A Match has taken place, as you will see by "Le Score" subjoined, which I enclose for your inspection. It was not without its fruits. It disclosed to us, as you will remark by referring to "Le Score," very practically the dangerous, and I must add, the murderous capabilities that "Le Cricquette" manifestly possesses. Our Revising Committee has already the matter in hand, and when their report is fully drawn up, I shall have much satisfaction in forwarding it to you. Meantime, I must say that the substitution of a light large ball of silk, or some other soft material for the deadly "_boule de canon_" as used by your countrymen, has been decided upon as absolutely necessary to deprive the game of barbarism, and harmonise it with the instincts which Modern and Republican France associates with the pursuit of a harmless pastime. _Les wickettes_, as being too small for the Bowlsman to reach them, should be raised to six feet high, and the Umpire, a grave anomaly in a game cherished by a liberty-loving people, should be instantly suppressed. The "overre," too, should consist of sixteen balls. But this and many other matters are under the consideration of the Committee. I now subjoin "Le Score" I mentioned; a brief perusal of it will show you what excellent grounds the Committee have for making the humanising alterations at which I have hinted. ALL FRANCE v. AN ENGLISH 'OME-TEAM. ALL FRANCE. M. DE BOISSY (struck with murderous force on the front of his forehead by the _boule de canon_, and obliged to retire), b. JONES-JOHNSON....0 M. NAUDIN (hit on his fingers, which are pinched blue with the _boule de canon_, and incapacitated), b. JONES-JOHNSON....0 Le Marquis de CAROUSEL (receives a blow from the _boule de canon_ on the front bone of his leg, and is compelled to relinquish the contest), b. JONES-JOHNSON....0 M. BUSSON (receives a severe contusion of the cheek-bone from the _boule de canon_, which is delivered with murderous intent by a swift "round-and bowlsman"), b. JONES-JOHNSON....0 Le Général GREX (hits his three _wickettes_ into the air, in a daring attempt to stop the _boule de canon_ with his batsman's club), b. JONES-JOHNSON....0 Le Duc de SEPTFACES (has his _pince-nez_ shattered to atoms by the _boule de canon_, and, being unable to see, withdraws from the "innings"), b. JONES-JOHNSON....0 M. CARILLON, M. le docteur GIROFLÉ, le Professeur d'Equitation (all the three being given, in turn, "out, legs in front of the _wickette_," leave the ground to arrange a duel with the Umpire), b. JONES-JOHNSON....0