The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-10 00:00:00

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CORK COUNTY.

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Deuy 8,440
K•Corthy
Scully
QUEEN'S COUNTY.
The third day's polling resulted as follows :
air C. H. Coote 1,827
Cal. Dunne
Mr. Fitzpatrick

DOWN COUNTY.
CLOSE Or MIT DAL

Hill
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4977
4637
2991

KILKENNY COUNTY,
CLOSII OF FIHAT DAT.

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Greene 5Bl
Thle is exclusive of the return from Castlecomer.

GALWAY COUNTY.
71XIT DAY.

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Melon return not Included.

SALOON OMNIBUS COMPANY.

Yesterday the feat instalment of the omnibuses
projected
by the Saloon Omnibus Company was produced be-
ors the ?ebb and submitted to the inspection of the police
authorities in -yard. The present sane, which is
to be followed by others in the course of the miming month,
and so en as the public manifest a desire for improved one• conveyance, consisted of six omnibuses, and as they
enwayed frees the yard of Mr. Ayshford, the builder, in
Drury-lane, their comfortable-looking insides and bright ex-
teriors of yellow and blue excited no little attention and spe-
culation along the street.. Omnibus reform has been for a
long time before the public, and although it has not been so
much • Kilned of discuseios as other topics of reform, there
are few points in which the London public, judging from the
interest and excitement caused by yesterday's display, take
more concern. The narrowness of the present om-
nibuses; the inevitable jamming and dove-tailing which
takes place in consequence; the dispute., if you are
fond of the London atmosphere, such as it le, which arise
with your next neighbour, who prefers any amount of foetid
=...t0 a " thorough draft ; the universal aversion to •
wirWiumbrella, and the ill-tenteealed fitter when • lady
tase conics to take the lost unoccupied seat beside a
sooldemen of 16 stone, are flatten. of every day omnibus ex-
pie, The wonder is that this state of thing. has been
mimed soling ; but when it is recollected that the monopoly
Was is the **at price which the worst article will fetch,
Ind Mist the sesmetation price is the lowest for which the
hat odds eon ba sled, tie wonder ceases altogether ; for
kessesikse thee hr Mew ecemetition whatever in omnibus
imp noumenta the patent **lon omnibus
=Maks [though in this respect there is room
for limpessussea, of which the directors themselves seem to
12=41.1.;, greatly increased accommodation inside;
; bells for communicating with the driver
and esedmise; double doors, which facilitate ,Tress and
• sad promote ventilation; a more easy mode of
enendhig to the top of the omnibus, arid greater
essillet when you get there, and several minor
imprwarrats. her Richard Mayne, Colonel Pasco, and
Mr. Tsai* inspected the new omnibuft in Scotland-yard,
awl Aid they suggested slight improvements hero and
=ey fully recognised the general superiority of scam-
afforded by them. One of the recommend/Woes
by Sir R. Mayne was that the new company should
pereit selvertisernenta to be placed in the omnibuses, to
lhzzedreacy of which the director. present entirely sa-
a After the inspection in tiathind-yard the six
lebielie drove along the Strand, Fleet-street, and Cheapside,
nod drew up before the Mention-house, where they were in-
spected by the Lord Mayor and the Lady Meyoress, who ex-
pressed, themselvesin terms of entire satis&ction with the
new conveyance. As might be expected, the " innovation"
wee matter of keen comment amongst the omnibus and cab-
=confraternity. The former chins seemed to be quite
in opinion. However worthless their opinions on great
speelic questions, each driver or conductor seemed to be
efigwir is omnibus ;" and is the new vehicle drove by,
Ike so &mat voted aye or nay on the mighty question. A.s
• Citt " there was a pretty general contempt at the at-
Wept le Lill arm-chairs at 4d. • drive ;" and to him any-
let • one-horse carriage and a shilling fare scorned to
mass of London at this particular moment, and the
ein nil of the wedge which was to bring about the lamen-
tations et the New Zealander from London-bridge.
The saw omnibuses are to commence running on Easter

HOniait: and will ply on following toads:—Notting-Lill
wad Bayswater to the West-end and City; Higliguto and
Holloway to ditto; Balaton to ditto; and Stoke Newington
to ditto.

