The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-03 00:00:00

PUGILISM.

GEORGE CROCK.ETT AND H. COOPER, Fon 501.
The fistic tourney of these rivals took place yestsriay,
at Woking-common. The first-named athlete is well
known, having defeated Branch, Hazelti ne, and several
minor men, although compelled to strike his colours to
Hayes, in a recent encounter, Cooper, as a hardy and
powerful young fellow, not without skill in the use of
his digits, was fancied by many of his friends; and
although ho also had been obliged to play second fiddle
to Hayes's style of leading off, was thought to possess
qualities which might shine in the presence of an inferior
professor of the art. At half-past twelve o'clock UM..
ral hundreds were assembled around the roped arena,
and a few minutes after Cooper sent his challenge into
the enclosure, which was promptly answered by Crockett.
Their toilette was quickly made, and umpires and
referee being egreed on, the men shook hands, more
majorem, and threw themselves into attitude. Welsh
attending
Mallett enquired Crockett, Martin and Saint)
.
uooper,
on Cooper. The fight needs little descraiptioion
castle" taps in his
boring at him and receiving sundry_
T--udaged baste. Almost
frontispiece as the reward of hihsei J
20th ended in Crockett
relying on his physical strength, rushed 't h o. pponent,
from the Ist to t
every round his man as he cam*
delivering stop, Parry, or slipping down,
in, and cunningly
atop,
his adverary to bustle him, or
avoiding the attempts •Theses continual props told
force him to infighting.. t
tale in the dishguremen and weakening of Cooper,
their his remarkably '
threw to get his right
fair and almost
21st, Cooper
feminine skin without an abrasion. in the
pkreepcit'bsion his left on
dwidhilrenanear:celkieintthta sort of " scrimmage,"
away, home on
hand, which he scores of times
Crockett's lip, but it was " for that time only." The
4, Member for Southwark" returned on him so heavily
in the seven following roa d
II
8'
that at the end of 48
minutes, and 24 calls of
" time," the sponge was pro-
perly thrown up for Cooper, and Crockett proclaimed
the victor, almost without
.5 mark, literally without a
damage to his profile. Five to four was ff d o ere on
Cooper at the opening of the air
second • lir.
A
match for 101., between two aspirants named
Rutty and Shy lock, followed--a laughable, rough, and
tumble affair, in which both men fought with right good
will, but little judgment. Shylock, however, stood upon
the " penalty of his bond,' and, obtaining judgment
thereon from the referee, will receive his " pounds" of
cash. The " court awards it, and the law allows," inas-
much as Mister Rutty, when called upon for an " ap-
pearance," allowed judgment to go by default. Time,
55 mitaites; rounds, 28, several of which were, from
jumpings-up and renewals, two or three rounds rolled
into one.

DUNCAN AND PRITCHARD FOR 2.51. A-SlDE.—These
men, the former of London, the latter of Coventry, met
yesterday in battle array, near Erith, Kent. After a
one sided affair, in which, to the general surprise of the
Londoners, Duncan (who was once proposed as a match
for Keene) was always second best, Pritchard was hailed
as winner, but not till more than two hours had betn
worn out. The men were limited to 9st 9lbs., and were
both nearly that weight.

The Lord Mayor Elect has appointed the Rev.
Charles Marshall, of Syclonbaui, us his Chaplain for th•
ensuing Noyoralty.

