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should cause them to soil their finery and their trappings by 
an unpleasant roll in the dusty roads. 
Varna. — “ Whatever impatience good folks at home may 
feel at ‘ nothing being done,' I can assure you since an expe- 
dition has been positively determined upon, the energy, tact, 
and endurance of the naval and engineer departments have 
been marvellous. On the south side of the bay three wharfs 
have been run out — one for cavalry, one for infantry, and one 
for artillery, with their respective applications printed, or 
rather painted, on regular English finger-posts at the ends of 
them. They have had the carpenters, joiners, and caulkers, 
from almost every ship in the fleet ; hauled boats up to 
repair, built rafts, and landing stages ; and the other day, for 
trial, got an artillery heavy gun out of a ship, transported it 
on shore, and fired the first shot in seven minutes, gun 
regularly mounted and all.” 
Windsor.- The 46th will be relieved at Windsor by the 
38th (Royal Irish), under the command of Colonel Reignolds. 
The strength of the 18th has been so much reduced by 
foreign service that detachments from other regiments will 
have to be added, in order to take the usual garrison duties. 
A district paymaster has been appointed— Captain Dalgetty. 
^rninnnri|juii jEilitin. 
York. — The Yorkshire Hussars, Colonel Earl de Grey, 
come out for seven days’ training at York on the 21st. inst.’ 
They will be reviewed on the 27th inst., at York, by the 
district commanding officer. 
Wells. — The troop of East Somerset Cavalry will as- 
semble on Saturday week. 
Walking 100 Miles in 22 Hours, for £25.— Mr. Thomp- 
son, of the Monmouthshire Militia, has just completed walk- 
ing 100 miles in 21 hours, an hour before the time specified. 
Cardiff Guardian. 
Bath.— The Second Somerset Militia will assemble in this 
city on the 26th, about GOO strong, and, after a few days' 
preparation, proceed to Cork. 
The Balti°, August 80 . — At 6 a. in. Admiral Chads went 
up to Bomarsund in the Edinburgh, to try range of long gun, 
as also see the forts blown up, which have been undermined 
by the sappers in sections, and at nine o'clock the Com- 
mander-in-Chief weut up in H.M.S. Odin. It will be n 
magnificent sight, as trains are laid from one extreme of the 
fort to the other ; everything of value has boon takeu away, 
but the most valuable article was concealed behind the altar 
by the Russian priest ; it was a silver shrine sot with 
diamonds and rubies. He would not let any one know 
where it was, but when he told General Baraguay d'Hilliors 
ho wanted it for another chapel, he got permission to take it 
away. When it was shown to the general, he valued it at 
five thousand pounds, being a very ancient church ornament. 
.ftirilirnl. 
Cholera. (To the Editor.) Sir, — I beg leave respectfully 
to acquaint you that I have witnessed, with great satisfaction, 
the happy effects of Dr. George Johnson's purgative system 
in several cases of Asiatic cholera at the King’s College 
Hospital, and that the practice entirely accords with the 
views I have long entertained of this devastating malady, 
both as to its cause, symptoms, and treatment. These views 
were detailed in full in a letter which I addressed in 1849 to 
the learned President of the Royal College of Physicians, in 
reply to a circular sent to all the members requesting their 
opinion on the subject of cholera. I have the honour to 
be, Ac., B. F. Ootram, C.B., F.R.S.,, and Inspector of 
Hospitals, R.N. 
Royal Navy. — The following appointments have been 
made Surgeons : James Carmichael, M.D. (1835), to the 
Bellerophon, 78, on the Mediterranean station, and serving 
m the Black Sea; Thomas S. Wells (1848) to the Furious, 
paddle-wheel steam-frigate, on the Mediterranean and Black 
Sea station; John Stewart (b) (1841) to the Britannia, 120, 
flagship, on the Mediterranean and Black Sea station • 
Edward H. Derriman, M.D, (1846), borne on the books of 
the Fisgard flagship, at Woolwich, for service in the Royal 
Naval Coast Volunteer-., to the Britannia; James Walsh, 
M.D. (1S44), borne on the hooks of the Fisgard flagship for 
service in the Royal Naval Coast Volunteers, to the Britannia. 
