The National Register. — London, England, 1815-11-19 00:00:00

C r e • %.• f • TOE ICATI6NAT, rtraisTEß. 6., Some tietermirmil kitting. which ended in another clone, and flock wetit . _ Latiraster,lnsile a right-lituntert body hit. but he diil not delietr home, and Appeared rattier to avoid being bit again, than paying a t. tentioa to kHt.owt► delivery. initiation went down weak. S. Au awkward wrestling round, and both distrest-eil e Lancaster threw his man. A gallant round, and smart blows exclianeed; but 11111solozli I.Aticaster out -fought In* adversary, lie was much punished in Elie Both went down weak. 10. Johnson placed a bard right-handed hit no "Ant-aster's head, which distorted his te.iture, both went down in striving for the 1. A tairiut round in favour of I.measter, who, however, did not !Face Any vi.jble mat 10i Of violence. He threw his adversary (who tons open mouthed), a heave fall, and In might butting to even. 1?. Johnson wade his holly blow, and tell weal . gallant and determined round; the men ••tood to each otlicr and exchanged blows until Johnson tell ifrom weakness, awl in some parts of the ring Lancaster was iaektd at odds. 14. Johnson /ouch diAressed, went down with a mere thrust. t). Precisely the same as the 11 di. Roth men were weak and in bfiensi ye in (heir bitting. tr. Johnson received . an awkward fall upon his,forchend In a close. 18, .Lancaster, although exhibiting, a flighttul head, atiprated till of cohlitleuce and gaiety. In a scramble fur the fall both went Johnson made another grand flush hit in the front of his ad vcr4;si's head, and both went down. Even betting, and it seemed as if the planting of one good blow on either, would settle the un pleasant bu,iness ! ix), fit, and ;' 2. Mere wrestling rounds without hitting. Each anteroom nig to recover.wind, QS. bra struggle Lancaster received ; fall on the back of his bead, which must for'the moment have deprived him of feeling, and it was not tippostil be would come He fought three rounds very disadvantageously. and then recovered and broitglit the battle again in his favour. The bands of both rites' were much wilted, and tlw next ten tomtits produced as many changes, but Johnson's hitting with the right hand was always dangerous. In the Stith round, receivetta stunning fall, bat he recovered again in the 33d, and kept the lead until Lancaster was unable to appear to time in the 414 round, he having refused to give in until he was completely beatpu in the 38th" and 59th rounds. We have not some years setae a man worse punished than Lancaster. The combat lasted one hour sixteen minutes and a Dalt; the fire, and all the valves of the boiler in which the steam was collected were closed. The experiment was eguatiourd the whole of the morning. till at length the Ere %%as heated to such an extent that Mr. Constadt, who was present, ()beet ved it was impossible to correct the fault, and cairn essed a wish to the workmen to de s ist from Anther trial. The latter were, however, still in hopes that dy incie;ising the power a the machine, and the quantity of steam in the boiler, that 'hey would accompiilt their object, and continued to add fuel to the furnace. Tic effect of this pioduced the coOsequerites which Mr. Constadt hall anticipated—the boiler burst, and in a moment the whole building was iit ruins' -The shock was tremendous, the neighbourhood being shook as if by as earthquake. It is impossible to describe the horror which a view of the dreadful havoc excited. It was known that at the time of the expl , sion between forty and fifty men were collected in the sugar•house„ besides Mr. Constadt, and Mr llisgt, the engineer ; some were labcureis in Mr. Constudt's employment, and some in the eniployment of Mr. Higgs. Mr. Spear was in ao ad joining hoiljs u and his sot', a fine lad about fifteen years of age, was in the counting-hou s e.—As n a. the cloud of dust which obscured the stnronnding objects flow. view had subsided, many of the men were seen emerging from the ruing, some slightly and some severely wounded. Constadt himself, although close to the pan at the time of the shock, happily escaped unhutt, although completely enveloped in the fa lling fragments of timber end iron. Mr, Biggs was equally fortunate, as were many of the labourers, Mr. Spear, jun. however, who was in the counting-house, which was completely mnied, was found alsout two o'clock, suffocated, and every etlort to restmte• him to life proved fruitless. The surviving per Fons, aided by others who came to their assistance, then proceeded to exert themselves in saving those who weie within leach. Nine were rescued from their perilous situation by t h ree o'clock, and sent. to the London of whom, it is hoped, May recover although dreadfully bruised. One of them we; a coal-heaver, in the employment of slr. Strickland, who had just Ilea delivering coals, had taken away his team, and was returning for his whip, which he had left standing against the wall, when the house fell and broke both his thighs and legs. Soon afterwards two bodies were drawn forth, completely lifeless, and it is understood that two yet remain buried io the rubbish, which, although every exertion was made to get at them, remained undiscovered at a late hour last night. As the building fell into Weil street, it is feared that some hapless passenger may have been add o cd to the other sufferers. Unless, however, this shall prove to be the case, we believe we have stated the extent of the calamity. The labourers will renew their search after the otherbedies this morning. The loss sustained by Messrs. Constadt and Spear is it 4-. mense. Fire engines attended in the neighbourhood of the ruins the whole evening, lest any accident should occur from the fire in the furnace, which was overwheltnea in the fallen timber. Not a vestige of this extensive establishment was left standing, and the party-wall of the aljnining watehouse was completely destroyed, while tb, interior threatens falling. destruction. This is also a sugar-bakehouse belonginv, to the same firm, but conducted on a much smaller vcale thin that which had been dcstroyed. The latter wa• abput 7t) feet in bright and 50 in depth, and the loss sustained by the sufferers, independent of so tn4ny yainattlp lives, 4 cstimatptl at least to be 25,p001? RnMARKS. johnson is a sort of Scroggins' fighter. He. is always in action. but it. is ,of that sort which itbr spectator does not see the injury he is doing to an adversary at the time. His light band is terrific, and if it tell once in half a dozen attempts it will answer. Although Lancaster is the best fighter, yet he begins well, and 'does not finish. Instead of thawing the aright of the body with his bits, be withdraws himself on delivery, as if alarmed at receiving; and nothing can more fully justify these observations, than that Johnson never was bled &King the fight. lle received some body bits which should .hawe been applied at the head. Another {,able of mirror interest finished the day's sport, DRE4I . ' bFUL V E.3L04101V, An at chlent, attended with the most melancholy copse imenees, took place on Wednesday, on the premises of Blessrs. Constadt and Spear, sugar refiners in Wellclose square. It appeared that about a fortnight back, one of those machines for rerining sugar by means of steam, which are pro ductive of an immense saving, both of time, laboor, and fuel, was ,erected in the sugar -house of these gentlemen.—From some defect in the erection, however, it was found not to An swer the intended purpose. Frequent attempts were made to remedy the evil, hut in Vain; and yesterday morning one the engiccers, wit!: several of his labourers, attended on tip prenii. for the ptirpoi,e of renewing his Ffforts to com plete his.ondertakjng. ki4tyin artiye4 41, tbc sksvphouv o they proceeded to light N'OV, 19 - . - 749 ;f : 9 1 ,111 7