The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

PUGILISM.

THE FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.
In days of old the championship of England bore with
its very sound the assurance of pre•iminence in manly
vigour, courage, skill; and, in addition to these, sleight
and readiness in the use of fist, staff, or bow, in the
hurling of qUoit or sledge, the trick and strength of
wrestling, the boldness and agility of leaping, the swift-
ness and endurance of the footrace, and all those out.

ward proofs of power which go to prove the manhood oe
the race who practise them. We trust it will be long
ere we say with our frivolous weapon-loving neigh-
bours, nous aeons change tout cola, and therefore rejoice
at so bold a breach of the peace as that witnessed
yesterday. The sporting world needs no recapitula•
tion of the circumstances of the match just decided,
yet as many may not be equally well informed, a
few sentences may be excused, or, if destitute
of information, passed over. Since 1845 the proud
title of " Champion of England" bas remained in
abeyance, and despite the mountains of chaff—
scattered by every second breath—raised by all sorts
of pretenders to the title, and even by the soi-disant pro-
fessors thereof (for there are more than one), there has
not been truly a champion of England at all. We speak
this advisedly—for the belt holder has himself shirked
the:trial. Well then, a young aspirant—all praise to his
courage for so doing—comes forward and offers battle
to " the Tipton," the man manifestly shirked by the
"great talkers." What next? William Perry pleads
" pneumonia," and doubtless is not the man he was.
Con. Parker, for such is the name of the novice, fights
old Jem Bailey and beats him— clumsily, 'tis true, but
wins somehow, after showing good courage and consi-
derable weight of hitting. His "off game" with the
Tipton le ft him, as Brother Jonathan says, wolf-heeded
and angry, and nighmost spiling for want of a fight." In
this cruel predicament Tass Parker, well known in the
pugilistique, offered himself, and the preliminaries
were settled that they should fight for 1001. a side, and
the championship, on the 20th of November, 1849, catch
weight, according to the new rules. The day was sub
se quently changed (on account of the Liverpool Steeple•
chase occurring on the 21st) to Monday, the 26th of
N,ivember, to give certain friends and patrons of the
men the opportunity of witnessing both events.
Accordingly yesterday morning the station at
Waterloo-bridge was thronged by anxious groups, who,
at a little after eight, clustered on the steps, consulted
'heath the sheds, gossipped under the portico, or mobbed
the pavement, and gave employneent to the " taps " of
the neighbouring victuallers, till, at the warning signal,
the gates were opened, and in a few minutes nearly 800
individuals had passed to the platform, and taken their
seats in toe special train destined to take them, as the
printed check, for this time only, stated "there and
back." At a little after nine off they went, a merry
freight, and near Andover-road station, in Hampshire,
were disembarked. After a walk of a mile, on a muddy
road, the mill-seekers were met by a baker's dozen of
blue-coated "men of letters," whose collars of "H C"
told they were of the Hampshire constabulary,
and moreover, their officer told them in plain
west-country English, " that they mought'nt
foight i' the county." A council of war was
held, and Frimley Green, five miles in a back-
ward direction, being named as within the
limits of county Surrey, the " steam was up," and all
hands soon on board for the short homeward voyage
At Frimley " the fates were kind," and there the ring
being pitched on the green, opposite the Rose and This-
tle, at two o'clock, up stood the pair, to do battle for the
pelf and praise of the championship. Tass Parker is
known for various battles, his victories over Britton,
Harry Preston, and Brassey, and his defeats by Ham •
mer Lane and " the Tipton" are matters of record. His
ale is 37, his height 5 feet 9 inches, his weight 1 Ist.
10Ib., his science unquestionable, his game more than
doubtful, though yesterday rubs some stains from his
nicutche.,n. Con. Parker is a fine fresh youth of 6 feet
and nothing deducted, 92 years old, 12st. 111 b. in weight,
merry as a sandboy, and rollicking as a sailor with three
years' pay. And here they are in presence; Tass with
his arras well up, his right playing peculiarly forward,
an f his fair, serious countenance solemnly, if not eagerly
watching his open-fronted adversary. Presently they
got to it, Tass fighting more boldly than is his wont; and
soon popping an ugly rap on Mister Con's mouth. The
rounds progressed, "the novice," as the bigger man was
termed, lending Tess various striking marks of his good
intentions towards winning, but not without such stag-
gering straight ones in return, as quite put his perpen-
dicular in doubt.' It, was observed, in the early part of
the fight, that COB., despite his enormous thews and
bulk, did not throw Tass when they came to a close,
and this became more remarkable subsequently; indeed,
in the scrambles, and at the ropes, the lighter and
older man was oitenest uppermost. Twenty-five rounds,
some of them rather tedious, were contested, Tass in the
23d taking most unpleasant liberties with his opponent's
frontispiece, but in return receiving on both right and
left cheek-bone. In the 26th, atter a fierce rally, in
which Tass, by superior straightness of hitting and
fistic tact, got his man to a stand-still for a moment,
Con. rushed at him madly, Tau fell, his opponent hit at
hini with his left, missed, and then wilfully drawing
back his right, struck Tess while on the ground. The
referee gave his decision for a tout blow, and thus ended
the battle, after lasting one hour and thirty-seven
minutes. As the hour of four was close approaching,
the second contest, that of Gill and Welsh, for 1004
was necessarily postponed until Thursday next. The
voyagers quickly re ,
'ained their "special," and in due
time were returned to the metropolis with another
"great fact" added to their experience.