THE CA N'ADAS. for immediately the world had been informed that the
Now ready, in 2 vols., with Maps and Plates, 215. bound,
age of permanent tranquillity had arrived, lo! the
L'AC AD IE; or, SEVEN YEARS'
EXPLORATIONS in BRITISH AMERICA, " mindquakes" of revolution convulsed all the states
With Sketches of its Natural History, Social and Sporting Scenes, &c.
By Sir JAMES E. ALEXANDER, K.L.S., &c. of the continent; and immediately after w® have
On the Staff of the Commander of the Forces in Canada, Author of been assured that Peace is not only possible but cer-
" Travels in the East, in Africa," &c.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. tain, lo ! the brands leap forth from the scabbards of
Turkey, of France, and of England, to resent an
insult offered to all the liberal Governments of the
world, through the violation of the first principles of
humanity (principles accordant not only with
Christianity but with Mahometanism) by the
despotic rulers of Austria and of all the Russias.
So ! the bubble—very gorgeous, no doubt, from
the prismatic brilliancy of its colouring—has scarcely
floated over our heads before it has burst—an infi-
nitessimal drops of the stalest suds of the most frothy
of intellects!
It is remarked by the habitual panegyrists of the
AUTOCRAT, by those who discredit the accuracy of
the reports recently received from Constantinople,
and who, therefore, ridicule the idea of there being
the least prospect of war, it is remarked by these
sagacious publicists, that " much alarm " has been
excited in consequence of the haughty attitude as-
sumed by NicnoLas in his bearing towards our
ancient ally the SULTAN. GOD forgive them ! these
traducers of England and encomiasts of the CzAR.
" Alarm," forsooth ! We would wager that the
predominant feeling throughout the population of
these islands, so far from being that of alarm,
is one of unalloyed satisfaction at the pros-
pect of a vengeance so long looming from
Britain towards the partitioner of Poland, the assailant
of Hungary, the despot of Siberia, the torturer of
the nuns of Minsk, the robber of Wallachia, and the
conspirator against the freedom of Western Europe
" Alarm," forsooth I on the part of England—and on
the part of England when her cause against Russia
is the cause of humanity, of liberty, and of civiliza-
tion These misrepresenters of the character of the
English people are surely worthy eulogists of
NICHOLAS, the Emperor of all the Russias For
ourselves, we look forward not with trepidation but
with eager solicitude to the result of the events at
present transpiring at Constantinople.

BANVARD'S true original PAINTING of the
MISSISSIPPI and MISSOURI RIVERS, exhibited by com-
mand of her Majesty the Queen, and 11.R.H. Prince Albert, and
royal Family, at Windsor Castlr, NOW OPEN, at the EGYPTIAN
HALL, PICCADILLY, every horning, at Half-past Two, Even-
ing, at Half-past Seven.
Admission—Lower Seats, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.
" That there was any other original painting of these rivers is an
impudent imposture."—Louisville Democrat.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Mr„ rt. Weht.r. ;cote Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
The public is respectfully informed that this popular establishment
is OPEN for the Season
THIS EVENING,
®Will be performed the Comedy of MUCH ADO ABOUT
NOTHING. Don Pedro, Mr. Vandenhoff; Benedick, Mr. J.
Wa'lack ; Dogberry, Mr. Keeley ; Verges, Mr. Buckstone; Beatrice,
Mrs. Nisbett ; Hero, Miss Jane Mordaunt.
Aft, r which the Farce of SEPARATE MAINTENANCE. Jane
Pennipother, Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. Pennipother, Mrs. Keeley ; Jane
Briggs, Mss P. for on.
To conclude with the highly successful Farce, called an
ALARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Buckstone ; Susan
Sweetapple, Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
On MONDAY, Oct. 8, Mr. MACHEADY will make his first ap-
pearance in London since his return from America, and commence
his first series of his Farewell Performances previous to his retire-
ment from trite stage at the end of June next.
Due notice will be given of the appearance of Mr. and Mrs. KEAN.
The Box-offlee will be open on Thursday, under the direction of
Mr. I. T. Archer.

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rtiEAruts. ROYAL. ADELPIII.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the popular Drama of MARIE DUCANGE.
Principal characters by Messrs. Boyce, 0. Smith, Wright, Worrell,
and Madame Celeste.
After which a new Farce, entitled A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Mr.
Carry Chick, Mr. Wright; Mr. Chaunt Ginger, Mr. Paul Bedford ;
Mr. Charles Pu,Ler, Mr. Boyce; Ernest Hopeful, Mr. Worrell ; Mrs.
Waters Rummer, Mrs. Frank Matthews.
To be followed by a novelty in the shape of A MOST UNWAR
RANTABLE INTRUSION, which will be committed by Mr. Wright
to the annoyance of Mr. Paul Bedford.
To conclude with ANIMAL MAGNETISM.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestrift.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charlei Maths WS.
THIS EVENING,
g Will be presented a comic Drama, called TIIE GARRICK FEVER.
After which, TIIE FOLLIES OF A NIGHT.
To be followed by the Musical Drama, entitled THE SENTINEL.
concludo with BOX AND COX.
Droll tuxes, os.; Upper Boxes, ts. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. No
talc-price to any part of the house.
The New Itox-oftce, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the
swhl•r: ,ley. from Tan till Six.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE:.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.
TIIIS EVENING,
Will be performed the celebrated Opera of DON GIOVANNI'.
To conclude with a new Extravaganza, entitled THE FIRST

'WILEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
nder the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Illghiess
Prince Albert, &c. •
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed Fitzball's grand Equestrian Spectacle, entitled
TIIE PROPHET, lit which Mr. W. Wtst will appear.
.!towed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN TIIE
C by the first Equestrian talent of the day.
To conclude with a favourite Farce.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

iIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Trns DAT —Morning, 23 min. after 2 1 Evening, 30 min. aftsT 2
co-Niousow Aornlng, 59 min. after 2 Evening, IS min. after 3

I i Et, WEATkiEIi.—SUN OFFICE, OCT. 3.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42; Highest, 51; Noon, 5
BAROMETER, 29.45.
Wind E.S.E.—dull, rainy weather.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
" J. J., New North-street, Red Lion-square," is informed
that the "long list "referred to is paid for—and well
paid too.

oi4e

Another melancholy illustration has been afforded
of the injurious, we may add the fatal consequences
of the loose and careless manner in which statutes,
even of the most vital importance, are framed under
the system of legislation so justly complained of by
Lord BROUGHAM, in his admirable letter to Sir
JAMES GRAHAM " On the Making and Digesting of
the Law," to which we have repeatedly directed the
public attention. The Act that has just been
44 weighed in the balance and found wanting," which
has been proved to be utterly inadequate to carry out
the intentions of Parliament, or to meet the exigen-
cies of the glaring and intolerable nuisance for the
mitigation or suppression of which it was enacted,
was no ancient law, passed when the science of legis•
lation was but little regarded or cared for—it was
no amateur effort introduced by a private
Member and hurried through both Houses, without
due attention being paid to its salutary previsions.
A monster grievance was found to exist, endangering
not merely the health, but the lives of many of her
MAJEsTv's subjects. The appalling practice of in-

tramural interments had been carried on, not merely
in the heart of the British metropolis, but in all the
towns and cities of England, with the utmost reck-
lessness, and a total disregard not merely of the sani-
tary condition of the people, but of the commonest
principles of decency. The green and festering
remains of recently buried bodies were daily turned
up, and exposed to public observation, in order to
make room for new corpses. Many had fallen
victims to the polluted state of the atmosphere, en-
gendered by the loathsome and heartrending exhibi-
tions. Many talented and enthusiastic men had
explained the too probable results of such a
state of things, and had warned the Legis-
lature of the imperative necessity of providing
a prompt and suitable remedy for the palpable evil.
The voice of public indignation and abhorrence had
been audibly heard cursing the culpable remissness of
our lawgivers. A fearful pestilence, advancing to our
shores with giant strides, appealed, trumpet•tongued,
not, merely to the sympathies or the justice, but to the
fears of the representatives of the people• It was vain
to hope that its progress could be altogether arrested,
or the fell visitation averted, but the melancholy
experience of former years proved that its ravages
might be materially mitigated by the removal of
the predisposing causes, which rendered the
people peculiarly liable to disease and in-
fection. Pre-eminent among these causes was the
overcrowded state of the metropolitan and other
graveyards situated in densely inhabited localities.
The plague was rapidly approaching. Nay, many
victims had perished before the meeting of Parlia-
ment, though the numbers were small in comparison
to those who subsequently fell before the destroyer.
Under such circumstances it was manifest that the
session could not elapse without some large and corn-
prehensive measures of sanitary reform being
submitted to the consideration of Parliament, and
receiving the legislative sanction. Much time was
consumed, and the greatest care apparently bestowed,
in framing measures adequate to the emergency.
Draftsmen of considerable experience, to whom
the duty of drawing Government Bills usually
devolved, were instructed to prepare measures
bestowing ample powers on the General Board of
Health "to issue such directions and regulations as

