The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-12 00:00:00

CRICKET.

THE GENTLEMEN OF SURREY V. THE GENTLEMEN
OF SussEx.—For the first time the gentlemen of these
two great cricketing counties met in friendly contest,
and fought during the two last days of the past week.
The final score was as follows•—Sussex—First innings
101; ditto, second innings, 78. Surrey—First innings,
142; second innings, 38. And so Surrey won by two
wickets.

ELEVEN OF ENGLAND V. TWENTY-TWO OF NEWARK
AND DIsTRICT.—This match was brought to a conclusion
at Newark, on Saturday evening. The ultimate score
stood thus, whereby the Eleven were defeated by 15
runs :—Newark--First innings, 135; second innings, 70.
The Eleven of England—First innings, 87; second in-
nings, 103.

AIRS. _HARRIET LEE.
Our obituary notices the death of a remarkable person,
Mrs. Harriet Lee, at the very advanced age of ninety-
four. Much of the literature of the last century is pass-
ing away ; but the gathering time will come when the
works of two sisters, Mrs. Sophia and Mrs. Harriet Lee,
will be in the selection for perpetual preservation. These
names will be conspicuous among the " celebrated wo-
men of England." They are, perhaps, better known
as the authors of the " Canterbury Tales." The tale of
" Kreutzner," by Mrs. H. Lee, inspired the genius or.
Byron. He formed from it his tragedy of Werner, and
in its preface acknowledged that " the germ of
.Lnuc"
that he had written was discernible in that I"Pulatreto
ro-
mance." It must be for other hands to distribute
each sister her own share of their pop9larhweor:
Can-
tragedy, comedy, and more particularly n
'fit we think
terbury Tales;" upon which latter chic
her re-
it was to know Mrs. H. Lee, and to enjoy .
their united fame will rest. Those whosogy r atificatioa
markable conversational could trace in her
Powers' ilect, her vigorous
clear depth of judgment and
and intellect,
of arrange-
and comprehensive memory, ills of genius without
mont, that combination of th,e,
which the tale of " Kroutzne: could not have been Writ-
modern literature and art
morn
rirntercommuuion of friendship
ten. The wider field of
can scarcely admit of 0
Mrs. Porter, who died in cur ,
sisters wrote.g e recently lamented the loss
among authors which belonged to the age in which the
of one of thes®, xiss Jane 'der to have brich
t bat cons' been in the
which we canna
residence of eminent persons. More eminent friends she
in the elder
portion of the Kemble
mourned years 'l7'°'and I- vo Siddons John %-enao,e. One yet sur-
vives,Rogers, the friend
vives, S. . . and correspondent of Mrs.
The two sisters Were the first to predict the
H. Lee. A • ,
eminence of Sir T. Lawrence, who in his after life, in
1 dement of their kindness,and • l of
„know 8
his regard and friendshp, presented to them the por-
traits of Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble, and the more
valuable portrait (one of his very best) of their friend
General Paoli. Mrs. Lee retained her large and clear
faculties to nearly the last moment of her life.—. Bristol
Gazette.

memory
yALITY m BißlNGuAm.—Never within the
prisoners,o fany
a
living person has the calendar of assize for
the county
of
with
Mr. j Warwick presented so meagre a number of
lessusgticaevemcaantiac. A
logue,of crime, than that
placed before
county containing a
Population of nearly 500,000 inhabitants in the course of live
months furnished only thirty-two criminals for trial. Of
these there were—From the county generally, 24; from Bir-
mingham, 8. If this condition of things is extraordinary as
regards the county, it is even more astonishing so far as Bir-
mingham is concerned. About 250,000 persons, or one-half
of the population of Warwickshire, are congregated in the
borough and its suburbs. In such a dens;,, community good
and evil must necessarily commingle; the facilities for the
commission of crime must be numerous; and yet in half a
year only eight offences have been perpetrated amongst us of
sufficient importance to be sent before the first criminal tri-
bunal of the realm. With one-half cf the population of the
county, Birmingham furnished only one-fourth of the pri-
soners for trial. The cases too were of the slightest kind.
One of manslaughter was a boy who killed another lad by
throwing a stone. That the offence was not a very serious
an was also indicchteadrgefor perjury,
The other cases consisted of a
one may be inferred from the sentence, which was four days'
gr
housebreaking, two two robberies, and a case of bibmuu trpgr
liastheimprisonment.
nial el
wasinjot.o s
eAbi
cut-
ting and wounding. There was no aggravated
ooreunteateetr,infige
murder, and, singularly enough, only one
base coin, for the manufacture of which Birmingham
-13irminghunt lourntlne time bad an unenviable reputation.