six and aged, 9st. 7lbs.: course, two miles; five ran, and Mr. Gully's Hermit, three years old, won by two lengths, beating Merry Monk, a three-year-old also. The Burgundy Stakes of £100 each, half forfeit, for four-year-olds; colts, 8st. 7lbs. ; fillies, 8st. 4lbs.: course, two miles over the Old Course; Sir Charles Monck's br. c. Vindex won, beating the Duke of Bedford's Sittingbourne by half a-length. The Selling Stakes of £5 each, with £25 added, for all ages over two years old; course, one mile; Mr. C. Liley's Tadcaster won, beating Jenny Wren and five others. Match for £300 each, £50 forfeit, &c., 8st. 7lbs. each; course, last mile and a quarter; Mr. Greville's Muscovite, 8st. 10lbs. (Flatman), won, beating Lord Glasgow's Caracara easily: 4 to 1 on the winner. Match for £300 each, half forfeit; course, last mile and a quarter; Lord Derby's Umbriel received forfeit from Lord Glasgow's Barbatus. Thus ended the carte of "our opening day." The weather was lowering and showery, the attendance a low average, and the racing abundant. The feature of the theory was the ascent of Boiardo to 3 to 1 for the St. Leger, and, consequently, to the loss of the tree of hope. Ups and downs are the staple of the turf; so to crown the "black with white cap," Meteora, not named at Tattersall's on Monday, won the second year of the First Great North and South of England Biennial Stakes, at York, on Wednesday.

Thursday-beyond an olympic olla podrida of stakes from £10 each to £1000 each-had little to give it zest. The racing opened with the Filly Sapling Stakes of £50 each, £30 forfeit; for two-year-olds 8st. 7lb.; course, 5 furlongs 44 yards, 12 subs. Five runners: Captain Harcourt's Dame Judith, 6 to 4 against her, won by a head, beating The Mosquito, Dame Partlett, Alcyone, and Marionette.... The Juvenile Stakes of £100 each, £30 forfeit, for two-year-olds; colts 8st. 7lb., fillies 8st. 5lb.; course, three-quarters of a mile, four subs., was run a match, in which Mr. Quail's Capucine beat Sir Charles Monk's Vandal. 7 to 4 on the loser....The Prince of Wales's Stakes of £10 each, with £50 added by the race committee, two-year-olds; colts 8st. 7lb., fillies Sst. 21b.; 5 furlongs 44 yards, forty subs. Eleven runners, five placed. After a batch of bungling they got off; Mr. Ewbank's Jack Sheppard won, sacking the plunder in the fashion of his namesake, beating Dr. Cooke, Fayconay, Le Fripon, Saraband, and six others.... The Black Duck Stakes of £1000 each, £300 forfeit; for two-year-old colts 8st. 7lb., fillies 8st. 4lb., &c., &c.; course, three quarters of a mile, five subs., was run a quartet, Mr. Greville's Industry colt paying £300. Lord John Scott's Rambling Katie won easily, beating Myrtle Bud, Cecrops, and the filly, sire Orlando, dam Physalis. Cecrops backed even to beat the field. Thus it will be seen that the Knavesmire estimate of intrinsic courtesy values His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's Stakes at £10 a piece, and the Black Duck's at £1000 each. The Great Ebor Handicap Stakes of £200, added to a sweepstakes of £20 each, £15 forfeit, &c.; course, two miles, ninety-eight subs. thirteen at the post, three placed. Of these the winner was Mr. Robinson's Grand Inquisitor, 2 to 1 against him, beating Amalgamation and Little Harry. The Eglinton Stakes of £15 each, £5 forfeit, with £100 added by the race committee; two-year-olds 7st., three 9st., &c., &c.; course one mile, forty-four subs., saw Lord Eglinton's Corcbus first past the chair by a length; but Lord Zetland's jockey, rider of

Hospodar, having established a cross against the pilot of Corcbus, the race was adjudged to Mr. John Osborne, with Lord Alfred....The Hopeful Stakes of £15 each, £10 forfeit, three-year-olds; colts 8st. 7lb., fillies 8st. 3lb. &c., &c., Mr. Inman's Horatio walked over for.... The Ebor St. Leger of £25 each, three-year-olds; colts 8st. 7lb., fillies 8st. 21b., &c., &c.; course a mile and three quarters, seventy-nine subs., according to the electric telegraph, was won by "Pumicestone," beating Marley Hill. There is no such nomination as "Pumicestone" in the Racing Calendar's entry for the Ebor St. Leger, therefore it may be convenient to say the colt so called is the Earl of Welton's b. c., sire Cotherstone, dam The Duchess of Loraine. It was a very severe race; won by a head. 2 to 1 on the loser. The County Plate of £100, added to a sweepstakes of £15 each, £5 forfeit, for all ages, weight for age, forty-three subscribers, course T.Y.C., nine runners, four placed, was won by Captain Harcourt's Ellermire, two years old (Aldcroft), beating King of Trumps, Ephesus, and Hospodar, and five others not placed, among them Virago, with 2 to 1 on her. Won by a head. The Lottery Plate of £25, added to a sweepstakes of £5 each, for all ages above two years old, course one mile, was run for by Mr. Gibbs's Motley, three years old (Wells), beating Revolver and Goldfinch. A confusion in the weighing stand, and the exhibition of Dagobert's number, left him first in the odds when the field started, among which he did not show. The result was a 'blow up." Match for £100 each, course a mile and a-half, Mr. Jones's b. f. Réveillée, three years old, 2 to 1 on her, won, defeating Remunerateur in a canter by ten lengths. For the Bramham Park Stakes-reduced to a match-of £100 each, £30 forfeit, Mr. Snewing's Dan Cupid walked over, receiving £10 from Mr. Greville's Bessus. Thus the day's sports ended.

