Vol. III. No. 73-3 Saturday, May 20, 1854. [With Supplement, Price 6d . 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
PISHING STATIONS, No. YII.— WRAY MILLS.— Drawn nr T. 
H. Wilson. 
WRESTLING IN SWITZERLAND (Font Illustrations). 
PORTRAIT OF MR. GEORGE ERWOOD, THE CELEBRATED 
RACKET PLAYER. 
LAUNCH OF H.M.S. “ ROYAL ALBERT," AT WOOLWICH.— 
Drawn nr T. G. Dutton. 
CONTENTS. 
Racing. — Turf Talk — Tattersalls — Newmarket Second Spring and 
Shrewsbury Meetings. &c — Weight! for the Northumberland 
Plato and Manchester Union Cups, &c— Sale of Hunters. 
Yachting— Entries for tho R.T.Y.C., R.L.Y.C., and P.W.Y.C. Sailing 
Matches. 
Cricket — At Lords, Oxford, Cambridge, &c. &c. 
Our Opera Glass. — French Plays — Adelphi, and other Thoatres. 
The War. — N ews from the Black Sea and Baltic. 
Letter Bag— Books — Chess— Angling. 
Original Articles News of tho Week, Rackets, 8 c c. 
Parliamentary Summary— Foreign and Colonial— Police— Metro- 
polis, ifcc. 
Markets, &c. 
PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATIONS NEXT WEEK. 
Rook Shooting— Drawn dy Harrison Weir. 
A W ELL-KNOWN CHARACTER ON TIIK TURP. DRAWN RY II. 1I.VI.I.. 
A Party on the Course. — Drawn nv Herring. 
Portrait of Captain Barclay, tub ckledrated Pedestrian. — 
Epsom, etc., ktc., etc., nnd 
An Extra Pictorial Supplement— Gratis— Containing Portraits 
op last tears' Winners— Mats of tue Road and Course.— 
Sketches on tub Road, etc., etc. 
TURF TALK. 
“The chosen sport ol a great and a free people." 
Our Sailor King. 
T HE tliirty-first anniversary of the “ Jolly Miller’s Fla- 
gon” festival, and its attendant days, have done very 
little towarde augmenting the stock of public information as 
regards the two aud three-year-olds. The former, in fact, 
had very liltle to do with the meeting, as only eleven were 
stripped. Frank Butler could not have measured his ground 
and won on the post more prettily than Yates did ; but 
giving this fine son of Hetman PlatofF credit for being able 
to have won far farther, we doubt whether he will be found 
such a good form as the Border Chief. Being, moreover, 
rather tired of ringing the winning changes on King Alfred 
and Flatterer, we naturally look forward to the Woodcote, 
in the hopes that it will again introduce to us an Orestes or 
a Dervish, to divide the two-year-old honours. The inabi- 
lity of Mishap to give two stone to Annie Sutherland, makes 
her Palatine victory a great slice of luck for the “ all 
green,” which will most probahly be hoistod by Job 
Marson, on the neat little Rosaline, when the Oaks day 
comes. Fourteen years have elapsed since a Chester cup 
winner came out of Newmarket; and we believe that when 
Epaminondas left there, Smith did not expect that he would 
go for the cup at all. Luckily, Mr. Parr’s practised eye (so 
it is said) marked tho clever stylo in which lie raced homo 
with Rataplan for the Grosvenor, and Captain Lane, acting 
on the hint, had the muzzle put on him that night. He is, 
we believo, a little touched in the temper, and does not 
“try” well, so that the stablo has nlways been somewhat in 
the dark about his real capabilities, bo'h before and niter ho 
joined the “G” division. Mo wus one of the first horses 
tried on the new trial course last year, nnd his friends mndu 
out that either he or Ids trial horse led them astray, by turn- 
ing nervous at the double embuiikinont. A Ascot 60 aovs. 
“ Old Mile Sweepstakes" is his only engagement of import- 
ance left, but he seems to have pretty well reduced it to a 
certainty, unless Student is some 6 lbs. better thun Weather- 
cock. If he had been in the Derby, ho would liuvo been u 
very respectable fuvourite. Wells, wo believe, was rather 
surprised that John Scott should decline his services even 
with 6 lbs. over. Without nn explanution, it seems rather 
odd tlmt as he was able to ride six stone for “ Mr. 
Howard’’ on Virago at Epsom, he could not get lower than 
FISHING STATIONS NO. VII.— WRAY MILLS. Drawn by T. H. Wilson. 
There are many lovely scenes on the hanks of Father Thames, but none more beautiful than in the immediate neighbourhood of Wray Mills, situate about half a mile abovo 
Maidenhead Bridge. The roaring weir above — the gentle back stream, overhung by the wooded heights of Clifdon — the many nooks and corners about the old towing-puth — 
the expanse below the paper-mills — the cel-traps — the islands, — are spots not only for the angler, who need not be told the sport to bo enjoyed in such waters, but for all who 
can appreoiato the beauties of English River Scenery^ *■' “• ” • 
