The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEIMER 11, 1863.

WESTMINSTER.

SErtots ROBBERY OF A FAMILY.—James Ryan, a
youth of eighteen, was placed at the bar charged with
stealing a garden-full of linen from the model-lodging build-
ings, Fulham-road.
Thomas Sanks, a journeyman plasterer, with a wife and
family, said that on Friday last the linen, which had been
washed, was hung out in the garden at the rear of the
house. At about half-past seven in the evening he had
occasion to go into the garden, and then saw the linen safe,
He immediately afterwards went out, and as he did so he saw
the prisoner at the end of the entranee, who was making.
some remark about the model lodging-houses to some others,
as though to divert attention. Witness thought prisoner's
conduct so suspicious that he would have gone back to
tell his wife to take the linen in, but was so pressed for
time as to be unable to do so. When he returned home at
nine o'clock he found the garden had been stripped of
this linen. Prosecutor here enumerated a vast
number of articles of clothing indispensable to the
cleanliness and comfort of a family. Last night
prosecutor saw the prisoner in company with one
of the same boys he had with him on Friday, and gave him
into custody.
Ann Consahause said she saw two lads come from the
direction of the garden on the night the clothes were stolen.
Mary Ann Gowan said that on Friday night the prisoner
was near the prosecutor's, and asked her the way to the
model lodgings.

Prisoner—l was not there at all that night.
WELL Hunt, 107 B—l took prisoner, and I found this
dress (not identified) tucked up in the rafters of the house
where ho lives. I asked his father if he knew anything
about it, and he said he did not.

Joseph M'Grath proved seeing the prisoner near the
garden on the night in question. He observed theta last
night and called the prosecutor.
Mr. Selfe—ls there anything known of the prisoner ?
Dennis, the gaoler—He has been in custody before, but
has not been convicted.

Prisoner—Well, I was here, but I was not done any.
thing to.
Prisoner was remainded.

MARKETS---This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to this morning's
market were very moderate. Good and fine samples moved
off steadily at full prices; otherwise the trade was dull, at
about Monday's currency.

The supply of foreign wheat on sale was by no means
extensive. The demand for all descriptions, however, was
in a sluggish state, but no alteration took place in the
currency.
Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates.
The supply of barley on sale was large, and the trade
ruled heavy, at about previous quotations.
Malt sold heavily, at barely late rates.
With oats the market was very moderately supplied.
The trade, however, was far from active ; nevertheless
prices ruled firm.
Beans met a slow sale, or former terms. For poas, the
demand ruled inactive, at late rates.
In flour only a moderate business was transacted at pre;
vious currcnc!cs.

Tuxi5.ai....t.W1120113.:6:0 Finn'
English." 390 720 1330
1,210
1010 eke,
Irish.. iiihesAt..EßßlLAleleyS.
210 2100
Foreign 9,810 26,250 . _
C,O?0 brie.

NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL.
The supply of moat on sale at these markets is moderately
large. Generally speaking, the demand is less active, and
prices rule somewhat easier.
Per 81b. by the carcase.
selsd
Inferior beef .. 3 0 3 2
Middling do. .. 3 4 3 8
Prime large do. 3 10 4 0
Do. small d 0... 4 2 4 4
Large pork .... 3 6 4 0
Inferior mutton. 3 6 3

edsd
Middling mutton 3 10 4 2
Prime do ....... 4 4 4 6
Vaa1........... 3 8 4 8
Small pork 4 2 4 6
Lamb ........ 0 0 0 0

BOROUGH HOP•

We have to report a firm trado for all good and fine hops
at fully previous rates. For inferior produce, however, the
supplytrade i s 0 dull, nflol
r, andei
gn thehop quotations uo out as tai
loen
iss are
tolerably
large.
Mid
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sndEasetnlitsents £4 lOs to £9 Os per owt.
W
4 108 to 6 55
~
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4 lOs to 6 Os
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Yearlings
Olds .
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of K 1
10s to 3 lOs '
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Bayed= 5 &to 8 Os
Belgian
American ..... 558 to 6 Os ::

COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—There has been a good speculative demand,
and an advance of is Gd to 2s per cwt hbaesenbeaecntiavues,taatineend.:
hßaucriscoi eey(eiFsrisa:
it:
en. hAe
gerefinedod
demandm arket has
has
alsobee
n experienced for
colonial descriptions, and plantation Ceylon has advanced
to Gd per cwt.
TEA,--At the public sales there has been rather more ani-
manadtiopnr,icaensd
have
prices
againhashown
e slightlya slight
siadvanced.gt
FRUIT.—Tho public sales have proceeded very slowly,
went. downward move-

