The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-13 00:00:00

PUGILISM.

808 BREVTLE, OF BIRMINGHAM, AND JOHN ROOKE, OF
131 umiNGRAM, FOR £loo.—Pursuant to the arrangement
ma, le by the referee, these men met yesterday, for the
second time, when, after a journey of some 50 miles from
the metropolis, the rink', was formed by the commissary on
welb•known ground, wh,,ch, however, has not of late been
-visited. Brettle had for his seconds Joe Wareham, of Bir-
timm, and Bos Tyler, tile latter having taken the place
of Bob Travers (the black), who, the preceding day, had
the misfortune to fall into the river, while Joe Cobley, and
a well-known retired member of the ring did the needful
for Rooke. By 20 minutes to 1.0 o'clock the toilets of the
uteri had been completed, and just before going to the
scratch, they la'd an even tenner on the result. Though,
round the ring, Brettle was the favourite, at 5 to 4, it was
imagined Rooke, profiting from the fault committed at
the.;r former meeting, would, from the commencement,
have forced the fighting, and avoided giving his oppo-
nent the least time for rest and manceuvring ; but instead
of pt trsuing these tactics, which gave promise of gaining
a lead ing advantage, he, to the surprise and annoyance of
his pa, rti6ans, adopted the cautious tactics of their two former
meetin mss, and kept entirely on the defensive, merely holding*
himsel f ready to counter when his antagonist led. Bob
Br ettler .of course, was not disposed to throw away the least
advo.ntagt) his skill and experience might give. It must be
borne- in mind that Rooke had the advantage in height and
reach, and why he did not make an effort to force the battle
appears incomprehensible, and more especially as in the little
fightin g that did take place when the men got tog ether he
had a shade the best of it. Had Rooke been opposed to
any oth, man than his old master, from whom he took his
first initi .story lessons in the art, there can be little doubt
he would, as he has done before, make a rattling mill, for
it is kno\ vn he is by no means deficient in courage ; but
with Bret:tle he appeared totally incapable of displaying
anything like .the requisite dash and energy. In the whole
four long and tedious rounds were got through, in the last
of which. the roferee, finding the men stood looking at each
other instead of getting to business, gave them a quarter of
an hour to get to work. If nothing was done at the expi-
ration of that time he would declare it a draw. There was
mot in the given time anything like business effected, there-
fore the affair ended in a drawn battle, the combatants
having be en in the ring one hour and 40 minutes. It is
almost needless to state that all bets are off.

MEMORIAL TO THE LATE Mn. ROBT. STEPHEN-
SON, C.l beautiful memorial in the form of a "brass"
has be c:n let into the nave of Westminster Abbey, midway
between t,'le western entrance and the choir screen, to the
memory of the above distinguished engineer, who, it will be
rememberet 1, was interred near the spot in the latter part of
1859. The memorial, which weighs 2 tons 2 cwt., is bor-
dered and interlined with Cornish granite and brass, on the
latter of ,which the deceased is represented in a stan ing
position with his arms folded across his breast. The fol-
lowing is the inse ription round the figure :—" Sacred to the
memory of Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., D.C.L., late
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, who died
Oct. 12, 1851), aged 56 years.