The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-24 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARI .11.LASETS.

Lrv=lmm,, MAT o.—Birkeehted, 891—Celedontan stock,
00 no4—Eastern Counties, 10 1410 10 11-18--Great Northern
111 118-omat Westerns 68, 484—Liuwashire and Yorkshirel
1094—London and North Western, 1004 1001—Dftto, Nigh
thar, 918 1-14 d.—Manchester, Rhenlekl, and Linoidushilw. 41
414—Midland stork, 1161 1181—North British stock, 61 81e—
North Staffordshire, 4 Si} d.—North Eastern, Berwick capital
stock, 90 itill—Ditto, York capital stock, 79179j--Ditto, Leeds
stock, 614 614—thiford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 444 464—
Loner n, 15 1418 274—Dated Rhenish, 81 44 d..—Oreat
bonrg, tie 84—Orsed Trunk et (Nu-ads, 84 84—Oresi
w t,,,rt, of tame* lt 9-1812 11-18—DItto. New shares, 8 71d.—
Batt Buffalo abut Lake Huron, 41 6—lianbardo-Yenetian, d. Far
--Great chip, 11s. ed. tra 64.

DESPATCH OF CANADIAN AND AYLgdeAN MARA.
—Yesterday (Wednesday) the Quebec and Montreal Mail
Company's steamer Nova Scotian was deepatched from the
Mersey for Quebec with the Canadian and United States
mails, and 40 cabin passengers. Yesterday also the Liver-
pool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer
City of Baltimore sailed from Liverpool for New York with
nails for the United States, and 100 passengers. The
Cunard Royal Mail steamer Africa will be despatched from
Liverpool for New York on Saturday next. The box at the
Liverpool poet-office will be open on that day for the re-
ceipt of letters, kc., till 10 a.m., and rid Queenstown till
11.30 a.m.
MANCHESTER UNITY OF ODD FELLOWS.—The
official report of this (the largest) friendly society has just
been aimed, containing many important particulars upon the
experience of last year. At the commencement of 1858
there were 9.87,573 members. During the year 27,03 new
members were initiated, of whom no leas than 15,818, or
Inure than one half, ware under T 3 yerue of age. There
were 3,275 deaths amongst the members, being l'l3B per
cent., or one death out of every ST members, and of the
members' wives 2,384 died. As an inaanoe, showing the
imaperoua state of the country, it is stated that during
1858, 773 members travelling in search of
.employment, re..
oeiveilKi7Lorhilst in 18.50 only 485 requtred relief to the
extent of 2821. Faun various muses 5,848 members have
seceded or withdrawn from the order • and at the close of
the year this Unity of 305:214 subscribing mem-
bers, having 3,333 lodges or meeting plame. apportioned to
441 districts in all parts of the itine, and the colonies.
The grand annual committee of delegates from districta as-
sembles at Shrewsbury on Whit4looday, and the old
border metropolis is expected to wear a lively aspect during
the week.
DENBY DAY.—The aspect of the town is not
what it is upon ordinary days. How the lovely drags sweep
past with the slim young men in dusty paletots, and white
hats, and blue vests, and the very members of the Ithoeblack
Brigade cheer them as they go by, and love them because
they are going to the Derby with a pomp and solemnity
worthy of the occasion. It is just what the little fellows
would do themselves if the balance at their banker's was in
a more satisfadory condition. Awl then the great vans—
the holiday vans—and the business vans converted into
holiday vans for the °carrion. I should really be
afraid to mks a guess at the number of paseengers each
contains—speaking at random, I should be its-dined to
say any number between 30 and 80- without uMng the
dusty babies into account. The very horses seem to rejoice
in the performance of their Derby duties, and cost en-
couraging looks out of the corners of their eyes, as if the
addition of a few more passengers would 811 up the measure
of their hilarity and satisfaction. Aral now the Hansom
cabmen have rigged up their vehicles with veils to keep out
the dust, and altogether hove au appearance as though they
would szom to look upon the run to the Derby as a purely
commercial transaction--what they redly want is not an
exorbi-...vd fare, but the presenee of a couple of karilrod
spirits. •- :lore a- Welk.

THE DERBY DAY.

