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benefit. All committees practise this except Yorkshire, Nottingham, and Derbyshire, and one cannot help having an honourable regard for these three counties in consequence. The queer thing about the whole matter is, that a crowd like the Surrey crowd, who grow so frantically keen during the progress of a county match, is seen to be just as keen for their county to win, composed as the eleven often has been of men purchased from all parts of England, and having no connection with Surrey by birth, as Yorkshire, Notts, and Derbyshire are for the success of their genuine natives. In this connection, Surrey would have been nothing if it were not for Lohmann, born in Middlesex, Lockwood and Sharpe in Notts, Beaumont in Yorkshire, Hayward in Cambridge, Henderson in Monmouth, Wood in Kent, Baldwin in Suffolk, Lees in Yorkshire, and several more; while Sussex, in their county eleven, have men from Notts, Staffordshire, Australia, and India. The modern professional, therefore, plays for his county if the committee, in the