Year: 1868

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LONDON, June u, 1868.


From the picnic point of view, Ascot on the cup
day is a very pretty thing 10 see. If democracy was
10 its glory at the Derby il is satisfied with that
triumph and does not contest the field at Ascot
Royalty and aristOcracy resume their natural sway
Instead of the mob swarming over EPSON Downs a.
foot the spectator is treated at Ascot to hafadOzen
carriages full of Princes and Princesses At halfpast
one. what Is called the Royal procession, upon
the course The Master of the Buckhounds showed
Che way in a green hunting coat In the five
carriages following rode a number of well dressed
persons belonging 10 one of the dullest families IN
England known as the Royal family. The Prince OF
Wales and his wife Imuch cleverer than he rode in
the first and about them were OutIiders In scarlet
liveres the worse for wear. Other Royal person.
ages succeeded among them the Duke OF Cambridge
frst-cousin TO the Queen, much more at home among
horses than with the newspaper men over whose
dinner he lately condescended 10 preside. The Crown
Prince of Denmark, the Prince and Princess Chris
tian the Prince Teck and many more fine person
ages accompanied the Heir Apparent Try as hard as
yOumay this is one bit of splendOr which you cannot
transport TO America. The great people have stand
and an Enclosure all TO themselves They even have
the cuphorses brought within the nelosure and pa
Taded for their inspection, and very likely some OF
those delicate ladies have quick eyes for the points of





praised by another that morning, as capital judge
of horse, and to-day in Rottenrow, fair cavalier
besought admiration for the steed she rode because
I'VE bred him ourselves" You may have gone mad
about your imitation Turf in New York but little do
you yet know Of the great part which the Horse plays
in the social life Of England.


Ascot is 30 miles by road from London, something
less by rail. Many of the grandees who used TO
drive. find the railway journey now more comfort
able. l had the incxpressibc pleasure to share a
railway carriage with party of those high people
The journey was dusty and hot and long, but they
beguiled it with unceasing gossip about themselves,
and others like them, which could not but be CRATE
fu TO my plebeian ears long to impart to you the
intelligence which thus came TO me- II would be
like hearing the domestic affairs of Olympus its
marriages and small talk, if the gods ever do talk
small, and quarrels and dear delightful mysteries
of which the secrets are known to not more than a
thousand or two ont of the thousand millions who
would like TO know them Her family are not pleased
with Miss BIS engagement TO Mr.. c. G. Senior has
$4,000 year. but positively he allows the Young
people only e1 900 year to begin with and how
ever are they to live on thatf They
will have more when the father dies but
do you know he has large family, and whatever he
can leave young C. viii not be high pay for marrying
brewers son. Poor thing and it is the harder for
Der. because she had set her heart on being mar
shoness of X. She played her game much too openly
Indeed; how could the girl suppose people wouldn't
talk II she chose to follow him about 20 balls and
country bousesT Are you going to Els ball next
week-not 10 E.'s, but F.'s, are youf They say F's
viii be much the finer she knows everybody in Lon
eon, aud there 10 sars 70 DO crush Oh Do see