Madrid, Sept. 5. — On the faith of a letter from Barcelona 
a Madrid paper to-day gives details of the cholera in that city 
during the month of August, which, if correct, show its 
ravages to have been terrible. The letter gives the deaths 
on each successive day, excluding the 28th and 31st, con- 
cerning which the writer had not obtained data. In the 
twenty-nine days 3,826 persons had died. Considering that 
from one-half to two-thirds of the population had fled from 
the pest-ndden city and its environs, this number is exceed- 
H 1 ® 6 ' Journal dcs Pyren des- Or it n tales says ; — 
‘ The dread of the cholera in some parts of Spain has 
amounted to absolute folly. In Catalonia several communes 
formed a sanitary cordon to keep away all communication 
trom outside— a useless precaution, aud exceedingly injurious 
to the interests of the populations. At Montblanc, a woman 
token ill was buried, it is believed, before she was really 
dead. 1 he town of Sitges declared itself independent, placed 
armed sentinels all round the approaches to the place, aud 
refused to admit any strangers or carts from the country 
districts. At Maspoujols, in the district of Reuss, a woman 
having died, the alcade had the door and lower windows of 
the house bricked up, without allowing her two daughters to 
come out, food being conveyed to them by a hole left in one 
Window. This act of barbarism would be iucredible were it 
not attested by a petition sent to the superior authorities by 
one or two of the more respectable inhabitants, who were 
shocked at such an act of cruelty." 
~ Chloroform Disarmed.— Dr. Robert de Lambelle a 
Parisian M.D., announces that a shock of electricitv given 
to a patient dymg from the effects of chloroform, imm'ediately 
counteracts its influence, and restores the sufferer to life. 
tiiirarsitii null ifitoitnl. 
Cathedral Restorations.— In the report of the com- 
missioners on the cathedral and collegiate churches it is 
stated that, at Canterbury, the north-west, or Lanfrauc's 
tower, has been rebuilt, at a cost of £25,000, and a gradual 
restoration of the whole fabric, exterior and interior has 
been in progress from 1823 to the present time. The whole 
amount expended in thirty years is stated at nearly £100 000 
the whole arising from capitular funds. 
a 1 ^ rA ^( VN0IE8, — Tlle rectory of Famley, with the rectory of 
iumodmgton annexed, Sussex, has become vacant, by the 
prefennent of the Rev. Henry Browne, M.A. The benefice 
which ls worth £500 a year, is m the gift of the Bishop of 
Chichester for two turns, and the Duke of Norfolk for one 
r,', Browne's preferment, the incumbency of St. 
is worth m Jinf) ChUrCl1 ’ CLi ® he8ter - aho becomes vacant. It 
' a* aQd w U1 tho Sift of the Dean and 
Chapter of Chichester Cathedral. 
overT/riL L0U1 *,y LI f — A terrible tornado passed 
Idt The about twelve °' clock the 27th 
durin/th^ Presbyterian Church was blown down 
kmeTinilnDT 10 ^, tW , ent y- five of the congregation were 
a lar K* number wounded. Numerous 
T^ir^ WCre UD ™ fedand bl °™ <te*vn.-A™ York 
A GLANCE AT CRICKET. 
( 7 b the Editor of Tut Field. ) 
* IR » " s there are many who call themselves cricketers, 
aud do not know tho histoiy of that scientific and manly 
game, I think you will spare me space to give a little of its 
history. The name of cricket is derived from the Saxon 
word cricket, signifying, in the English, stick. Wo do not 
find much mention of this game till about tho year 1704. 
llio game of cricket lias not always boon ms it is at tho 
present, for the great club of England, the Mmylebono, every 
year makes a change in the rules ; so that if old Fonnox were 
to come back again, he would fiud that ho must learn the 
rules, iw there would be many and great alterations since his 
day. Lillywhite (who is now dead) had latoly introduced 
a new style of bowling, called round-hand, which makes the 
game look quite different. The shape of tho bat has also 
been altered, and people do not use such heavy ones now. It 
is very rare that we hear of a man scoring 100, like they did in 
William Ward’s time, although, in the match of the United v. 
