PRAY, WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN WITHOUT HIS RECREATIONS 1 n 
Vol. III.— No. 74.] 
Saturday, May 27, 1854. [With Double Supplement, Price 6 d . 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
CONTENTS. 
Parliamentary Summary— Foreign and Coloniai — Police. 
Racing —TurfTalk— Toby Peeps on the Derby and Oaks— Tattersall's 
Sporting Miscellaneous — Ascot Stakes Weights— Bath and Roytton 
Meetings— &c. 
Yachting — R.T.Y.C., R.L.Y.C., and P.W.Y.C. Sailing Matches; 
R.V.Y.C. Annual Meeting 
Cricket. — A t Lord’s, Oxford, Cambridge, & c. &c. 
Our Opera Glass— F rench Plays— Adelphl, and oilier Theatres. 
The War. — N ows from the Black Sea and Bultio. 
Letter Bag Books— Chess— Angling. 
PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATIONS NEXT WEEK. 
ROOK SHOOTING.— Drawn by Harrison Weib. 
ROYAL LONDON YACHT CLUB MATCH— Drawn ly T. G. 
Dutton. 
A PARTY ON THE COURSE. 
PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN BARCLAY THE PEDESTRIAN. 
A WELL KNOWN CHARACTER ON THE TURF. 
The Winner op the D*rbt— By 11. Uall. 
Thr Royal Tuauks Yacht CLun. - Draws uy T. G. Dutton. 
Scene prom the new Diuma, “Tiib Marulr Heart'' at this 
Adeuuh Drawn ry T. H. Wilson. 
Mr. Scott Russell’s War Stbamkh Salamandbr. 
Fisiunq Sketch.— By C. B. Bbacewi i,!., utc., ktc. 
Horse Market. 
Ii.lcstr vtions op tiik Month. 
DATES OF RASES, 
MAY. 
Epsom 
JUNE. 
Halifax 
Hampton 
lteddltch 
Harrogate 
Manchester 
Knighton 
. ..23 
I.enham and Mid Kent . . 
.. 7 
Carlisle 
Epping Town 
Beverley and Hull . . 
. .. 28 
Coggeshall 
Ludlow 
Southwell 
Biburv Club .. .. 
Ascot Heath .. — . .. 
.. 13 
Stockbrldgo .. .. 
Tenbury 
W indicator . . . . 
Newcastlc-on-Tyue .. .. 
.. 20 
JULY. 
Newmarket 
.. 4 
Stourbridge 
. .. 17 
IV orcester . . . . . . ' . . 
4 
Newton 
. .. 18 
Barnstaple 
.. 6 
Stamford 
Lancaster 
Nottingham .. .. 
Odiham 
Great Grimsby .. .. 
Mansfield .. 
.. 11 
Goodwood 
. .. 25 
Liverpool .. .. .. 
.. 12 
Knutsford 
Abingdon .. .. .. .. 
Radcliffe 
Ipswich 
.. 13 
Deri tend Pool .. .. 
. .. 31 
Brighton 2 
Airdrie 3 
Durham 3 
Brighton Club -1 
Rlpon 7 
North Staffordshire 8 
Yarmouth 8 
Reading 8 
Lewes 10 
Wolverhampton 14 
AUGUST. 
Eftham 
Folkestone . 
Paisley 
York . . . 
Hereford 
Ecclcs . . . 
Chelmsford 
Derby . . . 
Plymouth . 
Lincoln 
SEPTEMBF.R. 
Warwick 5 
Lichfield 7 
Wi stern Meeting 7 
Rochester aad-Chntham .. .. 7 
Doncaster 12 
Pontefract 18 
Bedford If) 
OCTOBER. 
Leicester 
Manchester Autumn .. 
Lanark 
Newmarket First October 
Walsall 
Northallerton 
Kelso .. . . .7“ 3 
Chester Autumn .3 
Yorkshire Unlonjluut .. .. 5 
Wrexham 6 
Newmarket Second October . . 9 
NOVEMi.EH. 
Epsom Autumn 2 1 Cowbridgo Hunt 
Liverpool .. .. 7| 
Royal Caledonian Hunt .. , 
Warwick Autumn 
Richmond 
Newmarket Houghton Meet.. 
Worcester Autumn 
15 
17 
17 
23 
24 
2$ 
29 
20 
30 
31 
20 
21 
20 
27 
28 
I 11 U L A N L>. 
Curragh 
JUNK. 
Ballogolgh 
■JULY. 
.. 23 
Heath and Maryborough. 
Ivllcook 
AUGUST. 
. . . 11 Bdlewstown 
Curragh 
Tuam 
Trnmoro Strand 
SEPTEMBER. 
Johnstown 
OCTOBER. 
.. 24 
Curragh 
11 
17 
18 
23 
SI 
8 
STEEPLECHASES TO COME. 
May 29. — Bordeaux — Tho Grand Steeplechase closed; the Soiling 
Steeplechase closed, and the third StuepICchaso ou tho 
l Mb Mnv, 
July 30 and 31 -Caen— The Grand Stccpleclmso to close on Juno Mill : 
tho *c •»id Sr.. »•-. j»o and Consolation I’rlic to clow 
on the SJth of July. 
Nov. 9.— Cowbridgo Hunt. 
