The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-22 00:00:00

PRESS-GANG FREEDOM.

Captain Harris has given notice, that to-morrow
hight, on the. House of Commons going into Corn-
mittee of Supply on the Navy ,Estimates, he will
call the attention of the Government to the import.
ance of making provision, by legal enactment, for
speedily and effectually manning her Majesty's fleet,
iu the event of a war." This will bring the question
of Impressment fairly and distinctly before the
House---by no means, we fancy, to the satisfaction of
many of the most influential Members ; for it was
evaded or glossed over with singular dexterity by
the party leaders on both sides during. the numerous
debates on the navigation-laws. But they must
come to the point at last, and we earnestly hope, for
the honour of Purliatnent, that the unjust, cruel,
tyrannical, and barbarous law or practice in dispute
will be strongly, loudly, unequivocally, and defini-
tively condemned.
Its bare toleration in an age like the present---:
when the universal craving for justice seems inborn,
and the popular sensibility to suffering has grown al-
most morbid, is a remarkable proof of the force of
habit on popular modes of thinking and feeling. The
excellent little work entitled " Evenings at Home,"
although composed for juvenile readers, may be con-
fidently recommended to some of the grown-up chil-
dren who cheer Mr. bisraeli. The plan pursued in
it is to describe English customs and institutions as

if they existed in -"remote or barbarous countries, so
as to free the pupil's judgment from the restraint of
conventional prejudices. If this plan could be
adopted in the case before us its success would be
infallible. Suppose we were to call the press-gang a
thug-gang, and describe it as the received method of
manning navies or forming armies in the East: What
would then he thought of it ? An Oriental Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer never troubles himself about
budgeba The shops and bazaars are his treasury;
the growing crops are his anticipated surplus ; obedi-
ent pachas are his receivers-general ; the bastinado is
his extent-in-aid; and when he makes up his estimate
if available resources, he simply values all the goods
end chattels within his reach. " Monstrous !" ex-
claim the London shopkeeper, the Essex farmer, and
the Leeds clothier, in full chorus. How can trade,
agriculture, or manufactures co-exist with such hor-
rible oppression ? The bare thought of so fearful a
liability is enough to drive every man, who is not
stamped with au indelible brand of slavery, from such
a land ; and all who are base enough to live exposed
to this hardly imaginable stretch of despotism, de-
serve all the squeezing and crushing, all the ruin,
wretchedness and degradation of their lot.
Now, pause and reflect a moment—mutat° noinine
de to—where is the essential difference between a
Turkish or Egyptian householder at Grand Cairo and
an English seaman at Wapping ?—except that the
Mussulman trembles for his moveables, while the
Christian is in constant peril of his property, his
liberty, and his life. We have heard a great deal
lately of labour being the capital of the poor ; and it
is undeniable that all who live by wages have a pro-
perty—a very valuable property—in their experience,
their natural or acquired capacity for exertion, their
fairly-earned reputation, and their skill. The mallet
value of an able-bodied seaman's services, on the
breaking out of a war, is four pounds a month—the
State lays violent hands upon him, and compels him to
serve for two. If he resists, he is ironed and put on
board a floating place of confinement called a tender
(like' locus a non lucerdo), and amply justifying Dr.
Johnson's definition of a ship, as a gaol which gives the
prisoner a chance of being drowned. Danger is a fine
,timulant, and glory a noble object of aspiration. _
But there are sailors who have no taste for either.
and who would rather pass their lives in a collier be-
tween Newcastle and the Pool, or in a herring-buss
on the north coast, than spend five years off Hong-
Kong with Sir Thomas Cochrane, or seek the bubble
reputation at the cannon's mouth with Sir Charles
Napier when he shall have satisfied the First Lord
that his discrelinn is only equalled by his undisputed
valour. _ _ _

