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London, England, 1861-05-30 00:00:00

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If the " oldest inhabitant" had watched the
crowd of vehicles, descript and nondescript, which
clustered round the Elephant and Culls yesterday
morning, and had witnessed the confiding faith
with which thousands of well-dressed people ac-
cepted the eloquent assurances of the innu-
merable drivers that the road was " all to nothing
the quickest as well as the pleasantest way" to
Epeeist Downs, be would have come to the conclu-
sion that the time-honoured institution of four-
horse barouches, with their human appendages in
the regulation silk jackets, had at length super-
seded the more modern innovation of the rail,
and that Kennington turnpike and the "Cock"
at Sutton were about to resume all the glories of
their ancient anniversaries. But if, warned by past
experiences of sundry breaks-down on the road • of
the tendencies of coachmen to gravitate towards
certain public-houses • of dust is his eyes, in his
ears, on his coat, in his shoes—everywhere ; and
of the probability, too often realised, of his arrival
on the Downs just as the backers of the successful
horse were dancing their accustomed exultatory
hornpipe, and the losers drowning dull sere ip the
cup of sorrow—he heeded not the voice of the
charmer, but persevered to London Bridge, he
would there find grounds for arriving at an
entirely different view of the case. If he had
found, at the Elephant and Castle, the crowd so
domes to hint at the possibility of the abolition of
railways, he now discovered the Brighton platform
to be as populous as if everything vehicular in
connexion with the Derby had become a matter of
history. The receipt of custom there must have
been enormous, and the urgency of ;solicitation
with which myriads of well-dressed people implored
the cashiers to receive their seven and sixpences
bad something almost pathetic in its earnestness.
The fact was, that the peculiar fineness of the
day—neither too hot nor too cold, too bright
nor too dull, too still nor too windy—had
inspired all London, except the parentheti- I
cal two millions or so who must remain
behind on "urgent private affairs," with a noble
resolution to go to the Derby. There had been a
little rain the night before—just enough to give
that pleasing Savour of uncertainty which is the
very salt of anticipated enjoyment, but it had
passed away with the clouds of the night, without
depriving even the dust of any of its customary
vivacity. People, as they hurried along, either to
the train or to the coach, paused in pity if they met
any one going the other way, and made calcula-
tious RR to what must be the ultimate fate of
such unhappy individuals. The policemen who
stood at their allotted stations to keep order
on the pathway reminded one, in their stern resig-
nation, of the fortitude of the Roman sentinel of
Pompeii, whom even the approach of the burn
lava could not scare from his post. If it coull
have been done in the time, one could almost have
fancied that the whole force would have resigned,
and, regardless of consequence/1 have taken return
tickets for the Downs. It is needless to recapitu-
late what happened on the rail, or what must have
happened on the road, as every one knows that
Use same crush took place at the former, and that
the passengers were all landed at the other end of
their journey with the same rapidity and safety ;
whilst nobody will doubt but that in the case
of the latter the same floods of brilliant
repartee were poured out from the " well of
English" very much defiled, the same number of
light carts, too heavily laden, came to grief by the
road-sid. the satue boarding-schools paraded their
young ladies iu the front balconies, and the same
identical, choleric old gentleman whose doom it is to
be, once a year, the target for all the accumulated
chaff" of the road, took his customary station in
his door-way, and his punishment in the usual re-
bellions spirit, calling for the police with sill his
traditional but abortive enemy.
There is a point not far from the Downs where
the two lines converge so much as to come close
in sight of each other. The passenger by
rail finds himself flying along like a bird
through green fields, brilliantly enamelled with
buttercups and daisies. If he looks out of the
window of his carriage he Mel a broad expanse
of country dotted with pleasant forestry, bright
iu the first lovely green of summer, and he inter-
rupts his deeply scientific conversation about the
coming race with cheering exclamations touching
the beauty of the prospect. He has, perchance,
just explained to an admiring auditory the entire
of Mr. Harry's combinations, dropped several mys-
terious hints as to what Lord Stamford was going
to Jo, and related an interesting romance as to the
attempts which had been made to "nobble" the
French horse. At the point before mentioned
this pleasant conversation is suddenly interrupted •
the weary, duet-begrimed caravan of the road
heaves slowly in sight, and all ideas of pleasure
are for the moment suspended as we gaze with
pity on the weary horses dragging themselves
heavily up the hill, and the equally weary pas-
mongers whom their owners had been paid to carry,
toiling foot-sore after them. The meeting is but for a
moment, of course ; for the train flashes
i by, and
in a few moments more lands its passengers n the
town under a fierce bombardment of "correct
cards," officious clothes brushes, and urgent solici-
tations to take a Hy to the Downs
Happy the man, albeit ungallant, who conies
into the station without a lady. He can
be carried to the course at a passible price ; but if
he be Squire of Dames, be is at the mercy of men
who know no mercy. Ten shillings a head for
about a mile and a half is not considered unreason-

