EMBELLISHMENTS. GLADIATEUR: WINNER OF THE 2,000 GUINEA STAKES; THE DERBY; AND THE GRAND PRIZE OF PARIS, 1865. ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY HARRY HALL. THE TURF REGISTER.- and Baldoyle-York Spring-Salisbury-Bath-Harpenden. B 2 Third Sunday after Trinity. s 8 17 9 Morning. 8 1 S Walton Regatta. 3 M Cricket: Lord's, Rugby v. Marlboro'.r 3 51 10 12 12 9 4 T Newmarket July Meeting. 5 W Royal Mersey Regatta. 6 T Greenock Regatta. 7 F 4 8 36 10 9 42 s 8 16 11 12 42 10 14 10 47 8 S Barnes Regatta. 9Fourth Sunday after Trinity.r 3 56 16 10 M Cricket: Lord's, Gentlemen v. 8 1217 11 T Abingdon Races. 2 4612 42 1 4 r 3 52 12 1 16 11 2011 50 Worcesters 8 15 13 [Races. r 3 54 14 1 27 1 49 afternoon.! 8 17 8 52 2 10 2 32 2 54 3 14 3 35 3 54 12 W Royal Northern Regatta, Dunoon. s 8 1119 9 50 4 14 4 36 020 10 18 4 58 5 19 14 F Cricket: Lord's, Eton v. Harrow. s 8 15 S St. Swithin. r 4 322 11 16 6 33 6 59 8 269 2 525 12 26 9 39 10 15 r4 826 1 1210 5211 29 227 2 4 12 2 afternoon - 16 Fifth Sunday after Trinity. s 8 163 17 M Cricket: Lord's, M.C.C. v. Scotland.r 18 T Prince of Wales's Y. C., Erith. s 8 19 W Royal Dee Sailing Match. 20 T Cambridge, Chesterfield, and Alder- s 8 21 F [shot Camp Races. r 4 1028 3 312 35 1 2 22 S Kingston-on-Thames Regatta. 8 ON SETS. 1 30 1 53 23 S Sixth Sunday after Crinity.r 4 13 1 7 52 2 16 2 38 24 M Cricket: Lord's, M.C.C. v. Norfolk. s 7 57 2 8 19 2 59 3 18 25 T Goodwood Races. Cork Regatta. r 4 16 3 8 44 3 37 3 54 26 W Yorkshire Regatta, at Hull. s 7 54 4 9 8 4 11 4 29 27 T Goodwood Cup Day. Londonderry r 4 18 5 9 29 4 46 5 2 [Races. s 7 51 6 9 52 5 19 5 36 r 4 21 7 10 17 5 53 6 13 "There he sat, and, as I thought, expounding the law and the prophets, until on drawing a little nearer, I found he was only expatiating on the merits of a brown horse."-BRACEBRIDGE HALL. WAY BILL: -The Derby and Oaks Day-The Ascot Vase and Cup DayThe Blenkiron Sale-Memoranda of the Month. scor follows it so quick, with such a rattling programme, that even the Derby has become quite a ten days' wonder in town. With the Yorkshiremen the theme never palls, and they argue it in Banco on the alehouse bench and over the claret till "tup sales and t'Leger" come round. Stare super antiquas vias was our watchword for the day, and we eschewed the new rail to the Stand, as we thought it " too green and raw." Epsom makes a nice resting-place if you arrive early, and want your mouth washed out with its cool ginger-beer. Then there is just enough of the road up to the Durdans turn to enable you to see the "humours" of it without being made a dusty miller. One of it consists of two men with carpet bags and umbrellas hung on the pales. On the Oaks day they did not put up the text banner, but payed out their little tracts most liberally. We don't know whether they are shams or not, but sham flowers seem on the increase, and some van-loads of people all wore them on their hats, for a token. "Now then, 'Twopence a ride-fourpence beyond—what are you stopping a gentleman's way for?" said a bitter-tongued cabby when an omnibus blocked his advance. There was one cart driven by a man with a peaked sugarloaf hat, from which sarcasm glanced off harmless. They did not ask the Prince this year why he did'nt "bring the missus,' but a peashooter is said to have assaulted the Duke de Brabant's nose, which is large, and too tempting a target. A coach-load of fire-worshippers of all ages seemed among the merriest there; and "Oh! Robert!" was the calm remonstrance of a rate-payer to a Bobby, who stood at a back door talking openly, we may say defiantly, to a cook. The portly form of Isaac Woolcott first met our eye, standing near the stable of Audax; and he took the measure of the lot most prophetically when he said that he could not see his way over this French horse, but that the rest "were pretty much in a heap." He has just won the Silver Bowl at Salisbury, but it is a money-prize. Some one expected years ago that he had got a piece of plate by his win, but was undeceived when a municipal functionary pulled a dirty £15 cheque out of his pocket for him, and said "You might give us ten shillings back, you've taken such a vast of looking up." Tom Sayers was an illustrious unit in the throng, with his face as hard and tanned as a bit of logwood, after his recent severe indisposition. Longdown was one of the first horses in the paddock, and very confident John Kent, Drewitt, and the party looked, as they saddled him, and let him follow Hesper, that big, gest and speediest of half-milers, round and round the circle. He is a |