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Friday opened with the Consolation Scramble of £50, added to a handicap stakes of £5 each, course T.Y.C., twenty-two subscribers; thirteen went, and three were placed; Mr. Morris's Comfort-an appropriate title for the foremost-three years old, 6st. 5lbs. (Mundy), beating Sir Rowland Trenchard (2), and Bourgeois (3)-betting, 3 to 1 against the winner-by three lengths in a canter. The Colt Sapling Stakes of £50 each, £30 forfeit, for two-year-olds 8st. 7lbs. each, course T.Y.C., twelve subscribers, four at the post, Lord Derby's Crown Pigeon-2 to 1 against him-won by a neck. Twelfth year of the Great Yorkshire Stakes, £10 each, with £100 added for the second, three-year-old colts 8st. 7lbs., fillies Sst. 2lbs., &c., &c., course a mile and three-quarters, one hundred and fifty-eight subscribers, brought eight to the post; three placed, thus: Lord Derby's Acrobat (Templeman) 1, Lord Zetland's Ivan (Job Marson) 2, Mr. G. Barton's Arthur Wellesley (Holmes) 3. Gamekeeper, Merry Monk, Champagne, Aribbas, and Tros, not placed. Odds, 9 to 4 on Acrobat: won easily by a length. The Gimcrack Stakes of £10 each, with £100 added, for two-year-olds, colts 8st. 7lbs., fillies 8st. 2lbs., &c., &c.; course one mile; forty-two subscribers. Thirteen runners; three placed. Mr. Wilkinson's Nettle (Job Marson) 1, Captain Harcourt's Dame Judith (Alderoft) 2, Mr. Edwards's Saraband (Wells) 3. The Professor, Le Fripon, Monge, Jack Sheppard, Scipio, Cockspur, Lord Alfred, colt (sire Cotherstone, dam Polydora), Flatterer, and Cossey not placed. The winner was not in the betting. Her Majesty's Plate

of One Hundred Guineas, for all ages above two years old, mares, course three miles, Sir Charles Monck's Huncamunca, four years old (Job Marson)-with 5 to 4 on her--won easily by half a length; Adelaide 2; Ammonia and Peggy not placed. The Members' Plate of £50, for all ages above two years old, course one mile and a-half, was won by Mr. T. Hesseltine's colt (sire Fitzallen, dam Miss Burn's dam), four years old (Charlton), beating Sister to Bolton (2), Phoenix (3). Haxby, Westwood, Lady Lambton, and Poetess not placed. The Tyro Stakes of £5 each, with £25 added, for two-year-olds, Priestcraft won, beating General Picton (2), Malcolm Filly (3), and eight others. Lord Derby's Boiardo walked over for the Knavesmire Stakes of £100 each, for three-year-olds, five subscribers, and the Knavesmire August Meeting terminated. It was not a brilliant tryst, but one at which no malice might say-" York, you're wanted."

SIR CHARLES NAPIER,

COMMANDER OF THE BALTIC FLEET.

DRAWN AND ENGRAVED BY W. H. GIBBS.

As what Lord Palmerston called, at that loosish dinner at the Reform Club, "an eminent agriculturist," as what we may further write "an excellent country gentleman," and as one well known throughout the world for the John Bull spirit which has ever distinguished him, we may introduce the portrait of Sir Charles Napier to the notice of our subscribers. In doing this, we shall, we are sure, best consult the Admiral's own taste by letting his services speak for themselves, and by turning to pedigree and performance as the best commentary on the subject we have selected.

Sir Charles Napier was born on the 6th of March, 1786, and is the eldest son of the Hon. Charles Napier, of Murchiston Hall, in the county of Stirling, a captain in the Royal Navy, by his second wife, Christian, daughter of Gabriel Hamilton, Esq., of Westburn, Lanarkshire. The gallant Admiral is grandson, by a first marriage, of Francis, fifth Lord Napier, brother to Colonel Thomas Erskine Napier, and cousin to Lord Napier, R.N., who died in China, in 1834.

Sir Charles went into the navy as a first-class volunteer before he was fourteen years old. His life has been one of continued activity in his profession, and involves an infinite variety of services to the state. He entered the navy on the 1st of November, 1799, on board the Martin sloop, commanded by the Hon. Matthew St. Clair, employed in the North Sea; and, in the spring of 1800, removed to the Renown, 74, the flag-ship of Sir John Borlase Warren. He next proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, in 1802, he was a midshipman of the Grey