It is a well-known fact that the scion of a Liver-
pool house of great distinction, who had never been at
sea in his life, was pressed during the last war,
hurried on board a line-of-battle ship, carried into
action, and killed at Trafalgar by a cannon-shot, pro-
testing, totis viribus, at every step of the process with
the exception of the last. The sole tribute to his me-
mory was the inscription of his name, along with
other heroes (voluntary or involuntary), upon a mo-
nument, with the addition of " landsman." Such is
glory—compelled glory, at all events! Landsman!
He meets (we do not say, seeks) death in the naval
service of his country, and that very service repu-
diates him
We shall be told by Lords of the Admiralty—sex,
actual, and expectant—as well as by nine out, of ten
of the old admirals and captains, that impress-
ment is a matter of downright necessity, and that
the security of the entire empire is at stake. No such
thing. It is a matter of pounds, shillings, and pence.
The State might secure, at any time, as many seamen
as could be rendered forthcoming by any means, by
merely offering a fair price for_them ; and the alleged
necessity could never' arise at all unless the peace es-
tablishment of the Royal'Navy were unduly reduced
from mistaken 'notions of economy. The necessity
which has proverbially no law, can never be one of
our own making. We might as well neglect the.
levying of soldiers or the collection of stores until
they were actually wanted, and then commission
officers who, like Falstaff, would " misuse the
King's press damnably," and send forth a host of pur-
veyors to bring in all the ammunition and provi-
sions they could lay hands on, as in the olden time.
The favourite Admiralty argument is the exact coun-
terpart of that of the broom seller, who found it most
profitable to steal his brooms ready-made. Let the
sailor be formed at his own expense, or at that of the
shipowners and merchants, and then pounce upon him.
Never, too, was there a more forcible example of the
invaluable adage, that honesty is the best policy. We
have hitherto imitated the savage who cuts down the
tree to get at the fruit. Towards the end of the last
war, more than twenty thousand of our best seamen
had been driven into foreign (particularly American)
service by the effects of the very measures taken for
placing them at the disposal of the State ; and 'if a
war were generally thought likely to revive the
press-gang, the bare rumour of coming hostilities
would suffice to drive our, bravest defenders from our
shores.
The enormous amount of loss inflicted on the mer-
chants and shipowners by depriving them of their
crews, constitutes a strong additional argument, and
might well shake the convictions of those who care
little about the impolicy or injustice of any given
system, so long as a pecuniary gain or waving can be
effected through its instrumentality. Mr. Dunbar,
who is confirmed by Mr. G. P. Young, says, "In the
last war we had not men sufficient to bring our ships
in, for yoU impressed every man that you could lay
all analogy,are all principle, all
against the practice. It
is equally irreconcilable with the genius of our laws,
theory,hOl d
alln short,experience,
the feelings of our people, the spirit of our religion,
end the enlightened tendencies of our age. The
luestiorl, consequently, is no longer evhether this foul
stain on the national character shall remain, but
t‘imply whether the present or the next House of
Comtnons—the Ministers now in power, or their im-
mediate successors—shall earn the respect of contem-
poraries and the applause of posterity by wiping it
out for ever.—Chronicle.

DinvERTHEmENT.3---Complitints of the
,Stomach,
Indigestion, and Sick Headaches, cured bY'Holloway's Pills.
—This extraordinary medicine will 'effect cures after every
other remedy has been tried in vain. Persons suffering in any
way from general debility, sick headaches, bile, stomach or
liver complaints, may rest assured that a coarse of these p;Ils
will effect a radical cure, however bad their cases may be, as it
is confidently asserted that this medicine acts so directly upon
the very mainsprings of life that no disease, however severe,
can resist its influence ; every one, therefore, who is subject to
any of the above mentioned disorders should have recourse to
Holloway's Pills. —Soli by all Druggists, and at Professor
Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

A letter passed through the Shields Post-office, a
short time ago," For Betsy Robinson, a Scotch Woman with
One Eye, Carey Bank, North Shields."
FATAL ACCIDENT.—An accident of a fatal nature
occurred at Middleham on Tuesday last. Charles Prince, a
boy in the employ of Mr. Fobert, trainer to Lord EE.,,linton,
was kicked in the chest by a.favourito horse, named Probity,
and expired the next day; he was brother to John Prince,
, thejeckey,

