The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-26 00:00:00

PUGILISM.

THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

RYALL, OF BIRMINGHAM, AND J. MACE,—At length a
match has been made, and the necessary articles duly en-
tered into, for these men to fight for £2OO a side and the
champion's belt, which after the memorable contest between
Tom King and Jem Mace, when King proved victorious,
was returned by King to the keeping of the stakeholder,
owing to his not being in a position to defend his title to
the same. Since then Mace has repeatedly intimated that
he (the affair with the Unknown having ended in smoke),
was ready to meet any one who might be ambitious of en-
tering the lists with him to contend for the highest of pugi-
listic honours. W. Ryall, the old opponent of Joe Goss, has
now come into the field, Mace having also a match pending
for £6OO to £4OO with Joe Goss. This event is to come off
at the end of September next, and for the purpose of mak-
ing matters smooth for Jem, the match between himself and
Ryall for the championship is made to take place in three
months from the day on which Mace meets Goss of Wol-
verhampton. From this arrangement it will be seen Ryall
has a good six months to wait before the arrival of the great
day. A deposit of £ls a side has been staked.

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„
CHASING BLOCKADIi RIINNERS.—The following
is from the pen of an officer on board one of her
Majesty's ships of war on the North American and West
India station :—” After a passage of little interest from
Matamoras to Havana, which we reached on Tuesday
afternoon, we found at anchor in the harbour there a host
of merchant vessels as usual, and among them several
blockade runners, two of which, the Ruby and
Neptune, being ready for sea, were closely watched by the
Federal gunboat Sanoma, which was anxious to make
a prize of one or both if she could ; but instead of lying out-
side the harbour, where no ono could see her, and where
she could pounce down on a vessel just as she came out,
she lay up right in the middle of the harbour amongst
the shipping. The Sanoma is more of a sloop than
a gunboat, very heavily armed, and carries a great num-
ber of n:en. She is a paddle, black painted, with two
very small masts, schooner rigged. The blockade run-
ners are small steamers, rather low, and very long,
bows like a knife, with one or two lookout posts about
30fc to 40ft high. They average on a passage 13 knots, and in
an emergency can be worked up to 16 or 17. I believe they
aro painted a dirty stone colour, very difficult to distin-
guish at sea. It was arranged that the Ruby and Nep-
tune should both go out together, so as to humbug the
Yankee as much as possible, On the same night we
got into harbour, just a little before sunset, the Nep-
tune let slip her cable, and before the Yankee knew
where he was, the little Neptune was clear of the harbour
and puffing away like old boots outside. The Sanoma
by this time had slipped her moorings; but she is
a long craft, and having but small head sails with little
wind, and among a crowd of shipping, she took a long
time to get her head slowed round to the entrance of the
harbour. This done, she clapped on full speed and came
thundering down the harbour; but all this time the Ruby
had not been asleep, she slipped her cable, and, to tease
the Yankee, hoisted English colours and ran under her
stern, dipping her colours three times to her. She then
came under our stern and dipped her colours three times
to us ; her crew took of their hats and cheered us. She
then ran down across the Yankees bows, got into the
passage of the harbour, and stopped there on some
paltry excuse, and just at this moment a Spanish
brigantine under sail got right between the two—so the
Sanoma had to go full speed astern to stop her way and pre-
vent her running down the brigantine, and by the time she
got past the Ruby the Neptune was about five miles off
the land. When the Sanoma got clear of the entrance she
again clapped on full speed after the Neptune. The Ruby
steamed out half a mile to watch the Neptune increasing
the distance between her stern and the bows of the Yankee,
and just as it was getting dark I mull barely wake
out a speck on the horizon from the masthead, while the
Sanoma was vainly puffing after her. After dark the Ruby
steamed quietly away to the northward. On Thursday
morning, as we were steaming out of the harbour, we passed
the Sanonia coming in, accompanied by a corvette looking
very crest-fallen, returning from the chase without her
prize."

THE RUSSIANS IN POLAND.