they should think fit for the prevention and mitiga•
tion of epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases.'
In such a crisis the powers should manifestly be o:

the most extensive character, and minor provisions,
that might be desirable in ordinary cases, should be
totally disregarded. Such was the state of affairs
when the " Bill to amend the Nuisances Removal
and Diseases Prevention Act" was introduced,
and passed as the 12 and 13 Victoria, cap. 122.
By this sf atute it was hoped that the
abomination could al; length be got rid of wherever
it arrived to an inordinate pitch. The Board was
thereby authorised " to provide for the cleansing,
purifying, ventilating, and disinfecting of houses,
dwellings, buildings, and churches, for the removal of
nuisances, and generally fur preventing or mitigating
such epidemic, endemic, or contagious diseases, in
such manner as to the said Board may seem expe-
dient ;" and it was also enacted

" That it shall be lawful for the Board of Health to
cause inquiry to be made by a superintending inspector,
or by such other ways and means as the said Board
may deem fit to direct, into the state of the burial-
grounds in any part of England and Wales excepted
from the powers of the Public Health Act of 1848, or
in any populous city, town, or place in England and
Wales, to which, for the time being, the said Act has
not been applied; and if it appears to the General Board
of Health that any such burial-ground is in such a state
as to be dangerous to the persons living in the neigh-
bourhood thereof, it shall be lawful for tho said General
Board of Health to issue such orders as the said Board
may think fit for the application of such disinfecting
substances, and for the adoption of such other measures
of precaution in relation to the premises as may, in the
opinion of the said Board, tend to lessen or remove the
danger to health."
To ordinary comprehensions no law could be
couched in language more distinct or unequivocal ;
no enactment could be more comprehensive or in-
telligible.
6.1 t shall be lawful for the said General Board of
Health to issue such orders as the said Board may think
fit for the application of such disinfecting substances
and for the adoption of such other measures of precaution
in relation to the premises (i. e., burial-grounds) as may
in the opinion of the said Board tend to lessen or re-
move the danger to health."
Surely no board of guardians or owners of grave-
yards could evade or despise the mandates of a body
endued with such unlimited authority. The hearts of
sanitary reformers rejoiced at the prospect of amelio•
ration thereby afforded. But—
" 0 caeca mens mortalium!"

Alas, the disappointment of human wishes and
human expectations ! When the statute was tardily
resorted to, after eighteen weeks of pestilence,
during which the cholera had raged with the most
terrific violence, carrying off no less h
THOUSAND VICTIM, it was found that the THIRTEEN
framers of
the Act had exhibited the customary disregard of
the ordinary rules of legal interpretation the same
laxity of expression that had been so frequently de-
plored by judges, and which had elicited . from
a Learned Chief Justice, when endeavouring to con-
strue an unconstruable statute, the exclamation
that " The Legislature tannot be deemed inops consilii,
but we may lament to find it magnas inter opes,iaops."
On Thursday, the 27th ult., the managers of the
Whitefield Chapel burial-ground, in Tottenhaui-

court•road (a private place of interment, belonging
to a highly respectable congregation of Dissenters),
appeared by counsel at Bow-street Police-court to
answer the charge of refusing to obey an order of the
Board of Health, under the seal of the said Board,
whereby they were, in pursuance of the section above
referred to, " ordered and required to cause the dis-
continuance of interments in the burial-ground of
Whitefield Chapel, Tottenham-court-road." The
validity of the order above referred to was argued at
considerable length by able counsel on both sides,
and Mr. JARDINE, the presiding magistrate, after
fully considering the provisions of the Act, dismissed
the summons, conceiving that the Board of Health
had not the power claimed, and that they could not
enforce the closing of any burial-ground, however
over-crowded, and teeming with pestilence and in-
fection.