The following important correspondence has passed
between the Premier and the Chancellor of the Uni•
versity of Oxford. Lord John Russell has addressed
a similar letter to his Royal Highness the Chancellor
of Cambridge :
tusd by and
whieChrid
My Lord Duke,—Having announced in' my place
in Parliament the intention of her Xi ijesly'A Minis-
ters to advise that a Royal Conunisiou should
,be
appointed to inquire into the state and revenues of
the o
vinit‘o.ertshie
pr.
amthbesagied; mn
ties and their several. colleges are governed, and to
iss Universitiesof
the o
statutes
a Oatexfr
report their opinions whether any rneasureS can be
adopted by the Crown or by Parliament by which the
interests of religion and sound learning may be pro-
moted in the conduct of education in the said univer-
sities, I am anxious to explain to your Grace the
views of her Majesty's confidential servants in recom
mending this measure for her Majesty's"approbation.
I will not enter here into the question of the lega-
lity of such a Commission. Had it been proposed to
exercise powers going beyond inquiry and report,
such a question might enter into consideration. But
the present Commission will be a Commission to re-
ceive evidence and to report opinions without powers
to determine any question or to prescribe
.any course.
It becomes the more expedient that the views which
are entertained on the subject should be explained.
No one will now deny that in the course of three
centuries the - increase of general knowledge, 'the
growth of modern literature, the le
licOveries of phy-
sical and chyrnicalscieri-oe have re red ,changes in
the course of study at our national Universities highly
expedient. The Universities themselves have acknow-
ledged this expediency, and very large reforms of
this nature have been adopted both at Oxford and at
Cambridge. These improvements, so wisely con-
ceived, reflect the highest credit on those learned
bodies.
The object of the proposed Commission is not to
interfere with these changes, but to facilitate their
progress; not to reverse the decision of the Universi-
, ties by an authority ab extra, but to bring the aid of
the Crown, and if necessary of Parliaments to assist in
their completion.
This can be done in two ways :—Pirst, by Ascer-
taining and recording, for. the information of the
Queen antlthe two Houses of Parliament, the new
regulations which have been promulgated, and the
mode in which those regulations are expected to take
effect.
Secondly, by obtaining a knowledge of the obsta-
cles which are interposed by the wills of founders, the
retention of customs, and the decisions of competent
authority to the full development of that large and
improved system of study which the Universities have
sought to establish.
I will explain the nature of the obstacles to *hick
I allude.
In many cases • the advantages and emoluments of
the separate colleges are limited by the wills of the
founders, either to the natives of some partipular
country or district, or to the scholars, educated' in a
particular school, or in some instances to the de-
scendants of the founder and his family. Such re-
strictions cannot fail to be injurious, and to- be .
injurious in proportion as the field of choice is
narrowed by the particular condition annexed to, the
advantages of the college. In other instances the
directions of the founder's will cannot be complied
with under the existing law, and in such instances it
might fairly be considered whether , the interests •of
learning and the wants of the country may not be
better considered by an expansion of the governing
statutes.
Matters of this nature, however, require deliberate
and calm inquiry. Commissioners conversant with
the state of our Universities, and versed in a know-
ledge of the general policy Of our law, will be of es-
sential service as well in pointing out the path of safe
improvement as in marking the dangers of heedless
innovation. _ _

Variotis questions may and must arise in the
course of this inquiry. For instance, has the school
which has the privilege of commanding fellowships
or other advantages in any particular college fsllen
off or increased in numbers and consequence since
the bequest was made ? Has the family of the founder
left few or many descendants to ,enjoy hii bounty ?
In the case of religious services prescribed by the,
founder, but now prohibited by law, does it appear
to be the wish of the founder that in case ho such
religious services could be performed the foundation
was or was not to aid in the purposes of education ?
In the case of royal foundations how far has the
CroWn the power of consulting the good of the
University in the application of the endowment of a
former Sovereign ? These and similar question's re-
quire care for their investigation and prudence in
their solution. For this purpose the utmost care will
be taken in selecting Commissioners, who may not
only be well qualified for their important task, but
who may inspire confidence and respect by their
character and position.
I have the honour to be, my Lord Duke, your
faithful and obedient servant,

May 8. J. RUSSELL.
His Grace the Duke of 'Wellington.

COPY OF LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON
TO LORD J. RUSSELL.
London, May 9, 1850, at night.
My Lord,—l have had the honour of receiving
your Lordship's letter of the Bth inst., upon the ap-
pointment of a Commission to inquire into the state
of the English Universities, which I propose to send
for the consideration of the governing authority of
the University of oxford, and to request to have the
assistance of the opinions of the members thereof i❑
a report, befOre I shall address your Lordship do the
subject of yourletter.—l haves &c.,

WELLINGTON.

