The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-28 00:00:00

rHE SUN LONDON, TUESDA Y EVENING, JAN ti ARY 28, 1862.

PUGILISM:

PERILOUR POSITION OF NEB
MAJESTY'S SKIP CONQUEROR.

FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.-MACE

AND KING.

The above fight took place this morning at God-
stone, in Surrey, and about 30 miles from London.
The fight began at 7 minutes past nine, and after
fighting ono hour and eight minutes, during which
time 42 rounds were fought, King was unable to
come up to the call of time, and Mace was declared
the victor. King obtained first blood and the first
knock down blow. The betting at the com-
mencement was 2 to 1 on Mace, but
in the course of the encounter, the odds
varied to similar offers upon King; the punishment
delivered up to a certain time was tolerably equal,
King having slightly the best of it until the last
round, when they closed and fell, King's head com-
ing in contact with the ground, which rendered
him insensible, and the sponge was thrown up in
token of his defeat. The fight took place amid a
steady fall of rain, but the attendance was very
large, the aristocracy being very powerfully repre-
sented.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY).

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
CONCEALMENT OP BIRTH.

Mary Garrerd was indicted for concealing the birth of
her infant child.

According to the evidence, it appeared that the prisoner
resided in the house of a Mr. and Mrs. Hawkos, Winches-
ter-place, Peckham, and on the evening of the occurrence
Mrs. Hawkes saw some spots of blood on the floor about
the back kitchen. The prisoner had a wet flannel in her
hand, and was wiping up the spots. Mrs. Hawkes asked
her if anything bad occurred to her, and she replied she
had been taken suddenly ill, but nothing more. Mrs.
Hawkes had her suspicions that the prisoner had been
recently delivered of a child, and on the return home of her
husband she told the circumstances to him. He then went
into the back kitchen, and on taking the lid off the copper,
there found the body of the child wrapped up in a gown be-
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she was going upstairs. She then asked the prisoner how
she could have told her a falsehood when she first saw her
in the back kitchen, when she begged that she would not
tell anybody what she had discovered, as she would bury
or do anything with the body. The prisoner also fell on her
knees and implored her not to tell her husband, as he did not
know the situation she was in. Information, however, was
gives of the circumstances, and the prisoner was taken into
custody.

711 E P.RIVATEER SUMTE.R.

The Recorder, in summing up, said there was no evidence
as to whether the child had been born alive, and the ques-
tion for the jury to decide was whether the prisoner was
guilty of such a disposition of the body of the child as
amounted to a concealment of the fact that she had been
delivered of a child. It appeared very extraordinary that
the prisoner should have wished the circumstance to be
kept from the knowledge of her husband, and it appeared
strange that the husband could have successfully been kept
in ignorance of the condition of the prisoner. It had
been suggested by tho counsel for tho defence that the
prisoner had suddenly been seized with perturition, and
she had merely temporarily placed the body in the copper
where it was found, but ho was sure they would well weigh
the whole circumstances that had been given in evidence
before them.

A fter a short deliberation the jury returned a verdict of
guilty, but strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy.
Tho Recorder said he would give full effect to the merci-
ful recommendation of the jury, in which the Court joined.
He then sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprison-
ment. . _

From Nassau (Bahamas) we have adviccs to the
Ist. Tho Nassau Guardian of that date says :
"By the arrival to-day of the schooner William H.
Bell, Henry Howe, master, we regret to learn the
probable loss of her Majesty's line-of-battle ship
Conqueror, 101 guns, which occurred on Sunday
last, she having struck on a sunken rock on the east
of Rum Cay, and become embedded five feet on the
coral reef. Mr. Miller, an officer of the ill-fated
steamer, was despatched in the schooner to Nassau
for the purpose of obtaining assistance, and we un-
derstand the Bulldog will leave at 5 p.m. to-day for
the scene of the disaster. The captain was using
every exertion to get the vessel off. The Nimble
goes to Bermuda with despatches for the Admiral,
and the Steady will remain here for some time.
The Conqueror was on her way from Jamaica to
Bermuda, and had taken 1,100 marines on hoard,
besides her crew. The marines were transferred
to the St. George at Jamaica. We are sorry to
hear that there were several cases of yellow fever
on board the Challenger when the Nimble left.
The Conqueror is a two decker screw ship of the
line, drawing about 34 feet of water. She is of
800 horse-power, and her speed averaged 101
knots an hour. She is of 3,224 tons burden,
carries 101 guns, and was built in 1855. Her
former station was the Mediterranean, and she is
one of the vessels recently sent to strengthen the
British North American fleet.

