The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 27.

TUX DERBY-DAT is awes Thshitival which May-
sooth was not permitted to tape% and test showery
weather was unable to deprive el Se ten ef thou-
sands of worshippers, has been duly halleneed.
Down by the road yesterday was repeated the start
Pilgrimage of devotees to Saint Derby—a peasilla
bore numerous in men and horses than any
=of worshippers since the dayeSehlie
Down the road whirled carriegeref all
calibre, from the four-in-band of the peer to the
donkey-cart of the oostermonger. Gigs, chariots, dog-
barrows, barouchcs, tandems, omnibuses, "ekorriy-
dem," chaise-carts, tilburys, cabs a la tiger, and cabs
a la Hansom, and carriages of all and every other
kind, bought, borrowed, or stolen,—down the road
yesterday morning they all streamed, despite a
Grizzling rain, and the threat of a still heavier storm
—the string of bipeds and quadrupeds and vehicles
stretching from the Thames bridges a good fifteen
miles away into Surrey to the Downs. And
all the while these thousands were going by
road, tens of thousands were struggling slowly
into the station at London-bridge, and being
whirled rapidly out of it by railway carriage to
Epsom—the combined throng on that centre of at-
traction being swelled to its usual multitude by
manifold contributions from innumerable other cu.
Dal of the country round. By two o'clock there
they all were, one great anxious Ithrong, waiting
the moment when the Goddess Fortune should re-
nail the fate of the day. People enough were there
to make an army of invasion or of defence ;
sough to tenant a great city, and amongst them
peers and pickpockets, senators and thimbleriggers,
the idle and the busy—the respectable in hundreds,
and the doubtful in thousands—sporting men, fight-
ing men, and betting men—sharps and flats—those
who went for "business," and those who went for
idleness—those *irking excitement, and those look-
ing for pleuure. Inclined planes made up of human
beads and faces marked the stands, whilst the race
ground itself showed a wide-stretching ring, fenced
sit upon the spreading downs, its limits marked by
a belt of mingled men and women, vehicles and
horses.
It is the great Pte day of English horseflesh—
the great test-day
.of animal perfectioc. England,
by general admission, excels the world in many
things, and horses rank in the number. Of English
horses, the fleetest are to run this day. They have
been watched for three years from their birth up-
wards,—their pedigree is known,—their names have
been registered.—their progress calculated,—their
peace reckoned; on each individual racer, hundreds,
and generally thousands, have been staked, until upon
the whole field the sums depending are enormous
lieu of all classes are interested in the coming result.
See on the list of owners the nuns of legislators
hereditary and elected; see in the gathering at the
betting places eases from all walks of life. Like all
greet events, its al& eases at last : the horses
Inner at the eluting-pest I a move of expectation
In the crowd ; a bomb of preparation, the signal-
ly/ is dropped, and— elf they buret. Then come
aosents that seem hears in the sensations they con-
tain deep anxiety keeps trembling spectators
Aleut—a sway of the crowd—* surging forward
that not a glimpse may be lost—three minutes and
two mecca& pus by—and the race is done. The
favourite is nowhere ; an " outsider " has surprised
body,
suerr ,
has and disgusted nearly every body ; and
the been lost and won.
Thehilarity of those who are winners, and the
long faces of the far greater number who are losers ;
rho eating of dinners, more or less hasty or complete,
and the drinking of all possible fluids, hem
WO to ginger-beer ; the clatter of 'tidier the
Wyying to railway stations and carriages; the
snalliag of cigars; the driving up " the reed,' sad
the esowding on the rail, make es sunespot them the
. butane tithe rest et thet. Vohs Weed we
bolsi is the beds el this stubs betted the
Ofa hems' sajoyell by igLima theedins and
taverns, sod the Gemini' et ill heir been st the
Wm, and Veuxhall--entil deplueshood the pulse
mpiz no the sirs ibileimed etwelises the eel-
ef getting te bed.
