A GENTLEMAN WITHOUT HIS RECREATIONS? 
PRAY, WHAT IS 
Vol. III.— No. 68.] 
Saturday, April 15 , 1854 . 
[With Supplement, Price 6 d . 
LIST OF 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
VIEW OF CRONSTADT. 
FATIMA, TUE TURKISH JOAN OF ARC. 
Rowing Matches appointed— Oxford and Cambrhlgo Mutch. 
Cricket— Angling— Frermasonrt. 
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE. 
THE SURPRISE. 
CONTENTS. 
Letter-Bag — Books— Tueatrrs— Chess. 
Original Articles:— N ews of the Week. 
BUFFALO ATTACKED BY A TIGER. 
PLATING AT DUCKS AND DRAKES. 
Racing. — Turf Talk— Tattersalls— Race Returns— Weights— and Sport- 
ing Miscellaneous— Memoir of Robert Heseltino. 
Parliament art Summary— Field ok War— Gold Fields— Foreign 
and Colonial— Police— Metropolis, &o. 
FANCY PIGEONS.— By H. Weir. 
Yachting.— Meetings of the Several Royal Clubs. 
Markets, &e. 
“The chosen sport of a great and a free people." 
Our Sailor King. 
A LTHOUGH the present baking weather is just the thing 
for cleaning the fallows, it bids fair to be equally suc- 
cessful in cleaning out the pockets of those who believe in 
favourites with tender legs. Unless some rain comes by the 
end of the week, hard ground and the war are likely to thin 
the company sadly at the Newmarket Craven. However, 
the “ little town in Suffolk” is hoping for the best, and is all 
alive, after its winter’s sleep, with whito - washers and 
painters. A rumour is also flitting about the racing world, 
that one of its principal Jockey Club supporters will shortly 
give up his stud, but we only regard it us the conventional 
herald of some sham sale to get rid of his incapables. The 
Duke of Richmond, it seems, has retired in earnest, as wo 
hear that all the racing stables built by Lord George 
Bentinck at Goodwood ore being pulled down, and that 
scarcely one horse is loft in training. There seems very 
little more general nows. We can find no authority in 
Yorkshire for the report that Lye is going to ride again at 
Catterick ; but Frank Butler is so well now, that it is by no 
moans improbable that he will don Lord Derby's colours 
this next week at Newmarket. His friends very naturally 
wish him to wait till the First Spring or the Derby, before 
he risks “ wasting” to 8st 71bs, which is the very lowest 
limit he proposes to himself for the future. After the anxiety 
which fairly thrilled through the racing world some four 
weeks back, it will seem like a dream to have him “ up ” 
again. 
Racing men seem quite tired of the roaring discussion at 
last, and after some acres of paper have been consumed on 
it. the Newcastle-on-Tyne Farmer's Club cornea at the finish 
with a theory which seems pretty forcibly to establish tho 
fact, that It matters little if the sire is n rnmrr, a. long ns 
the dam is not. It may be interesting for racing men to 
apply this test to all tho cuses of >r arlng with which they 
ore acquainted. In the case of MiU Bow.-, wo fancy that it 
is most undoubtedly true. 
Only si x matches stand on tho Craven list 60 fur. Wo 
should fancy that Poodle and Caracara liovo the best of tho 
weights in their 200 h f A. F. contests; nud wo are at u loss 
to soo how Pelion and Barbatus, with their shaky legs, can 
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE FOAT RACE. — PASSING ROSE BANK. 
MESSRS. SEA RLE’S DESIGN FOR THE OXfOBD AND CAMBRIDGE BOATS. — SCALE ONE-EIGUTH OP AN INCH TO THE FOOT. 
