The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-06-11 00:00:00

SPRING AND LANGAN.

We leam. by the latest accounts from Chichester, that Langan
is doing as well as can be expected, aitufulering the severe punish-
ment he received. On Wednesday he was able to walk about his room
for a short time, but in a state of total darkness. He complains
most of his head, and pardeulady of a spot over his right temple,
which, he says,. was strut against one of the posts of the stage in
a fall. At first at was thought that the skull was fractured in that
part, but It is now ascertained that this is not the case. Many pus
saes went up to sae him us the !after-part of the day of the
some of whom dropped their sovereign, as a mark of their estima-
tion of his bravery.
It is not probable that he will be in a state fit to be removed for
some days. O'Neil, his countryman, who went into the ring with
him, attends him constantly. Spring arrrived in London on Wed-
nesday ; he suffers much pun from his hands, particularly his right
one. Ile went up to see Langan before he left Chichester, and we
hear that he generously gave the brave fallen man ten pounds.
It is supposed that the injury done to Spring's fists is such that
it will be impossible for him, were he disposed, to tight again!
Langan seems to have calculated on the effect. of his iron head
upon his adversary's knuckles, and in this he was right : he ran
in head-foremost, regardless of the most tremendous blows on that
nob, which, if we considered nothing but its hardness, we should
suppose could have no room in it for brains: it must
the phrenologists. In the other prominent point of his
ing,
his attempts to throw, he was disappointed, and evidently ex-
hausted his strength in fruitless efforts. Spring is evidently much
improved in this respect since his fight at Worcester. Like a ski'.
ful general, he hu been strengthening the point where the attack
was meditated. He has been, no doubt, incessant in practising
wrestling ; and Langan, though eminently qualified for that sport
by nature, can scarcely be considered a first-rate one in art. After
all, though the Irishman was no match for Spring in science or
length, it was no sinecure to thump such a piece of stuff as Langan
for two hones. Those who wish to know the thing practically
may just amuse their knuckles for half an boor against • stone
wall. Even in the way of punishment, Spring's friends are asto-
nished at what he has received.
Langan's courage was extraordinary ; and the manliness and
good humour of Spring were not less remarkable. About the 21st
round, when he thought he had won, he wished to let his man
down gently, but Langan rallied, and he found that it was neces-
sary to go seriously to work. So again, in the list round.
The battle, as a whole, has been very unlike some of those dis-
graceful buying and selling crossing transactions which have of
late disgraced the Ring and if halt a community can be amused
in this way, it certainly is " a cheaper delight of nations" than a
war im E or even the bombarding of Algiers.
Spring'sroMends bare many of them lost money in bets on time.
The battle really lasted 1 hour and 54 minutes.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL, Joss It

The Betting-room was but thinly attended. No betting took
place on any thing but the only stake in nomination (the Doseastat
St. Leger), nothing being said upon any thing at Ascot next week.
The principal conversation was on the fight between Spring and
Langan, the losings on which event were readily paid. An acc
rate statement or betting will be Wand below

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DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
9 to 2 agst Brutendorff 12 to 1 apt Osmond
9 to 1 apt Swirl 15 to 1 apt Caccia Piatti
II to I agst Altisidora 16 to 1 apt Mustachio
12 to 1 apt Canteen 28 to 1 agat any other.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—CORONER'S INQUEST.—
Yesterday a Coroner's inquest was held on the body of a prena
unknown, at the Red Lion Inn, Le too-tone, in the parish of bet.
ton, Essex. The Coroner was W. Gibson, Esq. The Jury
baring been sworn, proceeded to view the body, wluch was epo-
sited in a shell, in the stable of the Red Lion. Several of the
Jury had seen the deceased before, but weld not particularly re-
cognise him, as the body was stripped, haviug only the grace-
clothes about it in the shell ; the countenance appeared quite
placid, haring nornarks of violence about it. Henry Worley stated
that be was a gardeeer, and worked in the nursery of Mr. Hill, of
beytonstone. At a quarter put six on Wedesday morning, as he
was going up the walk in the nursery-ground to work, be saw a
man lying in the left-hand cross walk; on going up to him be
found the deceased on his face, fiat to the ground, and a variety
of young plants (American shrubs), fourteen or fifteen in number•
fresh pulled up, beside him. Witness went up to the decoded.
and found him warns, but after speaking to him several times. he
r2ecived no answer--he was quite dud and mei:Males. The Jury.
. alter a short deliberation, found the following verdict :—•• Ths:
the deceased, a .n unknown, was hand i:ud in the gronrels t.)!
Mr. Mill, and that he bad come to his death in a tit of apop4ell.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN YOJIR
era of the arrangements in the pavement, on our market-dal. k4'
often bun a matter of oomphint, the jostler of which was, ise
turday last, Gully exemplified. A poor industrious woman, of On
name of Meyncll, whose bus:and is a labouring man residind
North-street, was in the act cf cheapening some biome, Oar the
corner of All Saints' Church. vibe-. she •vu thrown down by s can
which was passing at the ordinary pace • the wheel welt au het
head, and she was so severely injured, that she died shortly ion du
had been removed into an adjoining public-house. The pour
titan hits left five children to lament her loss, one of whom is not
in the county hospital, in consequence of a broken kg, aura bl
an accident about three weeks ago. An inquest was held on th?
body on Saturday evening, and a verdict of %• Acciucntal dont:
returned.— York ['curette.

DIED.
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At Dromoland, county Clare, the infant daughter of Sir EllO5
O'Brien, Dart. M.P.
Wednesday, at his house in South Audley.street, Thomas Chi'
wilier, Esq. Y.R.S. FAA., and F.D.S., Swoon Elm-
ordioarY to the King, and Protium of Anatomy and SIAM 1')
the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
Very suddenly, at Newark, in the 78th year of h:s age. %Vilna!
Sealand, one of the firm believers, to his last moments, 10 the tr""
aim of Johanna Southcott. _

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