PRAY, WHAT IS A CENTLEMAN WITHOUT HIS RECREATIONS?” 
Vol. IV.— No. 82.] 
Saturday, July 22, 1854. 
[With Supplement, Price Gel . 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
PORTRAIT OF WARIIAWK.— Drawn dt T. H. Wilson. 
THE YOUNG ANGLERS. 
NAPOLEON I. WORSHIPPED IN A CHINESE TEMPI.E.-Skctched 
by un Eye-witness. 
PASSAGE OF THE FRENCH TROOPS THROUGH A SWOLLEN 
AND RAPID STREAM IN THE DOBRUDSCHA. 
THE GAME OF THE SCISSORS. 
INTERIOR OF A TURKISH COUNTRY RESIDENCE. 
CONTENTS. 
Racing.— T urf Talk— Meetings of the week— Programmer-Sporting 
Miscellaneous, Ac. 
YACHTING.— Lowestoft Regatta— Prince of Wales Yacht Clab— Meetings 
of the Clubs— Yuclitlng In Ireland, Ac. 
Rowing. 
Cricket.— Games In the Provinces, &o. 
Oun Opera Glass. 
Letter Bag— Off Dats, Ac., &e. 
PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATIONS NEXT WEEK. 
Tint Schooner Match, Lowestoft Rroatta. 
Thr Goodwood Cdp. 
A Croydkx Basketful. 
Ac. Ac. Afl. 
DATES OF RACES, 
JULY.— Great Grimsby .. ..21 
Stourbridge 24 
Goodwood 25 
Knutsford 2G 
Radcllffe 31 
Derltend Pool 31 
Newton Abbot 31 
AUGUST Wenlock .. .. 1 
Brighton 2 
Aimrlo . . ■ , 3 
Durham 3 
Brighton Club 4 
Rlpon 7 
North Staffordshire 8 
Reading .. 8 
Lewes 10 
Tonbridge 11 
Heaton Norris 14 
Wolverhampton 14 
Egham 15 
Folkestone 17 
Paisley 17 
Plymouth 17 
Hartlepool .• <t . ■ .. ..17 
Yarmouth .. . . .. .. ..22 
York 23 
Hereford .. . . 24 
Eccles .23 
ChelmSford 20 
Derby 29 
Leomihstcr 29 
Lincoln 31 
SEPTEMBER.— Warwick .. 5 
Lichfield 7 
Western Meeting 7 
Rochester and Chatham . . . . 7 
Doncaster 12 
Dover 14 
Pontofraot 18 
Bedford 19 
Leicester .. . . 20 
Manchester Autumn .. ..21 
Lanark 22 
Newmarket First October .. 26 
Walsall 27 
Northallerton 28 
Perth 28 
OCTOBER. — Kelso 3 
Chester Autumn 8 
Yorkshire Union Hunt .. .. 6 
Wrexham 6 
Newmarket Second October .. 9 
Royal Caledonian Hunt .. ..11 
Warwick Autumn 17 
lacinuuuu . 
Newmarket Houghton Meet... 2. 
Worcester Autumn 31 
NOVEMBER Epsom Autumn 2 
Liverpool ,. .. 7 
Cowbridgc Hunt 8 
' Shrewsbury Autumn .. ..14 
IRELAN 
AUG.— Heath and Maryborough l 
ICilcock 7 
Galway 8 
Belle wstown 16 
Carlow 18 
SEPTEMBER.— Currogh .. 5 
Tuam 19 
Tramorc Strand 21 
Ros -ion 25 
Limerick . .. .. ..28 
OCTOBER.— Johnstown .. .. 3 
Cashel 10 
Curragh .17 
j Down Royal Corporation . . 24 
I Fcrmoy 24 
STEEPLECHASES TO COME. 
July 39 and 31.— Caen— The Grand Stceplechnse to'closo on Juno 26th; 
the second Steeplechase and Consolation Prise to close 
on the 30th of July. 
Nov. 9.— Cowbridge Hunt. 
TURF TALK. 
“Tho clioson sport of a groat and a freo people.'* 
Our S*it.uu Kino. 
Till'} .lolightr.il change in tlio wunthor, so favourable to Iho 
1 enjoyment of racing, hns not oxtouded its genial influ- 
ence to turf-speculation. Tho state of tho butting-market must 
still bn quote! as considerably bolow par. The only races Unit 
appear to oxcllo interest arc the Goodwood Siakcs, uml that 
fnr-ott' event, next year's Derby. Grtoculua Usurious main- 
tains his high position, though without any very extemivo 
outlay on his behulf. A now cun.liuuto tor lavour was Intro- 
duced at Tattorsall’s on Monday, boariug tho poetical titlu nf 
"The Lord of tho Isles’* j a name*, hv the way, showing no 
great fa 1 .ity 0 fluvcntiou, ns we have had u Lord of tho I V 
running over the Corraghjar the last two yts&iv.. Oar you.. 
Lord is by Touch*' no, out of Fair Helen, by Pantaloon, m.-t 
nominated by Mr. A. Johnstone. Commencing at 40 to I 
the st a (fast support ho received quickly reduc.id tint odds I < 
points, and at the closo of tho afternoon, 24 to 1 found run ly 
Oil TRAIT O F WARTIAW K. — Draw n btJT. II. Wilson. 