The annual court of governors was held yester-
day at the offices in Whitehall ; Earl Powis in the chair,
supported by the Bishops of Oxford, Lichfield, and Win.
charter, the Das of York, Cannon Jennings, Sir T. Phil.
lips, ke.
A letter of spolop for non-attendance through indisPosi•
Lion was read from Use Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Sic UTAST Mild the report, of which the following
are the mom importaat peer ges :—During the past year
assistance has been graate,l to irz places ; new churches,
38; churches rebuilt with enlaraernenta, 30; churches
repaired, enlarged, kr., 90. Towards these objects 17,8361.
bee been granted. The increased accommodation provided
mecums to 30,721 seats, of which 26,379 are reserved, by
special conditions, foe and unappropriated for ever. The
society has paid for works completed dining the year,
15 916/., MA, towards the erection of 38 new churches, the
of 73 churches, and the rebuilding of 19
7h.uAdditiomil somenroodation has thee been secured
for 34,819 person, of which number 99,544 are reserved
free for the poor. Twenty-five plaice, with a population of
leach, most most them previously unprovkled with any
ith, hive been aided in the coarse of the peat year. The
amount of repair fends held in Omit for various churches
by the soasi ty is 15,1331. 13e. 11d. The income of the
society for the year has been 11,7681. 2e. 43. The report
then refers to the reduced income of the society, obliging it
to draw ea its reserved fund during the year to the amount
Ms datel2,o7ll,
02,0711,and suggeste various MONS and remedies for
faffells. Blue the foriesSionelthe School Minion
Fred. three yeses awe the sum of 1,3711. has been voted
from this fund to 19 school churches, three Coe ohumbes, and
six mission &mem. Since the commencement of the society,
in 1818, it has made 4,365 grants, and has expended
817,11041. The report concludes by stating that the Duke
of Marlborough will preside at the annual meeting in Oxford,
on June 5, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer at a similar
meeting in Liverpool. The report having been adopted,
three clergymen and six laymen were elected on the coin.
mittee,and other officers having been appointed, the meeting
terminated with the usual complimentary vote to the

The town of Epsom was as quiet, early on the
morning of Wednesday, se if it were the chosen abode of
dulness itself. Even the card-sellers did not venture to
pursue their calling until long after the breakfast hour, and
no lively din of the most persevering itinerant musician die*
turbed the " Babbage breasts " of the peace-seekers. Still,
despite the assertions of that great authority, " the oldest
inhabitant," who Mr. Sam Weller avers never remembers
anything, the glories of the Derby-day have sot deputed
although they display themselves with an embarramhur
decease, and, like the Ghosts in Maeoctli, they "come like
shadows—so depart." It was not until 10 o'clock that the
long straggling street was crowded with the isoomiag
visitors who arrived by railway, and it was nearly noon
before the approaches to the course were " blocked ' by
vehicles, and the traditional characteristics of •
Derby-day were displayed. The fun, however,
soon became fast and furious, and it was quite
as boisterous, but much lees offensive, than it was
on any, previous anniversary of what has sot bees
inappropnately described as England's great annual festival;
net that the pleasure-seekers did non take the customary
means for " preventing the destruction of ensue," for siting
and drinking were earned on to an extent which is almost
incredible. More pigeons than ever Sew must have been
converted into pies, and the popping of champagne corks as
the hill was heard at intervals as (request as those between
the inevitable question of " What's to whir Our long ex.
perience cannot parallel a more busy Derby-day. The
Grand Stand enclosure was so thronged that even elbow-
room wee scarcely obtainable by the most pushing specula-
tors, and several bookmakers most pathetically declared
that it was toeless their attempting to lay, because they
could not reach their customers.