Then. war probably never a finer or more sue-
ceed ul Derby Day than that from which a quarter of a
million .1 people retuned, tired, but plumed, to the metro-
polis yesterday evening. Some said there had been as peat
• c:dicouree on the Downs at the Derby of the Exhibition
year, but the police andiontice, who are the beet judges,
gave yesterday the eslm;andlpronotinced it to be the fullert
Derby day within their official remembrance. It seemed me
if all the most modern means of ttaxtrat, added to all the
old trioneionid modes 41 conveyance, and these latter
further &muted by the pedeetnan power of all the racing
anoionn of limited pecuniary resources, had conspired to
pour out upon Epsom Doinuosneh an ocean of human life—
happy, no:ocular, variously clad, hungry, thirsty. orderly
and disorderly, human life—ea could only be spared from
the greatest city in the world without • complete drying up
of it. ordinary meat of population. It may be trite, but
a hundred years hence it will be historical, and deeply
interesting to note, that on the 7.3 rd of May, ittO,
the peat movement of the Isthmian pilgrim. comuseund at
about four O'clock in the morning, at which early hew'
all the pathways leading out of town wen marked by Week
movies; lines of padaninsne laden with the most extraordi-
eery variety of burtheas, and that the roadways wen
equally populous with patient donkeys, who only required a
little more time to get over a. much pound as the meet
agile of the Derby racers—the moving lines and the donkeys
AM the peelers, and the moveables, all belonging to the
great costennongering population, who were determined
to absorb the 'luting treffic of the Downa, and to mean
those admirable phone at the ropes, which at a later period
of the day made them the envy 44 the guinea ticket holders
of the Grand *and
The annual meeting of superannuated meal conches at the
LivPh..ot and Castle wee this year much more numerously
atm-slat than ousel, and the appeals on their behalf by
the iodinduels who led had the moral courage to dog
those unhappy relics of a bygone age once more into the
public pee were extnordinudy eloquent and vociferous.
But for any one who in a mistaken fit of cadmium foe the
wan 44 this olden time had ever tried " the road" before,
the isot tempting offers of frost seats, oe the most libels'
suggestion. in the way of pseaniery arrangement, offered
no cal xemeot to counterbalance the comfort, speed, and
certainty .1 the rail. People could remember the first
break down at Kennington turupike, the giving way of the
traces at the Swan. the constantly Incurring thirst of the
coachman at every roadside public-houn, the imminent
risk of peel is the manes road leading to the Down, and
the not locemmon eudingency of aniving in the course
just a. the erowd was cheering for the winner, and the
polio. were dragging off the pickpockets who bed bees
taking dean*" of that moment of peculiar excitement.
The rail suite everybody, and Ms. Slight has now brought
his arrangements to such perfection that nobody i left
behisl By reeeining the ordinary fares down to haM-past
suer is the swain the looser gab of the Derby mignakm
ar- draughted of early, and later in the day the ism.
ant ino:emion of fad trains finds every one who OM pay
.veu-acilaespeace for the socommodation • melt A anew
and siipenoy crowd must always be is a 0011111, dopes
...last, and therefore the moat timid of people may eddy
senior, to the Derby by mil, certain to meet so-
tbiag sons than murer. of parliament, select
teen:here of the prise nog, intelligent foreigners,
studying the masters of the English, and those well trussed,
well braced, well dressed, unmistakeable personages who
come to the Derby as • matter of business, and who under
a amities exterior, perhaps, conceal considerable doubts SA is
whether the evening will see them millimmiree or paupers
What used to he confusion and chaos at the Loudon-bridge
platform is sow nothing but order and regularity. The
uncials are never put out of their way, but politely call ant
" Forward " as you hurry along, until at last you begin le
have ..roe vague notion that you will catch a glimpse of
the grand Stand before you find your railway caning,; and
then, wien you have found it, you further discover that
having taken • first-class ticket you should be very well
satisfied yt finding yourself seated in • third-class pen, wish
for fellow pueengen two retired members of the P.R., and
three geutlernes of colour, who, if they do not belong to i
the mime profnesiou, thoukl be recommended to go into
training with as little delay as seeilile. It will no doubt be
a source of considerable satisfaction to our noble Premier to
learn, the% with the whole of pugilistic Roomed some of
hi. lordship's recent speeches have obtained for loin the most
uhou ullol popularity. The retired pugilist with the &premed
'lean! ridge to whom we had the honour to be tia-d-vie pro-
