The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-23 00:00:00

~~~'~~l~~ a~i~b~

, ,

‘.:r,0,,p. eZ,e-ce.0...

VS PA 7, irtc

.e,..
zz CleTa' / .;,:, ..i•arg•--.7:r7TP:‘
i `',:le-,..•:4:7;,,--(*,'':'-';'k-:\ - ikift... •-•,,,, .s-WNOI \:4lt
416............"'"'".......w."'"", !, 0 algt,-)4ga_. i.'t
. ...
: ---,
".0.04"P ----,,,•
Aiic..,-k,t,r./...,^047. 0 ;e:",
THE GREAT FIGHT. I 2y ..4.6*4-1:, '..Sl',r;
, -----.-
,- , .1---
,
", •• f,,,
__ -•••,, 46, ,fit, ~ 'frig. 1 . •-,-,;4111 s 4 1
•.1 , •
' A .54.14'''''.117.., ' :t. / qr,4o
...„ )Pi • ' ' 4--7# ..r,,,,,, Air
MARK'S-CAOSS, NEAR WADHURST7 Tllkki' 'Ay- "1e....7.-.. : ':, :1'.4:"
rxst ...ilk .4 ' ;,' , ,t ' '',,)i,
~...110 N'lldh.. 1 ",. - e '., 4*
..._ ie, 1.1. . 441, -
_____., X.,,i, V::: if, 4,......,, ',‘ •
This morning the informations which had been laid aglqt
:e: y ~,,, . \••
.• ••• 4, <
~„0- ~,
, \
S
rut ~, ~, Of 4..... t-,.,': .....r. *..k q , ' .I.‘", f;4 4,J, . •
',4 ...,
l'lf' Ct ' * 4 ''-' t'',,.elf.llo
...,,.. ',..-'*- • ' t., - • x-P--
>_ .7„,,, „..t 7, , . br .1:7,---1674114,....:0.5'--- .7"311..V1it .. '412111T '.:" .4I '-'41P,..77-...4,14'.7..'1'
r?- fa- lnk- ' -4 At •t - . the principals, seconds, alders and abetters, and others bb a
•,,....4. .-
..,, ..., 4, •• *76-, ‘~, ~,.,„ .
4. . took part in the recent contest between Tom King and
. , ~, ',a DTEIf Tn.. it., .0 14 A•,,, ...tt -DR° ' Or ,c, . _
-..t.„1., ~‘„. . .-,,,,u-
~.f., ~,„ , ,--4„.
4% ',-- ...-, .
Susse- - , le magistrate, .tir

m Petty
ex, came on for hearing before the magistrates sitting
Sessions at the Justice-room at this place. The
justices present were Messrs. D. Barclay_ (chairman), E.

STAJIIPED ....sd.

Hussey, 11. Dixon, E. W. Smyth, W. C. ;Holland, G.
Field, and the Hon. F. 0. Molyneux.
The defendants, upon being called, answered as follows
—Thomas King, John Carmel Heenan, Thomas Sayer:,
James Mace, John Calvin Noon, alias Jerry Noon, JeLn
Tyler, alias Bos Tyler, Robert Travers, John Macdonald,
William Richardson, and William Preston. Edward Smith
did not answer, and Inspector Silverton, of the C division of
Land= police,who had Served the other surninonscsestatal
in reply to the Bench, that he had delivered the summons
at the place of business of the defendant, Bell's Life, in lon.
don, 170, Strand, and had been told he would attend iu the

States are dependencies of the Government which is ad
ministered at Washington. Great Britain has accordingly
entertained with that Government the closest and most

intimate relations, while refusing on its demand ordinary
amicable intercourse with us, and has, under arrange-
ments made with the other nations of Europe, not only
denied our just claim of admission into the f :roily of
nations, but interposed a passive though effectual bar to the
acknowledgment of our rights by other Powers. So soon
as it had become apparent, by the declarations of the British

Ministers, in the debates of the British Parliament in July
last, that her Majesty's Government were determined to
persist indefinitely in a course of policy which, under pro-
fessions of neutrality, had become subservient to the de-
signs of our enemy, I 'elt it my duty to recall the commis-
sioners formerly accredited to that Court, and the corres-

and a :
enwnoeranrreo_wsfiigfhttihne:
vas
afternoon.
Mr. Thomas Beard, solicitor, of 10, Basingball-street, op ,
peared for all the defendants except Heenan, Sayers, and
Macdonald.