PROVIDENT CLEAR'S' LIPS ASSURANCE
BENEVOLENT FUND.

The election of annuitants took place yesterday,
in the booed-mom et this aseociation, Moorgateatreet. The
poll closed at three o'clock, after which the chairman de-
clared that out of the list of seven male candidates William
Emery had been elected to an annuity of 301. per annum, and
that out of a lid of tweetyone female candidates annuities
had been granted to & Jests, (3,395 votes), E. Husband
(1.306), and C. emmt (4.035). Jesty's annuity was SOL,
and that at the otbse 16L W. Emery had 2,522 votes.
Mr. It H. Janes. the pessident of the associauoo, occupied
the chair, and woknupported by numerous directors and sub-
seriben. A vote of Mack* having been given to the char-
isma, Mr. Toole, ma of the auditors, io supporting the rem.
lotion, said that the condition of the unsuccessful candidates
was certainly unfortunate, bet he would instance a ems
more truly lamentable. He held in his band a
letter written by a commercial clerk to hie wife semen days
since: At that time the writer was in vigorous health and
Imam* spirits, but, unhappily, he bad now bees thtee days
in his grave. He had left • large family, and his widow,
now on the eve of confinement, was not only in great mental
dietractico, but in painful pecuniary distress, as the deceased
had omitted to insure ha life, and was not • member of
any provident fund. This cam might be a lemon to thou-
sands. The resolution was unanimously carried. The chair-
man, in responding to the compliment, offered considerable
consolation to the unsuccessful candidates, by stating that
their chances of success would be materially improved nut
time by the receipts of the dinner on Thursday. He hoped
the premeds of the dinner would eos.ble the directors to in-
crease the wslabor of sunuitauts, a cousumination anxiously
desired by the board.

From the rubbing.house' far beyond Tottenham Corner,
stretched a dense mar of spectators, and indeed so thick
and immovable were they in parts, that portions of the
Downs appeared to be paved with heads. The oonglomers.
tine of vehicles oa the bill was, if possible, larger and more
intricate than ever, and the attempt to Rod one's friss&
or one's " traps" was much more perplexing than our
youthful efforts to thread the Maze at Hampton Court. The
dull morning did not abate the desire for enjoyment, but
when fair weather seemed to be moat et odds with foul, the
excitement ruse, and people appeared to think that a wet
Derby-day would be more clamant than otherwise. If
there wee an abscises of that broad sunshine which some-
how gets associated with the ides of the Derby, there was
no absence of that great characteristic of the day—dust,
which a brisk breeze rendered more than usually annoying,
bat in which the excursionists by road seemed to take
especial delight.
The expectation of the spectators was not unnecessarily
prol , for the Derby was the second race decided ; sad
indeed the horses had started before the last carriage. had
taken up their position on the hill. The scene which pre.
sada the mos requires no description •, it is familiar to all
persons who have twee actors in it, and those who have not
have had it portrayed for them time out of mind by jour-
nalists sad artists. The surging multitude of people, the
anxious faces, all turned in one direction—the silence, still
r death, and the mighty roar "They're off" which breaks
I, are Derby-day chszacteristice which are produced year
after year.
The description of the race, which we give elsewhere,
suggests little comment. The result of the Derby occasioned
no excitement, for Kettledrum was by r.wegoers always
seseldered " a good thing,' despite his inelorious exhibition
ter the Two Thousand. Calomel Tower'', who k a
relollll 111011. bill Wi in teso ears, off
eill
the two great rams for thme.yeagrmids, yhaviag won the
Oaks last year with Butterfly. Dundee, it will be seen,
came to grief at the most critical periodof the race, having
broken down at the distance. He, however, struggled on
gamely, and but for his accident his success would have
been a certainty.
The management in every department may be unre-
servedly °reminded. So fee as the mere business of the
meeting was concerned, the officials worked with such a cor-
dial co-operatioo, sad were so familiar with the important
duties of their position, that no surprise was excited at
the regularity and promptitude with which the arrange-
ments were carried out. The Newmarket staff was in
office. Is the weighing stand Mr. James Maiming
discharged his very responsible duties with that cam and
punctuality which have obtained for him the re-
putation which he so deservedly enjoys. Mr. Clark was
the judge, and his decisions were unimpeachable. At the
startang.post was Mr. leGeorge, who seems to be daily
establishing as understanding of mutual coefidenc• between
himself and the jockeys. Resplendent and portly, as usual,
I. his red coat, and well mounted, was Martin Starling,
who bad charge of the horses both before sad after the
dart ter each race, and whose presence seem as essential
is a Derby-day's proceedings, as the charier of Hamlet to
the tragedy. Inspector Whicher and a large number of
detectives had charge of the Grand Stand, and Superin.
ruder Walker's body of the A division of police never
exerted themselves with greater forbearance sod more
effectively is the management of an enormous crowd of
people.

