall et kereesster, ors the lad three sights, with sr rly duller "and by day.  The French court will sot, it is said, proceed to Compiegne until about the TN d November. That N/I. jetties will ramie there mall the ant weak i• December.  --•••—,••••••