In the afternoon the directors and officers of the company
assembled et the Albion, Covent-garden, and drank .• Suc-
cess to the new company."
It should be mentioned that the new vehicle has been de-
signed by Mr. Lyall, and that it is not heavier in weight or
broader in the wheel track than the present omnibus,
although the socommodation lands is much more ample.

A SAILOR'S HOSPITAL.—The old Dreadnought
hospital ship is now entirely broken up. The lower timbers
woe separated last week and baled out of the Woolwich
Dockyard, the wood end copper comprised in the sheer hulk
being valued at 4,0001. Although the arrangements of the
new hospital chip now moored on the river in its stead have
been most artfully planned and most efficiently carried out,
yet the advantage of perpetuating this inconvenient plan for
the lodgment of sick sailors is very queetionable. No one
can believe that the 'Thames is a particularly healthy situa-
tion for the abode of the sick. It would undoubtedly be
more convenient, as it would aseuredly be more healjz;
awe a handsome hapital for seamen erected on the b
of the river, in place of a ship moored in the midst of as
foul sewer-waters of the Thames. Were this auggeetion
T_we believe that the wealthy shipownen.
of would wil-
aid in erecting • t hospital for women, worthy
tuition whose • it is that
" Her is o'er the mountain waves,
Her home is on the deep."
—The Lamed.
SZLF-RIGIITINO OF LIFE BOATS WITH TIIEIR
Sans ear.—Yesterday some interesting trials took place
with one of the life.boata of the Royal National Life-boat
Institution, in the Refant's Dock, Limehourie, in the pre-
sence of several expenenced grntlemen. The life-boat, with
her sails hoisted and alieets hauled taut, was turned over by
a powerful crane and parbuckle, until her masts were perpen-
dktderly under water, when, on being Trimmed. she instantly
salf-righted end returned to her original upright position, end
in twenty seconds melt-ejected the water which had filled her
to the thwarts in the operation. This result was the more
se it has often been disputed whether any life-
bitter= self-eight with her masts and mils up. How many
sad accidents to life-boats carrying sails would probably have
been prevented had they pnsseosed tbia important quality of
self-nearing. On the whole, the experiment yer edgy
afforded much satisfaction to all who had the pleasure to
witness it, and clearly showed to what a state of perfection
the eamdroetion of life-boats has been brought. 'the Na-
tional Life-beet Inatitution, whose life-boats on various parts
of the coast have, diming the last three months, rewired
seventy from shipwrecks, is about to station this life-
boat at Westport, an exposed point on the west coast of
Ireland. _ -

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CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAT.
THURADAT, APRIL 9.—Aarniagions on payment, 1,00,
ditto by MOO* tickets, 329 ; total riiitors, 1,324.

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LONDON. FRIDAY. APRIL 10.

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A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will
be published TO-MORROW u usual, and during
the Parliamentary moans,

WEATITER Ittfdio6o6ll—even from hour to hour—
are always unsafe in our fickle climate. The early
morning, however, gives promise of a day worthy
of the glad yet solemn anniversary of Easter.
The atmosphere has lost its wintry sharpness, though
it still gratifies the sense with a refreshing coolness.
The breeze which wantons with the half-unclosed
leaves, makes the blood of the young rush through
their veins as the sap at this rubes upwards
in tree and shrub; and remind► the old that earth
participates not in their decay, but is redolent of
life, germinative, as in the days of their youth. It
is a fitting day for that high festival which hallows
the return of Spring with religions reminiscences of
the deepest, most comprehensive, and tenderest love,
revealing itself through the most terrible and mys-
terious agonies.

