11 PRAY, WHAT IS A CENTLEMAN WITHOUT HIS RECREATIONS 1 »» 
VOL. iV. — No. 81.] 
Saturday, July 15, 1854. 
[With Supplement, Price (></. 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
PORTRAIT OF RATAPLAN, FROM A SKETCH BY A COR- 
RESPONDENT. 
EMBARKATION OF FRENCH ARTILLERY. 
REVIEW. BY THE EMPEROR, OF THE FRENCH TROOTS FOR 
THE BALTIC. 
EMBARKATION OF FRENCH TROOPS FOP. THE BALTIC. 
HARBOUR AND FORTIFICATION OF SVEABORO. 
CONTENTS. 
Raoixo.— Turf Talk— Meetings of tlio week— Programmes— Sporting 
Miscellaneous, ike. 
Yaciitixo. — Royal Mersey Yacht Club-Prlnco of Wales Yacht Club 
Meetings of tho Clubs, ike. 
Rowiso.— Leander Club Bout Race, Ac. 
CmcKKT— I Zingarl, &o. 
Our Opera Glass. 
L etter Bao-Off Dats, Ac., Ac. 
1 ■■ ■ ■ * . ■ - —■ m — - 
DATES OF RACES. 
JULY. -Newton 
Stamford 
Isle of Sheppy .. .. 
Nottingham . . . . 
Great Grimsby . . . . 
Stourbridge . . . . 
Goodwood 
Knutaford 
RadclllTc 
Dcrltond Pool .. .. 
. Newton Abbot .. .. 
AUGUST— Wen lock 
.. .. 1 
Brighton 
Airdrie 
3 
Durham 
r\ •• 3 
Brighton Club .. .. 
i: .. 4 
Ripen 
.. .. 7 
Nortli Staffordshire .. 
Yarmouth 
Reading 
Lewes 
Tonbridge 
Heaton Norris .. .. 
Wolverhampton 
F'ghum 
Folkestone 
Paisley 
Plymouth 
Hartlepool 
York 
Hereford 
Eccles .. .. 
Chelmsford 
Derby 
Leominster 
Lincoln 
SEPTEMBER.— Warwick .. 
LichfleltT “ 
Western Meeting 
Rochester and Chatham . . . . 
Doncaster 
Dover 
Pontefract 
Bedford 
Leicester 
Manchester Autumn .. .. 
Lanark 
Royal Caledonian Hunt . . . . 
11 
Newmarket First October 
. 20 
Warwick Autumn 
17 
W nisnll 
Richmond 
18 
NorthnllertoH 
. 28 
Newmarket Houghton Meet... 
23 
Perth 
. 28 
Worcester Autumn 
31 
OCTOBER -Kelso .. .. 
NOVEMBER.— -Epsom Autumi 
2 
Chester Autumn .. .. 
Liverpool 
7 
Yorkshire Union Hunt .. 
. 6 
Cowbridge Hunt 
8 
Wrexham 
. 5 
Shrewsbury Autumn 
M 
Newmarket Second October 
. 9 
IRELAND 
Jolt— D own Royal Corporation 18 
Tramorc Strand 
21 
AUG.— Heath and Maryborough 1 
Roscommon 
25 
Kilcock 
I.imurick 
28 
Galway 
. B 
3 
BcIIewitown 
10 
Carlow.. .. . ." .. 
. 18 
Curragh .. 
17 
SEPTEMBER. -Curragh 
. 6 
Down Royal Corporation 
24 
I uam 
. Ill 
F ennoy 
24 
STEEPLECHASES TO COME; 
July 30 and 31.— Caen — The Orand Steeplechase to oloso on June 20th; 
the second Steeplechase aud Consolation Prise to closu 
on the 30th of July. 
Not. 9.— Cowbridge Hunt. 
PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATIONS NEXT WEEK. 
Portrait of War Hawk. 
'I'u k Youno Anglers. 
Krkxcii Troops on Tint March. 
Tii a Worship of Napoleon in Ciiins. 
&e. Ac. Ac. 
. - 
TURF TALK. 
"Tho chosen *| ort of a great and a free peoplo." 
Ouu Sailor Kt nq. 
D ULNHSS Is Just now opidomiciil. Exciting nows from Clio 
scut of war has yet to arrivo ; llio seat of wnr being no 
misnomer, sineo tlio ullieil forces are evidently hiking It easy 
till the wl&hed-for opportunity oiler wlioreon they miiy render 
a good Recount of their Muscovite opponents. The Turf Is 
not exempt from the gunorul visitation. It is true tliut inert- 
ing succeeds meeting, aud the races as announced uro duly 
run nlf; but speculation, tho lilc-blood of racing ullairs, liu- 
been more tiiun usually sluggish. Much of this may proceed 
from the absence of t-evorul active supporters of tho turf, tho 
tightness of the money murket, and various other cuiiscs; but 
| some little may perhaps bo ascribed to tlio wretched weather 
i we have had during tlio lust week or so. Contrast tho race- 
course on a dank, iniseruhlo day, tho ground sloughy, mol 
a dense humidity hanging like a pull on nil around, 
with its appearance on a bright cheerful noon, when the ruy 
