The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-23 00:00:00

A CAB TO THE DERBY.

(By " A Non-Sportsman" in the Times.)
As betting and gambling are not among the sins
I have a mind to, it may be natural to ask, What
on earth could take me to the Derby? The answer
is not far to be sought. I am fond of all amuse-
ments in the open air. I like my fellow-creatures,
and am most happy in the midst of them, only on
condition that I may have plenty of breathing and
elbow room. My neighbour's pleasure is my plea-
sure, provided it be genuine and spring from the
very heart and soul of those about me. Nothing is
so intensely indigenous, so untranslatable as the
Derby Day. Races there were in Greece
but and Rome.
Races there are in Paris and Buda ; the Eng-
lish race, like the English oak, is a plant of slow
growth. it has roots in the heart's core of high
and low. A day out with half a million of Lon-
don gipsies encamped on Epsom Downs is some-
thing that passeth the Frenchman's and even the
Hungarian's understanding. My friend's horses and
my friend's- money are nothing to me ; but John
Bull's holiday comes only once a year, and I almost
feel as if he could hardly enjoy it unless I am there
to see. And, pray, how do you go to the Derby?
In a Hansom cab, to be sure. Was it not I who
first set the fashion of doing the thing in that style,
ever so many years ago, when the first specimens of
that fast and sure vehicle enlivened the London
streets —years before people dreamt that railway
trains could enable them to eat their cake and
keep it, to halve their time between business iu
London and pleasgre A Epsom, as the first

condition for realising the joys of the Derby was
not a firm resolution to make a day of it?
I do not envy the lungs of the man who can turn
his back upon London without rapture at the mere
inhalation of the fresh country air. I had no need
of the glass, and no opcasion o consult the weather
wisdom of a ;Mathieu de la Drome to be aware that
those heavy clouds clinging so- fast to the tops of
the big Clapham elms boded no good. Nay, I was
sure of chill guts of wind, heavy showers, hail,
snow, and all the battle of the elements ; but in
the meanwhile this was air that I breathed, this
sickly sun, this momentary warmth, this fresh
deep, dripping verdure, were unalloyed delight, the
tide of lie sweeping with me down the road, the
sea of life pent up beside me along the road, all
contributed to fill me with happiness. The road to
the Derby is the best part of the Derby--it is what
courtship is to marriage. There are stalls and pri-
vaten's
boxes, half-a-guinea and sixpenny seats at the
racecourse. Betting gentlemen have their paddock,
their club-tents, a score of private haunts, inacces-
sible to the vulgar. But on the Queen's high road
King Mob reigns supreme. The road is every
gropuonndyichlalisise,Gbruateech'esesfocaurrt-,innso-haanndmh,as no
m
right of precedence over the costermonger's donkey ;
dog-cart,a
four-
wheeler, drag, omnibus—the whole endless caravan
jogs and jostles along on perfectly equal terms.
The skill of the whip constitutes the law of the
road ; and where two and three and more lines of
conveyances come-to a standstill at-tbe ternpike, at
the baiting station, anywhere, where a brewer's cart
comes into collision with a coalheaver's van, the
duke has no better remedy than the orange-seller—
none other than patience, a fresh cigar, and a chaff.
Anything sweeter than the temper of all this Merry
England under the trying difficulties of the Derby
Day is not to be conceived. It is customary to con-
trast the behaviour of the English lower classes with
those of other counbries, especially those of the
European Continent ; and John Bull is rather apt
to delight in comparisons to the disparagement of
his own countrymen, when it is himself that draws
them ; but the truth is, that the people, no matter
in what region of the earth, when bent upon plea-
sure, is easily pleased, and, so long as pleased, not
inclined to interfere with others' pleasure. So long
as we were in sunshine, nothing could equal the
cheerfulness of the vast assemblage, actors as well
as spectators. The scene was gay, but not noisy ;
and that is the peculiarly English character that
gives it charm ; for the Neapolitan rabble also can
take their pleasure in their curriculos, and enjoy it,
too ; but their yells and shrieks, the roaring of all
their yawning throats, make their pleasure a torture
to all but themselves, and impart to their very frolics
something resembling strife rather than peace. Talk
of the language, also. To hear some of our tra-
velled people, one would say that all that is foul and
impious only issues from English mouths ; that the
Italians, for instance, know no worse oaths than
their classical Corpo di Bacco. Yet there are ex-
pressions familiar in their mouths as household
words, of which it would be better not too particu-
larly to inquire the meaning, and to hope that in
reality they bear no meaning ; there are epithets
flung at the Virgin as eagerly as sticks are shied at
Aunt Sally on Epsom Downs, which ought to make
a believer's hair stand on end. That I have heard
no bad words to-day from morning to evening, it
would be vain to deny ; but this I maintain, that in
England the language is worse the lower we go, and
that very emphatic ejaculations are seldom uttered
in cold blood ; and that is more than can be said of
many other countries.