A letter from Gibraltar, dated Jan. 20, says:—

" You will have already heard by telegraph of the arrival
of the Sumter in this bay. On Friday night a message was
received here saying that she had left Cadiz, but that her
course was not known. As the wind was favourable for
the passage of vessels through the Straits to the westward,
it was thought not unlikely that she would steam for
Gibraltar, with the objeot of intercepting the many Federal
merchantmen homeward bound. _ _ _

"On Saturday morning signal was made from the look-
out on the summit of the rock that the Sumter was six
miles to the eastward, capturing two large Federal ships.
The news, as may be imagined, caused the greatest ex-
citement, and everybody rushed out to catch a glimpse of
the privateer and her prey.
" Tho seizure was accomplished simply enough ; no
defence could be made. A boat's crow was sent on board,
the Federal flag hauled down, and the thing was done.
The cruiser was evidently used to her work. No time
was lost in searching the prizes, the few valuable effects
were removed, the match was lighted, and in another
moment the blazing ship was fast drifting away with the
current. When evening closed the flames were still visible,
darting upwards in fitful flashes on the eastern horizon.
The first ship taken was laden with sulphur, consigned, as
the master endeavoured to make out, to Baring Brothers,
bu‘, as Captain Simmes afterwards remarked, sulphur
being the principal ingredient of gunpowder, and its expor-
tation from England being just at this time prohibited, it
was considered as well to destroy it, especially as the master
had no papers to show.
" The other vessel taken, a large barque, proved to be
laden with an English cargo, as she was released, and came
in here yesterday.
" In the evening of Saturday the Sumter anchored in
this bay. On Sunday I went on board, most anxious to see
the celebrated craft that has led the Federal navy a dance
over so many miles of ocean.

" When going alongside I could scarcely believe that so
poor a vessel could have escaped so many dangers. She is a
screw steamer, with three masts, a funnel strangely out of
proportion to her size, and a tall, black hull, so high out of
water that she gives you the idea of being insufficiently
ballasted. Four 32-pounders peeped from her sides, and a
large 8-inch pivot gun was on her main deck forward.
Before she was fitted for her present work she was a pas-
senger ship, running between New Orleans and the Haven-
nab. Her unsightly appearance arises from the alterations
that have been made in her decks. In order to afford more
accommodation, and to give more cover for the engines
and guns, a light, temporary flush deck has been built over
what was originally the only deck of the ship, This raises
her an additional 10 feet out of water, and at the same time
dwarfs her masts and funnel. She is crank and leaky. Her
engines are partially above the lower deck, and, with the
object of preserving them from the effects of gunshot, they
aro surrounded by a cylindrical casing of six-inch wood
covered with half-inch iron bars—a very poor protection
against an eight-inch shot. Her officers and crew number
00 in all. The latter arc a hardy, devil me-ea-to set of fellowa,
ready for any work—men who would stick at nothing.
They are of all nations—even the Irish brogue was among
them. The commander, Captain Simmes, is a reserved,
determined•dooking man, whose left hand knows not what
his right doeth. He received me most courteously, and
took me over his ship. I expressed my astonishment at his
escape from Martinique, when, with great clearness, and
with the assistance of a diagram, he showed me how he had
run the blockade—deluded the Iroquois. Captain Palmer
may be surprised to learn that he was beaten at his own
weapons. The Confederates discovered the nature of the
signals that were to be made from the shore when the
ship got under way, and the trap was laid accordingly. As
the evening gun fired the sable that held the Sumter to the
wharf was loosed, and she darted out, under the shadow
of the land, to the southward. At the first turn of her
screw the signal blue lights blazed from the shore, and the
Iroquois, at full steam, made for the south of the harbour,
to intercept her, Keeping near the land for a few miles,
Captain Simmes suddenly put his ship about, and ran in a
northerly direction, while the Iroquois continued her course,
and in three hours the two vessels were 50 miles apart.
" Tho French ship which, it will be remembered, Capt.
Palmer mentions as having left the harbour at the same
time, was, ho will be happy to learn, no other than the
Sumter doubling back to the northward."
The Akhbar, of the 22d inst., a paper published
at Algiers, has the following :

-"'" On Monday last, between 10 and 11 in the evening, an
event occurred opposite Point Pescade, which will, doubt-
less, soon be explained. Meantime we have received the
following details :

" About 10 o'clock a heavy cannonade was heard at sea
distinctly by the inhabitants of the village of St. Eugene.
It was also heard at Algiers. A fisherman, who had been
out late, was for a short time in danger from the projectiles
of two vessels engaged in combat. It is supposed that a
naval combat was taking place between the two American
ships, the Sumter and Iroquois."
The 211oniteur de Algerie says :

" On Monday, between 10 and 11 in the evening, a well-
sustained cannonade at sea excited the population of
Algiers. Two police agents wore immediately sent to Pes-
cade Point, in which direction the guns were heard. The
coastguard officer on duty gave the following report :
Two vessels, about six miles out at sea, were engaged in
combat. When the fight was over ono of the vessels hoisted
a flag on her misen and went out of sight. '1 ho combat
lasted about one hour.'

" To-day (Wednesday) a steamer with a red funnel with
a black stripe at the top was signalled off Cape Matifou.
She has three masts, heavy canvass, and stern deep in the
water. On reaching Cape. Matifou she suddenly tacked, as
if giving chase to some vessel, and was lost sight of. She
was again seen in the evening off Point Pescade. This
vessel has all the appearance of a pirate. She appears to
mount about 20 guns, and she looks like a trader turned
into a vessel of war. She hoisted no flag while cruising in
the Bay of Algiers. It is generally believed here that she
is the Sumter, which left Cadiz on the 17th, and which gave
chase to the vessel she attacked on Monday evening."