Vol. IV. — No. 99.] 
Saturday, November IS, 1854. 
[With Supplement, Price 6 d. 
ILLUSTRATION. 
FISHING STATIONS. No. !).— RUISLIP RESERVOIR. 
Dbawn bt T. IL Wilson. 
CONTENTS. 
Racing. — Turf Talk — Shrewsbury Autumn Races — Programme of 
Hoyl&ke Open Meeting, Ac. 
Hunting. — L ist of Appointments — The Ward Union Stag-Hounds— 
The Badsworth Hounds, Ac. 
ComsiNO, — Winmarleigh Open Coursing Meeting— Brampton Meeting 
Hilton and High Leven — Newmarket Champion Meeting, Ac. See. 
Yachting — Rowing — Shooting — Lmu Bag — Oun Opera Glass, &c. 
THE FIELD OF WAR. — Newspapers and Letters for the Crimea j 
Despatches from LonrRaglnn ■ Official List of Killed and Wounded ; 
Gallant Defence of Eupatoria ; Extraordinary Charge of British 
Cavalry at Balaklava ; Reinforcements for tho East ; Interesting 
Anecdotes; Death of three General Officers; Great Storm at Sea ; 
Victory by General Sir Do Lacy Evans; Arrival of the Grand Duke* 
at Sebastopol , Russian Cavalry repulsed by the Highlanders; Latest 
Despatches from Last Night s Extraordinary Gaiette, Ac., Ac , Ac. 
TBUFjrALK. 
"Tlio chosen sport of a great and a free people." 
Oue Sailor Knto. 
REVIEW OF THE TURF SEASON 1854.— No. 1. 
We shall not torture our patrons with a voluminous retro- 
spect of the business of tho campaign now waning to a close, 
or insult their powers of memory with a ridiculous recapitu- 
lation of those matters which aro necessarily fresh upon 
their mind ; but endeavour rather to offer a review that may 
te acceptable for its succintness, novelty, and interest — 
giving the reader a faithful idea of the success of the different 
meetings, and the extent to which the sport is encouraged. 
Februart. 
The campaign opened on the 1st at Newton-le- Willows, 
where Defiance, 4 yrs, 8st 71b, and Royal George, 5 yrs, 8st 
121b, ran a dead heat for the Trial Stake of £10 ; seventeen 
j ran for a Handicap Plate of £70, and seven two-year-olds 
were mustered for the Golbome Stakes of £65. Each of these 
j events was singularly interesting in itself, although of little 
I general importance as affected the future. Truegirl, by the 
aid of Mansfield Frost, her old pilot, who is a Triton among 
the minnows of the leather-flapping sphere, gained the two 
heats races, for each of which she was entered to be sold for 
a ten-pound note, and was bought in at 50 and 40 guiueas 
respectively — Mr. Topham benefiting £18 17s. by the com- 
petition. Derby was more noted for the number of its 
l ‘'jumpers" than for the exteut of flat-race competition 
afforded. The enterprising committee benefited £74 10s. 
| by the sale of Free Trader (late John Bright), who had 
been entered for 20 sovs. Lincoln gave as the first 
meeting of any import; still, nothing particular trans- 
pired. Nevertheless, it was tho host gathering of tho 
month. The Spring Handicap, which fell an oasy prey to 
Georgoy, was worth £220 ; and tho four-year-old Sam swept 
away a brace of selling stakes on the first day, being bought 
in at 57 guineas in ouo instance, and sold for 77 guineas in 
tho other, the new oxecutivo realising £80. 14a. clear. Passing 
over the Harrow spurt, wo come to tho Nottingham tryst in 
amphitheatrical Sherwood, where Alonzo commenced his se- 
ries of spring successes, boating a field of a dozen indifferent 
opponents for the principal handicap of £265. There were 
three selling races, ami Red Roso, 3 yrs (30 sovs), was bought 
in at 100 guineas ; Julicn, 5 yrs (20 sovs), wont for 35 guineas 
and President, 5 yrs (20 sovs), for forty-one guiueas— the 
Forest Fund netting £114. 16s. 
This month being 'the avnnt courier only was necessarily 
FISHING STATIONS. No. 9.— RUISLIP RESERVOIR.— Drawn by T. H. Wilson. 
RUISLIP RESERVOIR Is easily accessible by rail from Elision -square to Pinner Station, and from thence by flies generally in rcodlnesi. Next susunor a branch lino will be opened from West 
Drayton to Uxbridge (on the Great Western Railway), which Is within three and a half miles of the water. The Reservoir is about eighty acre. In extent; and. surrounded as it 1* by tho extremely pastoral 
scenery peculiar to the district, and rich woody hills fringing the banks, may be compared for beauty with the lake* of Cumberland. It is well preserved; and the angler for Jack, tench, or perch, In favourable 
weather, may be certain of good sport and heavy flsli. Mr. Adams, of Birmingham, came from there expressly to try tho water, and in one day ami a half killed thirteen fish, weigh Inc . if lb. ll>o*- 1 ench have 
been taken of 5 lb. weight, and very large perch — one weighed 5 lb. ICloz. The host of the George Inn at iitiislip Is most attentive, and reasonable In hl« char,’. « There is a hou <• the Nix Hells, « ithin - "0 
yards of tho water, where a dinner Is provided on Sunduys, and every attention paid to anglers who can only avail themselves of this day ; but , owing to a fear of the Uxbridge magistrates, who do not consider 
anglers as travellers, and the threats of a summons held out by tho police, the doors remain closed to all till ono o'clock ; bowovor, breakfast or tea can be obtained at tho cottsgo of Daniel Toputs, who redd** 
about fifty yards from the water. T u - w * 
