THE ALL ENGLAND ELEVEN? US MELBOURNE.

[BY TKLEQKArU.]

(FltpM OCR. MELBOURNE CORRKSFOHDKXT.) The Vjetorjjui .Eighteen won the cricket naa*cl* against the-English Eleven in one innings, with. 21 runs to spare. The match,'which caused a considerable amount of excitement amongst all classes of the community, commenced on. the Melbourne Club's ground on Boxing Day, in the presence of about 20,000 sjiectators, including the Governor and fcfec family. The captain of the Eighteen won the toss, re* sent his men in, Goldsmith and Gibson facing *he bowling: of Eillywhite and Southerton. The two. batsmen soon commenced to score, but the innings of th* day and of the match was that of Mr B, B. Cooper, an oldU English player, who scored 84, playing in niaguifioent style. Kelly rapidly ran up 20, and Conn ay 32. The howling of the Kleven was very indifferent, and. frequent chances were made. A\ the close of the first, day, the innings of the Victorian team stood at 245, with only 10 wickets down. On the forenoon ot Saturday (December 27th) the game wasTesumed, when. Mr W. G. Grace went on to bowl, nntl he speedily lowered the remaining' seven wickets, leaving the total, score at 2(iG, against which the. Englishmen went in, Jupp and Mr W. G. Grace, the two best-bats in thft team, were both bawled—the former for 22, and the latter for S3. Mr Gilbert and 0.-croft, with 13 and IS respectively, were the nly others who made double figures. The Victorian bowling was most destructive, and while tho Englishmen had.six .changes of bowling', the Victorians bad only three all through tho mi ings, which oioscd for 110. The Englishmen then hid' to-, follow their inni.'gs, and the hopes of the Victorians"; were hijsh as to winning in one innings.- On'S»tiu>rday evening M'lntyro and Humphrey .-.were out, and only 22 runs had been scored. On Monday the game was resumed,; anil Btill the wicUots continued to fall bofos-e thu effvtstive bowling of Allan and Cossticfc. J«VP, oJ whom great things were expected, Boore<J.

nothiug. Mr W. G. Grace played a fine innings of 51, ..and carried out his bat.- He was missed from a catch he ga\-e, however, when ho had only scored 7. llrG. F. iiraee, with 28. was the. next highest scorer. Iho .proiesßiouala showtja'very badly, botli in batting and bowling. When the last wicket fell only 135 runs had .been obtained, leaviw the Victorians tlio winners as stated above. The Englishmen fielded well, and some good catches were made by them. The Victorian bowling wou the match, but the batting of the Eighteen was also admirable. The following are the scores :— VICTORIA^' KIHUTEKS. Goldßinitlr, st Bush, b Lilly white 17 ■Gibaan, c O3croft, b Lilly white 0 Cooper, hit wicket, b G. F. Grace 84 ■Boyle, c Lilly white, b W. G. Grace .■ 30 Coates, c Jupp, b WV G. Grace.*.- 3 Kelly, band b Southerton ■• 20 Conway, b W. G. Grace.. •••••: 82 Robertson, b G. F. Grace. 14 Gaggiu, c G. F. Grace, b W. G. Grace..., 0 Midwinter, c Bash, b O. F. Grace 7 M'Gaon, bW. G.Grace..:... : „.,..' 7 Co3stick, c Humphrey, b W. G. Grace 0 Carr, b W. G.Grace .'.' 8 Bishop, not oi't .-. • 5 Hedl-.y, c Oscroft, t> W. G. Grace 1 ,Al;aa, candb W.G. Grace... 0 Horan, st Bush, b W. G. Gracs 1 Wyndham, c G. F. Grace, b IV. G. Grace 6 Extras.. _W : T0ta1....'................ 1.....266 Alt KNOI.AND BLEVBN—FIKBT INNINGS. : -Jupp, bAllan ..' 22 W. G. Grace, b Boyle: 33 ■Gilbert, c and b Cosstick ..... 13 -Greenwood, b Allan .'. 5 €. F. Grace, b Allan ... 6 Oacrrft, c Cooper, b Allan 12 flumphrey, c Allin, b Cosstick ....'..... \i Llllywhit-?. b Cosstick 4 M'lutyre, c Cosstictc, b Allan 9 Bush.b Allan ........;. ;.; 0 Southei tori, not out .......... ......; 0 Extras 2 Total 110 ALL EXGLASD^ELEVES —SECOKD INNINGS. ■Greenwood, c Al'Gann, b Allan ;......... 16 M'lntyrc, run out '. A Humphrey, b Cosstick 0 Gilbert, c Jl'Ganu, b Allan ......... C Jupp.c and b Cosstick.. ..... 0 G. F. Grace, c Cooper, b Couway .28 Oscroft, b Conway... ; '. 0 W. G. Grace, not out 51 iillywhiic, bßoyle i. 10 Southerton. o and b Boyle 0 Bush, c Couway, b 80y1e... 2 Extras 3 i T0ta1....... ,135 The Eleven will play Twenty-two of Ballarat on Thursday next, Ist January. The message forwarded to us by the Anglo-Aus-tralian Press Telegraph Agency is to the same effect as tof our own correspondent, though not so full. Ie end it says :•—" The professionals did little or log. The English bowling was very indifferent; easily played. Their fielding-was good. The priau bowling was excellent —Allan and Cosstick "Tjowling much better than M'lntyre, Southertou, and Lillywhite.' The fielding of the Victorians at times-was rather loose, but generally it wasgood. The result has caused much satisfaction generally, and but little surprise."