SO long. as the sun shone there was unalloyed
bliss on the Surrey high roads ; but the clouds rose
and spread and thickened ; and the cataracts of
Heaven poured down, and there were showers and
squalls, and hail and snow and sleet,.and hats were
blown from men's heads, and muslin clung soaked
and draggled to women's limbs. There was a damper
on the common joy; but no disturbance to the gene-
ral good temper ; shawls were thrown gips ywise
over bonnets, overcoats were closely buttoned a la
Weller, and on we jogged. Many were the fine
feathers, many the full chignons that came to grief.
Some of the heavy hampers were flooded, but on
we jogged. Stoppages seemed twice and thrice as
long under the heavy infliction. Those faces which
passed us again and again in the perpetual crossing
of the lines, till they became familiar, and we felt
as if we were old acquaintances, and ought to bow
to one another—that carroty-headed smoker of
cigarettes—that elderly loving couple in the dog-
cart, those six merry lasses on the omnibus top
;
all those familiar faces begin to look blue with cold,
long with weariness, heavy with vexation. But the
discomfiture is neither absolute nor permanent ;
showers alternate with sunshine; the glasses are let
down and pulled up every five minutes; frowns .ue.
smoothed into smiles ; and wet, and shivering, and
joking, we jog on.
We come to Epsom Downs, make straight for
the Grand Stand, and look down from the top.
There is Pandemonium ; all the wealth, all the
squalor, the gentility, the blackguardism, the mind
and heart, the virtue and vice of all Loudon un-
folded before us at one glance. Every class and
rank, every tenet and principle is represented here,
even that of those who look upon Epsom as the sink
of all iniquity. Witness Mr. S. M. Naughton, who
presented me with the seventy-thousandth copy of
his latest publication at the door of the Grand
Stand, a favour fOr which I beg him to accept this
tender of public thanks. Those who wish to con-
ceive some idea of the temper of the English peo-
ple should come to the top of the Grand Stand.
There are ten thousand persons pushing their way
up the narrow staircase, ten thousand forcing their
way down against them. The ascending and the
descending tide struggle at the trapdoor-like pass-
age flanked by two policemen. The in-comers and
the out-goers are equally unreasonable, equallyirra-
tional. " Pass along, please, gentlemen," suggest
793 A, in the most insinuating tone. 4' There is
plenty of room further, if you will only move on."
Then, of those that come up he begs time for the
others to go down ; of those who go down he begs
time for the others to come up. Both parties are
equally indocile, equally stolid. There is no pro-
gress on either side; the pushing and crushing are
immense, but the patience and goodwill are inalter-
able, and the policeman's coat tails ought to be
turned into wiugs; for he is certainly an angel.
Down below, in the midst of a different crowd, you
see other manners. In the opening between the
Grand and the minor Stands two streams of mob
have come into collision. There is the ebb into
and the flow from the racecourse ; the " rough "
element predominates, soft words would be thrown
away. There is a charge of three policemen—no
more than three—a downright Homeric onset. Such
strong arms and such broad shoulders are not seen
every day. Sir Richard Mayne keeps them in re-
serve for doughty deeds of this nature. The three
heroes dive into the crowd ; they force it asunder ;
they take them up in armfuls; they winnow them
like flails; they fling them down pele-mole, like mere
bags of rags. Oh !it is rough but efficient work,
and without it, without a great deal of it, no
man's purse would be worth a day's purchase at the
Derby.
And now, if you please, we will make the tGur
behind the ropes, survey the bright inmates of the
carrieges, the skulking rogues and vagabonds prow-
ling about them, or, perhaps, we will go back to the
Stand, up to the stalls, where the cream of the Pall-
mall Clubs take shelter from the weather's incle-
mency. Very gentlemanly men, most of them,
very good-looking, very English, but silent and
glum and bored, betraying no interest whatever in
the great scene below; no impatience as time wears
on, one false start following upon another. Yet it
is to these, and to such as these, that the Derby
owes its chief glories.
But I:13W, if you are at all of a statistical turn of
mind, please to look down and ten US at w4at figure

