The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-19 00:00:00

PUGILISM.

COBH, N (THE AMERICAN) AND JELL MACE.. —The day
on which these men will meet in battle array within the
24 feet arena is rapidly drawing on. As at pi esent arrangtd,
they are to fight in Ireland on the 4th October. Of Coburn,
little is known more than by report, as he has never before
fought out of the American prize ring; but his Yankee
friends form the highest estimate of his milling attributes,

and say that on the day he enters the ring he will take
those who see him for the first time completely by sur-
prise. For some time past he has been in active training,
and the reports received from Nat Langham, who looks after
the interest of the American, are of the most satisfactory
character. Mace is, as is well known, one of the cleverest
boxers of the present time. Win or lose, this, we are in-
formed, is to be the wind-up of Mace's pugilistic career. Of
the battle money, £lOO a-side has now been deposited with
the stakeholder, and the final deposit of £lOO a-side has to
be made good on Tuesday evening next, at Harry Brunton's
The referee has to be named by the backers of the men, but
these with the other preliminaries will, there can be no
doubt, be settled at a subsequent meeting at the stake-
holders.

COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.—At a meeting of the
Council of this Corporation, on the 17th inst., the
Rev. B. H, Kennedy, D.D., of Shrewsbury, was re-elected
President of the Council for the current year, and the Rev.
Dr Collis, of Bromsgrove Grammar School, Dr W. B.
Hodgson, and Mr Joseph Payne were elected Vice-Presi-
dents. Dr E, T. Wilson, of Brixton-hill, was elected
treasurer. The Rev. Dr Wrigley, of Clapham, was elected
a member of the Council. The diploma of licentiate was
granted to Mr T. Atkin, 8.A., Cambridge,land to Mr W.
Pinches, St. Martin's-lane. The following ladies and
gentlemen wore elected members of the college :—Mr T. V.
Atkin, 8.A., Haar:: Town, Tasmania; Miss A. Ashford,
Denbigh-street, South Belgravia ; Miss G, E. Ashford,
Denbigh-street, South Belgravia ; Mr A. B. Brockwell,
Manor-house School, Birdlington Quay ; Mr James Hall,
jun.. Elvet Academy, Durham ; Mr James Haysman, St.
Paul's School. Bow-common ; Mr W. H. Hosier, Douro-
house, St. John's-wood ; Mr Robert Hurst, Grammar
School, Cavendish; Mr T. Stevens, Rutland-house, Peck-
ham ; and Mr E. Walburn, Wimbledon School.
TIIE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAIL-
wNY.--We have received a telegram from Mr M‘Henry,
the contractor of the r .ilway, stating that the journey
through from New York to St Louis had been successfully
made. A j')urney of 1,200 miles without change of carriage
is an event without precedent in the rail way world, and it
has naturally caused great excitement even in America.
The pressure of traffic on the At'antic and Great 'Western
is already enormous, and shippers at St Louis are most
anxious to enter into engagements tor the transit of pro-
duce to New York upon the line.—. Railway News.
THREE PERSONS DROWNED WHILE BATHING.—
Oa Thursday morning a melancholy scene was
presented in Bude, Cornwall, in consequence of the deaths
of Mr John Prout, grocer, Sifton, Devon, Mr Robert Prout,
his son, and Mr Loundes, of Totnes, who were drowned
while bathing. Mr Prout has been blind for some years.
Those three persons had entered the water and were carried
out of their depth by a ground swell. A gentleman named
Frost made a very heroic attempt, in which ho nearly lost
his life, to succour the drowning men, but did not succeed
in reaching them. The bodies drifted about a quarter of a
mile down the shore before they could be recovered. Mr
German, surgeon, of Derby, who is staying at the Falcon
Hotel, Bade, was very promptly in attendance, and rendered
every assistance medical aid could suggest, bat without any
beneficial results, life being too nearly extinct when the
bodies were brought on shore.

FELTON'S DAGGER.—At the recent meeting of
the Arcl zlogical Institute at Warwick, a dagger,
said to be that with which Felton stabbed the Duke of
Buckingham, was exhibited by the Earl of Denbigh. At
Southwick-park, Hants, another dagger, purporting to be
Feltou'F, is preserved in the family of Mr. Thistlethwayte.
The Duke of Buckingham, it is said, visited Southwick,
then, es new, an important mansion in that part of the
kingdom,
om. during his stay at Portsmouth; and this relic hes
been there since the time of the murder. Hence the great
probability of the genuineness of the assassin's knife.—
Notes and Queries.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT A THEATRE.—A melaneboly
accident occurred a few days back at the theatre of Magde-
burg, in Prussia, during the performance of ‘: Robert and
Bertram." The scene of a part of the first act passes in a
tower raised at a considerable height above the stage, and
while the play was in progress the tower suddenly fell to
the ground with two actors who were in it at the moment.
Those mon were both killed on the spot, an actress had her
arm separated from her body, and :a number of other persons
received injuries from the fall of the beams and planks of
which the tower was constructed.
LORD STANLEY'S VIEWS ON IRELAND.
Lord Stanley is ono of the last men to wish
what he thinks economic laws reversed, and
to lament the gravitation of labour towards
the stores of capital that stand most in need
of it. His difficulty was probably the greater
because the nature of his intellect inclines him to
regard these economical tendencies even too much
in the light of irreversible physical laws, whereas I
no doubt the truth is that they are very much under
the control of national character, so that the Dutch
or English race would probably long ago have
turned Ireland into a rich manufacturing country,
and even now, the Irish, if they could once be trained
to habits of greater self-restraint and forethought,
might in a very large degree alter the character of
the ecoOmicli laws applicable to the distribution
of capital in :hat country. But Lord Stanley is one
of the stricter economists whose habit is rather
to deceive themser.,:s by speaking of economi-
cal tendencies as .• laNaTs ;77 and he is besides
habitually too cautious to
hold out any hope
so distant as one which for its .fulfilment would
involve a steady improvement in the : ivilisation of
the lower class of the people. Nevertha2"B with
all these difficulties in his way Lord Stanley was
not driven to express his satisfaction at the strea.7l
of emigration, or even to ignore the subject. He
held out a hope. a very dim and distant one we fear
it is, that on economical grounds it may soon be
more profitable for Irishmen, as they are, to stay in
Ireland than to emigrate to the United States. It,
he said, the war in America ceases, and nearly a
million soldiers are so released for purposes of
labour in America, the rate of wages in America
will fall, and the inducement to Iriehmen to emi-
grate be materially lessened, and as at the same time
the rate of wages will probably rise slowly in Ire-
land, Lord Stanley hopes (dimly) in some approach
to equality. We fear it is but a shadow of trope.
Wages in America can scarcely sink to the Irish leye,
for centuries to come. If Ireland is not to have itsl
population much further reduced, it canle only
be by the growth of manufacturing towns B
secch
fast to absorb the till large surplus populate:int, o.f
the country districts. But Lord Stanley's
only the more characteristic for the shadowy a-
racter of this door of hope which he opened tohis
audience. With all the elements of repulsion that
must exist between the most frigid political intellect
of vngl-ed and the impulsive fancies.th of Irish. hope,
even of an Irish audience so ar triumphed as to
the disposition to adapt himself to the public opinion
he found or it was not the
help him to take up.the same atititu.de of hope—
though the reason which
reason of an Irishman, and must have seemed very
slender even to himself.--Spectator.