(Copy.)
London, May 17, 1810.
My Lord, —ln conformity with the intention
which I assured your Lordship on the 9th instant
that I had formed, to send for the consideration of the
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and
the board of heads of houses, being the local govern-
ing authority of the University, your Lordship's
letter of the Bth instant, as I was unwilling at this
distance from the University to take upon myself to
write upon topics so important without the benefit of
their assistance, I now inclose a copy,of their report,
received this morning.—l have, &c.,

. ,
WELLINGTON.
To the Right Hon. Lord John Russell.

(Copy)
TO MS GRACE
FIELD•MARSIIAZ THE DUKE OF WEL-
LINGTON, K.G., CHANCELLOR OF TILE UNIVERSITY OF
OXFORD, BCC.
The board of heads of houses and proctors present
their most respectful acknowledgments to his Grace
the Chancellor of the University for his communica-
tion to them of the 11th instant, through the Vice-
Chancellor, enclosing a. copy of a letter from Lord J.
Russell of the Bth instant, respecting the intended ap-
pointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the
state, revenues, and statutes of the Universities' of
Oxford and Cambridge, and of their respective col-
leges ; and the board proceed, according to his
Grace's desire, to report to his Grace upon this im-
portant subject.
They gladly recognise on the part of her Ma-
jesty's Ministers their earnest desire to promote the
interests of religious and sound learning as well as
to advance the cause of education ; their approba-
tion, also, of the reforms and improvements adopted
by the Univeraity, and their wish and intention
not to interfere with those changes, but to facili-
tate their progress, and to bring-the aid of the
Crown, and if necessary of Parliament, to assist in
their completion.
This is the declared object of the proposed Com-
mission, and this, it is further stated, can be effected
in two ways :—First, by ascertaining and recording,
for the information of the Queen and the two
Houses of Parliament, the new regulations which
have been promulgated, and the mode in which those
new regulations are expected to take effect.
Secondly—By obtaining a knowledge of the obsta-
cles which are interposed by the wills of the founders,
the retention of customs, end the decisions of compe-
tent authority, to the full development of that large
and improved system of study which the Universities
have sought to establish.
We beg most respectfully
.to submit to your Grace
that whilst a Royal Commission, such as has been
su_ggested, would in our opinion lend to many inju-
rious consequences contrary to the intentions of her
Majesty's Ministers, it is also unnecessary in either
of the purposes above specified.
As to the first of those purposes, the Sovereign or
the Parliament can at ~,y time obtain from your
Grace, through your Vice-Chancellor, or from the
printed University statutes, ample information re-
specting all the new regulations, and the mode in
which they are expected to-take effect.
And as to the second purpase, respecting supposed
obstacles from the wills -of founders, or other similar
causes, to the full development of that large and im-
proved system of study which the Universities have
sought to establish, we believe (confining ourself, of
course, to this University), that if the supposed obsta-

cl'es anywhere exist,. they . produce no material effect
upon the general academical system.
For your Grace does'not need to be infopmed that
all our junior students are members at once of the
University nod of some college or hall. Ir they be-
long to any hall Oho halls of Oxford being only
places of study, not incorporated societies), then they
are solely under the statutes of the University ; but
if they are members of colleges, which are all of them
distinct corporations independent of one another, and
in many respects independent of the Univ-rsity,
lit. their studies, nevertheless, are regulated by'the
statutes of the University, and they receive instruc-
tion partly from the public professors, partly from
tutors, appointed indeed within the colleges, but re-
cognised, also and controlled by the general statutes
of the University.
This combination of professional and collegiate in-
struction is most important and beneficial, and some
of the late changes in our system have been designed
to restore this combined instruction to greater effi-
ciency, when it had suffered some temporary inter-
ruption from the unforeseen and unintended effects of
earlier measures of reform. But experience proves
that there is no reason to apprehend any obstacle to
the full development of the University system, as to
the instruction of the younger students, arising from
any of the collegiate customs or statutes.
The recent regulations are only the latest of several
successive measures of academic reform. The studies-
of this place have not continued, 'as 'would appear to
be assumed in Lord John Russell's letter of the Bth
inst., the Same, or 'nearly tb.e same, during the last
three centurieti;, nor is it' nly of late that they have
been altered or enlarged.
Two centuries ago—in 1636—the University re- •
vised the whole body of its statutes, arid the academic
system of study was admirably arranged at a time
when not only the nature and faculties of the huinan
mind were 'exactly what they are still, and must of
course remain, but the principles also of sound and
enlarged intellectual culture were far from imper-
fectly understood.
In process of time further changes and improve-
ments became requisite, and the University has for
the last half century, since the year 1800, been con-
tinually engaged in a series of academic reforms de-
signed to adapt the system to altered circumstances,
or to the advanced state of science in some depart-
ments of knowledge ; and if 'these reforms, however
well designed, have' not always so completely an-
swered the expectations of their authors, or if they
have not always met the wishes of all the members
of the academic legislature, still from no quarter
whatsoever has any obstacle or obstruction been op-
posed to the full development of the system of the
University, and it cannot justly be said that our re-
formers have ever failed to produce their full effect
through the supineness, indifference; or incompe-
tency of the public instructors of our 'youth, whe-
ther the professors in the University or the tutors of
colleges.
So far, then, as respects the University, its insti-
tutions, And its recent regulations, whether with re-
ference to the University itself or to the all derived
to its institutions from the colleges, we humbly sub-
mit that a Royal Commission will obstruct, instead
of assisting, the natural progress itnd improvement of
the academical system ; and this is the declared, in-
deed, the only declared, object for the appointment of
such a Commission.