Tun Epsom Torn( PLATE of 50 son., for all ages. One
mile.

Binoa Ninne's W siding, 5 yn, O.t 41b (Watkins) 1
Mr. Hudson's Mlsa Emma, 3 yes, est Persona) 2
Mr. 81anna's artisan, 4 pi, ust 101 b, carded nit 121 b
(M. Orimslunr)
Mr. Malllalfs Voltam, 5 yrs, 754 (Mills) 0
Mr. Hooran's Wild Bird, 4 yrs, flat 416 ....(W.Johnson, 0
'8 end') 0
Mr. Jacobs'. The
'Abb IDoe AlerdiaL, 2.44 3M1144 71billt. rAsiondun.) 0
Betting : 7 to 4 apt Miss Emma, 100 to 30 apt Narcissus,
9to 2 apt The Don, sto 1 apt Wedding. Narcissus was
the quickest at, and led by a clear length, having Wild
Bird, Wedding, and The Don next, Vulture lying off. On
rounding Tattenham Corner, Wedding took second place,
and Vulture improved his position. Oppiwite the Stand
Wedding came away, and won easily -bY three lengths,
Miss Emma second, beating Narcissus by a head. Vulture
fourth, Wild Bird fifth.

Teti Deus SrAims of ea KIM each, Is ft, for 3-r•old, ;
colts, fist 71b ; Allies, SA Jlh ; the °wiser of the second
horse to receive 100 son, out of the stakes, and the enterer
tn paiy 100 soya towards the police and regulations of the
course, and MI sore. to the judge. Mile and a half, to be
run on the New Course. (ZtB subs.) Value, 6,4501.
Colonel Townlay's Kettledrum, by Rataplaa, eat of
Mincemeat's dam , Bullock
Mr. Merry's Dundee, by Lord of the Isles, out of
Marmalade iCostance.
Lord Stamford's Diophantus, by Orlando, oust of iquatlou
(A. Idwarda,
Mr. Hamilton's Aurelian, by:Stockwell, est se Zenobla
(J. Gloater,
Lord Stamford's Imams, by Newminstie (J. French
['mint F. de Lagrange's Ruyallien by 'Ma-Gladiator
(S. Orloishaw
Mr. Merry's Hawley, by Oalsten . .. ....(Withlngton
Mr. Manning's Seven Dials, by Joe LureD
Mr. Thomm's Dictator, by The Cure (J. Osborne,
Lord Glasgow's The Drake, by Stockwell tAldcroft,
Colonel I ownleya Yorkmlnster, by Newralnster
Snowden;
Sir C. Monek's Gardener, by The Core
Sir J. Hawley's Rouge Dragon, by Windliound....lWella
Mr. T. Parr • Klldonati, by Nortulusicr (Clement!
Mr. Henry's Klarlkolf, by De Clam Yordharn;
Lard Lincoln's Lupus, by Loop (Lanni 'A Day
Mr. Parker's Atherton, by Touchstone IS. Regent
Mr. J. Osborne's Lopcatcher, by Birdcatcher (Challoner;

