Vol. in. — No. 78.] Saturday, June 24, 1854. [With Supplement, Price 6 d . 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
THE LONDON MODEL YACHT CLUB MATCH.— Drawn dt T. n. 
Wilson. 
THE CANOE OF THE ISLE OF PINES. 
CEREMONIAL OF CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES FOR CHINA. 
PRIZE TURNIP CUTTER. — Manufactured b r Messrs. Merry 
CNT7RCU. 
THE BOATING SEASON— "BLISTERS AHOY!" 
BOAR HUNTING IN GERMANY, Ike, &c. 
CONTENTS. 
Racing.— T urf Talk— Sale of the Royal Paddock Yenrlings— Newcastle 
and Hampton Meetings -Sporting Miscellaneous. 
Yaciitiso - Royal London and London Model Yatch Club Matches — 
Birkenhead Match— Club Meetings, &c. 
Cricket — Marylcbone Club, Unlversliy, kc. 
Our Opera Glass. — A dclphi, and other Theatres. 
The War. — N ews from the Black Sea and Bultic. 
Letter Bao Books— Chess— Anoling, &c., &c. 
PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATIONS NEXT WEEK. 
The Royal London Yacht Club Match.— Drawn by T. G. Dutton. 
Prize Pigeons from tub I'arninoiiam Poultry Show.— Drawn by 
II. Weir. 
Tub Victoria Yacht.— Drawn by T. II. Wilson. 
Method of Preserving Foxes in Cornwall, bto. etc. etc. 
OF BASES. 
DATES 
JUNE.— Carlisle 2G 
Beverley and Hull 28 
Ludlow 28 
Blbury Club 28 
Stockbrldge 29 
Winchester 30 
JULY. — Newmarket .. .. 4 
Worcester 4 
Barnstaple C 
Lancaster .. .. 0 
Odlham .. 7 
Harrogate 10 
Mansfield 11 
Maidstone 12 
Liverpool 12 
Abingdon 13 
Ipswich 13 
Newton 18 
Stamford 18 
Isle of Sheppy 19 
Nottingham 20 
Great Grimsby 24 
Stourbridge 24 
Goodwood 25 
Knutsford 20 
Radcliffe 31 
Derltend Pool 31 
Newton Abbot 31 
AUGUST.— Wenlock .. .. 
Brighton 
Airdrie 
Durham 
Brighton Club 
Ripon 
North Staffordshire 
Yarmouth 
Heading 
Lewes 
Tonbridge 
Heaton Norris 
Wolverhampton 
Egham 
Folkestone 
Paisley 
York 
Plymouth 
Hartlepool 
Hereford 
Eccles 
Chelmsford 
Derby 
Leominster 
Lincoln 
SEPTEMBER. — Warwick .. 
Lichfield 
Western Meeting 
1 
2 
3 
3 
4 
7 
8 
8 
8 
10 
11 
14 
14 
15 
17 
17 
23 
17 
17 
21 
29 
Rochester and Chatham . . .. 7 
Doncaster 12 
Dover 14 
Pontefract 18 
Bedford 1!) 
Leicester 20 
Manchester Autumn .. ..21 
Lanark 22 
Newmarket First October .. 20 
Walsall 27 
Northallerton 28 
Perth 28 
OCTOBER.— Kelso 3 
Chester Autumn 3 
Yorkshire Union Hunt .. .. 5 
Wrexham 5 
Newmarket Second October .. 9 
Royal Caledonian Hunt . . .. 11 
Warwick Autumn 17 
Richmond 18 
Newmarket Houghton Meet. . . 23 
Worcester Autumn 31 
NOVE.MREU. — Epsom Autumn 2 
Liverpool 7 
Cowbridge Hunt 8 
Shrewsbury Autumn .. ..14 
IRELAND. 
JUNE.— Curragh 27 
JULY.— Uallegeigh 19 
Down Royal Corporation .. 18 
AUG.— Heath and Maryborough 1 
Kilcock 7 
Bcllcwstown 10 
* Carlow 18 
[SEPTEMBER.— Currngli .. 5 
Tuara 19 
Tramorc Strand 
Roscommon 
Limerick 
OCTOBER.— Johnstown . . . . 
Cashel 
Curragh 
Down Royal Corporation 
Fcrmoy 
21 
25 
28 
3 
10 
17 
24 
24 
29 
29 
31 
5 
7 
7 
STEEPLECHASES TO COME. 
July 30 and 31.— Caen— The Grand Steeplechase to close on June 26th < 
the second Steeplechase and Consolation Prise to close 
on the 30th of July. 
Nov. 9.— Cowbridge Hunt. 
TURF TALK. 
"The chosen sport of a great and a free people." 
Our Sailor Kin*. 
4 LTHOUGH the “ breeding mania" may bo suid to have 
A reached boiling point last August at Earl Ducio's sale of 
short-homo, when among other fabulous prices a four-ycar- 
old cow realised GOO gs., a heifer rising three 700 gs., and her 
six weeks calf 310 gs., it was considerably above fever 
heat at Tuttersull’s last Monday. Even the great head of 
that establishment, who, of course, wielded the ivory on the 
occasion, < echired that he never remembered such a sale as 
that of the Royal Paddock yearlings. A chestnut coll (half 
brother to Voltigeur) unfortunately broke his arm about a 
mouth ago, and a fine filly by Orlundo out of Volley died 
rather earlier in the year ; but, in spile of these mishaps, 
the 14 remaining one-* fetched no less Ilian 0,183 gs., or 
441 guincus a-piece. Col. Anson's sale in 1849 was thought 
a very excellent one, but his eight yearlings only reulmed 
344 gs. a-piece. Taking the six highest priced eolta, and 
the six fillies on the present occasion, the averago becomes 
GU us. a-piece for the former, ami 406 gs. a-piece for tho 
lalter ; prices which will make the mouths of tho Yorkshire 
breeders water for some time to come. Their leveo on 
Suuday afternoon was a very crowded one, comprising every 
THE LONDON MODEL YACHT CLOT MATCH— COMING CP LONG-REACH.-D.Uws B t T. H. W«<«. 