Fifteen of Kent, Dean there scored ninety-nine. William 
Ward’s name, I daresay, Is known by all who are in the 
habit of frequenting Lord's Cricket-ground, lie making the 
long score of 278, which I think he would fiud bard to obtain 
oil the round-hand. But still, persons who lived in tho 
time of this Ward and Lord F. Beauclerk will toll you that 
tho play was altogether bettor ; then there were no Box 
or Nicholson to short stop, and no such batters as Dean and 
Lillywhite. The bowling of late has been very fast, but 
twisting, slow balls, seem now to gain the day. Who got 
more wickets than E. Drake, Esq., who is well known to the 
cricketing world ? but the bowling of Wroth, in his swift 
round-hand, does not tell nearly so much ns Drake’s, 
although some people like the former's style best. 
Cricket appeal's to be exclusively an English game, enjoyed 
equally by the poor and the rich. What village in England 
is there in which there are not some cricketers to be found 1 
Nearly all our first-rate hands usod to como from villages 
old Fennex was born in a villago near Uxbridge, called 
Gerrard s-cross. One grand aud pleasing thing is to seo tho 
ball thrown up in tho air when a man is out, to denote the 
triumph felt, and the challenge ; how he was out, and how it. 
happened, goes running round the ground, as the man thinks, 
and, in fact, knows precisely, how he ought to have played ; 
but still his wicket fell. I have lately seen an article in 
Bentlqfs Miscellany, an extract from which I think might 
here be appropriately inserted : — • 
Buckinghamshire used to be a celebrated county for good criekoters, 
andean boast of Beddam, the two Walkers, Robinson, and Hurrlx, 
with many others. Nottinghamshire, where I have lately been staying, 
is now. perhaps, what Buckinghamshire formerly was, tho nursery of 
good players. Clarke, who is, I believe, still living, bad few equals in 
his day, and he lmd besides many contemporaries nearly equal to him, 
Kent and Suffolk can ulso boast of many good players. At a village 
mutch in the latter the following scene occurred : — 
It was during one of tho pauses of the game that an old man was 
perceived walking slowly towards the ground. Ho was grey, round- 
shouldered, weather-beaten, and shabbily dressed, with his hands 
behind his back. It was, however, easy to see that lie was a cricketer, 
and he was soon recognised by one of the players to be old Fennex, 
once a very celebrated one. On being aecoste.l, lie said ho was going 
round the country to teach any clubs that might want his assistance, 
and, hearing of the match, he had stopped to sec the play. When It 
was over, he was asked to give a few balls. Now, for tho first time, the 
club perceived how ignorant they wore of the art of bowling. Wicket 
after wicket went down, and it wus evident that the player# hud not 
only to leurn but to unlearn. The effect of this judicious measure was 
soon visible, but acquired only ut the expense of lacerated fingers and 
bruised legs. The whole style of the play wax altered ; no more slash- 
ing pluy — no more long swipes over tho common — no hitting across 
wicket All was now stendy, scientific, and secure ; a reason, and a I 
good one, was assigned for every movement, nnd, by tho end of the 
season, the members of tho club, If not all good players, were ut last 
put In the right method, and secure of improvement. Old Fennex Is 
now no more. He was nearly blind before ho died, and incapable of 
muscular exertion ; but he loved to wander about the beautiful com- 
mon, the scene of his former glory. 
Fennex was born and brought up at Gcrrord’s-eross, nour Uxbridge, 
and at the age of nineteen had become the first cricketer in Bucking- 
hamshire. He was contemporary with Beddam, Harris, the two 
Walkers, Robinson, and others, nnd Sir Horace Mann was at that time 
the enthusiastic patron of the art. Having mentioned Harris, It may 
be remarked that such wax hi* skill in bowling, that, while crippled 
With the oput, he was allowed a chair. Among tlic great performances 
of Fennex was his having, when alone and unassisted, boat on Mitcham 
Common, at single wicket, tho three greatest cricketers of their day. 
As a proof, also, of the strength and self-denial of this veteran, It may be 
mentioned that, ut the age of 75 , he walked ninety miles in three day#, 
carrying an umbrella, bundle of clothes, and three cricket bat#, and 
spent in that time but three shillings. When he arrived at the end of 
his journey, all that he complained of was that the bat# had bruised 
bis side. When he died, his hands should have been preserved, like 
Galileo's at Florence, as trophies of his suffering and hi# glories. 
