The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-12 00:00:00

OAKS.
8 to 1 apt Sorcery I 13 to 1 art Aline
9 to 1 nit Waits I 13 to 1 apt Attics

11 to 1 apt Memnon
13 to 1 3gst Cleveland
17 to 1 apt Redpuntlet

IT. I EVER.
30 to 1 agst Mandane
25 to 1 agst Muleteer
No betting on any othalaria.

FISH MARKET,

.1.11:113DAY, Nov. 11.

s.d. s.d.
CAA, each . 5 otolB U
Drills, cull 4 0 to 10 U
Haddocks (large)
per half-dozat 12 0 to 13 0
Ditto (small)
per dozen 10 0 to 12 0
Soles, per pair 2 oto 3 6
Skate, per lb. UUto 0 9
Salmon(crimped)
per lb. . 3 Gto 5 0
Do.(dried)per lb. 1 6to 2 01
Eels, per lb. 0 9 to 1 0
Smelts, the 26 2 6to 10 0 i

d. t.d.
Flounders, the 26 2 0 to S 6
bahs, per basket 2 0 to 3 /
ditto 3 6 to S 6
Berri! gs,the 100 4 0 to b
Bloaters, ditto 8 otolv e
Lobstai, each 1 Bto 5 1
Prawns, per lb. 3 oto 3
Shrimps,per gall. 0 2 to 2 u
Common Oysters
(various), per
bushel - 10 oto2o 0
Natives. ditto 38 vto 411 0

Tar Bet union Acr.—A general meeting of the Ni
trates of Surrey and Middlesex will take place in a day a
two, for the purpose of considering the expediency of ap-
plying to Parliament during the ensuing Session, for arevision of the General Building Act passed in the ISth yar
of the late King. From the number of buildings nor
going forward in every direction round the metropolis, thii
intention cannot but be of considerable importance. The
general scope and bearing of the Act, by which is rendered
compulsory on builders the construction of houses, with
sound and proper materials, and in a manner best adapted
to the restraining of the progress of fire, it is understood
are to be left as hitherto, it being only intended to suggest
those alterations and amplifications of certain clauses,
which it has been found are required to prevent their eva-
sion; and in others to supply those modifications which
experience and justice have proved to be necessary: also,
where certain improvements are made, equally beneficial to
the adjoining property, and for which the Act allows a
proportionate claim on the owner of the property thee
improved, to alter the stale of remuneration according to
the ratio of improvement which has taken place in the
prices of labour and materials since the passing of the Act
By the Act in question buildings are distributed into seven
classes ; and in addition to the general enactments appli-
cable to all classes, are many only applying to particule
ones ; among these clauses considerable alteration is said
be contemplated. It is also thought the Act, which is
rather long one, will admit of condensation without injt7,
and that some of its enactments may be altogether disik,sid
with.

THE FANCY !! !—A fight took place on Monday last`
a field near the 1/evil's Dyke, between a titan tianka
Smith (better known by the appellation of " Vat,"
who was not long since imprisoned twelve months ler
manslaughter, having killed a man in a pugilistic tee-
counter on our race hill, on which occasion Spring are
Shelton were held to bail) and a fellow named Wiggini,
who was also at the Summer Assizes, in 18‘.24, Mll-
ioned six months for brutally beating a man named henry
LiMot, so as to cau,c his death. Such results, we
should have thought, would have been sufficient to deter
any man, not wholly void of felling, from again Ch•
tering the ring, and it proves the ruthless depravity
of such characters. They fought, we understand, in
an eighteen-feet ring. Ilan is said to have shoxn some
science, but 11'iggitts was much too strong for his opponent,
and closed and threw him in almost every round. It is
said to have tees a ye y poor fight, and the few persoo
who ottended have expressed their disappointment sit
terms by no to tans creditable to the champions. 11b:n
they had maukl each other for about an hour and ten
minutes, Dan gave in, after hugging rounds, and Wig'
gins was drawn into the town in an old barouche, sur-
rounded by about half a dozen stable boys, with an old silk
handkerchief tied on a stick by way of trophy. They ate
both Kraig to of the llodd. We have beard that Wiggins
swore if he did not beathis man, lte would never return to
Brighton alive; fortunately for the Amateurs he won the
battle, and no doubt he will soon be bailed as a werthy
member of the Fancy.—Brighton Paper.

BIRTH.
On the 6th inst. at the house of her father, Sir George M. Keith,
Bart. Camberwell, the Lady of J. F. EUerton, Esq. of the lion.
East India Company's Civil Service, of a daughter.

MAI RI CI).
Thursday morning, the 11th inst. Francis Gregg, Esq. of tl:t
Inner Temple, to Elizabeth Mary, third daughter or the Rer. J. 11.
Ferrer', Rector of Iteddington. Surrey.