The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-29 00:00:00

THE DERBY DAY.

The first notiosable circumstance eonneeted with
t►e Derby Day of 1666, was, that it witsassed a more
°fended assemblage cm the rumours, than had been known
sines 1640, when Little Wender satonkised the knowing
ones—who are so oft.. takes In—by winning the raw.
There eartekly wee a prodigious owitowee of pewees
assembled ea the Downs yesterday : and how they all got
there must haw been a weeder to any one not seqsaisted
with our wrlform means of transit. There was, of name,
the rack of resussitetad stage coaches, funeral economy
smawyeaces, slabs, superannuated onialbusee, and seeds-
script carriages of every hied, at the Elephant ad Castle,
the bland oondnetees Weak( the paosera•by to "try the
rood," sad the toes owameated with the whole population
of dieeerdsat begledom; frantically essaying every possible
misty of malitly Is the Taira hope of performing the.
Orphism' :km for the old road to Epsom. Bat, se a general
rule the wayfarers heeded sot the blast of the
charmer, blew he ever so desperately. The rail
was the flied Ides, sad, eenesquently, the stream
Mooed steadily sad roadie:timely oa to the Loodon•bridge
atatlonorbere every possible urremessist ►ad been made
to transport the legiess to the Dowse. Talk of the slink.
milieus eta. Preen army, they are merely light con-
peeks, compared to the demo masses that c►urged Omagh-
out the messing up the railway platform, and whenever a
trait arrived broke ap Into detachments, Wahl the handles
oldie oarriage doors, when about thirty regularly fought
for possession of a menpartment that meld reawaken;
hold els. The ofileials interfered, remonstrated, implored,
bet ell to so purpose. The universal Jobs Ball bad deter.
raised to me the Derby, sad railway Akins, and railway
accidents were equally the obiette of his contempt. As I
first the light weights hod decidedly the advantage in the
terrifle struggle, es one would get la through a carriage
window, sad another over the roof, bat ones the deers were
optima mantle gravity began to tell. One geatlentae of
coaketable dimensions set the example of what may
be best described as the korieictal short move-
meet, throwing himself recklessly is 'pis the trot
001111480 of I derriere, end leaving the au epos them of
wrangler his subsequent scoommodatlon. The sample
was sees followed by others in similar eireurastamma, sad
with similar messes. The arriagos moved on, there was no
remedy, and the eosammemes was that some of the travellers
had the appearances of cigen that bad been packed damp by
the time they arrived at Epsom. !Suddenly imbued with
densooratie notions, the railway mthoritke bad for this
special fussiest abolished all distinction of clams, a that
varietal young gearless's, got op for the Derby wholly re-
seedless of exposes, eta toned themselves seated fa a
luggage truck or a break van, amid a complay embreelag
nearly all the various grads of society. This we think
might be managed better. On the French railways, the
Versethes, for lastest*, wbleh often has to secommodsta as
Brest crowds at the Epsom line, there Is Constant class Am-
non, and distinct eetrences for every elm, and the sous-
%mace is that ladies mueslis the line in thowande, whereas',
at London Bridge yesterday there was scarcely a basset to
be sea, the fairer porno's of the creation having evidently
been frightened sway by the remembrance of former tunas
struggles.