Broken, distorted, mutilated, half-naUless, they resembled the hoof of 
a rhinoceros almost as much ns a human hand ; but what feats have 
they not performed ? It ought to be mentioned that Fennex raised 
himself to such eminence by his skill, that he was enabled once to keep 
his three hunters — that he was the bosom friend of Oldacrc, the Illus- 
trious huntsman of the Berkeley pack — that he lived with Lord Win- 
chelsca and the Tuftons, but that he found in the house of a friendly 
village apothecary that hospitable shelter and security for hi* old age 
which none of his former noble and titled patron* would deign to 
bestow. 
But It is time now to look in at Lord's Cricket-ground during tho 
matches between the Eton. Harrow, and Winchester school#. The 
reader may imagine tbo writer of this seated on one, of tho benches in 
lYont of the stand, surrounded by old orloketore, amateurs, and a host 
or boy* belonging to the schools in question, who take a Uvoly interest 
in the success of their various schoolfellow*. Thl* is evinced by the 
vociferous shouts and clapping of hands when a good strike has been 
made, or a dangerous ball scientifically stopped ; and then tho cheers 
7 | C !i k V OArd . ,spH . t U P lowing a good score from tho last player. 
delight in witnessing thl* scene, and the ilno manly bearing and 
gentleman -like appearanoo or tho young aspirants for lame in tho 
senate and the bar, tho army and navy, diplomacy or tho church. 
i.at a promise do they socm to afihrd ol doing credit to their schools, 
and or upholding the glory of tho count!* Nor are tho carriage^ 
« Uhout their Interest, for in them may bo soon tlio mothers and sisters 
some o tie players watching the performance# of their sons and 
brothers with no small degree of lati.Ihction and delight The masters 
“*£ ° f th ? several schools Like no small interest in tho 
, f “teoy walk about are occasionally o.ppo/ by their scholars 
are, m l * “* n# ‘"“ t “•» bo Cleared In Lore # Crickct- 
grauml soon after tho commenopmout of the summer holidays, and It 
Is a scene well worth going to. 1 
on B a Ut el°re.r°J, *? *° U, ' ,H ' r j^ 11 * fl, ' Ws Eton. There, seated 
on a circular bench, under one of the noble elm, at that place we seo 
the two Eleven, in full play, while some two or three hundred C are 
looking on, not quite silently, however, for every now and then a cheer 
1 * heard Tor a good batter or bowler. And what a w leket-keeper as I 
remember there a few year, ago; there wo* but little occasion for a 
long- stop, for no sooner bad the ball passed the wicket, however #wlft 
It might have been bowled, if it came but tolerably straight it was #ure 
to lx- in his hand. Ho wax a short wiry boy, but I havo never seen Ids 
equal either before or since. And then Harding's celebrated swipe. 
He sent the ball from tho wlokot in the upper playing field* over tho 
chn* on the Poet's Walk. Old Etonians know the spot. 
In whatever part of the world Englishmen congregate, there this 
favourite gome Is sure to bo played. In tho hot plain, of Indio, in tho 
seller clime of Italy, In France and Germany, mutches are made. Even 
during the progress of our army through Spain, both oflloera and 
soldiers amused themselves with cricket It I* altogether exclusively 
an English game, for wo never yet hoard that any foreigner has been 
seen to enter Into tho merit# of It, or to partake In the sport That it 
keeps the young men in our villages out of mischief, and out of tho ale- 
house#, Cannot bo doubted, beside* contributing to their health and 
muscular exertions. It form*, also, a link between landlord and tenant, 
and between the »quiro and the clergyman of the parish, and their 
poorer neighbours, thus holplng to cement kindlier feelings, and to 
produce a friendly intercourse which cannot fall to bo usofUl both to 
one and the other. I know u gentleman of fortune, in the north of 
England, who has a tent or two pitched in one of tho fields, Invites his 
tenants to make up a match of cricket, plays with and regales thorn, 
and leaves tho ground in the evening with tho good wishes and blessings 
ol hi* more humble neighbours 111* popularity amongst them i.x very 
groat, anil while thl# friendly intercourse I# being carried on, ull dis- 
affection and discontent are far removed from hi# door. Wo wish that 
this practice was very generally adopted, for it cannot loll of being 
productive of beneficial results. 
