The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-07 00:00:00

CRICKS?.

ETON v. HARROW.
This exciting annual school match will be
commenced at Lord's Ground to-morrow. To prevent
incoovenience to the players, so that the boundary may
not be entrenched upon, the N.O.C. have arranged that the
ground shall be roped and staked (hits over the rope to
count four). A body of the A division of police will be in
attendance to aid in carrying out the arrangements. A
mod Maul, capable of bolding 1,003 spectators, will be
erected, to which extra will be charged for admission.
Eastward of the stead will be a booth for refreshment, he.
Carriages entering the ground will torn to the left, and
on leaving go through a gate near the bat•stacks. The
prior for sdmiwion will be raked on the occasion. The
following is a list of the sides :

ITON.
Host b. G. LytteUon Mr. A. IL Evans Mr. W. W. Phipps
800. N. 6. Lytteltw Mr. H. D. Forsyth Mr. XA. Tabor
Mr. W. arrtostoa Mr. E. Lubbock Mr. A. F. Walter
Mr. X N. Chute Mr. W. B. Prides=

HAULIOW.
lion. J G Amintret Mr. H. Monson:my W.I. IL Richardson
Mr. C. P. Butler Mr. C. Arkwright Mr. F W Reath
Mr. J. Hartley Mr. H. G. Phipps Mr. K. H. Stow
Mr. A. N. Hanby Mr. W. T. Phipps
SURREY v. KENT.
This county match will be commenced at Gravessod tbia
morning, and annexed is a list of the players:

SURREY.
H. H. Stephenson H. Jupp O. Griffith J. Street
J. Career T. Loekyer T. Sewell E Pooley
T. Humphrey W. Mattock W. Shepherd

Mr.!! Tronghton Bennett Goolbew Staines
M. G. M. Liken Pryer L Wisher.
Mr. W. S. Norton Burton Morley
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SURREY v. NOTTINGRANSRIRE.
This Kl►aedinry rnniattiag m►tch was brought to •
eonclu■ioo yesterday (the third day), at the Surrey Ground,
Kennington Oval, and resulted is a victory for Surrey with
all their wickets Weeding. No less than 939 runs wore
sowed daring ibis match. The pound was in admirable
condition and well ►ttended each day.

EXPLOSION Alf D LOSS OF LITE AT TONBRIDGE.

TONBRIDGE, WEDNIXDAY name.

At half-past 7 o'clock this evening a terrible ex-
pinion took plane at the powder mills of Marra. Curtis
and Harvey. Four lives last.

Bacrmait Rae Ante IN LONDON. —Some excite-
ment has been occasioned amongst the London clergy by
the fact that Brother Ignatius has found a church in which
to preach in London, viz. that of St. Mary Magdalene,
Munster-square, where viz.,
practices have for
many years prst prevailed. In • sermon which has
been reported to the bishop of the diocese, he
oomusenoed by advising all those who did not wish to
listen to him to go out. He alluded to the vies and =
which are apparent is our public streets. He den
milliners' bills, Gotten-row, sod the high church party for
their coldness towards him. He stated that. the brothers
were now reoeived very kindly by the Norwich people, and
that, they had very lam ooudisstatiana, tad Wad that he
wanted 5001. by the end of the year to *enure the posses-
sion of the present monastery. There are one or two other
metropolitan churches, the pulpits of which are said to
have bola Mfand to him, sad of which ha intends to avail
himself.

A CLaiormAw DaowNzo WHILST Bwramo.-
0a Tuesday efternooe, • melancholy ease of drowning
happened at Morecambe. The Rev. John Branthwaite,
principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, who was on • visit
to Morecambe, hired ► van for the purpose of bathing.
He was drawn out a short distance from the shore, it
being nearly high water. A few minutes afterwards be
appeared to be floating on his back, but as he remained
in that position for room time, some permits on shore
suggested that be was drowning. Two men belonging
to the bathing van endeavoured to reach him, but were us-
able to do so. A boat was thm• procured, after a delay
of about hell an hour, and put out in smirch of the
body, which was found in precisely the same position as
it had been nee• at first, the shoulders being • littler out
of the water, but the heed completely immersed, end
life quite extinct. When the body war takes on shore,
means were adopted by Dr. Holdsworth, of Wakefield,
who happened to be on the shore, to restore animation,
but to no purpose. It is a singular circumstance that three
or four peewee were bathing near Mr. Branthwaite whilst
he was in the water, but none, until it was too late, hal
any idea that be was drowniog.—A • inquest was held yes-
terday, before Mr. Holden, when a verdict of accidentally
drowsed was retuned. The deceased was 41 years of age
and unniarried.—Manotakr Guardian.
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Ti TUNS OF THE DAY.—lndifferentism is the
tone of the day. No one must be eager, pleased. die-
, interested, or anxious about anything. Life is to
tetrildted as • tiresome sort of thing. but which is far too
much beneath coo to be thought of seriously —a wearisome
performance, which good manner, require yen should sit
oat, though loathing obligee you to applaud or eyes
approve of it. This is the theory, and we have
been most suermsful in reducing it to practice.
We are immensely bored, and we take go 4 care
so shall be oar neighbour. Just as we have voted that
there is nothing new, nothing strange, nothing amusing, we
defy anyone to differ with na, on pain of pronouncing him
vulgar. North American Indium are not more came
birdseed against any show of suffering under torture, than
are our well bred people against any manifestation of
showing pleasure in anything. "It westet bad," is about
the highest expression of our praise ; and I doubt if we
would accord more to heaven—if we got there. The grand
test of your modern Englishman is. to bear any amount of
amusement without wincing : no pleasure ia to wring •
ands from him, nor is any expectancy to interest, or any
unlooked-for event to astonish. He would admit that " the
governor"—maaniog his father—was surprised ; he would
comede the fact, aa recording some prejudice of • bygone
age. Aa the toes of manners and observances bas grown
universal, so has the very expression of the features. They
are intensely like each other. We are told that a shepherd
will know the actual tapes of all the sheep in his dock, dis-
tinguishing each how each at • glance. I am curious to
know if the Bishop of London knows even the few lost
Skeet) that browse shoot Rotten-row of an afternoon, and
who are so familiar to us in Leech's sketches. There they are
—whiskered, bearded, sod bored ; Boe.lookiog animals in their
way, bat kat as mach living creatures in Punch as they are
yonder. It is said that the 7 only want the stimulus of •
necessity, something of daring to tempt, or something of
difficulty to provoke them, to be just as bold and energetic)
as ever their fathers were. I don't deny it. I am only
complaining of the system which makes sheep of them.
reduces life to • dreary table-land, making the stupid
fellows the standard. and coming down to their level for
the sake of uniformity. Formerly they who had more wit,
more sensstasse, more worldly knowledge than their neigh-
bours, en)coyed a certain preeminence ;fie flash of their
agreeabilityy lighted up the group they in, and y
were valued sad sought after. Now the very boom.* ma-
deed. eves in UM moan way, was at least a tastimosictae:
superiority Wag rowagelead and its claims admitted.
in time ORBS Sew? Apathy and the nearest
::rftto lammdbility is the greatest anolaemea attain-
enbenod's Megisarw for July.