The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-31 00:00:00

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LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms
a lb. pat ram ism. this boats of the National Lifeboat
botttelion saved tilt, seam from different wracks mom meats.
The Institatios has . expended tio,Ssl 14a bd. in lb* MAIO
reta Rs Lifeboat satahlishmenta, in addition to granting
erl as rewards for eatlue ti a shipwrecked genesis by ite
Illiebesta and oilier imam TM Contrattese of Me Institution
ansmis APPEAL to the paint.. for ARBSTANCE, to t.,othle
Yen to Man tbe continued heavy domande on the Isesitution's
1401111 boat establishments.
Oostributtons are remind by Messrs. Willie and On. Morriss
sad Oa, Costae end Oa, and Inn all the London and country
beakers. cad by the lisoretary, Richard Lewis, Itess., alt the In-
stitution. 14. JohmetneM Adelotti.

•NDLEB.—PRIZE MEDAL.
PAILAPIIXIL—AIoysted by bat Mssstys Oovernmessidia
IM Water, aladass.
J. C. sad J. FINLD,
W oedipal menntacturen and holders of the 119111 Prise gedsl,
swami the public against say spurious imitations. Their Wad
Os ea all packets sad lama dela ay MI dealers tameless the
tabalmiessad fee exportation at the Walk IMP=
LAIMILTIL LONDON. a., where shio may to elstilsed
Oak sebelaraled Untied Ikeeke Om MAY&
JOHN BROGDEN.

ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANIIPAOTOMY,
Id, MILWRIITTA4III.IIIIT. OUVLIT4AfiIaiL

JOHN BROGDEN'S GIOW con Ann.

JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD WARD CRAM

JOHN BROGDIN'S GOLD ALEIRT cams&

JOHN BROGDEWS GOLD BROOOII OWNS.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL HALL.
ama sad comm.: USD SITCOM of MICR'S SPANISH
CllOO sad HIPPODROME, pronounced by the Whole of the
public press tolls Yrs best troupe of equedrines yet presented
.111. THIRD WRIUL of the thud Mast, sad Konen
tries ,ftalecla wattled the WHOA NOS of C.. 1 •nu 1 A tstro•
dindai 400 persons sad the whole of the magatikent stud of
=bens r sad pala m Plat 44 the es-
taidalpeale, it ALUJL aal SIMUND the
1111111161 ot the dayak Gyans.
troalutted swam. of the SPORT I.S
of the
11TPPODROSIR and the SCZNRs of the ARISA. Thirty lady
esaseldesass, °ma. Preach, ludas. sad SPahlt calms.
Angst group of perfocalasas lions Euts.
MORNING PIRFORWASCRS, TURSDAYS, THURSDAYS,
sad SATURDAYS, al two o'clock.
Daces open entry males st seven o'clock.

R____ RR ! we wait Supper for you after
Me Postmalmso. M VTANS not.

TO CORIUMPONDICITIL
drarthmaata lataedad for " lx* tondos Wasiak
:Irsmut be at tho 01boa 10, Murata+Week by Tw•
k on *a day of pabilearloa.

au mAJasirs.
Tins Evans% LULA. gleam Britt, Honey; /*bee Terme*,
Renwick : name lonian Pyre. Colwell, lairar. —Conductor,
Pagtor MAUL —And THE 1.10% AND THX lINIODE.N.
Terminating with the Otand Trandonuatton Scene.

Tins Ivan*, DAVID DI7NDELARY
iIAIIIED AND DONS FOE. Maw& *Ahem [triad. buck.
Gunton; Mks Sorwchro.—PAINCNNS BFILLIMATIIIL
Mr. Sorm—Aad THE WOLF AND THE LAMB.

RIWIRR. TEI MiGIC HORSE AND TEI ICE MAIDEN
P3ISCM3B. and EMI SEMI= UT LONDON. Mom. 7/Wm
J. W. Bay. risher, D. Hrzey, J. Nohow H. liefeadf. ood
M. Milos . Yra IL Monks. Mlss Banda AIM Gwyssio.