n.:weed his lordship to he a " Crick " in the meet emphatie
tones. and the gentlemen of colour, with • fore* of ewer
aien which one would not like to contradict, were dimly of
opie on that if Sayers and Heenan chose to have smother
meeting, Lord Palmerston would shut up all the "'mks"
In Er-gland for the day, rather then that the decision of
the great international question should be &pin interrupted.
We are free to confess that this strictly prolusions' circle
mole very purist travelling companion, and seemed to
be fully :make to their mission 44 physical regeneration.
Their whole tone of thought and onivereation had olerionaly
been eyed by recent events, and they eeerned quite ready
to take a prominent part in all the great reformatory move-
ments of the age.
T: o. trot thing that istrikos you when you arrive at Epsom
is that the proviso( that thriving town have not the slightest
notion that a great race is to conic off, and • querterof a
million 41 people to congrepte in their immediate vicinity.
The tradesmen stead behind their solitary counters.
and weigh small parcels fur iniagioary custanews,
just as if it were no Derby day at all, and the
single la.liea tap at the windows of the poet-office and ask
for the letters, which sedan' not the slightest allusion to
the +tat.. of the odd., or the business of the clay. EPove,
suni, iu fact to be ignored, put on one aide, to be stolidly
indifferent to hone-racing, and contemptuously to look
down on people who pan OCI to the rameoune and—more
impurtaut take all their speoding-nioney alonewith them.
The pest print that oocun to person of a reflective two in
that, so far as fatigue and real &work is siacersel, you are
sessiderably further from the Downs at Epsom than when
you took train at London-bridge. You follow a streaming
preceesiou of eager pedestrians down • bosky green lane,
sad you heoonie perfectly charmed with the delicate blown
of the lilac, the faint, exquisite perfume of the hawthoth,
the merry singing of the birds, the indescribably rich,
lustensti, health•giving, eye-gladdening yellow and green of
the gra. and the buttercup., and the pictureeque attitudee
of the little toys astride upon the stiles. What a charming
thing ei a walk in the real genuine country, and
then you take your first two or throe ail., and your first
half-dozen little hills like a Flying Childers on Lie lust •
legs. list sous the pace begins to tell. The little hills
get longer, and that delusive Greed *duel. the mirage of
the racecourse, keeps maliciously slipping away, and you
roomeos wiping your forehead and mentally asking your.
self, whet can Mr. Slight mean by promising to kite you to
the firths, and back to town for the moderate charge of
seven and stepson.? It is all 11.. Qua lover of rural scenery
who has legs two yanb hiog pointing mit to you the deli-
cola Sells .4 young wheat wilich bound. the at.ny dreary
steppe a your pilgrimage ors either nide, or the furtive
donkey who, taking advantage of the :lay when reibnly has
time to put him in the pound, ho. beeu pinnendising nu
lb. tend, corset until his aides are blown oat like • lalluoin.
You: b 0.. of the beautiful dies within you, You are hot,
• dusty, and impatient. and the only clear satisfec.
bay oor-Issimi to which you can roan is that the di.tence
frees epeoni to the Downs is considerally more than the
deices-, f lsulon to Epsom, and that all the railway
termini in the kingdom are nothing but a niwkery, a delu.
eioe. and • sure.
Nut at last the 101 l no nested, the stead is reached, and
you tap your hand upon the railing to ii.ake sue that
than n not another two Mitre up II:II sti:l W he done. le it
an lardien army resting at non, or a amp meeting, or a
scauslic astioa, M the midst of which you suddetly And
your...lf! There are certainly in. camels, but there are
plenty of her.* that are exceedingly like them, and the
temporary little teats that have been ;etched anyhow look
exceedingly like so many elepLatita at reek If you have
nay 4.14 a. to • hst the Latham-a games teeny are, yea
have than all cl....red up at nere, and Peal them to he
played principally with three 'ticks, ti.thrb I,.ratir number
ie politely tendered to you the moment you a '
ve-
Thiionle rig muse to have departed. . we 4inl not w •
single table us the course, and es ria the percents! *cruise
must at last have descended fron: his unions psi.
tins at the top of • poly, as we could sat
sin
his penile bead and leap cuttiug the liminoo is
any direction. There is a iso.r.o. pay,. at the
ad. titaad. through which the whole of the
quarter .4 a million of people must pass if thee wish to mss
the cosine, sad in that peemee it is that esters, one first
feel. the iallseace el the genies of the place. No matter
what you may have bees lame. the Remand you plusp is
here and revive your Ant breath, you hammy • spirting
man u "ace. You an asked what odd.,, you will give, sad

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