Mr. Beard said that, as far as King was concerned, it was
not his intention to fight any more, and that he thought
the ends of justice would be fully satisfid Übe were bound
over to keep the peace. The other defendants would also
enter into similar recognisances, and as in the adjacent
county of Kent it had been considered sufficient to adopt
such a course, he hoped the bench would consider that
would be sufficient.
Heenan also assured the magistrates that, with Sayers
and Macdonald, he would enter into any sureties considered
necessary, and that, for his own part, he did not intend to
fight again.
The Chairman observed that the object was not so much
to punish as to deter others from doing the same thing, and
said that the Bench felt they must go on with the case.
The following evidence was then taken :
Mr. George Campion Courthope, a county magistrate,
said on the morning of the 10th of December, hearing the
fight was about to take place, he went to the Wadhurst
railway station, where he saw a great number of people in
a field. He went to the spot and found the space enclosed
with ropes and stakes, and two men fighting within the
ring. He knew the defendant King to be one of them, and
fightingTo
fhheri se
believed Heenan to be the other. He also sew Tom Sayers,
who acted as one of the seconds to Heenan. He thought he
saw some other of the defendants, but he could not speak
dwui net
duty,
e the
tsoe
positively to them. He endeavoured to get into the ring,
and said he was a magistrate. Some person said, " There are
two magistrates here; will you kindly act as referee, for we
are in some difficulty about one," but he declined. (Laughter.)
gentlemen. He did not speak to either of the defendants to
request them to desist, because he could not get near enough
to them.
rviesnregael. persons present why were apparently
Mr. Christopher Ellis, an exciseman, stationed at Wad-
license. He did see sp_irixtsinsogldp
hurst, said he went to the fight, and saw Heenan and King
also saw Noon and Mace. Macdonald and Sayers were in
Heenan's corner assisting him. He went there in discharge
you went merely from curiosity 11
sviosetThaeyrlosr was in in King'osldcorwnietrh.oullt He
Wm. Price, toll-collector at •Wadhurst gate, said that on
being told there was a fight close by he went to see it. He
Witness—Yes, and I would go to-
another. Who wouldn't ?
Hill, one of the Sussex constabulary saw m
r.theß
estword principals--King iln c i pal
supposes
Y'• Ne. 66, said that
having heard of the fight he went there, and found 1,200 or
1,300 people assembled. He could not get nearer the ring
than the outer rope. He saw King, Heenan, and Sayers. On
trying to get near the ring, two gentlemen handed witness
back " very politely." (Laughter.)
John A. Thompson, deputy chief constable of the Susses
constabulary, deposed that he arrived at the ring just as the
fight had apparently terminated. He saw Heenan on the
ground. King was standing up. Witness could not idea
tify any of -
the other defendants as being present, but he
noticed those two particularly.
Sohn Campany, another police-officer, who accompanied,
the last witness, identified King as being present, Witness
saw Sayers and others assisting Heenan into a chair and
dressing him. The defendant Tyler was there with King,
helping to dress him. Noon, Macdonald, and Bob Travers
were-there.
The witness saw King go round with his cap collecting
money, and Mace went with him.
Cross-examined by Mr. Beard—Witness saw nothing
done by Mace except going round in the field with King to
collect money.
Superintendent Bennett, of the Sussex police, proved the
service of the informations upon the several defendants.
Inspector Silverton confirmed the evidence of the last wit-
ness with reference to the service of the summons on King,
and remarked that Preston said at the time that King would
not have won the fight if they had not poured water on his
head.

pondence on the subject is submitted to you.