Various suggestions, indeed, are subsequently
thrown out, and various questions raised, in Lord
John Russell's letter to your Grace, bearing upon
the state and wall-being •of the separate colleges,
but only indirectly affecting the welfare of the 'Uni-
versity.
The several colleges in Oxford have'been founded
at various times From one to six centuries ago, in
some few instances by Royal, but chiefly by private
munificence. They have exercised an important
and very salutary influence upon the discipline and
the education of the University. But it should be
observed that they have not been usually founded,
or in all cases endowed by subsequent benefactors,
directly for the education of youth, but for higher
purposes. _ . _

The education of youth has, in most instances,
been superadded to their other duties by the heads
and fellows of colleges, of their own freewill, to the
great advantage of the community.
It may very well be that modern founders and
benefactors might, in some instances, improve upon
the ancient regulations if they were creating colleges
anew of their own bounty ; but it does not follow that
the firmer foundations and endowments, when they
are in no instance injurious to the community at
large, often highly beneficial, ought therefore to be '
disturbed. If the restrictions upon the elections to
fellowships, for example, might in some 'cases be ad-
vantageously modified or removed, still. their removal
would not to any considerable extent benefit the cause
of education or sound learning, and the nature and
amount of the' existing restrictions, moreover, have
been greatly exaggerated.
Fellowships are commonly restricted to particular
schools, but only scholarships, or probationary fel-
lowships from which there is a subsequent election to
the actual fellowships. The schools in question are
fur the most part our great public schools. The dis.
tricts, again, from which confined fellowships are
filled up often comprise several populous counties: It
is not often, if ever, that the mere lineal descendants
of founders have a claim to these, but the kindred of
the founders traced collaterally, and also beyond the
founder to his remote ancestors, and embracing there-
fore very many families, and opening a wide field of
choice. The degree of preference, moreover, is Often
so slight, that what are called confined fellowships
may be, and sometimes are, filled up from other dis-
tricts besides what'are prescribed.
• If the colleges themselves would sometimes gain by
the removal of such restrictions,, the University at
large, and the general course of education, would be
but little affected by the change.
Tutors of colleges are not necessarily appointed
from the fellows on close foundations, or from the
fellows of colleges at all. Even the colleges them-
selves are sometimes benefited by the various provi-
sions under which their fellows are elected. One
uniform principle of election, or one kind'of qualifica •
tion or standard of merit, would be prejudicial to the
general interests of the several societies, and through
them to the country.
, But it should be especially recollected that in all
instances trusts and ♦ested rights have been created
and have been sanctioned by the Crown or by Par-
liament, which could not now be generally abrogated
without great detriment to the future interests of
charity, and great injustice to the persons and fathilies
and districts interested in these endowments.

