790 
THE FIELD. 
LITCHAM. 
Campbell, e and b Brown SO . 
J. Chamberlain, b Boviett 12 b liw 
:: :::::::: 2 
Divi'r h Vii»(* . 2 not out 1 
SS«4.b¥i« : : " « « b 1 
Buseal), c andli Figg - • " 
C. Oreinian, b Boviett ® 
B. Sewell, run out •••■ 
Byes, 9 — leg bye*, 2 — vriJc-i, l 
0 
12 
Wide . 
Total. 
1 
Total 33 
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA V. PE NS HURST. 
The return match between the above clubs took place on 
Monday, the 31st ult., at Boughtou Monchelsea. There was 
not sufficient time for the game to be played out, but so far 
as the match had proceeded, the result was in favour of the 
Pcashurst Club, ns will be seen by the subjoined score. 
BOUOHTON MONCHELSEA. 
Hollands, b J. Duke 13 runout 0 
Fryer, b A. Arnold 10 c G. Martin, b A. Arnold., 6 
.1. Lefeavre, c Bartholomew, b Arnold 1 leg bef wicket, bJ. Duke. . 8 
Foster, cCoppcnger, b 11. Foster 7 bH. Foster 6 
Botts, b J. Duke ... 0 not out 2 
Ridor, Esq., 1 b wicket, b G. Martin . . 4 leg bef wicket, b II. Foster 0 
Geo. Lefeavre, b Coppfngcr 0 
H. Hammond, c Coppinger, b Foster. 0 
H. Beard, not out 0 
W. Skinner, e B. Constable, b Foster 1) 
W, Crittenden, 1> Coppinger 2 
Byes, 0— leg byes, 2— widcs, 4 . . 12 
not out H 
p^e.<i j 5_legbyc.«,2— widcs,4 11 
Total W 
Total 64 
TENSHURST. 
H. Foster, <• Hammond, b Hollands. 0 
H. Constable, e Fryer, 1) Hollands 2 
G. Martin, c Foster, b .1. Lefeavre 8 
Bartholomew, c Hollands, b .1 Lefeavre 8 
W. Duke, e G. Lefeavre, b Hollands 33 
J. Coppinger, e Betts, b G. Lefeavre 13 
A. Arnold, b.l, Lefeavre 5 
8. Constable, b .1. Lefeavre 0 
J. Duke, b J. Lefeavre 2 
Stacey, not out • • • 0 
C. Foster, b Hollands 3 
Byes, 12 — leg byes, 1 — widcs, 4 — no halls, 1 ■ • IS 
Total 
100 
HALES WORTH v. LOWESTOFT. 
This match was played cm the Lowestoft ground, on the 
3rd instaut, between the Halesworth uud Lowestoft Clubs. 
When the stumps were drawn, the score stood as under. 
LOWESTOFT. 
Tinley, b Chandler 40 c Easterson, b Figg J* 
Fry, run out 7 b Chandler 13 
Morgan, run out 2 b Figg 1? 
Youngman, run out 1 
D'Eye, b Figg 21 
Norton, e Easterson, b Figg 0 
Youngman, jun., c Durrant, b Figg. . 4 
Morse, b Chandler 0 
Seppings, run out 13 
Chapman, not out 0 
Cooper, c Easterson, b Chandler .... 0 
Byes, 7— leg byes, 2 9 
c Durrant, b Chandler 21 
b Figg 1 
b Chandler 9 
b Chandler 21 
b Figg 0 
c l’aul, b Figg 1 
c Durrant, b Chandler — 1 
not out 7 
Byes, 2 — no balls, 3 . . 6 
Total 
... 93 
HALESWORTH. 
Total 102 
G. Durrant. c Fry, b Tinley 1 
Girling, c Fry. b Tinley . 10 
Figg, c and 1» Tinley . . 3 
H. Durrant, c Cooper, b Tinley 16 
Easterson, b D'Eye 0 
Chandler, c Sepnmgs, b Tinley 0 
Chasten, 1 b w, b Tinley 3 
Paul, not out ^ 2 
Brown, st Fry, b Tinley 3 
Lenny, b Tinley 0 
Novis, c Cooper, b Tinley 0 
Byes, 3 — widcs, 6 9 
Total 68 
j Chapman, b Tinley .... 0 
not out 9 
runout 4 
not out 0 
Byes . 
