The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-14 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY

OF CAMBRIDGE.
The annual match between the two Universities commenced
on Thursday, at Lord's, in the presence of a considerable number o
the real lovers of the game ; the score, when the playing ceased,
leaving the Oxonians with two wickets yet to come in.

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OXFORD.
R. Honeyweod,Esq.,b Wroth... 5 b Rippingall 5
P. Williams, Esq., run out 2 b Wroth
V. Smith, Esq., run out ... . ... 9 b Rippingall
M. Ainslie, Esq., run out 0 b Wroth
C. Randolph, Esq., b Wroth... 1 c Randolph, b Rippingall 8
H. Hildyard, Esq., b Rippingall 19 run out
G. Hughes, Esq., c Hughes, bdo 12 b Rippingall
B. Moberley, Esq., c do., b Wroth 2 not out
G. Yonge, Esq.,c do, b Rippin pall 0 not out l3
C. Redding, Esq., c Nichol..
_ _

_ ..
son, b ditto 8
L. Randolph, Esq., hit wicket,
b ditto I
Byes 2, wide (Rippingall 4,
Wroth 2) 6 $

Byes 1, wide (Ripping&ll
2, Wroth 1) 3; no
balls (Wroth 1, Rip.
pingall 1) 2 ....., ..... 6

CAMBRIDGE.
S. Campbell, Esq., b Randolph.
G. Ottey, Esq., c Williams, b ditto
Hon. F. Grimston, b Yonge
J. Nicholson, Esq., b ditto
E. M. Dewing, Esq., c Redding, b Yonge ...... 5
T. Wroth, Esq., • Williams, b ditto
C. 0. Pell, Esq., b ditto... ................... 4
R. Long, Esq., b ditto ....... .......... „
F. L. Currie, Esq., b ditto . ........... ...... 6
F. Hughes, Esq., b ditto
E. T. Rippingall, not out
0
Byes 6, wide (Randolph 1, Moberley 2) 3 9

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT ON THE LIVERPOOL
AND MANCHESTER LINE,..-(FROM k CORRESPONDENT.)-..011 Tues.
day evening, a little before nine o'clock, a night man, named James
Burns, who has been on the railway eight or nine years, was counting
the lugggage waggons on their way to Liverpool, at Whieton,
about six miles and a half from the Liverpool terminus. Whilst
doing so, an engine, which is appointed to wait there for thepurpose
of assisting the heavy trains up the inclined plane, suddenly started,
and struck the night man with one of the buffers on his back. He
was thrown four or five yards forward, and fell on his face, between
the rails. The fire box then caught him, and dragged him ten or
twelve yards. He was taken home in a state of insensibility;
medical assistance was obtained; and he continued to linger—half
living and half dead—for thirty.two hours afterwards. It is a
singular fact that he never complained of pain or uneasiness. The
principal external injury was at the junction of the cervical and
dorsal vertebra (that part of the spinal column connecting the neck
and back). The whole of the body and extremities below the chest
were completely paralysed ; and yet, to within six hours of his
death, he could articulate plainly, and converse freely his senses
of hearing, seeing, smelling, and tasting were unimpaired. A post
mortem examination can alone reveal the mystery of one-half of
the body being in active life, and the other in perfect death. He
has left a wife and five children.
COLOGNE, TUESDAY, JUNE 10.—The communica-
tion between London and this place, by the way of Antwerp, is
now wonderfully expeditious. A considerable number of the
passengers who arrived here yesterday evening, left London only
on Sunday, by the Antwerpen steamer. They arrived at Antwerp
early on Monday morning, and after staying two or three hours at
that place, started by the railroad train, which leaves at half-past
ten o'clock, and reaches this town in the evening. The whole
journey from London to Cologne is, in that way, performed in
about 29 hours.
AERIAL TUNNEL OVER THE MENAI.—The project
to throw a huge tube, composed of sheet iron, across the Menai
Straits, for the transit of a railway train, has, we understand, been
abandoned, owing, doubtless, to the probable disastrous effects of a
gale of wind pressing upon such an extent of surface as so large a
tube Would necessarily present. It is in contemplation, we believe,
to erect in its stead two bridges of solid construction, both of them
uniting on the Britannia Rock, and to throw out piers from each
side of the Straits.— Tke Builder,
THE WEATHER AND CROPS.—A cold cloudy
atmosphere, with frequent high winds, prevents vegetation from
making the rapid progress generally expected at this season of
the year. With the exception of a few fields, however, in
exposed situations, a healthy green colour prevails. In
byt an extentcold north.
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some instances a slight tinge of brown, "u
easterly winds, is apparent, but not to sos;a the
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late,
are apprehension of serious injury. The grain
instance rather
top
are generally healthy and strong, and in many
thick on the ground. Pastures,rentoanituheofrain. toes
whole,
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much invigorated by the e,
we
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