The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-17 00:00:00

MIDDLING WEIGHTS.

First Time Over.—J. Allison beat G. Blacket, a cross-
buttock ; Astley beat Irving, a strike ; N. Brom+ beat F.
Wright; Jas. Armstrong beat John Gill, back-heel; Robt.
Hodgson beat Cooper, hipped him; H. Thompson beat
Modlin,g ; Thomas Hall beat Wm. Wallace, a cross-buttock ;
W. Nicholson beat Hurst ; Canner resigned to Robert Fors-
ter; Harrison resigned to J. Beck ; J. Pearson resigned to
Dawson ; Graham to Bowstead; Addison to Kenghorn ;
Faraday to Robert Gill ; G. Armstrong to Robert Taylor;
Harris to Robinson; and J. Perceval to Henry Pattison, the
former slipping his hold.
Second Time Over.—Jas. Murray the odd man beat T.
Hill, cross-buttocked him, a beautiful fall ; Win. Nicholson
beat Robinson, back heel ; Forster beat Armstrong ; Robt.
Gill beat Brown, back heel ; Kingham resigned to Allison ;
J. Beck beat Boivshead, back heel ; J. Thompson beat Ed.
Dawson, back heel ; Taylor resigned to Waters ; Hodgin to
Astley ; and Beckwith to Perceval.
Third Time Over.—Perceval beat Nicholson, a strike ;
Walters beat Allison, a half buttock ; Robert Gill beat James
Murray, back heeled him ; William Thompson beat Beck,
back heeled him ; Robert Forster beat Astley, hooked him.
Fourth Time Over.—Robert Forster beat John Armstrong,
back heeled him ; Robert Gill beat Perceval, hipped him ;
Thompson beat Waters by strength.
Fifth Time Over.—Robert Gill beat Forster.
In the final fall Gill and Thompson contended, the former
tried to cross buttock the latter, and slipped his foot, leaving
Thompson the winner.

HEAVY WEIGHTS.
This was confined to the military, and the men were almost
of Herculean stature. _ _

First Time Over.—J. Hills beat Henry Mossop, a cross
buttock ; James Robinson beat J. Nixon ; William Earl beat
G. Brunscombe; Thomas Abrims beat William Brunskill ;
Hills, jun., beat J. Temple, a slip ; Miller resigned to
Rayne ; and Corporal Ray, who was absent, to Edward
Dawson.

Second Time Oven—Hills beat Dawson, a strike; Wren
beat Robinson, back heel ; Earl beat Wills a cross buttock.
Third time Over.—Abrims, the odd man, beat J. Hills.
In the two succeeding falls Earl cross-buttocked Rayne,
and in the struggle for the final fall Abrams, although thr owe,
was declared the winner, as his adversary's knee had touched
the ground first.
It was nearly dark when the sport of the day terminated,
and the heavy-weight matches certainly did not create so much
interest as those previously. The prizes were presented after
the dinner to the successful candidates. The match was well
managed by the Stewards.
In the light weights Margison received the first prize ;
Armstrong, the second ; Ferriday, the third ; and Hall, the
fourth. In the middle weights Thompson took the first prize;
Gill, the second ; Foster, the third ; and Waters, the fourth.
In the heavy weights Abrim took the first prize, and Earl the
second.

~ADVERTISE}itENT.]--CAUTION.—Curtis and
Dolland's Observations Against the Use of Amber Specta-
cles, (second edition) on the Preservation of Sight, page 55
and 56.—Amber is a soft substance, and it is impossible to
form it into a perfect lense, and a lense improperly constructed
would prove most injurious to vision. Amber from the soft
state of the material in moderate heat becomes sticky, and by
cleaning the lense in a abort time the polish comes off; they
also become scratched and completely blind. Glue, as to
hardness of substance and colour, is considered much prefera-
ble ; they are much inferior either to glass or pebbles ; John
Harrison Curtis, Esq., M. R. 1., Oculist Surgeon to the Royal
Dispensary, and Lecturer on the Anatomy, Physiology, and
Pathology of the Eye and Ear, states it will probably be ex-
pected that I should say what I think of Amber Spectacles ;
they have been recommended by several Oculists, and my
patronage has been solicited for them; but surely those gentle-
men who have sanctioned them cannot have remembered that
amber is comparatively a soft substance, consequently very li-
able to become scratched, and that the polish is easily worn
off; they are also much more expensive than even pebbles, anal,
as it appears to me, possess no advantage corresponding with
their costs. For those reasons I entirely differ from those
who have thought them preferable to Pebbles or Glass. Mr.
Dolland, optician to his Majesty, and Fellow of the Royal
Society, informs me that he considers amber a very improper
material for Spectacles, on account of its colour, its not being
homogeneous, its liability to scratches, and its being also im-
possible to form it into a perfect lense.

On Thursday a little boy climbed upon the Kirkin-
tiiloch coach, lost his hold and fell, and the wheel of the
coach having passed over his body, he wag so severely wound-
ed, that ha died on Thursday morning in the Royal Infirmary.
._Scots Times.