Vol. III. — No. G5.] 
Saturday, March 25, 1854. 
[With Supplement, Price Gd . 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
A GOOD SORT FOR A LONG DA V. —Drawn by Benjamin Herring. 
••N00 THEN! GET OUT O' THE WAY, OR WE'LL BE OWER 
YER ! ” 
SKETCH SUGGESTED BY MR. VERDANT GREEN'S LETTER. 
A COSSACK POST.— APPROACH OF THE TURKS.-Drawn by T. 
11. Wilson. 
CONTENTS. 
Racing. — TurfTulk— Tattersalls— Race Returns— Weights— and Sport- 
ing Miscellaneous— Eosby Abbey Stud Farm. 
Hunting.— Fixtures and Crack Runs. 
Coursing. — Meetings of the week. 
Yachting.— The Match on Wednesday last. 
Rowing. — Matches appointed. 
Cricket — Angling— Freemasonry. 
Letter-Bad — Books— Theatres— Chess. 
Original Articles: — News of tho Week -Fire-arms for Troops — 
Eurthstoppcr, Chap. vll. 
Parliamentary Summary— Field ok War— Gold Fields— Foreign 
and Colonial— Police— Metropolis, &c. 
Agricultural Talk— Markets— Socieths and Institutions. 
CHIEF ILLUSTRATIONS NEXT WEEK. 
Portrait of Melbourne, by H. Hall. 
Scene from the New Dram a at the Adelpiii. 
Hunting Sketch, by H. K. Browne. 
Match between the Blue-eyed Maid and Irre£IOTIrlb. 
TI3EF TALK. 
"The chosen sport of a great and a free people." 
Our Sailor King. 
J~ A RWICK Meadows, on a fine afternoon like Tuesday 
last, is a wondrous pleasant place for a little racing 
| pastime. Tlie hill in the midst of It is so admirably situated, 
I that one 6eems to come away from it with a better notion of 
I wlmt horses have been doing, than from any other race- 
I course we happen to know. The deeds of Grey Isaac, both 
over hurdles und the flat, are inseparably connected with it, 
I and we observed a capita) picture of the old horse ns we 
I passed along the High-street; Sam Darling “up” in the 
I "sky-blue,” and knottinghis reins with his quaint look of mis- 
chief. In the first sweepstakes, the eye in vain wandered 
for some very nice two-year-old to rest on. It refused to 
rest on Refuse entirely, though Socinian, the son of Surplice 
out of Slander, looked a good deal nearer the mark. We 
should have thought him, from his forehand, to be a Venison 
or a Nutwith, and he seemed to go very tender, and to have 
a tendency to be clubby in one of his fore feet. Constancy 
went better than anvthiog, but we should fancy that she 
was light and hardly in form, and Census the winner was a 
good, useful, looking horse with plenty of length and bone, 
low in the withers, and with quite a hardy Lanercost look. 
He opened the last Warwick meeting with on equally 
clever win. Contrary to Mr. Hibburd's usual luck, he made 
an infamously bad start in this race; and, of course, if Mr. 
Peart, or any other north country starter, hacl been acting, 
the members of the Jockey Club present would huvo rushed 
headlong into the weighing-room, and signed a protest. In 
the Woodcote Stakes, Thessaly seemed in a very queer, 
cantankerous humour, and after her canter she had Hut oil, 
and when they did get otl'she refused to go above filly yards 
with her horses. Her foes were guudy to a degree, but nothing 
very remarkable in any other way, except that one seemed 
nearly half a hand the higher of the two. Tho winner wua 
nice and compact, and with a barrel built quite on the King 
of Trumps principle, while, but for her leguiuess, und long, 
slant thighs. Oddity would have been rather a pretty mure. 
What will she reach if she goes on growing us sho has 
begun? Alonzo retains his polish well after his four 
A GOOD SORT FOR A LONG DAY. — Dramn dy Ben; amir ^erring. 