Bat this, dm. die end Athos Derby day, sesnot
be bid to bete wired its doings; for, like smog
mow holiess it sass has a savy morrow. Te
blab up the insirsie d thumbed' bet and win es
the great Tess thou seises Ye the etwitsaintormimyt.
bobs of straw &mew and miens mil
awe.
To keep up the tweerld Ihrsikh horses, eassesege-
ammtleabosa gives to the tnels ming ibeistskas
bed pee she bog ago to betting. wewng
sins end soon in favour, sat% when ether moLgrelorf
semllibp wen left to bibillesiy and lobbies was
-114.11•1411hy law, thanmanntif lotting trenendisas
140.... and
.bsiesse enemas, sir set ef parliament. reed
la seises certain mapanies. bettlat
a met of legal from sheerdi
I bee spread on all The tramactions d Tat-
knealfs were soon imitated by a kind of "Adele
lellorko, called Derby Sweeps, in publio-bPes%
bat these beini
yppid by the =subsist. the
Maw class of people wore drives from the
supeetabilitimaim ato parlour Ws very
bosh bees The fisessing bogie-
bales se sit Is kili. reri sectehsi the vies; and
zegerhe whit Ow the Itabent d dein their
se Ibir seversitin sea saw seamed into a
deb dims oiled babies biome To make
maws wave and to best Ur waists of those
smitten with the betting mauls. a nod of 'Astatine
LossigiagP asstr dia =Word press to amble
the new sponoissr podding
hems* and for thnepens. sod seem he a gamy,
there WON papers prel=ato tell all the spate.
ediesel the turf. and gto nurse the bees he
*sedation upon its &Min Nor is this all fin
sada" as it wars. se ths MN. et rig Sao
esibbieveasyriab. ems of the skimped mess sin-
awed : et theirwierbiebt *ado
st their ne *rad the ober-
timbals el a est if e who prombei
to tell "high hone would win the Derby to ffley am
who weld-send " twelve postage stampa' to the
aleuetbur ; and, strange es it may seem, West* of
finding the gambling spirit, and limb( its duds%
is said to have been very enecesdaL Orti=_
rt
ap "pr m".--s kind of newspaper
lis Sem day to day, and walk Is week print
aims °tweedy ingenuity to se the idle into
sou hewing ring.
pesos The unholy Lime of this
shoes et the hase
wood a peritetly
eirsensba pow& d th betties else . Pam
the nobs et the idle sad the sprang this
tit lea spread late rho teas= aplomb lib—into
the sire a the prohnionel some, and the bag ware-
babe el the mehant—it Ise tainted the mo-
ths babetry m
et
rc
the ;
kip and_ mopped the
hsnosV 4 iesennable employ& Mocha/OM &op-
inw dodo. and sees mhool-boys and ennead-boys
are sea seenset the scrams of the betting dens.
Mailleortmi seasli swim the vice rows upon its
maw of the " proper of the ring
Me bosoms the patron alf the " betting
deo." labeademeat and robbery, as the po-
lice reperb drew constantly tarnish the re-
quired mem her the esadnned aceitement,
until at last Mopes and the Onkel Detailed Court
reveal the Sad essingssomb Outraged amistthat
as
has to pay the welly el supporting is
members is ear in VI tie Whs. is now beginning
to ask that homes &said be pat hove.
Doubtless they tto le &lathed. One paper
says, pat the open them ; another cries,
"Make each pay kr a licenser whilst a third—itself
supporting its own bleb' pusher (who mid Hobbit
Nails was to win pootenines raw)--s third, we say, 1
cries out for leave to ruin sweeps by
forcibly eradicating betting Misses
this modern
form of the old mischief that arose hem lotteries be
stopped by all means—if possible—hot to whom
shall we turn to do it ? To our Leiters? If no
with what face can a Housed sompesed
chiefly of magiatai, ergs_ the of Is-
Fes" lass airekvot easelbean smart the
poorer claims, whilst they thosbelbs drat up the