The following letter, addressed by a Polish noble•
man to an English friehdi has been placed in our
hands for publication. It gives a terrible picture
of the sufferings of the Poles in Volhynia
" Volhynia, June 15,

"My dear C—,-1 siege the occasion which
has just offered of sending a letter across the fron-
tier (by post it would be impossible to send one
telling of the real state of things here). I write
to you probably for the last time, as landed pro-
prietors who have remained at home with their
wives and children are in daily expectation of
death. -You may have heard, though it is difficult
to believe, to what inhuman means the Russian Go-
vernment resorts to get rid of all that is Polish or
Catholic. They have gladly seized the occasio❑ of-
fered them by this insurrection to accomplish their
long-meditated plan of annihilating ail that is not
Russian in these provinces. Several months since
we were deprived of all arms or weapons of defence ;
now, by a Government order, we are informed that
we are no longer to expect any kind of protection
frogs them, and that they are not answerable either
for our properties or lives. Mean while,the Govern-
ment officials and the Greek priests do all in their
power to put the Greeks against the Catholics ; and
Russian soldiers, disguised as peasants, with all the
ruffians, who have been let loose from the prisons for
this purpose, scour the country, attacking all the
country seats on their road where there is a chance
of plunder, pillaging, burning, and putting to
death all they contain, and destroying whatever
comes in their way. The cruelties perpetrated by
these bands are incredible; not content with
simply putting to death, they invent new tortures
every day. They screw their victims with iron
screws to the wall, knock their teeth down their
throats, tear out their eyes and tongue, and saw
living men into pieces; the w-iman they outrage
and then murder, as well as their children. My
pen cannot describe to what a fearful death we are
every day exposed ; and yet we must not complain,
for the committees of inquiry which are sent to
ascertain the truth of these atrocities always end
by rewarding the perpetrators of them, finding that
they had good reason for acting in that way. After
the engagements which took place in this neigh.
bourhood, at Slawzita, Miropol, and other places,
the Russians forbade any assistance to be given
to the wounded Poles, and the more effectually
to prevent it, ordered the wounded to be buried
with the dead. Our priests are murdered at
the feet of our altars while in the. act of offi-
ciating. With all this we have not the right
to leave our estatee, but are obliged to wait pa-
tiently the cruel death which will certainly fall to
our lot ; for the peasants, in their simplicity, tell us
that the Government has informed them that on a
certain given day all Catholics, rich and poor alike,
are to be exterminated—this being the expectation
we now live in. One day, perhaps, those civilised
Governments who are now spectators of this bloody
tragedy will reproach themselves with not having
interfered more energetically; but we are resigned
to offer the sacrifice of our lives, if, by the effusion
of so much innocent blood, our unhappy country
may one day be delivered from the hands of its
barbarous oppressors.—Yours till death, * * *"