Tow Mow% MT vrrils OFT. Mr. Whid,cotob and Mlir
.—TRIt ILOADOIDI INN. Mama lichter, Harman.
W b,
C-IPACID Pltaparrick.
I MPOSTORS Garage. Liresood
oomb. Miss Ilswortkr.
BLU . Mr. Widdl

nue aroma. unix BC T.Blis ; or. the Old lady at
ThreettseedM•etroct. Mesdames h. Gait" W. enlaced. ead 11.
Jambs : Mr. O. Noma. Ft:BMM* IMModmIM —AM TILB
W01X.431113 OF lONDON..—Comeshsos at halt-pacts.

A HEAVY snow-fall calls into contemporaneous
existence two opposite forms of inconvenience ; it
makes it exceedingly unpleasant to walk, and ex-
ceedingly difficult to ride. A abort experience of
wet feet and general discomfort is sufficient to
bring home the former truth to the personal ex-
perience of every man ; and the third crowded
omnibus or empty cab-stand which he meets with
in his walk homewards may be trusted to make
him practically acquainted with the latter. But
these evils, trying as they are, might be borne by
the British public with that grumbling resignation
with which a man of acknowledged sense and
doubtful temper submits himself to inevitable
calamities. The Englishman is not in the main an
unreasonable animal, and he will admit, without
much pressure, that when there are fourteen can-
didates for seats in an omnibus licensed to carry
twelve, and constructed to carry ten, two of them
must be hopelessly rejected. If, however, the
typical passenger has contrived to secure a
place by a process which unites, in a
happy combination, physical suffering and
moral degradation ; if he has stood in shivering ex-
pectation in the melting snow of the gutter, and
fought his way inch by inch up the slippery steps
of the vehicle ; if he has ruthlessly shouldered
aside the infirm and the aged, and turned • deaf
ear to the conductor's insinuating inquiry whether
he will " oblige • lady "—if he has stooped, we
say, to all this, and finds that he has stooped to
conquer, he will expect at least to hold his hardly
won seat on the terms to which he has been ao-
customed. He is not prepared for the discovery
of a newly-pasted sheet of paper covering the list
of fares, or for the apparition of the conductor in
the doorway, proclaiming, with husky cheerfulness,
" Any distance sixpence." IHis soul revolts against
the heartless corporation which an make a market
out of the misfortunes of its fellow-creatures ; and
whether he pays under protest at the end of the
journey, or descends in self-sacrificing indignation
before it has commenced, there is an equal sense
of injustice rankling in his overburdened heart,
and an equal resolution to relieve it by a letter to
his favourite journal.
The upshot of a good many such cases as this
on Friday and Saturday last is to be seen in • con-
siderable popular outcry against the present system
of omnibus charges. The remedy which, as being
the moat obvious, has been the most generally pro-
posed, is to put omnibuses on the footing of oabs,
and to provide them with a scale of fares which
shall be fixed by Act of Parliament. A sugges-
tion of this kind is sure to conciliate & certain
amount of favour. Its real difficulties are hidden
beneath an apparent simplicity, and those who ad-
•oate its adoption forget that, even if it should
put au end to one of the hardships they complain
of, it would tend directly to aggravate all the rest.
It is quite common to find the same people enlarg-
ing, almost in the same breath, on the importance
of a healthy competition and the convenience of
uniform fares. In whichever of these directions
we are to look for the real cure of our present
locomotive sufferings, we may be sure that the two
ends cannot be attainable together. A cab or
omnibus proprietor may try to attract custom by
giving superior accommodation, if be can remune-
rate himself by a higher payment ; or he may
reduce his outlay to the lowest possible
figure, in the hope of securing passengers
at a proportionately dimin•sr charge.
A system of uniformity of fares closes the door
equally against both possibilities of improvement
by making it the direct interest of every proprietor
to give as little as he can for his money. If cabs
bad been allowed to fix their own scale of charges,
it is inconceivable that they would one and all
have remained stationary at their present level
The four-wheeler of the period would not always

