The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-19 00:00:00

CRICKET.

THE GENTLEMEN v. THE PLAYERS.
This attractive match was resumed at Lords yesterday
morning, and was brought to its termination by two
o'clock. The Players won by ten wickets.
GENTLEMEN.
First Innings.
Mr. W. Nicholson, c Bickley, b
Wisden
Hon. H. S. Ponsonby, c Lockyer,
b Wisden
Mr. A. Haygarth, b Grundy.... 6 b Grundy
Mr. H. Vernon, b Wisden ... 2 b Martingell
Mr. C. Charles, b Grundy.,..... 20 not out
Mr. E. Balfour, b Wi5den.......... 1 1b w b Grund y
Mr. P. Walker, b Grundy ....... 9 b Wisden
Mr. E. T. Drake, c Wisden, b
Martingell 6 c Challen, b Wisden
Mr. C. D. Marsham, b Martingell 1 a Challen, b Wisden.
Sir F. Bathurst, b Wisden l2 b Bickley
Mr. A. Payne, not out
b 2 y ..............
2 1 b...

Second Innings.

Total 95

Total 7

PLAYERS.
First lunings.
Dean, b Drake ........
Grundy, b Bathurst
............ 1
John Lillywhite, st Nicholson,
bDrake ........................ G not out l6
Lockyer, c Balfour, b Payne... 14
Wisden,'b Payne IS
Martingell, run out ........... 3
Adams, b Drake
Clifford, b Payne ...........
Mortlock, not oat Challen, b Marsham ..
19 $ Nicholson, b Drake 0
11
Bickley, ,st Nicholson b Drake 2
b 7, w

Second Innings.
4

Total
.148

Total 2O

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.

TENTH DAY'S INQUIRY.
(Continued from our First Edition of yesterday.)

Mr. Baker then commenced summing up, and said
that, after ten days of a laborious and somewhat ano-
malous inquiry, it became his duty to sum up, and be-
fore entering upon his task, he hoped the jury would
discharge from. their minds whatever they had heard
out of doors, and confine themselves only to the cause
of the child's death, or they might render themselves
liable not only tocensure, but perhaps to legal proceedings.
He then referred to the feeling which had been shown
during the proceedings, and expressed his regret that
more respect had not been shown to the office of coroner.
He then went at some length into the history of the pro-
ceedings connected with the dismissal of Dr. Gay, and
those leading through his and other means to the inquest
being held, and told the jury that with that they had
nothing to do, or no right to interfere. The coroner
then proceeded to read some passages from Sir Astley
Cooper's Lectures, which stated that the operation of ex-
tracting the calculi in children was of a very dangerous
nature, and the younger the more so ; and that they fre-
quently died in three days from the time of performing
the operation, especially if the patient lost much
blood. The lecturer also went on to describe
the manner of performing the operation, and
added that he had known a dozen cases where the
operator had missed the bladder. He then went on to
point out the illegality of juries appending remarks to
theirlverdicts, and quoted Lord Denman who said that juries
should confine themselves to the question bafore them, as
by doing otherwise they made an injurious use of their
powers. He (the coroner) then reverted to the law of man-
slaughter, and cited the opinion of Mr. Justice Patti-
son in " The Queen v. Lightfoot," in the Not-
tingham Railway case, where it was laid down that
where a man did his best he could not be held guilty
of manslaughter if through his act death ensued.
Also in the case King v. Williams (Carrington and
Payne), where a man midwife had, through mistake,
done an injury to a woman whom he had delivered,
which caused her death. Lord Ellenborough warned
the jury of the great danger of returning verdicts of
manslaughter, as it would deter medical gentlemen from
attempting operations of the greatest benefit to their
fellow-creatures. Manslaughter could only be returned
in cases of gross neglect. He then reverted to the
ruling of Mr. Baron Garrow in the case of Saint John
Long, and then went on to read portions of the evidence
taken at the several inquiries.

The jury retired at five o'clock, and at 20 minutes to
ten again came into court, when the foreman announced
that the following was the
VERDICT OF THE JURY.
" We find that the deceased, Alfred Richardson, died
of inflammation, caused by an operation unskilfully per-
formed by Mr. Thomas Weedon Cooke, and Mr.
Thomas Wakley, jun.

"The jury finding great difficulty in coming to a satis-
factory conclusion respecting the other matters deposed
to before them, they have resolved to exercise the dis-
cretion permitted, to them, by declining to give any
opinion on them.
The Coroner inquired if the jury wished to prefer a
criminal charge against any one, which was replied to
in the negative by the foreman of the jury.
The proceedings in this extraordinary and protracted
investigation then terminated.