The 'tend noticeable feature in the day's proosediap
was, that anther Ia the trate nor ea the wens w the
&lightest allaafaa beard to the even dui trial that bad oh-
Primd the aunties of all Loadoa—probably all England—
for the wenn' fortaight. Although the maw,
ladivi-
dual priaapaUy sencereed had bees a sporting man, sad
that his whole dreadful SW had arisen oat of sporting
tr.setiosa, =obey wafted to tuner or care &anthill
abut him. So absorbing wee the haziness of the day—so
weeantrated was the anemia& of every eau OS racing earth,
sad betting books, that no see had a thought or word to
throw away on the great criminal trial of the csatery.
" Two to one," " tea tonne," " seventeen to two," sad
se on, formed the whole conviweattoe, until we rosebud
what is jocularly called the reenowss stalks°, bat which in
troth hawse a jemmy to be performed as important as the
odd eta miles from Balsklava to Sebastopol. Two or three
miles to walk up hill, wi k the ground soft and Singh, was
rather Wiling, so goes after the beide of Load on-bridge,bat
ewes ecompeasation was to be fawn to the dslightfal sad re•
hashing enders dna meadows that garnished right and left
the rank lam that led tortuously to the Downs. The raise
had gassed the gram to spring ap as if by magi., sad the
brilihust unreel of battening and daisies with which an
had Malted It, was went balm to the many eves of
the smoke-dried Loadonera. The spirits roes seder the
stimalas of the pare omen of Epsom Down and people,
as they tradged vigorously along, forgot that they wen Rot
twoposay postmen by profession, or wager psdrstrians after
the proper ptelisaleary wane of training. What can be
said of no Roane, ever the same Ia itself, ever new sad
smiting to Its Alton ? There was the same difficulty of
approach, through myriads of unhorsed who and towhee,
the same readers of Dealing's immortal misnamel the
same *Maly browsing donkeys, the same thimblerigean,
glmise, as/ old women. Opposite the Derby Arms
tias was grasp of align meledists seemed persistently
beat ea continuing no somart which they had sommeseed
the preview year, sad oa the mane Itself the first thing
that Wrack es was the saws human pyramid of daintier
acrobats, the top am looking so permanent and composed
as to he evideatly a Were and as institstioe beyond all
doubt or gentian. ha the frost of the Grand Stead Men
was the same boost of heftier books, the same Babel of
tongues, the same wises and sere immersed wantonness.
_ . . .

The alterastive of wealth or want l led the whole &too-
splierr, sad every cme was sliest, oompr.ssed, sod sirloin
wider its WILMS,. The Bread Stead I. the bourse of the
reessourse: people p there for business not pleasure, sad
mere mosey chassis hands within tic precieste la ea*
beer they would heap any conthestal escheats piss
for a month. Those who p for pleasure mad to see the
rear take poseresion of Beraard's, hard by, whish, etaadlag
right over the ',Maier post, 'ennead& the pretest platers
of the mane that ass be 8008 from say 'lngle position.
Let as sit down st the top of its light of wood= stays,
sad, having lint assertained that a shower is not ha-
paeans, watch the moving past:trams that rolls
slowly backward end forward at oar feat. There
p ladies la clouds of muslin, sad with parasols
as gay sad varies' as the lower show. They appear and
disappear like the stormy petrel oa the oust of the Wove,
aid esem as if they would he swallowed up by the bleak
wiles hum billows that sarronad them. Bat, as. TM
emwd b as !ARUM crowd ; above all, a Derby crowd ; sad
everythlag Is goad lamosr, dieapliae, sad poHteaese,
TIMID OlOseidiers is every variety of uniform, but Rookies
a meleashely maternity of 'ism, the gewalae Brom
beady sad who eta fail to moguls* the mart brigade of
'Worms' clubs la every variety of the seat mephitis
. Derby whoa% from the darkest km tweed to the

lightest Welsh flannel, relieved by Girlie hate, and neck-
cloths every one of which is an original Idea. As the pie-
tare rolls on, appropriate lanai/ ia hoard, and what music!
As indescribable cripple chianti an inamprehensible ditty,
an Italian emulously grinds a stentorian organ, venders at
various articles rpmt the manes and prices of the,r wares,
bells ring, and betters vociferate the odds. We can diatin-
rash nothing ezectly,but get a perfectly satisfactory flavour
of every.hing, and the mule and the picture harmonise
wonderfully together. Anon an Irishwoman—a decided
credit to her country—shouts an unmistakeable solo, and
all other sounds are for a moment hushed under the spell of
this Alboal of the neetouree. Gentlemen anxious about
their adipose accumulations step before °lnoue looking
. . .