TALLOW.---Business has cintinued inactive. P.Y.C. on
to 42s 9d per cwt,
the spot id quoted 40e 9d to 41s, and sPring delivery 41s 9d

THE GREAT FIGHT FOR £2,000,

The contest yesterday between Heenan and King ter-
minated, as the public already knows, in the unexpected
but absolute defeat of the former. All through the even-
ing of Wednesday the sporting houses were besieged with
inquirers and tipplers, and, therefore, it was not extra-
ordinary that when four o'clock, the hour named, arrived
the approaches to London-bridge Station, the place named,
was crowded with those who meant to go and those who
wished to go, and those who looked upon the occasion in
the way that they look at a Lord Mayor's show, or a great
fire. A number of policemen of the M division kept a lino
to the great gate of the South-Eastern Railway, through
tho wicket of which those who had the money for the
tickets were allowed to pass.

Notwithstanding the vigilance of the police at the doors,
despite the necessity of showing the tickets before being
admitted to the platform, although every possible cheek
was established, not a few fellows unprovided with the essen-
tial pasteboard managed to get into or about the carriages.
Some of them, it was said, had even got on the line at New-
cross, and thence walked up, attempting when they reached
the terminus to take an empty carriage by storm ; some
others had ensconced themselves during the previous even-
ing in some of the spare carriages lying at the station, biding
their time patiently until the hour appointed. But the
railway officials were more than a match for these clever
patient people ; they instituted a thorough search under the
seats, on the roofs, and under the very carriages, the result
of their scrutiny being the discovery of some 20 roughs,
whose ingenuity in eluding the vigilance of the ticket-cel-
lectors certainly deserved a better fate,
Never was a secret of such a kind better kept, and
the wide-awakes who "knew the exact spot to a yard,"
found themselves neck deep in the mire, after a fashion
they little calculated on. The cut-purse family, wiping
the frosty icicles from their noses in the west when
they should have been looking out for squalls in the
south-eastern horizon. The delightful result was that the
"congregation" of the fistic art passed easily through the
thin dark line of weary and worn snapper badgers. The
arrangements of the "conveyancers" were most excel-
lent; everybody was comfortably "taken in and
done for," whilst the presence of the ring constable
volunteers sent the foot of authority down with a
crash upon all attempts at " rigging the market."
In fact, one would think that we were all going to see an
early ploughing match, whilst the " Yahoo" business
didn't rise as high as the song of an old tea-kettle. And
that ugly element was wise in the course it was constrained
to adopt—had it done otherwise there was force enough
present to have brought every atom of it to grief. Both
the men reached the ground in good time, and both had
their fair quantity of supporters, who would persist in
blocking up each carriage door so that the entrance of a
breath of air was almost next to an impossibility.
The train consisted of ;f0 carriages, in each of which, to
use a theatrical phrase, there was not standing room. We
were " horsed" by two powerful engines, and, at about a
quarter-past six we glided out of the station without the
least confusion, and with the greatest regularity in the
world. The morning:stars were just beginning to show
signs of that glimmering faintness which indicates the near
approach of daybreak, Once the train got in motion,
not a sound was to be heard save the outburst of some
occasional hearty laugh at the jocularity going on inside.
But even this was of the mildest possible character,
and there was an entire absence of that reprehensive boiste-
rous outpouring which has too often awoke the slumbering
people along the route, filling their half-dreamy imagina•
tions with the horror that the Philistines were veritably
upon them. We were more than half afraid that the new
plan of paying at the doors would have been productive of
the direst confusion. Fortunately for us, any mystery had
been so well ravelled that there was really nothing to pro-
duce interruption. Had there been a regular mob gather-
ing, we are strongly inclined to the opinion that not one of
the "excursionists" would have been able to have reached
the ticket window. However, as things turned out so far,
we raised our hands and felt grateful. On casting a quiet
running glance round the interior of each carriage, before
we started we found the genuine patrons of our national
manly "trial by battle" in very strong force indeed. We
heard one and all join in a universal chorus of satisfac-
tion at the way in which we had been got off. On and
on we- rolled through the fair county of Kent, and as
the grey dawn of morning rose eastward on our track
the mild fresh breeze played upon our half-asleep
faces, waking us up to a sense of life and activity that was
as agreeable as is was invigorating. The morning
was
beautiful and mild, and way now to our left the bright blue
tinged light of early day could be seen breaking gently and
softly, widening and lengthening as it imperceptibly came,
in a manner that would have excited the warm admiration
of a Claude or a Turner. Still on and onward we go
through deep cuttings and over high embankments; anon
the iron horses slacken in their speed, and the next instant
the reverberating sounds of our whirling wheels tell us we
are passing through the bowels of mother earth. On
emerging from the Mud into the open country our ears
were saluted with voices that unmistakeably marked the
