We yield to none in the affection that we feel
for Australia and her splendid cricket team, but we shall love them best of all if the English team manages to.beat them in the approaching Test Match 1 We do not disguise our hope that England may win, and the team has our best wishes. It is unlucky that there should be a change in the captain for the last match, because it, upsets the equanimity of all and the confidence .that has grown up. Mr. Carr, the Nottinghamshire leader, who was, attacked by tonsilitis in Manchester and has possibly not yet recovered his best form, has been asked to stand aside and Mr. Chapman, of the Kent, team, takes his place, We can neither deny our great interest in the match nor that Mr. Punch most fairly gives us a twinge of conscience by his cartoon which shows the Englishman spending his , holiday at the seaside;. sleeping, and reading of. the Test Match and too " busy " enjoying himself to listen to the grim, dark spectre of the coal dispute that stands behind his chair.
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