braes magidam to be weighed, sad admiring crowds ion;
Miele. rimed them as they blushiogly receive the alarming
oertificate marked " Sistine stone throe." Open caeri-
eses,with four horses sash, and filled with gaily-dressed com-
pany, ars ewe snaking up The Hill," and a pony Omer
ton, dashing madly on, ezeites a momentary alarm. Fresh
incident. now begin to impart fresh vitality to the scene. It
is close apse two o'clock; jcokeys as carefully wrapped up
sa:Anteboen babies in frosts nishte lit across the smarm
sad make fer the paddock, sad the keevies ones shout
their names familierly—.. That's Tenepleinan"--" There
goes Day ; he's a partictiler friend of taine"—and " That
mast be Osborne." Nobody recognises Aldcroft, the man
who afterwards won the Derby. Two polleemeal are mew
midi the most devoted etteatioo ito an innocent-
looking youth, who in a fit of abeam bad helped
himself to a gentlemaa's pocket-heindkerchief, and people

sagely observe that they had fortunately left their watches
at home. " Clear the worse," the little go is about to com-
mence, a single mile is to be run for the Epsom Town Fists.
New the august Darling himself is to be seen mooted, like
ea sawr r, on his lighly trained giraffe, and followed by a
meshed* in pink and green sad bias jackets, the candi-
dates for the Town Plate. But this is nothing, merely the
orators before dialler, end only Denis; to give zest to the
coevessation, like the noels at the opera. We are see-
roanded by a perfect phalanx of adepts, end, be it observed,
that on the Derby Day every caeca the grmand is an adept
in horsellesph. There is no flinching, to hesitation, every
one is positive, professional, sod oracular. ° Wentworth is
a good horse if not too weak in the flank. He's in Scott's
stable." This observation is always soasmpanied by a tee-
modestly knowing wink. " Fangetto would do, it he's
not for big. He won the Two Thousand." " Fly-by Night
is a good 'an Hall's right, but whew he west for the Two
Tboasand he hurt his hocks." The maker of this
sagacious remark is at mute instilled an oracle,
sad so the talk goes on, the annoutcemeat that

Weathercock has won ereatlng but the =ellen pn-
gible ripple of ezcitement. Bat now we approach
the reel begin. of the day. It is just tau minutes
to three, and the mune is being cleated for " The Derby. '
The pollee farm, the crowd gives way, sad in five minutes,
tar as the eye en mob, the nurse geese bounded by a
broad green girdle, the mosotony of which is unbroken,
gave by the prescriptive dog, who, cent to Dlr. Darling, Js
the meet ancient and permanent ornsmsat of the mum.
Taos, the preltaisary canter, nand which the crowd 'warm
I. agate, then seethe, eleatasee, and the horses, 25
thorough-bred', are off to the atartiag poet. " Hats off!"
"There they go." "No, It's a false 'tan l" "I saw the
leg fall," and fa a 'anent every man's nose is buried la
his card. "There they go!" "What a pretty state l"
and eyes are simian' after bias and red, and white aid
French gray, avid black, sad onage, esti' all the Golsen are
fumed aid mind up in one mem to the eyes of the *g-
elled gnus. The hones sow disappear bolded the hill,
and the MUMS! of a haedred theasend voices,
subdued by lateen 'schemes; rise 'lowly, and
rests heavily os the air. The bones emerge and
approach the inner. " Fassolette makes the ruining."
- &ott's lot leads I"—ead now they seem for an intent
as if all draws up in Bag settee " the opener." " Fly•by-
Night has it I"—"Fassoletto Is inereasiog his lead !"—"They
are all is a leap, by Jove !"—.ad so they seemed to be for
half a minute, as eternity harassing for the Derby. Hye-
toned keeling, shoutiog, swearing, watching, straining,
are saw the order of the day. The hone" approach, the
earth shake' ander their wild tramp, sad everyoug finds
breath to say that" The pace la dreadful 1"—" Good horses I"
—"Noble nee r-.. Anybady'graos!"—" White's ahead!"
—"Where'sWentworthl" Halo answer; "Nowhere."
" Birdn-Hend has it l"—" No—yee—it can't be possible;
harm, Ellingtogra the little weeder of this yea's day."
Is accordance with the cutout which has of late yeas
been established, the Derby was the wend race. The lan
gored event was no goner decided than the interest and ex-
citement w►ich had bees previosely displayed, swelled to
their height. At the lest momeat a powerfal demount"-
ties was made aghast Wentworth, who was ultimately de-
prived of the " premiership" by Lard Derby's Psuolstto.
The quotations which we ban appended to the result of the
nee will sufficiently Want, the latest movements.

