The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-11 00:00:00

PUGILISM.

(From Bell's Life.)
JOE COBURN AND JEM MACE—THE MATCH

MADE.

According to agreement, Jem Mace, accompanied by Mr
Abrahams, his backer, met Joe Coburn and Cusack, at our
office, on Friday, June 10, for the purpose of settling the
knotty points which last week prevented their coming
together, and we are glad to say, although matters looked
stormy at the commencement, the conference terminated in
an amicable and satisfactory manner. The question of the
amount to be fought for was first re opened, and Coburn at
first offered to fight for £3OO a side even, but finally agreed
to go on upon the terms of the original challenge, viz , for
£5OO a side, Mace giving him £lOO at the last deposit for
expenses. Then rose the point as to a referee. At start-
ing, Coburn would hear of nothing but choosing that
official on the day, while Mace wished to delegate the power
of selectirn to us, or else to appoint a meeting a week before
fighting to select him. By degrees, however, Jem, who
seemed to relish his job, gave way, and Coburn making one
step to meet him, ti.), agreed to meet either personally or
by deputy the day before the fight, and choose a referee.
The place of fighting was the'last point of dispute, but was
got over without difficalty, it being arranged that a meeting
should take place 10 days before the battle, when, if no
agreement can be made, the choice of place is to be tossed
for. The following articles will put our readers in posses-
sion of all the arrangements that have been Ma de :

Articles of agreement entered into this 10th day of June,
1861, between James Mace, of London, and Joseph
Coburn, of New York.

" The said James Mace agrees to fight the said Joseph
Coburn a fair stand-up fight, according to the Rules of the
Ring of the Pugilistic Benevolent Association ; the fight to
come off on Tuesday, October 4, above 20 and under 100
miles from Dublin, for £5OO a side. The actual place to be
mutually agreed on, or tossed for, on Sept. 22. Coburn to
receive from Jem Mace the sum of £lOO for expenses when
the whole of the money is to be made good. The referee to
be chosen the day before fighting. In case of magisterial
or other interference the referee to name the next time and
place. The Editor of Bells Life in London to be the final
stakeholder. In pursuance of this agreement £5O a side is
now staked, and the remainder shall be deposited in sums of
£5O a side until the last, which shall be made £lOO a side,
at a house to be named by Mace. The next deposit of £5O
a side shall be wade at 'Nat .I.Asugutuu-e, uue mare, Uppc
St. Martin's-lane, on Tuesday, June 21; and the remainder
of the money by six fortnightly instalments of £5O each, on
days to be named in time for insertion in .Bell's Life of the
previous Saturdays. The expenses of the ropes and stakes
to le mutually divided. The men to be in the ring between
12 and one o'clock.

~ In pursuance of this agreement we hereunto attach our
names.

"JAMES MACH.
"JOSEPH COBURN."

This document being duly signed and witnessed, the men
shook hands cordially, and took their departure, Coburn to
Manchester, from whence he will doubtless make other
starring excursions, and Mace to his tura tl routine in the
sparring world. We shall not fail to keep our readers
"fly" to the various moves of the belligerents, which will
doubtless be watched with eager interest. Coburn informs
us he is 29 years of age, having been born July 20, 1835,
in the county Armagh. Mace requests us to state that,
although born at Beeston, in Norfolk, he, too, is of Irish
descent on his mother's side, so that, alth afgh many ren-
sationists will doubtless talk of the match as " interna-
tional," it is realty nothing of the kind, both men being
actually subjects of the British Crown.

Thirty-three Persons Poisoned at Bir-
mingham,

By order of the London and North Western Railway
Company, Messrs. Ludlow and Daniell, auctioneers, New-
street, were engaged on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes-
day, in selling by auction, at the Curzon-street goods eta.
lion, a large quantity of unclaimed goods, accumulated at
the station during the past 12 months or more. Amongst
these unclaimed goods were three or four sacks of a poison-
ous nut called jatropha nuts—sweet and pleasant to the
taste, but poisonous. They are useful in some branch of in-
dustry—we believe an uil is extracted from them. These
nuts were allowed to be scattered about the floor, and yes-
terday some boys employed in the sheeting department ad-
joining the place in which the sale was carried on obtained
access to them and carried quantities of them home in their
pockets. These boys ate the nuts themselves, and treated
their friends with them, and the consequence was that
above 30 persons were taken so ill that they were brought
to the General Hospital yesterday, some of them quite in-
sensible. The scene in the surgery as so many persons suf-
fering from poison presented themselves at once for treat-
ment may be more easily imagined than described. Dr
Russell, Dr Anderson, and the whole medical staff of the
hospital were engaged in administering emetics and such
other remedies as were deemed expedient. Some of the su'-
ferers had eaten so freely of the nuts, and were consequently
so much affected by them, that fears were entertained for
their lives, but vi e are glad to be able to state that it is now
considered they are all out of danger; 20 of those who were
most ill were put to bed in the hospital, the others were
discharged after the proper remedies had been administered
to them and they had received advice for their own guid-
ance afterwards. When there was time for making leisurely
inquiries it was ascertained that the boys and the persons
whom they treated had the nuts and were eating them from

time to time between 12 and 1 o'clock. Some of them ate
only three or four when they were taken ill, others experi-
enced no ill effects till they had eaten two handfuls. The
first symptom was vomiting, accompanied by some, but not
much pain in the region of the stomach. This came on in
two hours or more after the nuts had been swallowed; they
were eaten between 12 and 2, and it was a quarter after 4
when the patients were brought to the hospital. Purging
and depression were the next symptoms. This applies to
an adult who had eaten only four. The boys who ate large
quantities became drowsy in half an hour afterwards; their
pupils were dilated, they became quite pale, and they suf-
fered from great depression.

The total number treated at the hospital up to last night
was 33. Several of the patients were then still in a critical
condition, but it was hoped that they would recover during
the night.—Birminghon Gazette.