The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-26 00:00:00

CRICKET.

The Stockton cricketers have had two grand matches,
awl have come off victorious in both cases—the first with
the Sunderland, Hendon, on the 21st inst., and the
second on the 22d, with the Northumberland Club, New-
castle, both played on the new ground at Stockton.
STOCKTON v. NEWCASTLE (NORTHUMBERLAND).
STOCKTON.

Baker, run out 3 c Smith ...
Lancaster, J., c Moore ...... 3 c Ford ........
llornby, c Smith 1 c Clay ... 3

Stockdale, not out
6

Rapley, c Moore
0
Lancaster, J., 1b w 1 lb w
Maister, Rev. H., st Beldon ... 37 b Bell

Allan, 6 Thompson 2 b Thompson
Scarth, b Bell
Salmon, b Bell 1 b Bell 1
Sanderson, for Shepherd, b Bell 0 Shepherd, not out 4
Byes, &c.

90
NEWCASTLE.

Moore, b Scarth
Sinclair, b Scarth
Beldon, Wm., b Rapley l6 b Rapley ......... ...... 2
Thompson, b Scarth
Smith, Paul, cJ. Lancaster 4 c Stockdale
Scott, b Rapley ......... ........ 5 b Rapley
Bell, Wm., c Stockdale 8 c Baker
Taylor, run out
Hutton, b Rapley
Ford, Rev. H., c Baker
Clay, not out
Byes 2O Byes ... 8

Stockton ..... •
Newcastle ..

In favour of Stockton
MAItYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND AGAINST THE

COUNTY OF SUSSEX.
This match was commenced at Lord's yesterday, and
the following is the score of the first day's play:—

SUSSEX.-ISt INN.

112au, c Redding, b Hillyer ... ... .. ~. 64
Wisen, b Ilißyer ... ... ... ... ... 4
Hodson, b Lillywhite
Box, c Haygarth, b Lillywhite ... ... ... 2
E. Napper, Esq., b Hillyer ... ... ... ... 1
W. Napper, Esq., c Dakin, b Lillywhite ... ... 29
Bushy, bit w, b Lillywhite ... ... ... ... 0
Picknell, b Ilillyer ... ... ... ... ... 9
Hammond, not out ... ... ... ... . . 8
G. Barton, Esq.. b Hillyer ... ... ... ... 0
IL. M. Cartels, Esq., 1 b w, b Clarke
b 7, w ,nb ... ... ... 7

Total ... ... 130
MA RYLEBONE.-1S t INN.
lion. R. Grimston, run out ... ... 24
A. flaygavh, Esq., not out ... ... 33
Clarke, c Hodson, b Wisden 7
Chester, Ibw, b Hodson ... 17
Hillyor, not out 12
Dakin
R. Kynaston, Esq.
W. Nicholson, Esq.
W. Ridding, Esq.
S. Whitehead, Esq.
Lilly white
b 12, wl, nb ... „. 13

Total

... 108

PEDESTRIANISM.
THE GREAT RACE FOR 2004 BETWEEN REED AND
SEWARD.—Five thousandofher
d theMaliensety's lieges,
road at
a
moderate computation, yesterday
Harlington, to witness the interesting struggle, wherein
Henry Reed, of London, and George Seward, " the
American Wonder," were to settle the moot point, as to
which should first cover 440 yards of ground. To those
who interest themselves, pecuniarily or personally, in
pedestrian performances, the particulars of the public
'eats of the men are well known, to others a detail would
he a mere waste of space. Seward, after achieving a re-
putation which placed him on the very pinnacle of fame
as a runner for a moderate distance, say 200 yards as a
maximum, was in this instance matched against a pedes-
trian, whose merits at a quarter of a mile had been pa-
-1 'ientiy shadowPd out in his victory over Robert Inwood,
of Tooting. The rumour, too, bad got abroad that Se-
ward was not all lie should be; that he had never re-
covered his strain at Sheffield, &c., &c. We have goo .I
reason to suspect these rumours to have been an intended
pitfall, wherein those who despised " the man in the
street," or " at the corner," instead of falling, saw the
overrunning made a losing stumble. The betting in
London looked like 6 to 4 on Reed; at the ground it fell
to 5 to 4, level. and lastly, when it was found that
Seward was well and confident, 6 to 4 went begging to a
most tempting extent. Although the articles specified
the race to be run between three and five, procrastina-
tion was so completely the order of the day, that it was
115 minutes past seven when the men were en tenue at the
scratch. The vista, as taken from the vehicle of the re-
feree, some three hundred yards above the trio of mag-
pies, was at this moment peculiar, and perhaps not to be
paralleled elsevihvre than in this tight little Wand. the