have been fitted with

cannot be shut, and when

with windows which

damp cushions on its seats, and ill-smelling straw
as its floor. Ramona would not always have
been built on snob • contracted scale that, if you I
have a lady with you, your mind is permanently
agitated by two distracting considerations—how
you are to get her in, in the first pleas ; and where
you are to put her, in the second. Do but suffer
the accommodation sad the charges to find their
relative level, and these discomforts would right
themselves. Three who wanted superior comfort
might find it without difficulty at an out-
lay of ninepin°s or a shilling a mile
while the cabs which continued to ply for
sixpence would be forced so give the best accom-
modation they were able by the certainty that, if
they failed to do so, they would have plenty of
rivals to compete with them on lower terms.
The right method, therefore, as it seems to
its, of dealing with cab and omnibus monopolies
is to combine the two principles of free trade
and police supervision. Omnibuses and cabs
shim should be allowed to fix their own fares
without the interference of the authorities. All I
that the latter should undertake to see to is
the protection of the public against extortion or
fraud, by the provision that the fares should
in every case be conspicuously painted up both on
the inside and on the outside of the vehicle. All
sudden changes, such as those which occurred loot
week, might easily be prevented by endorsing the
fares as originally fixed on the license, and allow-
ing no change to be made without
doe notice being given to the licensing office.
After such notice a newsodoreement might be made
on the license, upon its being shown that the new
scale of charges had been painted up in substitution
for the old one. The other great omnibus grievance
of the present day, the system of " nursing " by
rival drivers, is susceptible of such a simple remedy
that it is really quite unworthy of legislative inter-
vention. The police have found no difficulty in
preventing omnibuses from stopping exactly oppo-
site Hyde-park•corner or the Marble-areh, and
we cannot believe that it would give them any
more trouble to introduce so much of regulation
into omnibus movements as to make impossible
that system of mutual waiting which is so much
and so justly complairied of.

be Court.

OSBORNE, Ja.s. 30.
The Prince and Princess of Wales and Princess
Beatrice attended divine servile at Whippiegham Mud%
yesterday morning.
Hier Majesty, with Princess Salsa sod Primes Louise,
attended the ',Memos service.
The Bev. G. Pother* oficisted.
Priem bondagss arrived at Osborne retards,.

The Moot oi Wales wt oat @booting to-day, mown-
plaid by Plisse Lebanese, sad attended by Captala Grey.

The Lord Provost of Edinburgh had an Lili',Till, with
the Right Bee. W. Cowper. /I P„ at the offlos of hoe Ma-
jesty's Werke and Public BuiMins, Whitehull•plaoo, yes.
terday.
Demetrius were resolved at the Oolottial-odles yesterday
from the Oonences of the West India Islands and Van-
Offilell band.

Earl Graaville (Lord Presideot of the Clottaail) will give
the aerial draw to the mambos of the cassia and the
great allows of state at his home is Brakmaireet, oa
Thareday poet, to settle the roll of sherifta

DRATFI 01 TER DOWAGER COORTZFIA or Dry-
DONALD. —We have to record the death of Katherina Cor•
tor, Dowager Countess of Dmidoneld, which occurred es
Wedairday atiloulegne. Ia the Autobiography of a Seaman
by Themes, tenth Bari of Dusdosaid, the Bohr writer
speaks of his marriage as the "diver being to the Mond"
which had overshadowed him so long. Hie wife was
daughter el Mr. Menu Barnes, of Romford, and
came of a respectable family in the midland coutire.
Lord Cochrane met her in 1812, proposed, and was
accepted. and some serious family obstacles hare; been
overcome, the marriage took plans in August, 1812.
Lady Cochrane shared her husband's perils by sea, and
stood bravely under fire; and she shared the storm of
obloquy and persecution which beast him afterwards. She
chested him in all his troubles, and saw him restored to his
risk in the navy and of the Beth, and she bad the satisfac-
tion of hearing that Westminster Abbey received his
hascared remiss. The counter leaves issue four goes—
the prams{ Earl ; Captain 800. Horatio Bernardo William
Cochran., R.N. ; Captain Hoe. Arthur Auckland Leopold
Pedro Cochrane. R.N., 0.8. ; sad Commander Hon. Resent
Grey Lambkin Cocluann, R.N.. all of whom are married.

