The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-21 00:00:00

PUGILISM.

GEORGE HENLEY AND JOHN LYNCH.—These members
of the P.R. met yesterday to decide their claim to flstic
superiority, when, after anything but a pleasant aquatic
trip, owing to the extremely boisterous state of the weather,
the ring was formed by the assistant-commissary on well-
known ground. Henley, who is 24 years old, stands Mt.
fitin., and has contended prior to the present occasion with
French and the well-known Joe Nolan, of Birmingham,
winning with the first-mentioned, but being defeated by
the Brum. Lynch is 24, stands Mt. Yin., and has once be-
fore fought within the ropes, having contended with Bat-
chelor, whom he had the good fortune to defeat. Henley
was brought out under the auspices of Jemmy Welsh, in
days past one of the most scientific light-weight champions.
Lynch (who is no relation to Charley Lynch) was backed
from Jesse Hatton's, Homer-street, Marylebone, and was
confined to 9st. 41b., while Henley was not restricted in
weight. A referee, after some delay, being obtained, the
belligerents stepped within the ropes. Lynch won the toss
for corners, which was some little advantage in his favour,
as the wind from the south-west was blowing a hurricane.
The betting was level, but there was not much money laid
out at the ring's side.
The combatants at once went bustling to work, and after
some exchanges, in which the men got in all parts of the
ring, Henley got on with the left heavily, and Lynch, who
spun round, went down near the ropes. In the second bout
the first of the three leading events was won by Henley,
and in the filth round he succeeded, as Lynch was coming
in, in delivering a flush hit with the left, which instantly
sent Lynch to gass. He was out of time, and the sponge
was thrown up in token 4.-tf defeat. llenley, who had scarcely
a mark, was hailed the winner, the battle having only lasted
nine minutes and thirty seconds.
There was to have been another contest between Welsh,
of Birmingham, and young Frawley, for a purse, but owing
to the appearance of tho police the "camp" was suddenly
broken up, and, as the commander-in-chief had no ground
convenient, operations were at once suspended.

Notices of Motions in the House of Commons.

Mr. POWELL—(Law of Evidence)—Bill to amend the
Law of evidence so far as relates to the testimony of exports.

Mr. PowELL—(Law Costs)—Bill to consolidate and
amend the law of costs in action at law.

Mr. :POWELL—(Ecclesinstical Lessees`—Bill for the
further and better protection of the rights and interests of
the lessees of ecclesiastical property.
Sir FREDERIC SMlTll—(l.larbours of Refuge) —That so
much of tho report of the Harbour of Refuge Commissioners
as relates to Wick, Carlingford, Waterford, and Padstow
be carried into effect. _ _

Sir JOHN HAY—(Harbours of Refuge)—To move that
after Padstow, " Filey" be inserted.
Sir FREDERIC SMLTII—(East India, Colonel Brown)—
For an address for copy of correspondence.
Sir FREDERIC SMITH—For a return of persons employed
in the construction of iron-plated ships.

Mr. SOMES—(latoxicating Liquors)—To call the atten-
tiun of the house to the sale of intoxicating drinks on the
Sabbath, with a view to the introduction of a measure for
its abolition.

Mr. TORRE:CS—To move for returns relating to the
woods, forests, and land revenues.

Mr. WRlonTsoN—(Vacating Seats)--Bill to amend the
Act of Queen Anne with regard to the vacating of seats in
this house on acceptance of office.

Mr. WYLD—To call the attention of the house to the
present defective management of the barrack canteens
throughout the United Kingdom.