you compute all this vast 219 altitude.
...t) you think, are the umbze Ilas now
vast testudo of warriors' shields, and 11 t.;
ward in a compact body, am if advancing to take the
Grand Stand by storm ? You see from the ropes
almost halfway up to the brow of the hill, it is
one dark mass—a black mans, for the women, after
all, constitute but an inconsiderable minority, and
there is but little to relieve the dingy monotony, of
men's hats and coats. Nov, of all those hundreds
and thousands of men, how many, do you think,
really care to see the Derby ? How many stop
to look round at the cry, "They are off 1" in-
terrupting even for one minute and a half their
penny throws at the ducal game of Aunt Sally- ?
And of those who really come to see the race find
set great store by it, how many, do you think,
have really a chance to see it? How many who
have seen nothing of it will go home boldly asser-
ting that they have seen it? Grave questions ail
these, but which I have no time to solve, as upon
the cry, " They are off !" a mighty stir seems, to
convulse the whole mass ; the very " swells" in the
stalls are electrified ; a confused roar of half a
million voices rends the air in an awful crescendo,
and bursts at last into a proclamation of " Hermit!
Hermit !" the victor.

A CA7HOLIC BISHOP ON CHURCH AND
STATE AND LOYALTY.

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about half-past 11, the service commenced. At the
first toast of which was, of course, "The Health of
our Holy Father the Pope, and many years to him."
assembly. These had hardly died out before Dr.
Ullatborne rose, and said, with as little interval as
possible after, Let us drink the health of our Sove-
reign Lady the Queen. He then proceeded to say
that, if it was a maxim much dwelt upon by great
thinkers, by profound philosophers, and by large
minded politicians, that if there was a principle that
was more mischievous to the liberty of mankind
than another, it was that the Church and State
should be blended into one, the necessary conse-
quence of that principle was that the great secret of
the liberty,of man was found in the state and. the
church standing apart in respect of the authorities
which presided over them. The happiest, perhaps
the most felicitous, condition in mankind in many
respects had been found when there were great sove-
reigns and great pontiffs, when the great sovereigns
held society together by political order, and when
the great pontiff held it together by religious order.
That principle was pre-eminently the catholic prin-
ciple ; therefore they felt no shrinking, no mental
difficulty, no obstacle whatever in their thoughts
when they proposed these two sovereigns, each
standing in separate order. The Church was of
course pre-eminent. It was so regarded by the
old Pagan ; and the pre-eminence of the Church
was implied in the phrase of " Church and State.'
They proposed the Pope first simply because the
order of God was before the order of man. (Ap-
plause.) At the same time it was the spiritual
order which commanded them from its higher place
to give all honour, respect, obedience, and loyalty to
the head of the temporal order. If, therefore,
Catholics were pre-eminent in their loyalty to their
sovereign, that loyalty did not spring from a mere
sentiment. It did not arise merely and simply
through the sense of patriotism which belonged to all
men ; it did not arise purely and solely from the
attachment to the individual—however much the
individual sovereign, like our present sovereign,
Queen Victoria, might have qualities wonderfully
winning and attractive. Certainly Queen Victoria
had done great things for this country. (Applause.)
They had had sovereigns who had almost contami-
nated the family relationship. (Shame.) But she
was a brilliant example of a devoted wife—now,
alas, a widow—and of a devoted head of a family.
In that capacity she had raised the whole spirit
—the whole dignity as it were—she lad raised
and exalted all the nobler qualities which be-
longed to that which was pre -eminently
English, namely, the family life. (Applause.)
This they owed to her, as a woman, as a wife,
as a lady ; and they also owed to the wisdom, to
the discretion, and to the self-control, in which
she had conducted herself through the difficulties
which had arisen through her reign, that whatever
governments or whatever politicians had gone down
the Queen had herself always risen. (Applause.)
She had risen, she was rising still, and he believed
she would continue to rise to the end. (Renewed
applause.) But it was not these principles alone
which excited a Catholic's loyalty, for, in addition
to all these reasons for loyalty and respect, which
sprang from sentiment, the Catholic had this fur-
ther principle—the ' one which sprang from that
higher principle, which was represented by the So-
vereign Pontiff ; and thai, was, the spirit by which
hey were coalman& I to fear GA, and by which
they were further comm anded toobey the powers
that be. As loyal and devout Catholics, he called
upon them to drink " The Health of their beloved
Sovereign the Queen." The toast was drunk with as
much enthusiasm as that with which the health of
the Pope was received.

