“PRAY, WHAT IS A CENTLEMAN WITHOUT HIS RECREATIONS?” 
Price 6a. 
[With Supplement 
Saturday, June 3, 1854. 
ill. — No. 75.1 
VOL. 
PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATIONS NEXT WEEK, 
list of illustrations. 
ANDOVER, WINNER of THE DERBY.— Drawn by H. Hall, 
•gene FROM THE “ MARBLE HEART," AT THE ADELPHI.- 
Dn awn bt T. H. Wilson. 
INITIAL AND CUT OF THE MONTH. 
f HE ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB MATCH OFF ERITH. 
Draws by T. G. Dotton. 
ROYAL PRUSSIAN WAR STEAMER “SALAMANDER." 
CONTENTS. 
Racing, —Epsom Races-Tattersall's-Sportlng Miscellaneous. 
YACHTiNQ.-Entrlcs for the P.W Y.C. Sailing Match — R H.Y.C. 
Annual Meeting-Lists from Ireland. 
Cricket.— At Lord's, Oxford, Cambridge, See. &c. 
Oitr Opf.ra Glass.— Adelphi, and other Theatres. 
Tup. War.— News from the Black Sea and Baltic. 
Letter Bao.— Books— Cuess— Angling. 
The Winner or the Oaks.— D rawn by H. Hall. 
Long Faces and Short Faces; or, Postino thr Dmr Wm’a 
Name octsidb our Office Wixiiow.-Drawn by T. H. Wilson. 
Prize Turkeys, the Propertt of John Faiblie, Esq.— D rawn by 
H. Weir. 
Portrait of W. Erwood, the Racquet Plater. 
Fishing Sketch.— Drawn by Braccwell. Etc. etc. 
DATES 
S Us 
JUNE.— Halifax » 
Red ditch 2 
Manchester • • •• •• ' 
Lenham and Mid Kent . . . • 7 
Lpplng Town * 
‘ 
Suathwell * ° 
Ascot Heath 
Teubury • • 
N ewcastlo-on-Tyno 20 
Hampton “* 
Knighton ““ 
Carlisle " 
lioverley and Hull 
Ludlow “J 
Blbury Club 2 a 
Stockbrldgo 
Winchester 
JULY.— Newmarket .. •• * 
Worcester ’ 
Barnstaple ® 
Lancaster ® 
Odlham 7 
Harrogate >0 
Munsfleld “ 
Liverpool 12 
Ab'--’— 
JULY. — Ipswich 
Stourbridge . . . • 
Newton 
Stamford 
Nottingham .. .. 
Great Grimsby . . • ■ 
Goodwood 
Rnutsford 
Itadcliffc 
DerittSnd Pool . . • • 
AUGUST.— Brighton 
Airdrie. 
Durbam 
Brighton Club . . . 1 
Ripon 
North Staffordshire . . 
Yarmouth 
Reading 
Lewes 
Wolverhampton 
Egbam 
Folkestone 
Paisley 
York 
Hereford .. .. . • 
Ecclcs 
Chelmsford .. 
AUGUST. — Derby .. 
Plymouth 30 
Lincoln 31 
SEPTEMBER.— Warwick .. 6 
Lichfield 7 
W. stem Meeting 7 
Rochester and Chatham . . .. 7 
Doncaster 12 
Pontefract 
Bedford H> 
Leicester 20 
Manchester Autumn .. . . 21 
Lanark 22 Liverpool 
Newmarket First October . . 20 I Cowbrnlge Hunt 
Walsall 27 I 
I 11 B LAND. 
.. 20 | SEPTEMBER.— Northallerton 28 
OCTOBER —Kelso 3 
Chester Autumn 3 
Yorkshire Union Hunt .. .. 6 
Wrexham “ 
Newmarket Second October . . 9 
Royal Caledonian Hunt .. .. H 
Warwick Autumn I 7 
Richmond 
Newmarket Houghton Meet... 23 
Worcester Autumn 31 
NOVEMBER.— Epsom Autumn 2 
JUNE.— Curragh 2 7 
JULY— Ballegeigh 20 
Down Royal Corporation .. 2 j 
AUG.— H eath and Maryborough 1 
ICilcock 7 
Bellows town 1° 
Carlow 13 
SEPTEMBER.— Curragh .. 5 
T u am ■■ . . . . .* . . ,.19 
STEEPLECHASES TO COME. 
July 30 and 31.-Caen-Tho Grand Steeplechase to close on June 26th ; 
y the second Steeplechase and Consolotlon Prize to close 
on the 30tli of July. 
Nov. 9. — Go W bridge Hunt. 
F.PT.— Tramore Strand .. 2! 
Ho common 26 
Limerick 28 
OCTOBER.— Johnstown .. .. 3 
Cashel 10 
Curragh I 7 
Down Royal Corporation . . 21 
Fermoy 24 
“The chosen srort of a great and a free people.” 
Otra Sailor Kino. 
T HE current of every racing man’d being has so completely 
set towards Epsom during the past week, that it almost 
sceins hopeless to discuss anything else. It would, however, 
be hardly ri^ht to pass over tho death of such a clever light* 
weight ns Edwin Hiett, without some slight notice. Ilia 
last mount was ou Braxcy for tho Londesbro’ Cup, at York, 
at which meeting he also steered and got placed on Defiance 
for the great J» «ndlcap. Soon after that, webeliove, that lie 
broko 0 blood-vessel, and rapid consumption ensued. 
Though he was 23 years of age, lie was capable of riding 
6st. Gibs, at the time of hla death, and so light-built, he 
seemed likely to draw that weight for some years to como. 
Two or three years ago ho bid fair to come to the very top 
of the tree among tl. light-weights, if Charlton, Wells, and 
Carrol had not gradually come in the way and had flrst-ralo 
mounts. For the lost few years he has had no very great 