A MEDICAL OFFICER OF THE MANCHESTER
WORKHOUSE CHARGED WITH PERJURY.—At the
City Police-court, yesterday, Mr. Evan Thomas, one
of the medical officers of the New Bridge-street Work-
house, and also one of the district medical officers under
the Manchester Board of Guardians, was brought up
under a warrant charging him with having, on the 6th of
January, before Mr. E. Herford, the city coroner, been
guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, in the evidence given
by him touching the death of Mary Ann 8011, late of Has-
senthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland.—Mr. Maybury, the
superintendent of the Detective Department, said that
he apprehended the prisoner about half an hour previ-
ously, under a warrant charging him with perjury.
Witness read the warrant to Mr. Thomas, who made no
reply.—Mr. Ellison—Are you prepared to go into the
case 2—Mr. Maybury—l believe not to-day.—Mr. Robin-
son—l may state in this case I believe that I shall have
the misfortune—for I feel it to be a misfortune—to ap-
pear to prosecute Mr. Thomas for the offence brought
before you to-day. We are not at present prepared to go
on with the case. The gentleman who instructs me has
come from a long distance, and we are not prepared with
our witnesses now. But, inasmuch as Mr. Thomas would
be entitled to bail, and I shall not make the slightest ob-
jection to any bail which your Worships may think proper
to require, probably a short remand, to the day after to-
morrow, will be most convenient. We shall then come
fully prepared to go into the case. Probably Mr. Thomas
will succeed in getting bail, and he need not then be sub-
ject to the inconvenience of being detained here.—Mr.
Thomas said that he had sent for his solicitor.—Mr.
Ellison: It is not proposed to carry the case to a conclu-
sion, or, in fact, one step further to-day. The only
question is with regard to bail. We shall admit you to bail
on producing two sureties of £lOO each, and yourself being
bound in the sum of £200.--The case was adjourned to
Thursday.
DUNDEE.—MAN DROWNED IN THE HARBOUR.—
Early yesterday morning the body of a man named
Peter Taylor, a joiner, residing in Mid-wynd, was found
by the men employed on the dredger, lying on a bank at
the south side of the tidal harbour. We understand
that
he had wandered down to the harbour andstumbled
was about 40 years of age, and leaves a wife and family
Scotsman.
COTTON FROM 'TURKEY..,-.-The Smyrna Mail of
the 31st ult., after alluding to the interest attach-
ing to the
Smyrna and Adin Railway Com.
tan Ephesus ia brought within ten op opening of of the
which
pang, by means
days' journey of
.England, says:--" But this is not the
only advantage which has accrued from the opening of this
railway so far; it has laid open a fertile tract of land cap-
able of every cultivation, and adaptable more especially to
that of cotton. Our columns have daily been nearly
tilled with the reports of the cotton commission which has
been established here, and the exertions which have been
made, not only by the imperial Government, but by pri-
vate individuals, to increase the growth of this important
staple of English requirement. Continually have we urged
upon our friends of England the great efforts we are making
to alleviate their wants, and how desirous we are of showing
that Turkey, under the good administration it is now, is
capable of becoming a country from which the introduc-
tion of exporting large quantities of cotton may even help,
to rival America. The 12,000 bales of last year have aug-
mented to above 60,000 this season, and will next season
increase to above 100,030 bales, which show not a small
item for the capabilities of Asia Minor to supply cotton,
considering the rude mode of cultivation hitherto adopted.
Facts will, however, speak for themselves, and the public
throughout the world will know in time the value which
our journal has hitherto been in promoting the publicity of
cotton cultivation here."

The Conservative View of Lord Russell's
Late Proceedings in Regard to Rome.

The Prince de la Tour d'Auvergn.e throws some little
light upon the functions of Mr. Odo Russell. This gentle..
man, who is, we believe, an attache to the Italian embassy,
and who certainly has no official position in Rome, is kept
there, it seems, to pester the Pope with solicitations to com-
mit suicide. He is in the habit of "pleading in decorous
terms" the cause of Italian unity, and of urging the Pope
to abandon his temporal power and subside into a simple
bishop. We confess that we cannot see what useful pur-
pose is served by the presence of this gentleman in the holy
city. The Pope cannot be in the slightest doubt as to the
views of the English Government. Its members take every
opportunity of expressing their abhorrence of his rule and
their anxiety that he should be deprived of it. Mr Russell
can tell him nothing upon that point which he does not
know already. It would be absurd to suppose that Mr.
Russell's exhortations, however eloquent, will have the
effect of changing the determination of the Pope and his
counsellors to defend what they believe to be the rights of
the Church ; and it certainly appears to us sheer imper-
tinence on the part of the English Government to order a
mere attache to thrust upon the Pope, whenever ho can get
the chance, counsel which cannot fail to be offensive.
Upon one of these occasions the Pope, who is a very good.
humoured old man, after bearing meekly Mr. Russell's
lecture, said to: him as he was leaving, " Adieu, dear Mr.
Russell ; who knows if one day I shall not be forced to go to
you to ask for hospitality Mr. Russell we are told, caught
at these words, returned to the cabinet of the Pope, and
asked him if he feared being obliged to quit Rome, and if
in that case he would be disposed to go to Eng-
land P The Pope answered that he was ignorant of the
trials Providence reserved for him, but did not at all dream
of removing from Rome. No doubt an attempt will be
made to give a different colour to this conversation. It
will be asserted that, instead of making this general ro,-
mark, whichis pretty nearly equivalent to who knows
what will happen"— abo-at the only civil reply that could
be given to a long exhortation to throw himself into the
hands of the Philistines—the Pope actually asked whether
Eagland would afford him an asylum. If he did so it will
not excuse at all the proposal of Earl Russell. That Mr.,
Odo Russell should really believe, as we are bound to sup..
pose he did, that the Pope feared being abandoned by
France, and was desirous of protection from heretic Eng-
land, only proves how ignorant a man with the best
sources of information may really be. There never was a
period in which the Pontiff could have entertained such an
apprehension, and Mr. Russell and Earl Russell deceived
themselves most egregiously in supposing that even if the
Pope were afraid to stay in Rome he would flee to England
or to an English possession.