It is due to you and to our country that this fall statement
should b
dissatis-
faction with the conduct of the British Government. lam
well a e made of the just grounds which exist for
superior numbers anadgaminastterti:le
uretmsoousrtc
ware that we are unfortunately without adequate
remedy for the injustice under which we have suffered at the
hands of a powerful nation, at a juncture when our entire re-
sources are absorbed in the defence of our lives, liberties,
agd thought it not extravagant to expect that
and independence,. against an enemy possessed of greatly
would be withheld fromoofouurthreeneenmemieise,s,hdoththate
rignhotsa,id) conscious of our own ability to de-
fend favour,raisasti
estofaou nor:,
e,ewos
wier
nihn
the conduct of. foreign‘ nations wouldyxvwould
u lebd effortsse.be s markedoo fc
conducted
ann Claiming
diubneyfutueoa-d
genuine impartiality between the belligerents. It was not
British nation in
Beau: pptploao
justify
igtfh,yaittnhaec
oFprroroerfseepisnos
ne ddonnee
correspondence
Secretarywr st
impartial observance of neutral obligations by her Ma-
jesty's Government has thus been exceedingly advantageous
to the cause of the more powerful of the two contending
parties." The British Government may deem this war a
favourable ;occasion for establishing, by the temporary
sacrifice of their neutral rights, a precedent which shall
justify the future exercise of those extreme belligerent
pretensions that their naval power renders so formid-
able. The opportunity for obtaining the tacit assent
of European Governments to a line of conduct which
ignores the obligations of the declaration of Paris, and
treats that instrument rather as a theoretical exposi-
tion
of principles than a binding agreement, may be consi-
dered by the British Ministry as justifying them in seeking
a great advantage for their own country at the expense of
ours. But we cannot permit, without protest, the assertion
that international law or morals regard as " impartial
neutrality" conduct avowed to be " exceedingly advan-

tageons to one of the belligerents."
I have stated that we are without adequate remedy against
the injustice under which we suffer. There are but two
measures that seem applicable to the present condition of
our relations with neutral Powers. One is, to imitate the
wrong of which we complain, to retaliate by the declaration
of a paper blockade of the coast of the United States, and to
capture all neutral vessels trading with their ports that our
cruisers can intercept on the high seas. This measure I
cannot recommend. It is true that, in so doing, we should
but follow the precedents set by Great Britain and France
in the Berlin and Milan decrees, and the British Orders in
Council at the beginning of the present century. But it

must be remembered that we ourselves protested against
those very measures as signal violations of the law of na-
tions, and declared the attempts to excuse them on the
ground of their being retaliatory, utterly insignificant.
Those blockades are now quoted by writers on public law as
a standing reproach on the good name of the nations who
were betrayed by temporary exasperation into wrong doing,
and ought to be regarded rather as errors to be avoided than
as examples to be followed.

The other measure is not open to this objection. The
second article of the deClaration of Paris, which provides
" that the neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the ex-
ception of contraband of war," was a new concession by bel-
ligerents in favour of neutrals, and not simply the enuncia-
tion of an acknowledged pre-existing rale, like the fourth
article, which referred to blockades. To this concession we
bound ourselves by the convention with Great Britain and
France, which took the shape of the resolution adopted by
your predecessors on the 13th August, 1861. The consi-
deration tendered us for that concession has been withheld.
We have, therefore, the undeniable right to refuse longer
to remain bound by a compact which the other party refuses
to fulfil. But we should not forget that war is but tempo-
rary, and that we desire that peace shall be permanent.
The future policy of the Confederacy must ever be to uphold
neutral rights to their full extent. The principles of the
declaration of Paris commend themselves to our judgment
as more just, more humane, and more consonant with
modern civilisation than those belligerent pretensions which
great naval Powers have heretofore sought to introduce
into the maritime code. To forego our undeniable right to
the exercise of those pretensions is a policy higher, worthier
of us and our cause than to revoke our sanction to princi-
ples that we approve. Let our hope for redress rest rather
on a returning sense of justice, which cannot fail to awaken
a great people to the consciousness that the war in which
we are engaged ought rather to be made a reason for for-
bearance of advantage than an occasion for the unfriendly
conduct of which we make just complaint.
The events of the last year have produced important
changes in the condition of our Southern neighbour, The
occupation of the capital of Mexico by the French army, and
the establishment of a Provisional Government followed by
a radical change in the constitution of the country, have ex-
cited lively interest. Although preferring our own govern-
ment and institutions to those of other countries, we can
have no disposition to contest the exercise by them of the
same right of self-government which we assert for ourselves.
If the Mexican people prefer a monarchy to a republic, it is
our plain duty cheerfully to acquiesce in their decision, and
to evince a sincere and friendly interest in their prosperity.
If, however, the Mexicans prefer maintaining their former
institutions, we have no reason to apprehend any obstacle to
the free exercise of their choice. The Emperor of the French
hes solemnly disclaimed any purpose to impose on Mexico
a form of government not acceptable to the nation ; and the
eminent personage to whom the throne has been tendered
declines its acceptance, unless the offer be sanctioned by the
suffrages of the people. In either event, therefore, we may
confidently expect the continuance of those peaceful rela-
tions which have been maintained on the frontier, and even
a large development of the commerce already existing to the
mutual advantage of the two countries.
