Poor Pontecoulant has had a telegram telling him of his brother's death. He is very much upset, and goes off to-night. W. will miss him extremely--he was his right-hand man. I have been out this morning shopping with Francois de Courcelle. It isn't easy, as our Russian is not fluent, but still we managed to find a few things. This afternoon I have been with Lagrene (Consul), Sesmaisons, Corcelle, and Calmon to the great institution of the "Enfants Trouves" fondee par l'Imperatrice Catherine II. There we found Admiral Jaures and all his staff, and a director who showed us all over the establishment--of course everything was in perfect order, and perfectly clean (and I believe it always is), but I should have preferred not having our visit announced, so as to see the every-day working of the thing. We went through quantities of rooms. In all, the Russian nurses with their high head-dress (kakoshnik), the colour of the room, were standing, and showed us most smilingly their babies. The rooms are all known by their colours and the nurses dressed to correspond. All pink kakoshniks, for instance, in the pink room, blue in the blue room, etc. It was rather effective when all the women were standing in groups. The nurses were decidedly young, some rather pretty faces, almost all fair. The surveillante is a nice, kindly looking woman. We saw the whole ceremony. In one of the rooms of the rez-de-chaussee we saw several women waiting to take the children. The operation is always the same--one writes down at once the name and age of the child (which is generally written on a piece of paper pinned on to the clothes), they are always very young, 5 or 6 days old. Then they are undressed, weighed, and carried off by one of the nurses, wrapped up in a blanket, to a bath. After the bath they are dressed in quite clean, nice garments, and the nurse gives them the breast at once. All the rooms, dortoirs, salles-debain, laundries, kitchens, are as clean as possible, plenty of light and air, and no smells. We met Countess Pahlen going out as we came in, also the Arch Duke Charles Louis. As we still had time before dinner we went to see the new church of St. Sauveur, where there is to be a great ceremony of consecration to-morrow; but as it is principally to celebrate the retreat of the French Army from Moscow the two French Embassies abstain from that function. We met there Prince Dolgourouky, Governor of Moscow, who did the honours, and showed us the marbles, which are very varied and handsome, all from the provinces of the Empire. The place was full of workmen putting up tribunes, red and gold draperies, etc., but the Prince, with much tact, made no allusion to to-morrow's function--so we apparently didn't notice anything unusual in the church, and concentrated our attention on the beautiful Russian marble. 11 o'clock.