The Marquis of Aiiesbury is expected in town on
Monday, hos his mat le Wiltshire, to dins at Lord Gras-
vines parlisoistary Manse that seeing.

Bari Granville (Lord President of the Council)
will give the usual dieser to the members of the Cabinet
sad the great officers of Stets, at his house io Brute--
street, co Thursday met, to settle the roll of sheriffs.
_ _ _ _

The Earl De Grey left town yesterday to join
the shooting party at Grantley Park, to Surrey.
The christening of the infant daughter of Sir
Watkin ead Lady WillLms lir)aa took pleas on Monday,
at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, in the presence of a
large party of the relations of the Wynnetay family. The
sponsors were ►er Melody the geese of Denmark, repro-
meted by Mrs. Stadholm Brownzia ; bee Royal High:sees
the Princess of Wales, represented by the Hoe. Mrs. Pravda
Stoner, one of her royal highness's Ladies of the Bed-
chamber, and Sir Hugh Williams, Bart. The ceremony was
performed by the Hoe. and Rev. Hoary Cholmoodeley. The
infant received the mama of Louise Alexandra, after her
two godmothers.

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY.

(From Le FoWM

The question of most interest on the subject of
fashion for this mouth is the idyl, is Torte for ball and
wage( dress. Arnospt the novelties we remark robs. of
pus embroidered in gold, or silver, or silk. Nothing is
peettim Sias suck bowers oe a light, vapoory materiel,
mad ladies of elegance eau weer seek a dram without ap-
pearing to be dressed in too simple or girlish a meaner.
There an some beautiful tulle diem= spotted over with
butterflies, or flowers farmed of feathers, or with
elver arrowe—very original and exceedingly elepsit—but
although seeding no trimming, they are expensive. Fish=
bertha., and ;Alevines are made in a variety of very boom'.
log styli.. For Wiese toilette, ohemisettee us more than
ever fashionable, for now, with the Russian vests, it is not
merely the pimps, but the sleeve also which are requiesd.
Maly white bodies without wastes are worn at small seirdes
or social dinner Parties, and with a light silk skirt look
exceedingly well ; but core must be takes that the colour of
the ribbon placed ender the insertion, with which them
bodies are usually trimmed, suits the skirt. Paseemen-
teak is still the favourite trimming, and deurvedly so, for
certainly nothing can be more elegant.

Derek nothing new to notion either in the former the
malends fot hornets. It seems to be universally admitted
that the present style is mush more becoming than the
higledreatal bowls were ; yet it must be easfeseed that
the absurd heed-drier made by some, sad celled Wants,
are quits se little becoming, and have, besides, an air of
vulgarity. Coiffures for evening ocetnme are becoming
mon aid mug varlet, and for this good ressoes—that
ladles are begins* to adopt than styles mat
becoming to them rather than to wear a head-
deer because it is won by others. Perhaps the coiffure
composed of bands of velvet is the most universally
adopted ; and, from the fact that it may be fastened amply
with silver or jet ersaassets, or soriched with agraffes or
pins of dimmed., it is equally applicable either for a quiet
dinner dries or for a more elaborate toilette. Thom of light
blue velvet should have pearl or silver ornaments, sad those
of penman velvet gold or pearl oreaments. Another prow
style of Imeddress is made with a pool formed with ends
of peon velvet, worked with dewdrops in crystal, and
festeeed with two keg ends. A charming Chas wreath
wee made of blue velvet alyosotis sod silver *are sets,
fastened at the back with long bows of silver Los.

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