Total 
Another match was previously played on the Lowestoft 
ground, between Eleven Gentlemen Visitors and the Lowes- 
toft Club. The score was as under. 
LOWESTOFT. 
Tinley. e Seppings, b Hayward 35 
Fry, e Mansell, b White 4 
Youngman, l> White 0 
Chapman, b Gochcr 1 
Chapman, jun., e Lemprierc, b White 0 
Pauli, b White 0 
Thirtie, c Parkinson, b Gocher 2 
Woods, o Perry, 1> Goober 1 
Dewar, b Gochcr . 0 
Wides, 2 — no balls, 2 — byes, 14 18 
Total 80 
VISITORS. 
Parkinson, b Tinley 5 
Seppings, l> Tinley O 
White, c and b Tinley 4 
Goober, run out 1 
Lemprierc, b Tinley 2 
Hayward, b Tinley 21 
Seppings, e and b Tinley 0 
Saw ell, b Tinley 0 
Hansell, b Tinley 0 
Perry, not out 6 
Porter, c Fry, b Chapman 2 
Byes, 1— leg byes, 2 3 
43 
MAULDEN r. MARSTON AND DISTRICT. 
maclden. 
H. Ashford, run out 0 
K. Windayoank, b Hillyard - 
J. Flowers, b Fane . . 17 
C. B. Ward, Esq., b Hillyard 9 
L. Brightman, l> Fane 24 
J. Flint, b Fane 0 b Hillyard 
b Fane 0 
b Titmas 7 
b Fane O 
b Titmas 20 
c Sinficld, b Tribute 12 
W. Foster Melliar, Esq., b Fane 
Robertson, Esq., e Titmas, b Tribute 10 
.1. Worseley.b Fane 0 
R. Foster Melliar, E«q., b Tribute . . 0 
E. Brightman, not out 1 
Byes, 6— leg byes, 1— wides, 2.. 9 
b Fane 2 
e Sinficld, b Fane 3 
not out 0 
h Fane 6 
c Tribute, b Fane 0 
Byes, 8—1 bye, 1— wides, 3. , 12 
Total : 
MARSTON AND 
Captain Reader, b Flint 
C. Franklin, b Flint 
F. Tribute, b Flowers 
W. Fane, c L. Brightman, b Flowers 
J. Hillyard, b Flint 
H. Stiinson. run out 
J. Titmas, n Flowers 
G. Phipps, c Ashford, b Flowers .... 
J. Bos worth, not out 
J. Greene, b L. Brightman 
W, L infield, run out 
Byes, 3— wides, 2 
2 Total 05 
DISTRICT. 
2 b Flowers 1 
0 c and b Flowers 8 
4 run out 0 
1 1 run out 0 
7 b L. Brightman 12 
0 c Worselev, b Flint 12 
1 b L. Brightman 0 
0 runout 0 
6 e L. Brightman, b Flower.. 14 
2 not out 0 
0 b L. Brightman 0 
6 Byes, 0 — wides, 6 .... 11 
Total 49 
Total 48 
Challenge. — Three brothers will he happy to play a 
Biugle wicket with any three brothers (being amateurs) re- 
siding within thirty miles of Peterborough, for £5 or £10 
a -aide. Letters to* be addressed, “ Bat,’’ Post-office, Crow- 
land, near Peterborough. 
John Hoath, takes a benefit at the grounds in Kennington 
Oval, on Monday, September 4th, when sixteen gentlemen 
will contend against eleven players. 
CRICKET IN IRELAND. 
The following match has been played between the Phoenix 
and the Carlow Cricket Clubs : — 
PHtBNIX. 
S. Arthur, c and b Butler 39 
S. Pearson, Esq,, K.D.C., b Rochfort 5 
Capt.Sidebotham.5th D.G., lb w.Butler 14 
Lieut. -Col. Haines, 21st, b Peel 7 
J. Coddington, Esq., c and I) Rochfort 15 
A. Hunt, Esq , 3rd D.G., b Peel 2 
Captain Sayer. K.D.O., not out 28 
Wm. Adams, b Peel .... 14 
0. Charles, c Peel, b Rochfort 0 
II. Joy, e Cork, b Rochfort 0 
Cant, ‘Molyneux, A.D.C., run out 0 
lives, 7— leg b, 1— wides, 3 — noballs, 1 12 
e Peel, b Johnson 1 
run out 10 
b Feel 12 
b Peel 1(1 
c Burton, b Peel 2« 
absent 0 
b Johnstone 3 
b Johnstone 0 
b Johnstone O 
not out 1 
b Peel 1 
Byes, 4 — leg b, 1 — widcs, 3 8 
Total 148 
CARLOW. 
