The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

CRICKET.

THE GENTLEMEN OF KENT v THE GENTLE-
MEN OF ENGLAND.
This annual match, notwithstanding the unsettled
state of the weather, attracted a fashionable company.
Upwardii of thirty carriages, filled by the fairer portion
of the population and a large number of the members of
the Marylebone Club, with many ladies on horseback,
were at Lord's on this occasion, and bad it not been for
a threatening atmosphere, the number of spectators
would have been, as in former days, something consi-
derable.

Our limits at this particular moment will only permit
us to place before our readers the state of the score at
the close of the play for the day:--
GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND.
E. Hartopp, Esq., run oat 12 A. Raygartb, Esq., b Pon-
R. Skelton, Esq., c A. tifex --• - 2B
Mynn, b Fredericka 32 W. Hammersley, Esq., not
G. Cooke, Esq., b Frede- out lO
ricks
11. Vernon' Esq., c An- Sir F. Bathurst, c Fenn, b
drews, bFredericks 1 Norton .
Hon. S.' Ponsonby, b J. Parker, Esq., b Norton
Wiles ... ..... .... . ..... . 8 Byes, 10; Jeg byes, 1;
W. Williams, Esq , b Pon- wide, 10 ... 2
tifex ... ...... .. ...

GENTLEGIEt
W. Blynn, Esq„bßathurst 3
H. Peel, Esq., b Bathurst 6
H. Smith, En., c Cooke, b
Skelton
W. Norton, Esq., c Wil-
liams, b Hammersley

OF KENT.

132

N. Felix, Esq., not out ... 16
A. Mynn, Esq., not out ... 13
Leg byes, 2 ... 2

THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE.

A melancholy though original attempt was made at
Sydenham yesterday evening to rouse the feeling of the
inhabitants against the erection of the Crystal Palace
in their neighbourhood. It appears that a Mr. Cole,
from London, arrived in the- village a few days since,
and immediately waited upon many of the householders
with an alaiming statement of the disastrous conse-
quences that must inevitably ensue to the people of Syd-
enham should they be unfortunate enough to obtain in
their locality the prize that had been greedily sought
by some half-dcsen other districts. lir. Cole's singular
canvass, as might be expected, was anything but suc-
cessful; but he had the hardihood, nevertheless, to post
the walls of the place with placards announcing for
Monday evening, at the Greyhound Inn, a meeting of
such inhabitants as might be desirous of avoiding the
threatened " nuisance." At eight o'clock some fifty or
sixty of the inhabitants of Sydenham duly met, but full
two hours before that period Mr. Cole had prudently re-
quested the waiter to summon a fly to the door, in which
the mysterious gentleman suddenly decamped. In his
absence the Sydenhamites who had answered Mr. Cole's
summons formed themselves into a meeting, and passed
resolutions approving of the Crystal Palace scheme, and ,
of its removal to their district.

THE IMPROVEMENTS AT KENNINGTON-COMMON.—
Men are already engaged for the preparation of the works
consequent upon the passing
of the Bill for the improvement
of this once popular place of amusement. The common has
long been in a most disgraceful state, nearly all the fencing
being broken down and carried away. There were a great
many declivities of the ground, and already many hundred
loads of earth have been laid down for the levelling of the
surface, preparatory to the common being laid out, it is be-
lieved, as an ornamental garden. The smaller common od-
joining St. Mark's Chureh is in as bad a state as the other,
and this will, probably, undergo a similar adornment. The
inhabitants of the locality will be much benefited when the
whole is completed ; and, as a new town has sprung up at
the back of.the common, the property in that part will be
greatly enhanced, while the new garden, when laid ont and
planted, will be a great recreation for the inmates.
FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last
a fatal colliery accident took place at Elton Colliery, situate
between Bury and Bolton, Lancashire, under the following
circumstances:-Four men and a boy were descending the
shaft in a cage, and when they had descended seventy yards,
the plug connected with the winding wheel suddenly be-
came loose, so that, the engineer having no longer command
of the rope, the men were immediately precipitated to the
bottom of the shaft—a distance of sixty yards. Two of
them, named Robert Unsworth and Fletcher Jackson, were
killed on the spot. A third, named George Bradley, had his
arm torn off, and there is not much probability of his reco-
very. Thomas Platt, the fourth, has hiS leg and arm
broken, besides being injured in the back. Henry Chad-
burn, the boy, 14 years of age, had his leg and arm
broken, and was otherwise bruised. Both the men who
perished were married, and each had four children. The
plug had never been known to get loose on any previous oc-
casion.

INCOME•TAX.—A return to the House of Com-
mons, in continuation of a Parliamentary paper, No. 27 of
the session of 1851, has been printed. It contains returns of
the number of persons charged to the income-tax in the
years ending the sth of April, 1850 and 1851, divided into
classes
number under the Schedules D and E. Under the former,
the of persons possessing incomes under 1501. a
year was, in 1850, 34,944, and the amount they paid was
74,855/. ; in 1851 the number was 33,867, and the amount
pai73,232/. There are statalso to have been 23 pereons
in with incomes above 50000/. a
50,1961.; and in 1851, 26 persons,, year, who paid
who paid 54,827/. trildel
the latter, 21,445 persons, with incomes under 1691, Paid
45,4781., in 1850; and 21,897 persons, in. 1851, paid
45,7551. The total amount collected under schedule A
was, in .1850, 2,652,951/. ; in 1851, 2,641,630 L Under
Schedule B, in 1850, 316,940/. ; in 1851, 310,546 k Under
Schedule C,
in 1850, 714,925/. ; in 1851,
746,184/.
Schedule D, in 1830, 1,529,6111 ; in 1851, 1,553,615 E Under,e
Schedule E, in 1850, 334,473/. ; in 1851, 331,537,1:, 'l'if.
Under
total collected was, in 1850, 5,578 900/ • 051, 5,56")," '
~ ; m
parliamen-
tary PRIZE MONEY.—It appears by a return printed on Thursday, that the total am°ll9,-,
t°f
unclaimed army prize-money, from the 18th January. 1809,-
d.
to the,3lst December,
1851, amounted to 1,405,5551.195. i
t
Of this amount 720,051/. was paid to clainian'si.97,73o/. was 57,801/. was
z
paid for expenses incurred in executing
acts;
of the annual
paid for the Royal Hospital in ditninn /1.0 the Commis-
T
vote ; and the balance, 30,000 k, was paidi
sioners• of Woods and Forests for appropriation
Royal Military Asylum. priation towards the
RAILWAY THE WINEING•III,
THE
AND the House of Lords on
Acrs.—A question was decided
Provisions of the Wind-
ing-up which is of great interestin to those 'connected with
railway schemes brought within tbleately been expressed by
Acts. An opinion ,bas lately projects as had not
many of the judges that such railwayformed into a. company were
proceeded far enouh
not within the meaning
of
at rest by the decision of the
be
the Winding-up Acts. The
' question has now been
set
House of Lords, who decided that these inchoate rail-
way companies are withinlve the Winding-up Acts. In this
decision the Lord Chancellor and all the. judges present con-
curred.
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idP
with
sh a memorial from
Sir John the ChancellOr of
had an interviewJubnstm!
Scarborough, S
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