cords, which marked the sides of the course, were densely
packed with every known and unknown specimen of man
as he is found in the peopled wilderness of civilisation—
the rough, the smooth, the knave of ready finger, the
labourer of the corny hand, the well dressed idler, who
lives on his own means, and the yet better dressed idler,
who lives on others, were there, and among
them those who love sport and manly exercises for
their own sake. As the men started themselves,
of course a few minutes were spent in feints,
bat when they did go, it was an unmistaken clipper.
The Yankee, who, par parenthese, is a native of Connec-
ticut, dark, wiry, muscular, and handsome, as "an
Apollo of the forest," numbers twenty-nine summers,
while the Londoner confesses to twenty-four, which we
think an " outside figure." The first had taken his
breathings on the Malvern Hills, in Worcestershire, and
latterly nearer town, under the eye of Charles Wes hall.
Reed had been attended to at Houmlow by Kitchener,
the Hampstead Star, under the superintendence of the
well-known William Sheppard, of Birmingham. And
now they leave the scratch, Seward leaving by the tithe
of a yard; at 100 yards they were abreast, at 200 Reed
shows slightly in advance, at half-way he improves his
position, at 250 the game is up, Seward cannot live with
his competitor, and gives a slight symptom of falling off;
at 300 yards there is no mistaking it, Reed takes
Seward's ground by running almost full in front of him,
and ten er a dozen yards a head, and finishes a most
exciting spin by coming in fourteen or fifteen yards a
winner. The time was variously taken at 51, 52, and a
fraction short of 53 seconds.

ASCENT OFMR.COXWELL'S WAR

BALLOON FROM BERLIN.
(raolu A CORRESPONDENT.)
On Tuesday, the 19th, Mr. Coxwell ascended for the
second time from the famed Kroll's Garden, and illus-
trated, by a miniature bombardment, his method of de-
stroying a town, or dispersing an army en route. A
very large assemblage of spectators, among whom were
princes, ministers, and other persons of distinction, wit-
nessed this extraordinary exhibition, and testified by
long•continued cheers their admiration of the ascent,
and the subsequent display of fireworks in mid air. On
the occasion of Mr. Coxwell's first ascent, on the 11th
inst., so great was the collection of persons in the park,
that the police, numerous as they are in Berlin, proved
insufficient to maintain order. When General Wrangel
arrive d to inspect Mr. Coxwell's apparatus, he was saluted
by the mob outside the garden with a shower of stones,
and as republican cockades were displayed, the military
were called out, and a disturbance expected. This, how-
ever, was fortunately prevented, and in order to avoid
a repetition of excitement, Mr. Coxwell was prohibited
to ascend again, under a heavy penalty, and was obliged
to diocharge the gas from his balloon, in compliance with
police injunctions. Fresh arrangements having been
made by the President of Police for the better preserva-
tion of order, the intrepid English aeronaut was allowed
to ascend again, whoa all passed off quietly with much
eclat. The ascent of this large balloon (which has not
inaptly been styled on the continent the " War Balloon")
from a capital in a state of siege, too, is certainly a bold
and novel feat, which keeps up the character of British
enterprise, and does honour to the courage and scientific
ability of Mr. Coxwell. The war balloon has two cars,
and the aeronaut descends a rope ladder to his battery,
after the manner of Lieut. Gale, of Cremorne celebrity.
It is stated, on good authority, that Mr. Coxwell's ser-
vices were to have been brought into requisition in the
Rhine provinces, had the disturbances there not been
suppressed. As to the applicability of the balloon for
purposes of warfare, some experiments are about to take
place before the Prussian Government.