It has been found necessary since your adjournment to
take action on the subject of certain foreign consuls within
the Confederacy. The nature of this action, and the reasons
on which it was based, are so fully exhibited in the corre-
spondence of the State department, which is tzansmitted to
you, that no additional comment is required.
In connection with this subject of our relations with
foreign countries, it is deemed opportune to communicate
my views in reference to the treaties made by the Govern-
ment of the United States at a date anterior to our eePer:;
tion, and which were consequently binding on us as well,
on foreign Powers when the separation took effect.t was
ge relates to internal
partly with a view to entering into such arrangements
that
t weas
the change in our government had made necaedr9
pose of entering into the negotiations ProPeto
those treaties.
tive rights and obligations of the parties .
relations
t s properwittoh to European
add that .
declined, as foreign
As this tender on our part has been
fit to thaneeaties to which
nations have refused us the belle be d•
have tea g m ing on
felt it our duty to send commissioners abror
ffixor:thhee
rpeulitr:
we were parties, they certainly • nations
these
exclusively by thegeneral
are therefore now controlled us, and, in my opinion, our
Message solely treaty obligations
remarks are intended to applY
„sments, and have no refer
towards foreign Gov reference to
right of individuals.
rul,ershoef
remainder
noaftitohnsc:
affairs, and concludes
:--
The of
hope last year entertained an early termination of
The
Could
the war has not been realised. carnage have satisfied
the appetite of our enemy for the destruction of
human life,
grief have appeased their wanton dor esire to inflict human
suffering, there has been bloodshed on enough both
sides,
and two lands have been sufficiently darkened by the weeds
of mourning to induce a disposition for peace.
If unanimity in a people could dispel delusion, it has
been displayed too unmistakeably not to have silenced the
pretence that the Southern States were merely disturbed by
a factious insurrection—and
but
it must long since have, been
admitted that they were reserved right
to modify their ownGovernment
exercising their
such
manneras
would best secure their oovnrnhnia enitneisns Bat athese consi-
derations have been powerless to the un-Christian
hate of those who, ion')
accustomed to craw large profits
from a union with as, cagnnot control the rage exacted by the
conviction that they have, by their own folly, destroyed the
richest sources of their prosperity. They refuse even to s
listen to proposals for the only peace possible
übleftw
weheinchu
di
a peace which, recognising the inapassableg
vides us, may leave the two peoples sep
a causeless war
from the injuries inflicted on
both
by
y the raly
te to recover
now waged against us.
Having begun the war in direct
which forbade the attempt
violation of their constitution,
w
to coerce a State, eed by crime, until
they have been hard n d
t to veil their purpose todestroy the
they no longer attempt
overeignty and independence
institutions and subvert the s
of these States. that We now know reliable
only the •
able hope
e n the vigour of our resistance, as the cessation
ofofrlc is i
their hostility is only to be expected from the pressure
of their necessities.
triotism of the people has proved equal to every
The pa
demanded by their country's need. We have been
sacrifice
d as a people never were united under like circum-
unite
tG
stances b ore. o d has blessed us pror-
tionate toef
our means, and, under His with
divinesuccess fav ou po
r, our
labours mist at last be crowned with the reward due to
men who have given all they possessed to the righteous
defence of their inalienable rights, their homes and their
altars.
Richmond, Dee, 7, 1803,

This being the case for the prosecution, Mr. TillOrd sub-
mitted that there was no case against Richardson and
Preston.
The Bench assented, and the two defendants Preston and
Richardson were discharged.
Mr. Beard then made a powerful appeal on behalf of the
defendants he represented. He again urged that the ends of
justice would be fully satisfied if they were bound over, as
he had taken leave to suggest, at the opening of the case.
Whatever the feelings of the Sussex magistrates might be
in the matter, it was quite clear that great favour and coun-
tenance were given in certain high quarters to men in the
position of the defendants, and some allowance ought there-
fore to be made for persons who belonged to a humble and
evidence
obscure position in life. No one could fail to see that per-
sons of rank and position attended such fights, and that was
not there to say they were right in breaking the law,
a reason which should induce the Bench to deal lightly
with those who had been selected for punishment. He was
but
when the Bench considered the case of the men before them
he felt bound to say that reliance might fairly be placed
upon their promises that they would not further transgress
the law. He then reviewed the evidence as bearing upon
the individual cases, and urged that there was not sufficient
proof of the defendants' presence to justify the Bench in
sending them for trial. He pointed out that the whole of
England had been interested in the contest between Ring
and Heenan, and an equal interest in it had been manifested
in America. All the defendants,. had so conducted them-
selves in their vocation as to find friends to become sureties
for sureties
for their future good behaviour.
