The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-24 00:00:00

HENDON HANDI?Ar.

Neilghory
Visitor
Ned of the Hills

Six ran.
WARNER PURSE.

Vision
Chetnieette
Polly Hopkins

Eight ran.

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE-

MENTS.

Sept 19, at 3 p.m.. Stockowner, out of all engagements in
1864. After 6 p.m., Earl of Surrey, out of Margate Han-
dicap Plate--The Doe, out of Great Eastern Railway Han-
dicap.

Sept 20, at 9 a.m., King Cotton, out of all engagements
in Mr Nightingall's name, except Harpenden and Bedford-
shire Stakes—The Clown, out of Richmond and Caledonian
Hunt engagements—Cutler and Fan, out of Manchester
engagements—Terror, out of Chesterfield Handicap, Man-
chester—All Mr W. S. Cartwright's horses out of Mon-
mouth engagements, 1861—At 5 50 p.m., Glenochty colt,
out of all engagements to date—At 7 p.m. (to Mr Johnson,
of York) My Mary, out of Manchester engagements.
Sept 21, at 9 a.m., Adventurer, out of Great Eastern
Railway and Newmarket October Handicaps.
Sept 22, at 9 a.m., Moulsey, out of Great Eastern Rail-
way and Newmarket October Handicaps—Despair and
Mountain Buck, out of Newmarket October Handicap.
Sept 23, at 9 a.m., National Guard and Newmarket, out
of all engagements, 1864—Lufra, out of the Great Eastern
Railway Handicap—All Sir J. Hawley's horses out of en-
gagements at First October Meeting, except Woldga in the
Great Eastern Handicap, and Houri in the Hopeitel Stakes
and 30 soy Stakes for two year old fillies.

PUGILISM,

(Fro»z. .Bell's Lifed
JOE COBURN AND JEM MACE.

The final deposit for this match, making the.Zl,ooo down,
was duly posted at Harry Brunton's, George and Dragon,
Beech-street, Barbican, on Tuesday, Sept. 20—but although
a considerable number of persons were present, in anticipa-
tion of some arrangement being come to for a choice
of a place of fighting, they were doomed to disap-
pointment, no one attending with any authority to arrange
matters on behalf of Coburn, It was now supposed that
Coburn's friends, wishing matters to be kept snug, in-
tended following our advice, and meeting Brunton privately
at our office the next day—but this supposition proved as
vain as the anticipations of the previous night, no one
whatever putting in an appearance. We at once concluded
that Joe intended adhering strictly to the articles, and that
the 22d, the day named in the articles, would be selected
by him—but that day also passed not only without our hear-
ing from him or his friends, but also without any sign from
Brunton on behalf of Mace, a circumstance at which we
were not a little surprised. On Friday, however, Harry
Brunton attended, prepared to act for Mace, and ex-
pressed his surprise that Coburn had not communicated
with him on the subject. Here he was joined by Nat Long-
horn, who has nominally represented Coburn in this country
—but, on our questioning Nat, ho said ho had no authority
to toss, and was quite as much in the dark as to what Joe's
intentions were as ourselves. This increased the difficulty
of the position, and we began to hive fears as to the re-
sult, but, fortunately, in the nick of time Mr. E. James,
editor of the New York Clipper, made his appearance at
our office as a properly qualithd representative of Coburn ;
and after a few preliminaries, he and Harry Bi unton tossed
for the choice of place, and agreed that the winner should
give
the loser notice on Friday next, at a house in the
neighbourhood of Dublin, of the intended trysting place.
The toss was won by Mr James, and, so far as arrange-
ments could then be made, all terminated amicably and
satisfactorily. Before parting it was further agreed that
the representatives of the men should meet between 1 and
3 on Monday, Oct. 3, at the same house, where the notice
is to be given to agree upon a referee.
During the week we have had several communications
from Mace, two from Liverpool and one from Manchester,
in each of which he represents himself as better than ever
he was in his life. He states that he shall be bigger than
in any of his former battles, and will weigh about list 51b.
From Coburn, as we have stated, we have no direct ac-
counts, but rumour states that he is doing good work, and
although, perhaps, still a little fleshy, is getting himself into
excellent fettle. We have still heard of but little betting,
nor does the excitement appear to increase, as it did on the
eve of the great fight between Tom Sayers and Heenan.
This is doubtless in a great measure owing to the prevail-
ing belief that the mill will not come off. A very general
feeling exists, amounting almost to a certainty, that the
authorities in Ireland will not permit the fight, and this
being se, people seem to take it into their heads that Co- '
burn will stick to the strict letter of the articles, and a draw
will be the result. This we can hardly believe will be the
case, and we have every confidence that when the eventful
time arrives both will be at their posts, and that no unfair
advantage will be attempted on either side, Mr James in-
forms us that in New York there is quite as much betting
as on the Sayers and Heenan match, and that anything
above 5 to 4 on Mace is eagerly taken.
Nat Langham starts this day for Ireland to give his
counsel to Joe Coburn. Telegrams will be sent daily to
the Mitre, St Martin's-lane, with all the tips, and the re-
sult of the fight will be known within a few hours after its
decision.

TriZ." RUSSIANS IN THE BLACK SEA,—The Mona-
teur de la 27.1 P
tte publishes a letter from Soukoum'
in the Black Sea, gi,„ng an account of the taking possession
of Adler by the Russian L: pops, a fortress which they had
abandoned at the commencern, !'t of the last war. The
writer states that the 2Sth of Apn-.il was the day fixed
i
for the embarkation of the Rus, an troops at
Soukoum. Seven steam corvettes, one fn.181)0d, five
cutters, and three sailing ships wore assemi,2ed in
the nils. The two preceding days Mere employed in
embarking the provisions an d baggage cf the army. Ten
Stages were erected to facilitate the embarkation of the
troops, who were carried to the ships in eight Cossack
boats, four pont)ons, and 16 barges—sufficient to con-
vey 2,000 troops at each trip. The boats arrived at the
stages at half-past eight in the morning ;at nine a shot
from the Admiral's ship gave the signal for the troop to
enter the boats; at eleven every soldier was embarked;
and in the course of two hours, the sea being perfectly
smooth, four battalions of infantry, faur pieces of cannon,
and four companies of militia, altogether 7,000 men, were
on board the ships. At two o'clock the Commander-in-
Chief, with his staff, embarked on board the Tigre. The
ships weighed anchor and formed into two c3lumnssteere—thd
e
strongest steamers towing the sailing vessels,
for Adler, the fortress of the Holy Ghost, which was aban•
. They
cloned by the Russians at the beginning of the last war.
They arrived there on the morning of the 29,h, and at ten
all were landed—the band of the Regiment of Brivan
playing a march.
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