R. Cooke, Esq., b Molyncux 22 
J. Butler, Esq., b Arthur 0 
It. Johnstone, Esq., e Adams, Molyneux 55 
II. Peel, Esq., c Coddington, Molyneux 0 
E. Jameson, Esq., 1 b w, b Coddington 2 
K. V. AUoek, c. Haines, b Molyneux 2 
H Rochfort, Esq., b Arthur 6 
B. Burton, Esn., b Molyneux 0 
D. Hamilton, Esq., e Arthur, b Joy. . 2 
— l'it/.maurice, Esq., not out 13 
— Whelan, Esq., run out 2 
Byes, 3 — leg byes, 1— wides, 2 . . 6 
Total 
e Adams, b Molyneux .... 
b Charles ...... 
c Coddington, b Arthur . . 
b Arthur 
b Arthur 
b Charles 
b Charles 
c Sayer, b Arthur 
not out 
e Pearson, b Arthur 
b Arthur 
Byes, 2 — wides, 2 .... 
80 
1 
0 
29 
12 
4 
4 
2 
0 
0 
0 
4 
Total 
109 Total 
The Phoenix won by 61 runs. 
68 
PUBLIC SCHOOL CRICKET MATCHES. 
Sir, — The result of the late matches induces me to point 
out to that one of the contending parties in which I am 
most interested, how the disadvantages under which it 
laboura may be somewhat obviated. 
In point of numbers, Winchester is by far the smallest 
of the three contending schools. Its numbers are limited 
to 200, whilst those of Eton and Harrow are unlimited, and 
the former has now upwards of 600 names on its roll, and 
the latter about 450. Assuming that half of the Etonians 
take to boating instead of cricket, we shall find that Harrow 
is numerically one-third stronger than Eton, and twice as 
Strong as Winchester. The last-named school too plays at 
a perennial disadvantage, in consequence of its vacation 
commencing three weeks before that of other schools. The 
result is not only want of practice together, but also the 
frequent weakening of its eleven by the absence of players 
whose families may be on the continent or residing in 
Ireland or Scotland, and without any friends or connections 
in town. 
Under all these circumstances it is wonderful that Win- 
chester should hold so high a place as it does, having proved 
itself, during some twenty odd matches, considerably superior 
to Eton, aud but little inferior to Harrow. The recent defeat 
of Winchester by the last-mentioned school, I attribute princi- 
pally to the slow bowling and judicious placing of their field 
by their opponents. The latter point is only to be acquired 
by training under a judicious professional like Wisden, who 
deserves great credit for his tutorship of the Harrow eleven. 
Wliat, then, I would recommend to the attention of Wyke- 
hamists is not to refuse (as they did this summer) the 
services of a professional trainer, aud not to run into the 
common error that all good bowling must be swift. 
Your obedient servant, 
A Wykehamist. 
P.S. — Why should matches be confined to these three 
schools ? Surely Rugby and Westminster might do some- 
thing in the way of an annual game. 
RAILWAYS AND TELEGRAPHS. 
Cone Telegraph. — Before Parliament was prorogued Mr. 
Hankey asked the First Lord of the Admiralty wh tlier, in 
consideration of the very favourable report made by expe- 
rienced and practical officers respecting Mr. Redl’s cone tele- 
graph, it was his intention to make any use of the system in 
the navy ; and to consider the claims of Mr. Redl to some 
reward, as recommended in the report of the officers appointed 
to examine into the merits of his telegraph aud dual system, 
laid before that House ? To which question Admiral 
Berkeley said there was no such intention at present. 
Meetings to come. — Meetings are called of the British 
Telegraph Company, of the British Electric Telegraph Com- 
pany, of the Submarine Telegraph Company, and of the 
European and American Electric Printing Telegraph Com- 
pany : all for the 30th inst. 
The Strike of the Locomotive Engine-drivers.— It is 
worthy of notice that out of a staff of about 140 engine-drivers 
aud 140 firemen, employed on thesouthern division of the Lon- 
don and North-Western Railway, about fifty drivers aud fifty 
firemen only have struck work at the present time, aud that 
not only have the regular engine-drivers of the company on 
all the branch lines, and those at Camden and Wolverton 
(two of the largest stations), with the exception of one man, 
remained at their duty, but that also a large number of the 
extra and occasional drivers employed at Wolverton came 
forward and volunteered, with great promptitude and the 
beat of feeling, to do the work of the men strike. 
