What the destruction of Rome and its records by the Gauls was to Niebuhr,--what the fire of London was to the antiquary in his walk from Pudding Lane to Pie Corner, such was the burning of the Pavilion at Lord’s, and all the old score books--it is a mercy that the old painting of the M.C.C. was saved--to the annalist of cricket. “When we were built out by Dorset Square,” says Mr. E. H. Budd, “we played for three years where the Regent’s Canal has since been cut, and still called our ground ‘Lord’s,’ and our dining-room ‘the Pavilion.’” Here many a time have I looked over the old papers of Dehaney and Sir H. Mann; but the room was burnt, and the old scores perished in the flames. The following are curious as the two oldest scores preserved,--one of the North, the other of the South:-- NAMES OF THE PERSONS WHO PLAYED AGAINST SHEFFIELD. In 1771 at NOTTINGHAM, and 1772 at SHEFFIELD. Nottingham, Aug. 26, 1771. Huthwayte Turner Loughman Coleman Roe Spurr Stocks Collishaw Troop Mew Rawson. Sheffield. | Nottingham. 1st inn. 81 | 1st inn. 76 2nd 62 | 2nd 112 3rd 105 | ---- | ---- 248 | 188 Tuesday, 9 o’clock, a.m. commenced, 8th man 0, 9th 5, 1 to come in, and only 60 ahead, when the Sheffield left the field. Sheffield, June 1, 1772. Coleman Turner Loughman Roe Spurs Stocks Collishaw Troop Mew Bamford Gladwin. Nottingham. | Sheffield. 1st inn. 14 | Near 70 Nottingham gave in. KENT AGAINST ALL ENGLAND. _Played in the Artillery-Ground, London, 1746._ ENGLAND. _1st Innings._ _2nd Innings._ RUNS. RUNS. Harris 0 b by Hadswell 4 b by Mills. Dingate 3 b Ditto 11 b Hadswell. Newland 0 b Mills 3 b Ditto. Cuddy 0 b Hadswell 2 b Danes. Green 0 b Mills 5 b Mills. Waymark 7 b Ditto 9 b Hadswell. Bryan 12 s Kips 7 c Kips. Newland 18 -- not out 15 c Ld. J. Sackville. Harris 0 b Hadswell 1 b Hadswell. Smith 0 c Bartrum 8 b Mills. Newland 0 b Mills 5 -- not out. Byes 0 Byes 0 -- -- 40 70 KENT. _1st Innings._ _2nd Innings._