Vol. in.— No. 77.] 
Saturday, June 17, 1854. 
[With Supplement, Price 6 d . 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
BROUGH'S COTTAGE AT WEST-END, NEAR ESHER, THE 
SCENE OF THE LATE MURDER. 
A SWISS FETE-BREAKING THE PITCHER. 
THE ASCOT CUP.— Drawn by T. H. Wilson. 
THE QUEEN’S VASE. — Drawn by T. n. Wilson. 
TIIE ROYAL HUNT CUP— Drawn by T. H. Wilson. 
THE RABBIT WARREN.— Drawn by Harrison Weir. 
CONTENTS. 
Racing.— T urf Talk— Ascot Heath Meeting-Sporting Miscellaneous.^ 
Yachting— Royal Mersey, Harwich, London Model, Ac— Club Meet 
ings, &c , Ac. 
Cricket. — University of Oxford— I Zingari, See. 
Our Opera Glass. — A dclphl, and other Theatres. 
The War — N ews from the Black Sea and Bultlc. 
Letter Bag Books— Chess— Angling, &c., Ac. 
PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATIONS NEXT WEEK. 
Match op tub London Modbl Yacht Club, on tiir Tiiaubs. 
Tiib Boatino SbasoN— “ Blisters Allot I “ 
PniZE Turnip-Cuttbr, Manufactured by J« Marychurch and Son. 
Sailinq Canob or tuft Islr of Pinks, etc. etc. jirc. 
DATES OF RASES. 
JU N E.— Nowcastlc-on-Tync . . 
Hampton 
Knighton 
Carlisle 
Beverley and Hull 
Ludlow 
Blbury Club 
Stockbrldge 
Winchester 
JULY.— Newmarket .. .. 
Worcester 
Barnstaple 
Lancaster 
Odlham 
Harrogate 
Mansfield 
Liverpool 
Abingdon 
Ipswich 
Newton 
Stamford 
Nottingham 
Great Grimsby 
Stourbridge 
Hood wood 
Kiiutsford 
20 
21 
23 
20 
28 
28 
28 
29 
30 
4 
4 
0 
G 
7 
10 
11 
12 
13 
13 
18 
18 
20 
24 
24 
25 
20 
Radcllffo .. 
Deritend Pool 
AUGUST— Brighton .. .. 
Airdrie 
Durham 
Brighton Club 
Ripon 
North Staffordshire 
Yarmouth 
Heading 
Lewes 
Wolverhampton 
Egham 
Folkestone 
Paisley 
York 
Hereford 
Eccles 
Chelmsford 
Derby 
Plymouth 
Lincoln 
SEPTEMBER.— Warwick .. 
Lichfield 
Western Meeting 
Rochester and Chatham . . . . 
31 
31 
2 
3 
3 
4 
7 
8 
8 
8 
10 
14 
15 
17 
17 
23 
24 
28 
29 
29 
30 
31 
6 
7 
7 
7 
Doncaster .» 12 
Pontefract 18 
Bedford l'j 
Leicester 20 
Manchester Autumn .. ..21 
Lanark 22 
Newmarket First October ..20 
Walsall 27 
Northallerton 28 
OCTOBER -Kelso 3 
Chester Autumn 3 
Yorkshire Union Hunt .. .. 6 
Wrexham 6 
Newmarket Second October . . 9 
Royal Caledonian Hunt .. ..II 
Warwick Autumn 17 
Richmond 18 
Newmarket Houghton Meet... 23 
Worcester Autumn 31 
NOVEMBER Epsoin Autumn 2 
Liverpool 7 
Cowbridge Hunt 8 
I RE 
JUNE.— Curragh 27 
JULY— Ballegeigh 19 
Down Royal Corporation .. 18 
AUG— Heath and Maryborough 1 
Kilcock 7 
Bellcwstown 10 
Carlow 18 
SEPTEMBER— Curragh .. 6 
Tuam 19 
AND. 
Tramore Strand 21 
Roscommon 25 
Limerick 28 
OCTOBER — Johnstown .. .. 3 
Cashel 10 
Curragh 17 
Down Royal Corporation . . 24 
Fermoy 24 
STEEPLECHASES TO COME. 
July 30 and 31.— Caen— The Grand Steeplechase to close on June 20th; 
the second Steeplechase and Consolation Prize to close 
on the 30th of July. 
Nov. 0.— Cowbridge Hunt. 
TURF TALK. 
"The chosen ■( oil of a great and a free people." 
Our Sailor Kino. 
M R. GLADSTONE'S half way house metaphor in liig 
celebrated budget speech — “ I have now reached the 
top of the Alps, and the plums of Italy are beforo me,’’ is 
not inapplicable to the present stage of the racing seuson. 
All the fears, hopes, and perplexities which have haunted tho 
pillows of bookmen for tin se six months past, huvo at last 
received their clear solution at the hands of the Day hroiliers 
(who threaten to be the same " twin terrors to the Ring,” 
that John and William Scott wero in the seasons 1 805 — 43), 
and we are at last gliding quietly on with Goodwood, York, 
and Doncastor in full view, down to the “ (Inal close," in 
the Cambridgeshire week. The sensnu begun well with a 
dead-lieul at Newton, and though Mr. Parr has been ns 
usual a great monopolist, and Mr. Gulliver lias had things 
pretty much his own way with his two-year-olds, it has kept 
pretty well up to touch. O' ull the meetings in prospective, 
Worcester, perhups, shows as great uu unprovcim nt in its 
form as any, hut the very fiuo entry for its Worcestershire 
stukes is marred by the fact, that '20 oat of the 100 ave not 
bond fido ones, but put in on speculation without their 