The inhabitants of the metropolis at least will
have it in their power to celebrate this anniversary
in a seemly spirit. After one o'clock the grounds
and building of the Crystal Palace will be thrown
open to the public. Hampton Court, too, we believe,
OD the afternoon of this day, opens wide its attractive
gates. liampstead-heath, Richmond, and Green-
wich Parks, with many a secluded green lane, and
many a breezy common, are easily accessible to our
fallow-eitizenu They can worship in temples made
with hands in the early part of the day, and in the
afternoon they can invigorate both mind and body
by sauntering amid the debate, infantine beauties
of returning Spring and inhaling the kindly spirit
of the season.

it has sometimes occurred to us that as the "trim
gardens" of our ancestors, when their shrubs
are allowed to put forth shoots free from the
pruning knife, when their formal parterres are
allowed to subside, and their stiff walks to deviate
from the stiff line, present in their blended formality
and freedom a more charming aspect than the moat
natural effects of the landscape gardener, so fast-
days, which were once observed with puritanic asce-
ticism, when their observance is attempered with •
wiser and milder spirit, make the best holidays.
At least there are moods of the mind to which
they are better attuned than days devoted to
the exclusive search of pleasure. Religion gains,
instead of losing, when thus associated with
blameless joys. There surely can be no
harm in saying this of days like Good Friday and
Christmas, which, however sacred the meociations
which cluster around them, no one will pretend to
place on the same keel in respect of sanctity as the
Sabbath. And, without any wish to shock or kart
the feelings of any one, we think it due to ear own
self-respect to avert our Christian liberty by frankly
avowing --sine the train of thought in which we
have been indulging naturally raises the question—
that the opinion we base expressed regarding the
due soksinisation of the two great festivals of the
Christian year we entertain also with regard to the
due solemnisation of the Sabbath. One of the speakers
at the dinner given at Hull in celebration of Lord
Assumt's raters spoke with enthusiasm of the "main-
tenances of the eld-faahioned English Lord's Day." The
phase exaetly expresses our sentiments on this head.
We me for the " maintenance of the old-fashioned
English Lord's Day," in contradistinction to that
modern innovation—that unreasonable, Judaical,

impossible Sabbath observance, which has within
the last thirty or forty years been smuggled into
England from the north side of the Tweed. In the
good old times" our ancestors, after the religious
.sloe of the day was over, gathered in their
pariahs, ander the eyes of the lord of the manor
and of the -parson, round the archery-botta, or
even—whisper it gently—on the bowling-green.
Time, that great innovator, has modified the
habits of their descendants; we no more
dream of resuscitating Sunday archery or
how/a, than we do of thrusting our limber shanks
into a bouncing pair of trunk-hose. But we do
think the tranquil, sober enjoyment of the contem-
plation of the calm beauties of nature and art, a not
unsuitable close for a day opened by devotional
exercises. The devotional sentiment is that gift of
Con for the possesaion of which we ought to be
most thankful. It is the only firm holding ground
upon which the barque of the soul can cast anchor
in this tempest-tossed ocean of time. But to be
elimeious the devotional sentiment ought to pervade
our whole existence. It bears us up with pinions
which incessantly require repose, though ever able
after a brief interval of rest to soar again. It is im-
possible to keep the mind on the stretch of
devotional excitement he a whole day ; as it is
unhealthy to sate the mind with such excitement by
keeping it so long an the reek, and thus rendering it
dull end callous for the next six days. Let the Bab-
remain emphatically a holy day i bat let
it that of which mere humanity is
remain in ecstatic devotional medita-
te whole of the day. And let us pro
intervals during which the soul again
upon the earth, and into earthly emo•
rinaita and pleasures as as most akin
—the cultivation of the imaginative
the beauties ef nature and art. The
do this in their private gardens and
the less favoured of fortune lave heir
Albs and galleries, in which they an
example.

diffusion of such opinions to be con-
, much to the goodness as to the hap-
human beings, we confess that we have
do and mortified at the moral cowardice
• many who entertain them have

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