The CORSALETTO DI MEDICL—IU order to ex
plain adequately what the Corsaletto di Medici is,
we must follow Clodius a pardonably short distance into
the sacred mysteries which he invaded. We know not how
it happens that the civilised part of the human race seems
always to be in some ridiculous and unaccountable hobble
about costume. But, however it may be explained, the
weakness is a fact which cannot be denied ; and it is cer-
tainly incident more to the female, than to the male, section
of humanity. The difficulty is now about crinoline, now
about a becoming head-dress, and now—with reverence be it
spoken—about stays. That the female frame must neces-
sarily be tightly supported by steel and whalebone, is a
maxim which has obtained among English matrons, more
or less, for several centuries. Of recent years, the medi-
cal faculty, seconded by a whole army of sanitary re-
formers, has begun to lift its voice in earnest against
the practice. It appears that stays produce every result
that is bad, without any balance of advantage whatever.
They limit the movements of the trunk, and degrade the
condition of the muscles from a firm to a soft and unhealthy
state. They further check the circulation of blood through
the muscles, by pressing them between their own hard sub-
stance and the bones of the chest; and the muscles accord-
ingly become wasted, or, in technical language, atrophied.
The heads of the profession cannot be reasonably charged
wi h not having spoken out. One eminent surgeon, heart-
lessly indifferent to the feelings of his fair, and still impri-
soned, patients, grimly points to the "wasted leg of the
mendicant" as an instance of the effect of pressure, assur-
ing them that that leg, "through tight bandaging alone,
can be reduced to the condition which excites our commis-
seration." Cruveilhier will only allow a small percentage
of the sex to be "free from some deformity of the liver, con-
sequent on the use of tight and unyielding corsets." And
Erasmus Wilson asks the point-blank question concerning
the same articleof dress—" It we wished to produce curved
spine, could we adopt a more scientific or certain plan ?"
Words like these were certainly calculated to produce, not
only a flutter within the artificial robur et cos triplex of the
female breast, but also a crisis in the history of certain por-
tions of female costume. It was a great occasion; and, in
justice to Mesdames Marion and Maitland, of Oxford-street,
sole manufacturers and patentees of the Corsaletto di Medici,
we must admit that they have been equal to it. They pro-
. ceeded to invent a substitute for the obnoxious article of
dress, " so truly in harmony with the highest type of beauty,
that the Corsaletto di Medici is so designated as suggestive
of the Venus de Medici,' the statuesque ideal of beauty of
form and womanly grace."—Saturday Review.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT CREMORNE GARDENS.
—Last night a❑ accident of a frightful character
occurred to Valerio, the wire-walker, at Cremorne Gardens.
For the last two months this acrobat has been successfully
performing on a wire cable measuring 600 feet; and last
night he had advanced nearly to the point from which he
usually returned backwards when the wire rope suddenly
gave way, and he fell heavily to the ground. a distance of
upwards of 60 feet. He was immediately taken up in a
state of insensibility, and attended to by two medical men
who happened to be in the gardens. It was found that he
had sustained a fracture of the skull, a broken collar-bone,
and other injuries. He was conveyed in an insensible state
to the Chelsea Hospital, where he now lies, the house sur-
geon holding out little hopes of his recovery. It was be-
lieved that the lightning playing upon the wire rope on
Wednesday night was the cause of the accident.
HARD WORK.—After a journey from London,
artificially lengthened for the purpose of exhibiting
her more completely, she was pitilessly dragged from her
carriage to a review, from the review to the theatre, from
the theatre to the bazaar, from the bazaar to the great din-
ner, from the dinner to the ball. 'When the ancient Teu-
tons admitted a young man to rank among their warriors,
it was their custom to try his endurance by recondite con-
trivances for inflicting suffering and hardship. The autho-
rities at Oxford, in the performance of their office as educa-
tors of youth, appear to have been acting upon this ancient
precedent in training their future Queen for the duties of
her toilsome career.

ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOR LUNATICS.—" More
than a hundred years ago," says the Social Science
Review, with a grandiose flourish—leading to a rather pre-
posterous anti•climax, " when poor Noll Goldsmith, a raw
student, was reading up his bones,' Johnson struggling for
the dinner he could not every day afford, Garrick strutting
on Old Drury's boards, making its inmates laugh and cry
by turn; when Sterne, the sentimental, was fiddling and
preaching in the North, and little purky George the
Second, haunted by visions of Prince Charlie coming
"over the sea" with his too faithful followers, sleeplessly
turned and twisted, and kicked the clothes from off his
regal bed, six good citizens of London banded themselves
together to start a hospital for lunatics."
THE LONDON CABBY A PARIAH.—" Let a cab-
man," says one of the fraternity, whose opinions
aro quoted in the London Review, "go to a book-
stall—those eyes peeping from behind that shelf of
books meet his, and he has a perfect stare ; the bookseller
immediately takes his stand at his elbow, and he is con-
scious of being an unwelcome guest, and unless he becomes
a purchaser—if you may judge from the bookseller's ex-
pression—he is glad when you are gone." So, too, it is
when a man seeks for lodgings. If he is known to be a cab-
driver, the landlady tosses her head, with a No I of proud
disdain. All this is hard to bear. The "contractor," who
is an owner of cabs, compels his drivers to sign an agree-
ment to pay a certain sum per diem, vi.rying from twelve
shillings to a pound, and he can then exercise the tyranni-
cal power of putting the defaulter in prison for any defi-
ciency. " I have heard cabmen avow that they have bullied
people out of treble their fare, justifying themselves by
saying, My master won't trust me a shilling—there is a
chance of them (the fare) not summoning.
SECRET IMPURITY OF MORMONISM.--Joseph
Smith (says the Spectator)—than whom a more abandoned
debauchee and astonishing liar and hypocrite has never ap-
peared: even among his own followers—held and practised
certain doctrines, such as that of the expediency of syste-
matic seduction, which his disciples have since been com-
pelled to dieavow in public, however closely they may ad-
here to them in secret.
A Chinese ambassador is to be sent to Paris in a
few months, who will doubtless prove one of the chief fea-
tures in the next Paris season.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.---Thia Day.

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MATCH.

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