27 JULY 1878, Page 3

We anticipated last week that the Australian Cricketers would be

beaten by the Cambridge Eleven, but we had no expectation of so great a defeat as they actually experienced. The Cam- bridge men, in their first innings, obtained 285 runs, and the Australians only 111; but the latter began their second innings well, and it was supposed that they would at least make up in it more than was wanting to the number of runs obtained in the first innings of Cambridge. This, however, proved not to be the case, the Australian collapse of Tuesday morning being very rapid, and leaving the Cambridge men the victors by a whole innings and 72 runs as well. No doubt the Cambridge Eleven are exceptionally strong this year, while the Australians certainly did not play up to the mark they have often before reached.