The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-04 00:00:00

kerchief to your streaming forehead as you go, and the
hilarity of the journey kept up by the fun created by
some of the travellers attempting to take a short cut
through the whet fields, from which all are prevented
by a stout, determined looking fellow, who shouts
out th t all trespassers will be prosecuted with the
utmost rigour of the law. The threat is effectual,
and the person who was venturous enough to at-
tempt to reach the goal by any but the long dusty
never-ending lane, returns to the beaten tract amidst
the laughter of the crowd. Thus it is no use for a
companion to point out to you the delicious fields
of young wheat which bounds the stony path, and
you quietly leave the ground to patient toil-endur-
ing donkey, who has taken advantage of the day
when nobody has time to interfere with his inclina-
tions, and has munched up the tender cereal until
his sides are blown cut like a balloon. Hot,
parched, covered with dust of a delicate
brown colour, you toil on, and the conclusion you
arrive at is that the distance from Epsom to the
Downs is considerably longer than the distance
from Pimlico to Epsom.
A sudden joy, however, is experienced when you
discover you have surmounted the last hill. How
you take off your hat for relief, having again ap-
plied your handkerchief to your forehead, contem-
plate for a moment what you have accomplished,
and loudly demonstrate your gratification that
another such two miles have not to be done for
some time at least.

If you have any doubts as to what the Isthmian
games really are you have them soon cleared up at
once, and find them to be played principally• with
three sticks, which mystic number is politely offered
to you the moment you arrive on the magic ground.
The proffered sport you politely decline, your pil-
grimage is to the race-course; and thus you dive
into the narrow passage at the side of the Grand
Stand, through which the whole of the hundreds
of thousands of people must pass if they wish to
see the long-looked for locality, and it is in this
narrow thoroughfare that everyone first feels the
influence of the place. No matter what you may
have been before the moment you plunge in here
and receive your first breath, you become a
sporting man at once. You are asked what odds
you will give against Buckstone, the Marquis,
Zetland, &c. There your opinion of the respec-
tive merits of the beautiful smooth and shining
quadrupeds that are to act so conspicuous a part in
the day's performance is asked, but before you have
time to answer either of the questions, another
eager gentleman asks the latest news about the
betting, all of which queries are put to you on the
understanding that you are well-versed in the art
of bet-making; and who on the Derby day has the
courage to decline being thought one of the "know-
ing ones ?"

What a delightful sensation occurs to you, hav-
ing, of course, luckily foiled the last pickpocket,
when you plant yourself on the smooth grass in
front of the Grand Stand, and look calmly at Merry
England enjoying itself in its own style. But where
in the name of wonder is the race-course. The
place where it used to be is now one vast black
and surging sea. What a Babel of discordant sounds.
The shrill voices of the female venders of " kre'ckt
card," the crack of the long and erooked Enfields
used by adventurous sportsmen shooting for nuts,
the ringing of bells, for which you can assign no
reason, greet you at every turn. Every one is
pushing, and elbowing his way about in order to
discover some one who has promised to meet him on
the Downs. Then again what a sight meets the eye
as you look across to the world renowned hill.
Everybody in that indescribable assemblage seems
busily engaged in a picnic amongst a bevy of sun
shades of every variety of colour, the pinks, blues,
and whites standing out in bold relief, add to this
the long lines of booths, the rows of vehicles, and
altogether it makes up a scene the equal of which
cannot be seen in any other nation in the world.
Previous to the commencement of the sports of the
day the indefatigable Mr. Dorling is seen riding
up and down the course, then comes the order to
clear the battle ground, and then it is peculiar
to witness the immense quantity of pushing and
driving about the proud and defiant Englishmen
take with the most perfect good humour.
They are swept up and down most mercilessly by
the " Blue" Brigade, and in a very short space of
time a broad green circle sweeps majestically round
where just before all had been human faces, hats,
bonnets and parasols.

The preliminary canter of the horses previous to
the start for the Derby is a feature for which all
prepare themselves by commencing an intense
study of the " correct card," the said card being
next to an Ojibbaway manuscript, or a page of
Bradshaw's Railway " Guide," probably the most
difficult document in the world to understand.
A rapid tramp of horses is heard, you see
the gay colours of the jockeys, pink, green, orange,
blue, yellow, you endeavour to discover the names
of the respective competitors by a reference to the
said card, but before you have arrived at a settled
conclusion, hey presto ! both horses and riders
have disappeared, and you crumple up your card
and thrust it with disgust into your pocket.
Your neighbour, perhaps, has been more fortu-
nate, he has discovered the Marquis, and is willing
to lay almost a guinea to a gooseberry that he will
prove the winner; while another equally confident
exelaims " The world to nothing on Buckstone."

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
The Japanese Ambassadors arrived at 2 o'clock.

MANOR PLATE.

Spencer
Entremet
Balliverne
Coroner and Weasel also ran.

THE DERBY.

CARACTACUS....
THE MARQUIS ..
BUCKSTONE ....

The following also ran :
T. Aldcroft
C by Stockwell, dein by Orlando
C by Barbatus—Clarissa
Wthington
C by Barbatus—Brown Bess..:
H.
Covey
The Knave W Cotton
Harlequin
Argonaut Wells
Drew
St. Alexis
Daley
Lord Burleigh Mann
Typee colt Reeves
Surrey
Maharajah A. Euwarda
Ensign
E. Sharp
Norroy
Bullock
Neptunus ..
Mr. W. Bevill
Alvediston
. .... Salter
Gemse
Star of the West Marlow
TolurnoClement
Ace of Clubs W. Boyce
Spite
J Goater
Malek
Nottingham .... A. Day
Ellangowan
Welcome ............................ Custance
Schellallinn .......................................... HT.ibcblearyd
Excnequer .......... J. Adams
Mitchell Grove
Vanguard
AshfoZetland
.................... ti..oßseblolrne
rd ............................
Brighton ............................. D. Hughes

THE TUNNEL-BORING MACHINERY AT MONT
CENIS.—The principle of the machinery for boring is ex-
tremely simple. The machinery consists of two essential
parts— rts— one the apparatus for driving the cutting tool into
the rock and withdrawing it, so that the blow may be re-
peated while at the same time it is made to take a whole
turn on its axis, now towards the right, and now
towards the left; and the other, the machinery for ad-
vancing the bed on which the cutting tool rests as the
Work goes on, so that the auger or borer may constantly
advance as the hole is being bored, and may be kept well
up to the surface it has to operate upon. Both portions
of .this machine are worked by means of compressed air.
When the holes are bored the machine is drawn back
upon the rails to a distance of about 50 yards; great
wooden doors are then shut to prevent the blasting from
doing an injury to the machinery; and the holes aro filled
with powder, the English fuse being used to ignite it. The
blasting takes place twice in the twenty-four hours; the
machine is removed the 50 yards and returned to its place
in ten minutes. It requires a long time to get rid of the
foul gases produced by the explosion of the powder. The
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great work is now assured, and it is only a question of
time; the machinery is so perfect that everYYthing goes
a
like clockwork ; and the great desideratum of making
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long tunnel without shafts having been obtained, there
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need now be no further doubt about the success of ue
Tun-
undertakings; and the Lukmanier and St. Gothard Tun-
nels will, there is no doubt, shortly be commeneed.—
Builder,