owners as denizens of the aristocratic regions west of Re-
gent-street. Speculation made itself heard, and 6 and 7 to
4 on the Benicia Boy seemed to be the chorus of the song.
Just as we could distinguish houses and buildings suffi-
ciently clear the train glided noiselessly into Reigate
Junction, where we were " regaled " by the sight of
a strong covey of early birds belonging to the Surrey
County Constabulary. It is needless to say that they
were not there on our invitation, we considered them more
free than welcome, and following the prudent and time-
honoured examples of those philosophic predecessors of
theirs, Masters Dogberry and Verges of blessed memory,
we stole ourselves out of their company with all possible
alacrity and despatch. A thin white frosty veil of mist
floated over the landscape as we again got in full swing,
whilst the leaden coloured clouds, as they lay heavy and
motionless overhead, gave us cause for grave anxiety, but
as our fears were rising to an uncomfortable grade on our
nervous thermometer, in we rushed to another tunnel,
When we issued forth we made a series of weather-
wise surveys all round us, and were joyed to find the
dark curtain lifting evenly and gradually up on our
right, whilst on the opposite side the bright broken
patches encouraged our most earnest hopes. Another turn
of the steam-valve, and away we sped at over forty miles
an hour; wood and dell, hamlet and village, and cottage
and mansion seemed to fly by like the magic of the kalei-
doscope, and the question of the journey's end took the
place of other topics for the moment. A few miles further
on and we shot by Tunbridge Wells. At length we drew
up in a secluded and well-selected spot, where we got out,
yawned, stretched ourselves, and gulped in the sharp
morning air most voraciously. On account of the ex-
treme softness of the ground it was some time before a
decent place could be found. At this hour, about a
quarter past nine o'clock, the sun was shining out
as magnificently as on a fine May morning, and as we
toiled some mile and a half up a steep clayey hill, the 'stuff'
was taken out of many. At length a chosen spot was
taken possession of, and the ring pitched. King first tossed
in his castor amid loud cheers, and was immediately fol-
lowed by Heenan, who was similarly received. Colours
were now unfolded on both sides, and the combatants began
to dress. The choice of ground was won by Heenan, and
then came the referee. Some wrangling here took place in
respect to that functionary, during which the betting went
on with offers at 40 to 20, &c. on Heenan, but there did
not seem to be any takers. Confusion now became the
ruling element, wasting away precious time on the top of
a hill that could be seen for 20 miles around. There were
the men and their seconds ready, while the referee was ex-
pected to come from the clouds. Three quarters of an hour
was spent in this way before matters were,finally closed, and
the referee originally proposed was ultimately agreed to.
Heenan was the first to exhibit, to the loud cheers of his
admirers, and was instantly followed by King, for whom
another salvo rose up from the throats of his own party.
Exactly at 10 o'clock the men were delivered at the scratch,
shook hands, and prepared to commence
The manner of the men on their entrance to the ring was
thoroughly characteristic. King had a serious and thought-
ful aspect, and gazed about the ground with a careful
scrutiny that foreshadowed the anxiety which throughout
the fight he never ceased to exhibit. Heenan, on the other
hand, entered with a light and jaunty step, briskly shook
hands with his opponent, and at once turned his attention
to the choice of the ground. The popular feeling in favour
of Heenan was manifestly increased, by the superior hearti-
ness and confidence of his bearing. Many extraordinary
wagers were offered and accepted, " 20 to 7" being a fre-
quent cry. At a few minutes past 10 o'clock the ring was
fairly cleared, the spectators were subdued into comparative
tranquillity, and the real work of the day began.
The following is an account of the " rounds," as pub-
lished in a special edition of Bell's Lift :
with his
Round 1. Heenan stood forward and made play
left, both trying to measure their distance; sonle"w
,
T
sparring ensued, an exchange or two, when Seenan aaarm
and closed, grasping King by the neck with. to hold his
21
and put on the old-fashioned hug, c"tintliz%e
man in such a way that the referee entered!
1:1 a
strictly cautioned him not to repeat ring and
that operation I
simi-
lar manner.
oucountering by both,
as he came to the
2. King made the fighting as
scratch. There wee some attenrp
wild, and very plain.
taaat
of the most homely description, varY
and threw him
Heenan rushed on King, got the huguatghae Men being lifted
like a sack of malt on the grass.
Heenan was found to be bleeding from.
(Cheers.)
their or the mouth. First
blood was claimed and allowed to Kingw k
in earnest, and
3, Both men bent down to
came up with great caution,
exchanges Heenan again put
trying to operate with a will,
when after some hard
the hug on, and threw King on the ropes with an
awful spank,
that bowed in every stake in the ring.
More cheering for
Heenan, with counter cheers of
King's corner. All was now go-
-I:at,hdeerehdop tone from
eless
against King, except the first blood,
4. King came up with a " muse', rather visibly under
his left eye. They went to work in this round in a manner
that showed the indications of the slashing business that
was to follow. From lleenan again running in for the hug
after fighting King to his (Het:flares) corner, grasping him
and throwing him very forcibly, it was obvious that he
meant to fight Waling but a wrestling fight; the fists to be