We lave elsewhere described low ohs rase wee rum The
means Lt Ellington created a @enmities, albeit it we. not
unespeeted. Yesterday is the remarks os this wefts; it
was stated that 1,000 to 80 bad bees takes twelve than
about the hone; is fact, despite his two defeats—one at
York and the other at Chester—the confidence of his party
was seemly dinsisished, and he found many, through thick-
-and—thin, supporter'. The heavy ground, too, ulna's-
tiosably served him. His priacipal bookers, Kr. J. and 3tc,
H., are the lsrgsst winners, and his trainer, who always
'zoomed the highest *Osiris about the horse, has aim
throws la for a g od stake. Ellingtoa was ridden by one
of the Catillffelli sad most determined jockeys of the day.
Yellow Jack was agile destined to reap the somewhat her
tea ►omen of sesesd plats. He km thrice ran seriond, wiz.,
the Two Thousaad, Chester Cup, and Derby.

By the way, the result of ths ran showed what, In toff
messes, is sailed "in and oat ranniag." Bird•in-Hand
beat Winston sully at Cheater, yet he la "nowhere" la
the Derby, whilst Fazitietto, who defestad Yellow Jack
for the Two Thousand, appeared unable to compete with his
old antagonist. Wentworth amid not pt nearer this
smooth or eighth at the finish. In fact, the despised Aleppo,
who war sent to seeks the raining for him, but the pick of
the Denebary stable.
In addition to his Royal Highness Pesos Albert, and
Primo Frederick William of Prase" and mite, we notiood
amongst the distisgaishrd visitors Lord Derby, Lord
Anatomy, Lord Wasiak, Lord Bismuth, Sir M. Farquhar,
Colonel Pergolas, Captain Eeslys, Hos. H. Fitzroy, Hos.
G. Fitzwilliam, Lord Glasgow. Lord Granville, Mr. 0.
Grains, Captain Machismo, Mr. H. De. Vans, Colonel
Newtem, Mr. G. Payne, Mr. H. Read, Captain Canna,
Lord Jobs Soak Lord Strathmore, Mr. P. Cockerel!,
Lod Wilton, Sir W. W. Wyss*, Lord War
Lard Lasalle', Lord Lichfield, Lord Loodeebtroagb,
Lord A. Leaser; Lord Maklstnee, Lord March,
Sir Genre Aromas', Lord Hairy Thais", Mr. Charles
Belfear, Coast Battbyany, Major &mot, lord Bateman,
Delis of Beaufort, Sir J. II swell, But., Mr. J. Bowie', Sir
Thomas Barks, Bart., Doke of Cambridge, the Hon. J.
Macdonald, Sir 11. Campbell, Coliwel Camphell,
Lord Chesterfield, Captain Christie, Lord Clifden, Captain
Br►baeaa, Lord Colville, Sir W. Codrington, Lord
Competent, Mr. J. Shirley Crawford, Lord Corms, Hon
H. Carson, Mr. Byes, Mr. A Des Vans, Lord Droskids,
Captain Peel, Lord Drualaarig, Sir Hobert Peel, Lord
Eglinton, Hon. Leopold Ellis, Lord Enfiold, Hon. Colonel
Forrester, Lord Easton, Duke of Mosinee, Lord Newport,
Mr. Ooslow, Gomel Peel, DILP , Hos. Admiral Bras,
Colonel Taylor, Mr. H. Willie, Mr. T. Willis, lb. J. Ives,
cad Mr. Gulley niggles.

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LONDON OINIIOAL Oitirmos COMPAWI.—TraIIe
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