The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-18 00:00:00

AUGUST.

Brighton
Airdrie
Durham
Brighton Club 4
Ripon 7
Yarmouth 8
North Staffordshire 8
Reading
Lewes lO
Wolverhampton l4

SEPT:

Warwick
Lichfield
Western Meeting 7
Rochester and Chatham 7
Doncaster 12
Pontefract 13
Bedford 19

Chester Autumn 3
Kelso 3
Yorkshire Union Hunt 5
Wrexham 5
Newmarket S 0 9

Caledonian Hunt 11
Warwick Autumn 17
Richmond 18
Newmarket II 23
Worcester Autumn 31

CRICKET.

THE GENTLEMEN v. THE PLAYERS.
This great annual match was commenced yesterday at
Lord's when something like 2,000 spectators were upon
the ground. At the commencement of the match the
betting in the pavilion was 6 to 4 on the players, but at
the close of the day the odds were stol on them. This
was the state of the score when time was called :

GENTLEMEN.
First Innings.
Mr. W. Nicholson, c Bickley, b
Wisden
Hon. H. S. Ponsonby, c Lockyer,
b Wisden
Mr. A. Haygarth, b Grundy.... 6
Mr. H. Vernon, b Wisden 2
Mr. C. Charles, b Grundy 2O

Second Innings,

11 not out..

Mr. E. Balfour, b Wisden 1 1b w b Grundy ll
Mr. F. Walker, b Grundy 9
Mr. E. T. Drake, c Wiaden, b

Martingell 6 c Challen, b Wisden.. 0
Mr. C. D. Marsham, b Martingell 1
Sir F. Bathurst, b Wisden l2
Mr. A. Payne, not out 0
b 2 2 1b 2 2

Total 95
PLAYERS.

Total 29

First Innings.
27

Dean, b Drake
Grundy, b Bathurst
John Lillywhite, st Nicholson, b Drake .... 6
Lockyer, c Balfour, b Payne
Wisden, b Payne
Martingell, run out
Adams, b Drake
Clifford, b Payne
Mortlock, not out
Challen, b Marsham
Bickley, st Nicholson, b Drake
87, w 2

23

Total
The match was resumed this morning.

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PUBLIC WORKS.—The Board of Public Works are at
present busily employed. The old mansion adjoining Lord
Harrington's, in Whitehall, is being prepared for the new
Secretary of War. The mansion of the late Duke of
Leeds, in St. James's-square, and lately occupied by Mr.
Lane Fox, has been purchased for the copyhold depart.
ment, the business of which has heretofore been trans-
acted in Whitehall. It is in contemplation to surround
the whole of Greenwich Park with rails.
FURTHER CLOSING OF PUBLIC-HOUSES ON SUNDAY.
—The " Sale of Beer, &c., Bili," just brought in by Mr.
Wilson Patten, proposes to provide, under a 51. penalty
for every sale, that public-houses and beer-shops in Eng-
land and Wales shall not be open for the sale of spirits,
wine, or beer (except to bona fide travellers or lodgers
therein) between 2 and 6 o'clock, or after 9, on Sunday,
Christmas-day, Good Friday, or any Fast or Thanks-
giving-day. These houses would then be open only from
1 to 2, and from 6 to 9. Another clause provides that no
person shall open any house or place of public resort for
the sale of fermented or distilled liquors, or sell therein
such liquors on those days, except as refreshment for
travellers ; and any constable may at any time enter into
any house or place of public resort for the sale of spirits,
wine, beer, or other fermented or distilled liquors.
APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—The following are the names
of the gentlemen who passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine, and received certificates
to practise, on Thursday, July 13, 1854 :—Thomas Webb,
Cheadle, Staffordshire; Henry Vale James, Leominster,
Herefordshire; George Fernier Sleigh, Wm. Turubull,
Lancaster,