The party organised under the late authority of
Congress to make a hundred miles wide scientific survey
across the Western half of the Continent, is made up as
follows, most of the members being Yale graduates. They
started during the last week in April for California, to begin
their work at the western end :—Chief —Clarence R. King;
Topographical Assistants—James Gardner, H. Custor,
Frederick A. Clarke ; Geological Assistants—James D.
Hague, Arnold Hague, Samuel F. Emmons; Botanist—
W. W. Bailey; Zoologist—Robertßidgway ; Photographer
—T. H. 0. Sullivan.

The First National Bank
rlsaAihexkraisovdhfie PrinceN e was
tYheorwki,nntehre,
oldest in the country, has declared its eighth semi annual
10 per cent. dividend, and has accumulated a surplus of
$300,000 from its profits in four years.
Manufactories of pottery, ware, and paper have
been established at Golden City, Colorado.
Dr. T. W. Parsons' translation of the "Inferno"
is to be issued this month. Professor Longfellow's "In-
ferno" has already appeared, and his "Purgatorio" and
" Paradise" will follow this month and next.
The New Orleans .1 linzes calls the attention of
railroad and steamboat agents to the following communica-
tion, and trusts that it will meet with prompt and favour-
able response :—" Header's Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands, State of Louisiana, New Orleans,
April 24, 1867. To the Editor of the N. 0. Times—l am
directed by Brevet Maj. Gen. J. A. Mower, Assistant-
Commander, kc., to inform you that under instructions
received from Washington, this Bureau is now issuing
rations to destitute persons in this State through its agents
in the different parishes, and that contributions have been
received from the North to aid in alleviating the suffering
existing in the State. General Mower wishes the attention
controlo f ra i railroad d
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send written notice to that effect to these headquarters.—.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, WM. H. STER-
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THE CHINA TEA RACE.—The latest advices
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Ariel won the run home last year by a neck, the shi
fora place.

The magnitude of the iron trade, or Nri
land, Ohio, is the centre, may be ,:eon from tit,, lad that
in one week 1,108,000 pounds were received at, and
1,470,00 pounds were shipped from, that city.
ANOTHER ATLANTIC CABLE.---The French Go-
vernment (says the Patrie) has just granted the authorisa-
tion to a Franco-Englisb Company to establish from Brest
a submarine cable to be landed at the island of St. Pierre,
at the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and thence
to cross to Halifax, capital of Nova Scotia, and to the
territory of the United States.
At Lisbon the Chambers have sanctioned the
concession of the Railway from Oporto to the
frontier„

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