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Press, Volume XII, Issue 1469, 24 July 1867, Page 3

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[From the " Home News."] THE MABYXEBONE CLUB AND GBOTTND T. THE TJNIVEBSITY OF OAMBBEDGB. This annual match was commenced on May 16, on Fenner's Ground, at Cambridge. The University commenced the batting with Mr J. M. Richardson and Mr Saville. Mr Richardson was had by the long stop when one run only was scored, but the Hon. S. G. Lyttelton and Mr Saville were not parted until 60 was on the telegraph, when Hearne bowled Mr Lyttelton for 23 ; Mr Saville, playing remarkably well, was then joined by Mr Warner (who played a fine innings of 108 runs last week against the All England Eleven), and these two brought the Bcore to 90 for two wickets, when the luncheon bell rang. On resuming play Mr Saville was caught at mid wicket for 49, with the score at 100 ; but when Wootton bowled Mr Warner for a very finelyplayed innings of 43 runs the score stood at 156 for 7 wickets, 96 runs having been put on during Mr Warner's i stay at the wickets. The innings ended for 164. The M.C.C. innings were then commenced by Grundy and Mr Stow, and when 21 runs had been scored five wickets had fallen ; Hearne and Mr Hone tben got together, and when the stumps were drawn at a quarter to seven had hit the M.C.C. score to 83, neither out. The following morning, shortly after noon, the two " not outs " of the previous day (Mr Hone and Hearne) resumed the hitting in this match, at Fenner's Ground, Cambridge, to the bowling of Messrs Pelham and Weighell. The former was soon after induced by Mr Pelham to leave bis ground, and the Hon. S. G. Lyttelton thereupon stumped him, after making 25 in

excellent form. Tom Hearne, after piling up 56 in his usual masterly manner, was easily run out. There was no other member of tho M.C C. who reached double figures, Mr Balfour being the nearest approach with 0 ; their total was 107. The University went on with their second innings, aud five wickets were quickly disposed of, but Messrs. Saville and Absolom proved "stickers." The latter was badly missed at cover point when he had scored 9, after which he hit away merrily, aud gave no other chance, until Hearne went on at Wootton's end, when he played ono back into the hands of that excellent bowler. Mr Absolom scored 9-1, n splendid display of batting; and secured to him that which he richly deserved— namely, hearty applause from all parts of the ground; the innings amounted to 161. For the M.C.C., Grundy, "Wootton, Mr Hone, and Mr Stow were easily disposed of, but Hearne was again well " set," and hit away in fine form. The match has ended in a draw.

A Debt of HoNOtra.—ln tho grent Fox's frolicsome days a tradesman, who held his bill for £200, called for payment. Fox said he could not then pay him. " How can that be ?" said the creditor ; " you have now lying before you bank notes to quite a large amount." "These," replied Fox, "are for paying debts of honour." The tradesman immediately threw his bill into the fire. " Now, sir," said he, " mine is a debt of honour which I can't oblige you to pay." Fox immediately settled it.

A Medical Consultation. —The Doctors Agiieeing- to Kill theib Patient. —The 'New York Times," of tho 7th of March, makes the following statement: —" A terrible case of hydrophobia is chronicled in the Detroit papers A little daughter of Mr Alfred Woodruff, of the town of Greenfield, Michigan, was bitten some time ago by a dog, but no symptoms of hydrophobia were at first shown. At length the poison, which, acting at a sub-cutaneous injection, permeated every tissue of the system, broke out in a severe form, causing the most intense suffering. A consultation was had by physicians, who decided that, as the sufferer could not possibly survive, every consideration of humanity demanded that her sufferings bo ended by some means, in accordance with which, during a severe paroxysm, the child was smothered to death."

A Teleobaphic Mabvel.—The " New York Herald," of February 24th, says— " When Shakespeare conceived the idea of the little monster Puck putting a girdle round the earth in forty minutes, be probably thought that he was carrying imagination to its limit in the rapid transmission of intelligence ; but the events of to-day prove that he was altogether behind the age in which we live. In our day, news travels in advance of time, and laughs at the passing hours, as the swift hare in the fable did at the slow-moving tortoise, but with a different result. A telegraphic despatch by the Atlantic cable which contained the closing commercial intelligence in London and Liverpool at four o'cloak in the afternoon yesterday (London time) was in our hands at twelve o'clock noon, apparently just four hours before the boards closed. The despatch took less than one hour to come across the Atlantic, and, having been transmitted immediately to San Francisco, the quotations of the English markets probably appeared in the first afternoon editions of the papers in that city yesterday. This is what might well be called progress, and suggests the quotation, " Where is Puok ?"