Similar remarks would apply to the statutes of
colleges, which,. have also been supposed to require
alterations through the aid .of a Royal Commission.
In many instances there already exists some power,
to revise and alter ancient statutes; vested either in
the colleges or there visitors. Wherever such poers
are felt to be wanting or insufficient,,and the colleges
and their visitors desire additional powers of altera-
tion, we donot doubt that the Legislature, npon
proper application made to them, would not be indis-
posed to confer such poWers upon them. But for
none of these purposes does the appointment of a
Royal Commission appear to be requisite or desirable.
The preceding observations apply to the objects of
the proposed Royal Commission with referende to
the University and to the colleges separately,. and
to the connexion between the colleges and the Uni-
versity in respect of 'education. In each of these re-
lations the Commission would appear, we resject
fully submit, to be uncalled, for, if not positively
injurious.
And, generally, we would take the liberty of ex-
pressing our conviction, that such a commission would
entail several injurious effects upon the" University,
by no means contemplated by her Majesty's Ministers.
However friendly their intentions towards the
Universities and colleges, the appointment of such a
commission, immediately succeeding the attacks re-
peatedly made by persons very
inadequately ac-
quainted with these bodies, would be commonly and
naturally regarded as even designed to continue and
to sanction these attacks.
It would obviously tend, also, not only to inter-
rupt our labours and studies, but to check and ob-
struct the natural and healthy progress of improvement
which has of late years proceeded as rapidly as is
consistent with the proper working of the academical
system.
And without entering into the question of the
legality of a commission appointed only to inquire
and report, it is obvious that it would be of the na-
ture of an unconstitutional proceeding, since it would
seek to attain indirectly what could not be directly
attained without an open violation of the constitution
and of the rights and privileges of her Majesty's sub
• jests. And we respectfully submit that her Majesty
dutiful and loyal subjects ought not to be exposed
to the painful alternative of either withholding evi-
dence from a commission so appointed, lest they
should betray their trusts, and sanction a proceeding
apparently unconstitutional, or of allowing her Ma-
jesty's Commissioners to listen only to imperfect in-
formation and partial statements upon subjects of great
importance both to the Universities and the commu-
nity at large.'
Signed on behalf of the Board of Heads of Houses
an i Proctors,
F. C. PLUMPTaE, Vice-Chancellor.
. Oxford, May 16.

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Vanguard 4 7 10 William the Con-
Miss Ann 4 7 10 queror
Borneo - 4 7 10 Minimum 4
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Fugleman 5; 7 §KnightolGwynne. 3
Black Eagle 4 7 6 Probity 3
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Champion • 4 7 0 Mahascah 3
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Those.marked thus (*), having been entered without
the knowledge.of their owners. will be struck out by the
time prescribed unlesS specially ordered to remain in.
BET LING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
MANCHESTER TRADES Cur.—(Thursday next)-- 9 to
2 ugst Vanguard (t), 5 to 1 agst Legerdemain (t). 6 to
1 agat Chuntrey (t), 8 to 1 agat Cockermouth (t), 10 to
1 agst Inheritress (t), and 12 to 1 aget Wild tioaq (t).
SALFORD BOROUGH CUP.— 7 to 4 rgat Woolwich (1),
G to 1 agst LTriel (t).
DERBY.--5 to 1 othtred aget either of the two favou-
rites, 7 to 1 agat The Nigger (t), 12 to 1 eget Voltigeur
(t), 20 to 1 agst The Italian (t), 1,000 to 20 agat Mayors.

CRICKET.'
SUREET v. MIDDLESEX.

This nitteh was concluded yesterday at Lord's, on the
second day's play, in the presence of a large number of
spectators. Surrey won by ten wickets, the total score
presenting the following appearance:—
MIDDLES SX —FIRST INNINGS.
lion. R. Griwston, c Caesar, b Lee ... •... ... 10
Paul, c Daivis,, b Shearnsan ... 0
Mr. J. Walker, c,Brockwell, b Shearman 20
Mr. W. Nicholson, c Martingell, b Lee- 10
Mr. A. Elaygarth, run out ... 1
Mr. Rogers, run out ... 26
Royston, t b w, b Martingell _ 18
Mr. R. Kynaston,b Shesrman 0
Mr. T. Craven, c.Cmisr, Martingell 1

Figg, not-out ... . . ••• ..• 0
Lillywhite, run out ... 0
Byes 6, leg byes 2, wide 1, no balls 4 ... .. 13