The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-24 00:00:00

COURT NEWS.

On Sunday her Majesty the Queen and his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort, the Princess Alice, Prince
Alfred, Prince Arthur. Prince Leopold, the Princesses
Helena and Louisa, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the
Court, and the Domestic Household, attended Divine
service in tl-e Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace. The
Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. -
CITINGris- /X THE Coral ARP. V.NGF.MENTS.—SCveraI
changes have been made in consenuence of the death of
the Prince Helierdolie-Langenhonig, and the following
are the present appointments of the Court Tues-
day, 24th .April,. the Queen will hold a Levee in St.
James's Palace ; Cnurt mourning will be worn upon
this occasion. On Thursday, 26th April, the Court will
change the mourning-; the ladies to wear black silk or
velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets, or plain white,
or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black
ribbons. On Saturday, 28th April, her Majesty will
hold her second Drawing-room this season at St.
James's Palace; Court mourning- will be worn on this
occasion. On Thursday. 3rd May, the Court will go
out of mourning. On Wednesday, 9th May, the Queen
will have a concert it Buckingham Palace. On Friday,
11th May, her Majesty will give a juvenile ball at
Buckingham Palace. On Wednesday, 16th May, the
first State ball of the season will he given by the aucen
at Buckingham -Palace: On Friday, • 18th May, the
birthday Drawing-room will be held by her Majesty in
St. James's Palace; no presentations to the Queea will
take place ox this occasion.
The Earl of St.. Germains, the Lord Steward of the
Queen's Household, will go to. Canada in the retinue of
the Prince Of -Wales

THE FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Ssa,—l see by your article of Saturday last that cyon
misunderstand my wishes, and it does me great injustice.
I have no differences to settle with Mr. Sayers, except
such as I tried to settle with him on the 17th instant;
and, instead of being called a " boy," I ought to be
termed a baby if, after having come so far, and not
having got a settlement, I should be willing to
relinquish my purpose for a few good-natured pats on
the back, and being told I am a fine fellow. I have
received a great many anonymous letters since Tuesday
last, asking me if lam not ashamed of myself—a great
follow like me—to come over here to whip a little :nan
like Tom -Sayers. All I have to say to that is, that
under ordinary circumstances I would not think of send-
ing-a challenge\to a man of Sayers' size; but England
thinks him big enough to defend the belt ; I . want
it, and I cannot get it except through him. The
enclosed letter, which I sent to the editor of BCE's
Life when I heard they intended to call in a surgeon
to.name a day before which Sayers could not finish the
pending affair between us, will show my position in the
matter; and, as Lfe has not thought proper to
publish it, you •will do me a great kindness in letting.
the English people hear what I have got to say. • I wish
to add that if the late meeting is not to be resumed, and
the belt is not to come to me for what has already taken
place, I.claira to be first on the list to meet Sayers again
far the next chance to conquer it.—Yours most respect-
fully, J.' C. I.ImtNAN.
April 22. -

" TO THE EDITOR, nIF LIFO,

" SIR,—Not having been able to obtain from you, as
referee, a final decision upon the fight of Tuesday last,
I desire to demand, through you, ,a new meeting within
the present week. I make this demand from having
been informed that it has been suggested on your part I
should give Mr. Sayers sufficient. time to recover from
certain injuries received. by him during his encounter
with me. Now, sir, while lam willing to accommodate
hint in any proper way, I must not be unmindful of iny
own rights. I also received injuries; but I bargained
for them; and I put it to your as a man of honour,.
whether, if I had been deprived, through the effects of
the said battle, of my eyesight or the use of ray arm (as
in the case of Brettle, when disabled by Sayers); you-
would hare made Sayers wait for me for any length of
.time that might be dictated by my private doctor •
" When this match was made the date for the battle
was the 16th inst., or as soon as we cou'd get to tight ;
and, according to the rules, it the battle should be in-
terrupted, it was my understanding, and I believe it is
the law, that ive should fight within the weak. We did
Meet according to our contract; the battle *as said to
be unfinished, and I am prepared to renew it at any
moment within the lawful limit. If Sayers is not, on
account -of the injuries received from me, and cannot
meet me according to the rules of manly. opposition. I
demand and claim that he resign to me file -belt, which
he is not, according to the rules of the prize ring,
entitled to retain. •

"Hoping to receive an answer from you befbre this
week expires, stating your views in full, 1 am, yours
respectfully; • • - "J. C. TILE .t:;.
"ES.---You will please to understand that I do not
wish to compel Mr. sayers to fight. because he is repre-
sented to be in a disabled state; bus, I wish to obtain
what I think I have already won. and which I will
cheerfully hand back whenever he or any person clue
thinks be can take it from me. J. C. H.