only very subordinate agents in the business. T. 'lie called
forth loud expressions of disapprobation.
5. Both men came up smiling at one another, at d, after
feinting, King took his distance as quick as lightnini 'it', and
let fly a tremendous right-handed thunderbolt ag linst
Heenan's left ear, that went " thud" all over the ring, As
it a person had struck a bale of cloth with a cudgel—,-,
deafening cheers for King. Scarcely had the sounds sub-
sided, when King, following up his advantage with terrible
meaning in it, launched a fellow on Heenan's temple,. cross -
countered, and tried to follow it up, but fell short in his
delivery, his right being out of distance; Heenan, in de-
spair, hugged again, and threw his antagonist. (Tremen-
dous cheering.)
6. The "slogging" business began at this round, There
was no science, nor did there seem to be an attempt at it,
Beth men went in ding-dong, struck out wildly, like dray-
men quarreling over their beer, when Heenan finished the
round by again getting King's nob in chancery and put-
ting the hug on, which he used for a throw. What few
hits were exchanged were not of the slightest moment in
their effects upon the issue of the contest.

7. Give and take, as our grandfathers did, now became
the order of the day, and these great heavy men lunged at
one another as if not only £2,000, but 2,000 of the bast lives
in Britain were depending upon the winner. A few seconds
more hammering, when Heenan again was obliged to fly to
his favou: ite embrace, caught King and cross-buttocked
him so fearfully that the man must have left his own im-
press upon the earth. People actually held their breath for
a moment, and felt relieved when the men were carried to
their corners. During this round King gave Heenan a
rattling sledger on the nese with his right, and brought
the blood down in a stream (cheers and counter cheers.)
8. On "Time" being called, both were up and actively
at work. No reconnoitring, or backing, or ducking to get
away. Toe the mark was now the word ; some rapid coun-
tering took place. Heenan went in, when the hugging
mechanism was brought into action, but this time failed
woefully, for King turned the tables, and floored his ante.
gonist. (Immense cheering for Tom, and cries of " He'll
win yet.")

