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

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6., Some tietermirmil kitting. which ended in another clone, and
flock wetit

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Latiraster,lnsile a right-lituntert body hit. but he diil not delietr
home, and Appeared rattier to avoid being bit again, than paying at.
tentioa to kHt.owt► delivery. initiation went down weak.
S. Au awkward wrestling round, and both distrest-eile 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 desist 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 hoiljsu and his sot', a fine lad about fifteen
years of age, was in the counting-house.—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 falling 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 three 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 addocd 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?