The defendant Heenan said—As to Sayers and
gaid—We have considered
myself,'t I
d I
After some consultation, this country.
dettoht
titoghenttaegraintheiaring again, an
awmasnlo not
eirntaainsltya tea
hoofoih
thefntohteoßnleynch
Ibut also the ob-
servations made by Mr. Beard on behalf
de-
fendants, as well as the cases of those of some of the
repre-
sented by a solicitor. We feel that who are not in this case the partial,
should all be bound over to answer
preferred against them at ~ Wer any charge that :may he
not say that in what the,, 2'.0 Quarter Sessions. We do
thiTshceasCehcaatfullmanyo,
larly reprehensible, but'll there was anything portion-
with impunity. These persons
some tribunal which •
evidence which
each enter into their 01)0
the extent of £5O, to
answer any
pre-
ferred a • cannot commit iiieiral acts
persons will be summoned before
Will will deal with them according. to the
adduced. The dedfenfidnand
own sureties of £6O, anarter
indictment
appear at the next Qa
against them,
The required *
tment for misdemeano tabamilutsot
Seat done to
ur that may be
bail was then entered into and the defend-
ants Were liberated.

ythedatinththeewghaomleinga_ffhaoiraswyeasacazhaammedoinutgnot
. secured orn if
for
a this
Bs Tea Tea ias
g choice
eneral
preference. It is sold in
and strong, moderate
in price, and wholesome to use. These advantages have
packets by 2,280 Agent&
refusedW ne
ton pay
The Civil Tribunal of the Seine has just given
shares in the Baths of Nauheins
froy against Count de Montmort and his brother-in-law,
geese)• It appeared that the statement of the
Prince Galitzin, to recover a sum of 30,000 f., the price of
jbcp(uEiliegpeftitneatofrlrlreyds,nt in an action brought by Count de Jouf-
daamnotsunt.
580 partial Paid-up
counsel that his client sold the shares to the de•
August,
ostgat
IvBe6b2,iltlehefodratfhene
transaction, as the great part of the funds of the JS auheim
their establishment. The counsel proved that the esta•
blishment of Nauheim was duly authorised by tho'Gover
Govern-
ment of Hesse, also that the shares of the company
case, and condemned the defendants to
negotiated in all the principal German money were
fondants iuneliB:ll
mar kets, and
he insisted that the laws of France against a • z
altogether inapplicable. The tribunal took that in-
were
at v e of the
claimed, with interest and costs of suit,
them, on twheeregreomupnldo

gdmetaelle;eaci
The book-stalls around the Theatre of the
Odeon have been for some time past frequently
plundered of works exposed for sale. Suspicic In at length
cloak the second volume of Nisard'a " Historie de la Litte-
rature Frangaise" while purcharsing some trifling article
wfeasll uthpoendaeywheelliodrreesysessdteyroduany
from one of the dealers. On being arrested and interroga-
ted he admitted that he had taken the book tr, complete the
n dsehe
re
e, btieri
work, and on a search ha /4 made at his lodging tite
volume, which he had, previously stole .I, found.washisexa.
The young run is a fonigner, and having passed hie
to itn-
Fan
mination as doctor or, medicine, had co me to
prove himself in lila profession.
14th 5696 A. letter r,rom Naples of the
ow, and now
" 'Vesuvius 'ass become covered. with sltti
is a vast COHe
presents V4O appearanci of a sugar loaf. It
We have also a,
quite Waite from the summit to the gag
d anyone might fancy
Wind so cold that it nips the face,. an under watched,
hie
Viso, in the midst of the snows
hirnself at the foot of Mount vlBO,
of the Alps."
No HOME complete without ft. wacox AND GIB"'
Act, efficient , durable, and
SEWING-MACHINE. SiMPle,
noiseless. Warranted
perfect family machine. ProspectusL
',To, 135, Regent-street, lir•— •
rfilmlll the civ, irements of a
t° fil
tree re
- application at
VT•] oil

JEFFERSON Dims,