Since this first appeared wo have luulinoro men show tlioir 
luces out of Bucks, although they do not appear iu tho great 
matches. At auy rate our county can boast of bowlers, aud 
I am greatly surprised Bucks docs not pluy unotlicr county, 
lor their success would be sure. Even tho town of Ayles- 
bury once played South Oxfordshire, aud their best bowler 
was gone, and wore only beaten by twelve runs. For 
instance, who trill dispute that Fletcher ami Drake aro two 
of the best howlers iu England ; then comes Jones, who is a 
splendid round-hand bowler, aud under too, bowling all day 
without a single wide. 
F. Hale, Esq., and H. Whoolor, are good hatters, and I am 
sure that ii a challenge was sent to Bucks now, or a person 
scut to pick eleven, they would fiud that although Beddam, 
the two Walkers, Robinson, and Harris, were gone, their 
successors were good; but Bucks never will liven up, bocauso 
we have no nobility. I must draw to a close, thanking you 
lor tho space you have allowed mo, and am, air, yours, 
Aylesbury, Sept. 1854. Cooiun. 
NEWBURY v. KINGSCLERE. 
This match was played on Monday, September 11. Tho 
following is the score ; — 
NBWBURY, 
Frost, b Wallis 16 
Gerrard, b Wallis c 
Uuclch, b Wallis x 
Nutley, b Wallis o 
Tyrrell, b Attcwcll o 
iy 
Flint, leg before wicket 
Heller, b Attcwcll 3 
II. Ley, b Wallace ^ 
W. Davis, #t Smith o 
Forster, b Attcwcll •> 
W. Duck, not out 7 
Bye# o 
b Attcwcll 3 
0 Hobbn, b Wallis 10 
run out 2 
0 Drake, h Attcwcll 0 
b Attewoll 12 
st Smith 1 
b Wall i.x u 
not out 
0 Thomas 0 
runout.. o 
c Ilohhs, b Attewoll 1) 
Ryo# 3 
Total. 
Cl 
Total. 
G 5 
KINSCLERK. 
H- Hobbs, b Flint 7 h Gerrard t 
P. Twitehcn, b Flint 4 1, F|| n i ' 0 J 
W. Drake, run out . 0 |, pn n t “‘J 
Ta|>lin, b Flint 3 b Flint ‘ 0 
Smith, e Gerrard, b Tyrrell 0 b Gerrard.. 0 
Owens, b Flint 2 c Holier l 
r. Drake, b Tyrreii 3 b Gorrurd 4 
Wallis, cl- rest, b Heller s b Flint o 
At teweii b Tyrrell 4 not out ' „ 
Ruddle, I) Tyrrell 0 
Thomas, not out J3 
Bye#, 5 — wide#, 3 n 
■ Quclch i> 
run out h 
Bye#, 6 — nr ides, 3 . . . . H 
Total 62 
Total. 
17 
ELY v. THETFORD. 
The return match between these clubs wus played ut Ely 
on Monday last, and, u# the score will show, the Ely ugaiu 
proved victorious, heading their opponouts 30 runs in tho 
first innings. The following is the score : — 
Chancellor, I bef wick, b Edwards . . 5 
Walker, b Vulpy p) 
Gardiner, b Edwards 7, 
French, b Edwards 0 
Hogg, c Vaipy ] j 
Capt. Drymoro, b Barrett 23 
Copt. Reed, b Brown 7 
E. Hill#, b Vaipy j 33 
Copt. Simpson, not out 3 
Woolnough, 0 Christopher, b Vaipy . 0 
Poayon, b Vaipy 10 
Bye#, 10 -wide#, 5 15 
Total 120 
c Norman, b Edward# 0 
not out 23 
b Vaipy 2 
c nnd b Brown 0 
not out 27 
Bye#, 2 2 
Total 09 
THETFORD. 
Brown, b Hogg 27 
Mayson, l> ilogg 0 
Halter, c Simpson, b Hogg I 
Norman, b French 7 
Edward#, b Hogg 0 
Vaipy, c HUIs, b Hogg. . H 
Col. riUroy, *t Keel, b French 4 
Green, b French 2 
Barratt, not out 8 
Golding, c French, b Hogg I 
Christopher, b Hogg 0 
Bye*, 12— wide*, 9 20 
Total VO 