Sweden. — The great Swedish electric telegraph line is now 
open also to Helsingborg. It only now remains to lay down 
a wire over the Sound, and connect the Danish and Swedish 
lines. But this is more easily said than done. It is not the 
distance which is the objection, for this is comparatively 
trifling ; it is the immense number of vessels daily passing 
and repassing, and anchoring in all directions. It is almost 
impossible to find a station moderately secure. Most likely 
it will have to be taken lower down, even if the length of 
line should be thereby greatly increased. Under these cir- 
cumstances, perhaps the junction will not take place this 
year, or at all events not before the autumu. 
India. — From Madras the only items of interesting news 
we can gather are that the railroad is to be laid down on the 
cheap system advocated by Colonel Cotton, and is not ex- 
pected to cost more than 25,000 rupees per mile, and that 
the works on the Godavery were being vigorously earned 
on. It is expected that the railway will bo finished, by great 
exertions, in the beginning of 1856. The electric tele- 
graph, though liable to interruptions during the monsoon, 
has been conveying Government messages between Bombay 
und Calcutta. The Governor-General had shown no dispo- 
sition of being about to make a move. He had appointed a 
day for humiliation aud prayer in connexion with the Russian 
war. It is confidently stated in Calcutta that Lord Dalhousie 
intends returning home in January next. Experimental 
trains were to commence running upon the Bengal Railway 
about the middle of J uly, and it was to be opened in the 
beginning of August by Lord Dalhousie. 
Opening of the Railway. — Harwich, August 7. This 
branch line of the Eastern Counties Railway, which will 
considerably shorten the distance between the metropolis 
and the Hague and the northern part of Europe, was officially 
surveyed by the Government inspector on Tuesday, prepara- 
tory to its being publicly opened for passenger traffic. The 
line branches off near the Mauningtree station, and passes 
through a delightful country. The harbour of refuge i 3 
making rapid progress : ample accommodation is being pro- 
vided for the steam-boat traffic, and so rendering the port 
which is accessible at all times, the principal passenger and 
mail-packet station on the coast. With a view of seeing 
what could be done, a trial trip was made last week to 
Antwerp, by the new iron mail steam-ship Aquila, one of the 
fleet of the North of Europe Steam Navigation Company. 
Several gentlemen interested in the experiment accompanied 
Captain Andrews, R.N., the managing director. Among them 
were noticed Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., C.E, ; Mr. Bidder 
C.E. ; Mr. G. R. Stephenson, C.E. ; and Mr. Fowler, C.e! 
The steamer, it should be observed, was of a very superior 
description. She was designed by Mi-. John Dudgeon, of 
London, for a first-class mail-packet, between 300 and 400 
tons burthen ; aud built by Messrs. Henderson aud Sou, at 
lienfew — her engines, a pair of oscillating engines, being 
fitted by Messrs. McNab aud Co., of Greenock. Her passage 
to Antwerp proved that she was an excellent sea-boat, while 
her engines propelled her through the water at an average 
speed of seventeen statute miles an hour. On the return 
trip she proceeded to Gravesend. The distance to that place 
from Antwerp was accomplished in twelve and a half hours 
— a remarkably rapid run. On the opening of the railway 
and the running of the steamers, passengers leaving the 
metropolis in the morning will reach Antwerp or Rotterdam 
early in the evening. 
(Dm* Irtbr-Stog. 
THE WHIP AND SPUR. 