However, Mr. Russell reported the conversation, and
Earl Russell caught at the chance of immortality. He had
already settled the Schleswig-Holstein question to his own,
entire satisfactien ; and if he could only add the settlement
of the Roman question after a fashion which would give
Italy her capital and completely checkmate France, he
would at once take rank as the greatest statesman of Europe.
So when Mr. Odo Russell went back to Rome in Nevem-.
her he carried a note to Cardinal Antonelli, in which the
Foreign Secretary advised the Pope to quit Rome, and
offered to convey him to France, Spain—as if he could not
get there without a British fleet—or Malta, where a palace
should be placed at his disposal until his fate could be de-
termined by the Ministries of England and Italy. Cardinal
Antonelli seems to have thought both Earl Russell and Mr
Russell mad, and to have determined, in mercy to them, to
say nothing about their grand scheme. However, Mr. Rus-
sell, who seems to have no other qualification than his
name for his place, could not keep so big a secret, and
buzzed it among his acquaintances. Earl Russell, with.
characteristic imprudence, would not accept the retreat
offered him, and instructed his kinsman to call upon the
cardinal, express his regret at the non-acceptance of his
propositions, and adds that he had reason to believe that
his Holiness would in a very short time find himself under
the necessity of accepting them. If some excuse may be
offered for the original proposition on the ground that the
Pope himself instigated it, no defence can be made for its
repetition enforced by a menace. No doubt the English
Government has a perfect right to make its opinions known
to the Papal Government which can make no other
complaint of them than that their manner is offensive.
But, looking at the question from au English pint of
view, we repeat the renewal of the proposition is without
excuse. Earl Russell must have known that it could not
be accepted. The Pc pe had just received the solemn assu-
rances of France that under no circumstances should he be
abandoned. It had just been distinctly told that France
could permit no solution of the quarrel with the Papacy
which did not start from the basis of the maintenance of the
temporal power. Is it conceivable that at this moment of
his triumph, when his power seemed to rest upon a firmer
basis than at any time during the last 13 years, the Pope
would leave Rome, and, accepting the asylum offered him
by a Protestant power, await with calmness " t'nat
spoliation of the Church" which, having before energe-
tically denounced, he would now unmistakeably in-
vite ? And assume that the Pope himself might have
lent a favourable ear to the voice of the tempter, it is con-
ceivable that the men who surround him would allow him
to betray, as they would term it, the Church of which ha
should he the guardian ? Or is it conceivable that tho
French would let him go, even if the College of Cardinals
applauded the design and prepared to accompany him?
The question is really not worth discussing. There is not
a human being who will venture to assert that at the time
this proposition was made there was the slightest chance of
its being accepted ; there is scarcely one who will not agree
with us that if it Lad been accepted and carried out
England would have been involved in the greatest embar-
rassment.

But Earl Russell has committed almost a graver indis-
cretion in the menace by which he enforced the offer than in
the offer itself. What does he mean by "has reasons to
believe that in a very short time the Pope would be under
the necessity of profiting by it ?" He was at the time he
wrote in receipt of a despatch from Lord Cowley, contain-
ing the substance of a conversation with M. Drouyn de
Lhuys with referende to a communication of his own urging
upon the French Government the evacuation of Rome.
We will only say of that communication, that good as its
intentions may have been it displayed the same extraordi-
nary ignorance of the p ,sition of the French Government,
of the interests and difficulties which it has to consider, as
the offer made by Mr. Odo Russell had shown of the Papal
situation. It is enough that in reply to it M. Drouyn do
Lhuys gave Lord Cowley distinctly to understand that
France was not disposed to leave Rome, and that further dis-
cussion of the question was useless. Yet in presence of
this assurance Earl Russell declares that the Popo will
soon have to leave Rome. What does he mean? Does he
intend to imply that the Emperor of the French is tricking:
the Pope and means to abandon him very shortly-, or is he
informed of any European combination, the object of which
is the expulsion of the French from Rome and the presen-
tation of the city to King Victor Emmanuel ? That is the
question which he will have to answer. For our own part
we believe that his warnings had no reason and were only
the expression of his mortified vanity. MS advice was
coolly declined, and, as is usual with busybodies in that
predicament, he cries out "You'll repent it."—atorning
Herald.