My First Visit to the Derby.

(By MaxO'Bell.) Though I have spent sixteen years in England I had nover scon the Derby until to-day. Can their be in the whole world such a dirty, hooting, swearing, brazen* throated, foul-mouthed crowd to be seen t And I am told that things are vastly improved, and the scones to be witnessed today are no match for the Derbys of Auld Lang Syne! And what a road! From Westminster we drove over a route strewn thick with bills, paper debris, advertisements of fusees, advertisements of the gospel tent to be found on the course, with orango peelings, cocoanut shells, empty bottles.

The only redeeming feature in the whole thing seemed to me the treatment of hones, the care with which thoy were driven, and at intervals, along the road down, watered and refreshed. On the course I saw a man furiously driving and whipping a poor horse which had unfortunately got into his company, quite set upon by an indignant crowd that looked likely to made a very good amateur R.S.P.A. The working man is no doubt I'etter aware than anyone who talks to him of humanity to his horse, that it pays to treat the animal well. Looking * ' at tho way in which lie" is often found , treating his wife, the extra gontleness extonded to Dobbin may arise from shrewd* ness. Or is it something else ? A fellowfeeling makes us wondrous kind. In the carts, cars, shandrydans that I passed on the road, there were three distinct types of face : the bull dog, tho fish, and the sheep. What an unlovely company occupied eaob. cart, with its layer or two of men in front, and all tho women (the females, I should rather say) Btowed away behind in true British fashion.

Where there was an apparent absence of any linen on the persons of the men, there was an extra display of ostrich feathen on the wondorful hats of the women. As tho various vehicles discharged their cargoes some truly amazing toilettes that had been blushing comparatively unseen, in the cart* on the way down, now joined in the general jarring and swearing. One, noted carefully in detail, will give an idea of many, though I doubt if it could have been outshone on the whole course. Dress of sapphire blue silk, covered to the waist with beaded frills ] a gigantic hat of crimson velvet surrounded by a wide band of gold lace, and farther adorned with a long and brood encircling plume of a dazzling apple-green hue. The finishing touch was put to this attire by • train of black lace, which started from the waist and trailled a long yard behind it* . wearer. > !*?*?

Just after witnessing the oheok in the career of the Jehu whom the crowd took in hand for lashing his hone, I stumbled upon a female fight. Two enraged ore&tures, with fine feathers and foul tongues, won in the thick of a quarrel which they evidently intended to settle on the spot. No interference hero. On the contrary, hearty enoouraging orles from, the male bystanders of "Go it, old gal, I'll 'oldyer 'at," and . other evidences of the absence of any in* tention to spoil sport. The main business of the day on the Downs is evidently eating, drinking, sni getting photographed. I will venture to doubt whether a half of the people who flack to Epsom on Derby day see a horse race. Horseplay there was of course in plenty. Is it not an invariable accompani- - ment of every Britiih holiday-making in which the masses tako part? On the whole, however, it must be admitted that it was a good-tempered crowd, rough and ' rowdy, but not riotous; ridioulous. and dirty, but with here aud there a diverting touch, such as the impromptu foot-bath ot an individual who 'removed the dust from, his boots by calmly swilling a pail of water over them. To fun pure and simple' the nearest approach seemed to be the wearing of a big bonnet by a man, ,

How the cockney loves a holiday, and and how he will toil at taking it! It would bo hard to say wherein the pleasure of tho Derby lay for the six fellows whom I noted going down with a lifted cart. I say with, for only four of them were upon it, No. 5 was in the shafts, and No. 6 pushed behind. Where thoy had joined the strewn I cannot of course say, but when we passed ■ them they were on tho Epsom side of Toot- ~ ing, and with basket* an board were clearly enough bound for the course, if not for the grand stand. To one who goes to mingles in tho crowd and not to look on from the grand stand, the impression left is not a pleasant or cheerful one. I returned home feeling that if horse racing w«s instituted for . the improvement of the equine race, it ha certainly not conduced muoh to the improvement of the human one.

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