Sin, — I have read with much pleasure the letters which have appeared 
from time to time in your paper, on the treatment of horses by ladies, 
as I think many of our fair equestrians are very ignorant of the nature 
of the animal which carries them, and the information offered them 
must, therefore, have been of use. It is creditably distinguishing of 
your paper, among the sporting ones, that you afford room for the dis- 
cussion of subjects wliicli coucern the ladies ; and the number of con- 
tributions you have received from the male sex on the spur question, 
shows how interesting to them any topic is, in the solution of which the 
comfort or pleasure of the fairer portion of the creation is any way 
involved. Your correspondent signing himself “ A Brighton Lady's 
Riding Horse,'' in last week's paper, was wrong, perhaps, in blaming the 
lady who, mounting him w earied and jaded at the end of a long day s 
work, was obliged to reuse him by the whip or spur to muke him carry 
her pleasantly^ The person really culpable was his owner, the horse 
hirer, who, to fill his pockets, ill-used his horse by having liim sent out so 
often in one day. I perfectly agree in what he says about the folly and 
cruelty of punishing a horse for starting or stumbling ; but instead of 
detailing for what things a horse should not be whipped, 1 think it will 
be a shorter way for me to mention those occasions in which the spur 
or w hip may be used with propriety. And first, 1 cannot assent to the 
principle laid down by several of your correspondents, that a lady is 
entitled to give pain to her horse, when, by so doing, she increases her 
own pleasure — and then only. By acting according to this rule she 
might, in various ways, be guilty of cruelty ; for instance, it is quite 
possible to suppose that a lady might find pleasure in trying how much 
more pace she could get out of her horse by severe punishment, but no 
humane person would argue that the pleasure she derived from the ex- 
periment justified the infliction of so much pain in a dumb animal. 
Again, we all know how fond ladies are of galloping, but it is not right 
that they should tax the powers of their horses to excess in this way, be- 
cause it affords them enjoyment. I will endeavour, therefore, to guide 
my fair countrywomen, by laying down another principle, and it is this, 
that a lady is only justified in chastising her horse when he is what she 
herself would call “naughty;" that is to say, when he, by his will, 
resists hers; whether passively, by being lazy and refusing to exert 
himself for her pleasure, or by being obstinate and bent upon bis own way 
in anything. The horse should submit his will to that of his fair burtheu, 
and if he docs not do so of his own accord, she is justified in reducing liim 
to obedience by the application of her whip or spur. It is a matter of 
indiff erence which instrument she uses, so as it produces the desired 
effect; but I think the spur often serves the end better ; and then it can 
be administered "sub toga," under the friendly shelter of the habit, 
so that no one is aware what is going on but those concerned, tlie horso 
and his rider — which has this double advantage, that over tender- 
hearted bystanders escape being shocked, and the fair dame avoids the 
odious imputation of cruelty, which she certainly does not deserve. No 
doubt the whip or spur may be abused — more especially the latter, os il 
is more severe, and can be used with no exertion to the rider ; but this 
is no orgument against a lady using them, but merely that it is her 
duty, before doing so, to make herself acquainted with the nature of the 
animal she sits on, his powers, and capabilities for exertion, so that she 
may not overrate them, and thus be guilty of cruelty. And this, Sir is 
the advantage of having the subject ventilated in your paper, that ladies 
may inform themselves, und so may no longer look upon their horses as 
machines, but as animals endowed with susceptibility to bodily pain 
like themselves, and also capable of feeling kindness ; so that the lair 
equestrian, on getting on a horse's back, may resolve to treat him ac- 
cording to his deserts ; to guide him by kindness alone, if that will d<> ; 
but if not, by causing him sufficient pain, with her whip or spur, to re- 
duce him at once to obedience. 
1 wish some more of the fair sex would give us their experience in 
your columns; and their modesty need not deter them iYorn this, as a 
feigned signaturofwould serve as a shield to their real name, just as the 
graceful (lowing skirt does to the movements of their spurred heel. 
Hoping you may give a place in your paper to these remarks, I am, Sir, 
your obedient servant, Justus 
P.S. — I once saw a lady with a very pretty spur ; it had only one 
prong, instead of a rowel, and this prong was enclosed in a silver cover- 
ing, at the end of which there was a hole through which the prong 
passed by a spring when the spur was pressed to the horse's side, and 
returned again to its caso when the pressure was withdrawn. I sliouN 
like to hear if it is effectual. 
USE OF THE SPUR. 
Mb. Editor, — A s a constant subscriber to your paper, I have reai 
several letters “ On the Use of the Spur by Ladies," and ns I think a 
ladies who ride ought to do so in the most enjoyable way to themselves 
1 will trouble you with a few lines. I will ask a question. Why cann° 
a lady ride with a spur, and use it when she thinks proper nn< as 
occasion may require, equally as well as a gentleman ? Why does n 
tho " Brighton Lady's Horse " change his name, and write about ' 
gentlemen that visit hU renowned watering-place f Wo know 9 P* 
ore worn by nearly all gentlemen in the hunting-field, on the **7 
course, in the park, and on the road; and why ? Because horses n 
generally better in every way with them. Therefore lew ladies ° u ® 
ever to ride without a spur on this account. Many ladies ride 