able? under such circumstances ; and what man of
spirit would stoop to bargain in the presence of
the fair g As the ladies were very numerous on
the course yesterday, the victimization must have
been proportionably extensive, and calculated to
have a depressing effect on the invitations of •
future year. The crowd on the ground was the
greatest we have ever witnessed. To get through
" Careless " passage, close to the Grand Stand, was
equivalent to boring a tunnel : the very pickpockets
had to give up business, and for half-an-hour
nobody even hinted that ho had been robbed. The
ring was black with people, .he police were com-
pletely absorbed, and the Grand Stand was so
densely packed with visitors that the majority
found they had paid lON. a head for the luxury of
looking at each other's hats. In the front, a row
of private boxes had been improvised, which moat
fully deserved the appellation, as the occupants
were enabled to enjoy the most perfect seclusion,
undisturbed by even a casual glimpse at the outer
world. Everything had been done, it is true, to
make everybody comfortable, but on this
occasion everybody's name was Legion, and
Legion was too numerous for even the judicious
arrangements of Mr. Dueling. The windows, the
balconies, the house-tops, were all in the same pre-
dicament, and the only amusement people were
able to obtain was by squeezing themselves with
unheard-of exertion up-stairs, and then, when they
found they could see nothing there, getting down
again by a similar process. On the opposite hill
the canvas city appeared to be similarly populous,
and, once in a way, it might have been literally
said that there was not elbow-room on Epsom
Downs. Having "waisted" at many Derbys, we
can safely say that we never witnessed such a con-
course of people. We should almost hesitate to
write our own guess as to the gross numbers, but
if any reliable person told us there were • quarter
of a million present, we should not sus-
pect him of exaggeration. And yet, when
the bell rang, and Mr. Walker, the super-
intendent of police, emerged from the only
clear spot on the sours, but into which, by the
way, he sternly refused to admit any one who had
not previously stolen a breast-pin or a pocket-
handkerchief, when the experienced chief waved

THE RACE AND THE RENULT.

Precisely at the time set down the horses left the pad-
dock and took their preliminary canters, after which Mr.
Martin Starling marshalled them in hoe, and in due course
handed them into the custody of the starter, who loot no
time in getting them to the post, and after one slight failure
the flag was lowered, amid the shouts of the anxious spec-
tators, and they were off at 3.24—t0 an indifferent start,
Rouge Dragon, Klarikoff, and Lupus being left many
lengths behind. On settling into their places, Royallieu
immediately went to the frost, and with Insane, Dio-
phantus, Kettledrum, and Yorkminster lying close up, cut
out the work at his best pace ; the rear division being
headed by Dundee, who was running in the centre, Ather•
stone, Dictator, and Kildonan following in his wake, Rouge
Dragon, Klarikoff, and Lupus being still in the rear. With
little or no alteration they ran thus to the "furies," when
Diophantus, as in the "Two Thousand," rushed to the front
and took a slight lead, Kettledrum, going on second close at
his girths, with Royalists, Atherstone, atld Aurelian in close
egtendanos. Deseindling the bill Klankoff began to improve
• poeitioo,and before atetera was made was coequal terms
with his horses. Diophantus, on sassing the straight, still
held a conspicuous lead, Aurelian at this point lying second,
Kettledrum on the whip hand; Klariknft on the lower
ground Lest the rails, creeping up, wee fcurth ; then CAM)
Atherstone, Royalist', and the favourite,the others present-
ing a lengthened tail, the last of them being Rouge Dragon,