9. Both sharp to time. King let out his right, and struck
Heenan tremendously about the head. Heenan closed and
threw King again.
10. Express speed had now began in earnest, King lad-
ing out heavily with both fists, closing, and after a struggle
was thrown.
11. Heenan began to show the pace was telling on him.
Coming up, he caught and threw King very heavily. it
sounded like oxen falling out of a cart.
12. Not more than a minute, Heavy exchanges about
the head, and at the close King threw Heenan heavily.
(Loud cheering for King.)
13. Some heavy countering about
.the head on both sides,
when Heenan closed, throwing King as before.
14. Heenan met King at the very outset with a fearful
punch from the latter's right hand; some sharp hitting,
and another heavy fall for King. Notwithstanding all
this throwing advantage Heenan seemed to show nearly as
much distress as King.
15. It was now plainly seen that the rate of going was
telling powerfully on both men. Heenan showed unmis-
takeable symptoms of uncommon rapid "travelling," and
the balance, notwithstanding all his wrestling good luck,
was beginning to draw against him. In this round both
men went as if at parish bell practice. After some long
swinging raps on each side, Heenan shot out his right
hand with such terrific effect that King actually staggered
and reeled like a drunken man from the force of the blow,
ultimately falling into one of the seats in his corner. It was
thought that he had mined tail, and would not face the
storm again. This;was the first genuine knock down blow,
and it certainly sounded and looked like something strong
enough to shake the foundations of any structure in the
shape of humanity. Immense cheering then must have
made the adjoining valleys reverberate in echo.
16. In this round Heenan began to show *hat fortune
was gliding fast from him. He came up with a dreadful
eye after the last round, whilst the blood flowed copiously
from all over his face. King went in upon some more
country practice au naturel, when Heenan sent him down
after a savage struggle.

17. In this round the excitement became so tremendous
that all regulation about inner ring, or any ring, was swept
to the winds. Men rushed madly about and yelled with
the frantic energy of despair. King's huge Cyclopean
blows about Heenan's head--especially the temples—so
swelled up the parts that he began to look in a sad plight.
His eye was in a frightful state, as King had made several
sudden successful shoulder hits with his right apon it. The
latter rtood well behind his fist, and he certainly did not let
then live the life of idleness. He became so exasperated at
the awful huggings to which he had been welcomed and
treated, that it could be seen he went in to batter the enemy
to pieces. As he faced his man, he seemed by his firm, com-
pressed lips, to say to himself " King and courage" must be
my motto after this day. He too looked so far gone that it
seemed extremely doubtful whether he would be able to
" toe" again to the call of the referee. But he revived won-
derfully, and so raised the expectations of his friends that
the people swayed to and fro in a dreadful state of excite-
ment. From this to the 24th and last round, one was so
much like the other and so short that it would be utterly
impossible to detail them. King went ahead in a perfect
gallop, and on time being called for the 25th round, the
sponge was thrown up by Heenan'a seconds in token of his
defeat. He was dreadfully punished, and should never
have been permitted to have passed beyond the 21st round.
The cheers that made the " welkin ring" were such as
cannot possibly be imagined. King presented no visible
marks of punishment except the " mouse on his eye."
Such was the end of the fight, after nearly 40 minutes of
hard, quick, desperate fighting, between two of the most
powerful men that probably have ever entered the ring. It
was fought out fairly ana truly to the bitter end, neither
man taking any advantage of the other. No hand was
laid upon them but that of their own seconds from the mo-
ment they both entered the ring until the American was
laid senseless, bruised and beaten out of all semblance of
the man who in the pride of manhood and strength had
stood there only half an hour before.
There were great cheers as King won, to which for
a few moments he was very deaf, for the page had been
rapid, and, all-powerful as he was, the heavy falls
had shaken his vitality, and the giant who had strode into
the ring an overmatch for all could scarcely close his
fingers round the glass of water which was to keep him
from fainting. Yet there must be a soul of goodness even
in things evil, for the first really conscious thought that
flitted through his mind was a wish to make friends with
his late antagonist, and as he said it he lunged heavily
through the crowd of his admirers to a little knot of carious
lookers-on, amid whom what seemed the corpse of the re
doubtable Heenan now lay. Sayers was with him, and
kept with him ; but better advice was needed than any
pugilist ought to be called upon to give ; for Heenan, though
not nearly so much punished as when he fought at
Farnborough, was evidently much more injured. He
was pulseless at the wrists, and even over the heart the
palpitation was fluttering, faint, and low. Yet he had not
fainted. It was the insensibility of exhaustion, the sheer
want of vitality, though almost till he collapsed so suddenly
he was supposed to be the winner. One man was trying to
heave up his immense inanimate form, while another strip-
ped the wet drawers, stained deep with his own blood, from
the stunned athlete. There was a dreadful significatee
in
the way in which he was hauled about limb by limb. as
warmer clothes were dragged over his unconscious love,
like dressing a corpse. Yet no ono seemed to mind
for all were crowding round the victor, who, with very littlea
signs of punishment about his face, came gailY UP icy ga
train back to town. Heenan was left with his icon s
the field he had fought to win.