4. The games to be conducted in accordance with the rules laid down in Mr. Staunton's "Chess Player's Handbook." 5. The parties to play with Staunton chessmen of the usual club-size, and on a board of corresponding dimensions. 6. The match to be commenced on or about the first of May, 1858, (or on any other day during the present year most agreeable to Mr. Staunton,) and to be continued at not less than four sittings each week. 7. In order that the stay of the English player in New Orleans be not unnecessarily prolonged, he shall have the right to fix the hours of play at from ten o'clock, A. M., to two, P. M., and from six to ten o'clock, P. M. 8. The time occupied in deliberating on any move, shall not exceed thirty minutes. 9. The right to publish the games is reserved exclusively to the contestants, subject only to such private arrangements as they may agree upon. 10. The stakes on the part of Mr. Staunton to be deposited prior to the commencement of the match in the hands of ----; and those on the part of Mr. Morphy, in the hands of Eugene Rousseau, Esq., cashier of the Citizen's Bank of Louisiana. * * * * * On the 3d of April, Mr. Staunton replied to this very flattering communication as follows, through the "Illustrated London News:"-- "PROPOSED CHESS MATCH BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA FOR ONE THOUSAND POUNDS A SIDE.--We have been favored with a copy of the _defi_ which the friends of Mr. Paul Morphy, the chess champion of the United States, have transmitted to Mr. Staunton. The terms of this cartel are distinguished by extreme courtesy, and with one notable exception, by extreme liberality also. The exception in question, however, (we refer to the clause which stipulates that the combat shall take place in New Orleans!) appears to us utterly fatal to the match; and we must confess our astonishment that the intelligent gentlemen who drew up the conditions did not themselves discover this. Could it possibly escape their penetration, that if Mr. Paul Morphy, a young gentleman without family ties or professional claims upon his attention, finds it inconvenient to anticipate, by a few months, an intended voyage to Europe, his proposed antagonist, who is well known for years to have been compelled, by laborious literary occupation, to abandon the practice of chess beyond the indulgence of an occasional game, must find it not merely inconvenient, but positively impracticable, to cast aside all engagements, and undertake a journey of many thousand miles for the sake of a chess-encounter? Surely the idea of such a sacrifice is not admissible for a single moment. If Mr. Morphy--for whose skill we entertain the liveliest admiration--be desirous to win his spurs among the chess