However deeply we may deplore this decision, we
cannot censure the worthy Magistrate. He was
placed in the position of a judge, and it was his duty
to adjudicate, not according to his own wishes or
what he considered to be most desirable, and for the
public welfare, but according to the known laws and
customs of the land as expressed in established prece-
dents that have been sanctioned and respected by the
sworn interpreters. The consequences of his judg-
ment may be very formidable, but they are not
ascribable to Mr. JARDINE, but to those who drew
up, considered, and finally carried a measure, which
the Learned Magistrate, in common with the bar-
risters on both sides, unanimously agreedlin denouncing
as "one of the most lamentable instances of legisistive
bungling they had ever met with." Thousands of
lives may be sacrificed through the culpable negligence
or palpable incapacity of our legislators, and, unfor-
tunately, no remedy can be provided until next year,
when the Act amending an Act of the preceding
year will itself be amended in turn. New errors
will, most probably,: be committed, unless the sugges-
tions of Lord BROUGHAM be carried into execution,
and a board or court be established, of competent
persons, to which every measure introduced in either
House shall be referred for examination before it re-
ceive the sanction of the Legislature.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
General LAMORICIERE, according to the Moniteur,
has not left St. Petersburgh on his return to Paris as
was stated on Monday in La Patrie.
The trial of the persons accused of having taken
part in the revolutionary movement at Strasburg on
the 14th of June is to commence on the 17th inst.
M. JULES PAYEE has been retained to defend M.
Kass, editor of the Democrat du Bas Rhin.
General BEDEAJ has arrived in Paris.

A Cabinet Council, simultaneously with the Cabinet
Council in Downing-street, was held yesterday at the
Palace of the ElysOe Nationale—the PRESIDENT
of the Republic presiding on the occasion. It
is stated that the difference between Turkey and
Russia and Austria was the subject of its delibera-
tion.

A letter from Bale states that several inhabitants
of the departments of the Upper Rhine, who had
taken refuge in Bale after the revolutionary move-
ment of the 13th of June, have received orders to quit
that town within 48 hours, and to retire eight leagues
from the French frontier.

A letter from Lucerne states that M. STRUVE, the
Chief of the Baden insurgents, has, on the demand of
the Grand Duke of BADEN, been ordered to quit
Switzerland. He has accordingly taken his departure
for England through France.
An awful skrimmage appears to have taken place
at the theatre of the Porte St. Martin, on the occa-
sion of the performance of the new piece entitled
Rome—the " gods" misconducting themselves so far
as to be carried off by the gene d'armes to cool down
under the refrigerating influence of incarceration.
Doubts are still entertained as to whether M.
DUrAURE will retire from the Cabinet; but a large
majority conceive that the Government will con-
tinue as at present constituted.
The National Assembly met to-day to elect its
President, four Vice-Presidents, and six Secretaries.
M. DUPIN, having obtained 339 votes out of 479
votes, was proclaimed President of the Assembly
until the Ist of January, 1850. M. MICHEL DE
BOURGES, his competitor, obtained 107 votes. The
four Vice-Presidents elected were Messrs. Baroche,
by 330 votes ; Daru, by 338
.; Benoit d'Azy, by 312 ;
and Bedeau by 271. The six Secretaries returned
were Messrs. Arnaud de VArlege, Lacaze, Peupin,
H.eckeren, Berard, and Chapot.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (JEROME) laid on the
table of the Assembly yesterday a proposition for
the abrogation of the
_law. banishing the Bourbon
family.
It was reported in the National Assembly that
M. DE FALLOUX bad resigned the Ministry of Public
Instruction.

The budget for 1850 hes been printed, and is about
to be distributed to the members of the Assembly.
The expenses of the year, those of the sinking fund
being maintained, will amount to 1,591,232,077 francs.
The receipts are only estimated at 1,270,953,849 f.,
leaving a deficit of about 320,000,000 f.
PARIS BOURSE.—TIIESDAY, OCT. 2.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Tuesday at 55f. 75c.; the Five per Cents. at 88f. 40c.;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 742 f. 50c; Rouen, 525 f.; Havre,
263 f. 75c.; Great Nertkern,434t. 75c.; Avignon, 220 f.;
Vierzon, 300 f.; Basle, 101 f. 25e.; Boreaux, 407 f. 50c.;
Paris and Strasburg, 5311. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes,
290 f.

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