COURSE OF EXCH)
Amaterdam •... 12 3M
Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 1%
Rotterdam .... ••.. • • 12 3%
Antwerp ..... ......... 25 80
Hamburgh • ]I.B • 13 14%
Altona•••• s• ........
Parts, 3 dayealght •, - • 25 55
Ditto, 3 months 25 75
arseilles 25 77%
Bourdeaux . 25 77%
Frankfort on Maine.... 122%
Petersburgh, Sil. Rble•• 36%
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Oleo. 80."... 11 12
Trieste, •• 1 12
Mathid 49%
Cadiz .. ............. 49%
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Naples •.•••.•• • • • • • • 40%
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PRICE! OP BULLION, PIEI
Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9
Fortisgal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
3panish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars ...... 0 4 10
Silver in bars ........ 0 4 11

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RAN SLATE, Nov. 26.—WiLd, E.N.E., fresh—Arrd.
Duke of Cornwall, Stettin, for Swansea. leaky, having
been on shore on the Kentish Knock; _Highland Chief,
St. Petersburg, for Bristol, leaky, hating been on shore
on the Shipwash.
Never put a- curb on humanity ; we are too apt to
stop without it.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Thomas Cheslett, of No. 11, George-street, Man-
sion house, and who also carried on the business of a
warehouseman under the names of Burge, Cheslett,
and Co., in Sise-lane, was brought up for final exami-
nation before Mr. Alderman Gibbs, charged with
obtaining goods and cash by means of forged orders,
and also with obtaining goods under false pretences
from various persons. . .

There were numbers of persona in the court to
prefer charges, but the Alderman thought that three
would be sufficient to send him for trial.
The evidence taken on former occasions, and which
has already appeared before the public, was read over, j
when

'Webb, the city detective officer, who has the pri-
soner in custody, said that Mr. Burge, the person
whom he represented to be his partner, and a very
rich man, was then in court.

Mr. John Burge, of 71, New North road, mer-
chant's clerk, said that he never was in partnership
with the prisonPr, nor did he give him authority to
issue a card with his name on it. In fact, he never to
his knowledge saw the prisoner before.
The prisoner said the Mr. Burge, his partner, had
died a little time back.

Alderman Gznas asked him if he wished to say
anything ?—The prisoner (%miling) said he should
reserve his defence. .

Alderman GIBBi committed him on three charges,
and the depositions being made out, he was conveyed
to Newgate.

WORSHIP-STREET.

William Ashby, a farmer-looking young fellow,
living at Greenford, near Hanwell, was brought up
before Mr. Hammill to answer a bastardy war-
rant under the following somewhat peculiar cir-
cumstances :

The complainant, a tall, handsome young woman,
named Ellen Gilby, stated that while in the service
of a gentleman's family at Greenford, last year, she
formed the acquaintance of the defendant, who pro-
fessed the most honourable feelings towards her ; but
th• result was that she found herself in a condition,
some time afterwards, which rendered her retention
of her situation any longer impossible, and she there-
fore threw it up and went to the house of her mother,
at which she was confined in Fehruary last. She
had repeatedly written to the defendant, complaining
of the position in which he had placed her, but he
took not the least notice of her communications, and
she afterwards found that this was to be accounted
for by the fact that he had since got more advanta-
geously married to another young woman.
The complainant's mother proved calling upon the
defendant to remonstrate with him upon the conduct
he had pursued towards her daughter, and that he
then admitted that the complaint was not without
foundation, but expressed his determination to do
nothing in the matter until he was legally com-
pelled, and the present proceedings were therefore

adopted.
A solicitor who attended for the defendant was
instructed to give a positive denial to the fact of his
client's liability, which was stated to more properly
belong to another person named Keefe, who he should
be able to prove had been long acquainted with the
complainant, and on constant visiting terms with her.
The complainant was thereupon recalled, and having
indignantly denied that there were the slightest
grounds for such an insinuation, stated, that though
it was true that she really did know such a person as
Keefe, the fact was, that after he had rendered himself
liable to the present proceedings by his misconduct
towards her, the defendant had himself introduced
Keefe to her as an acquaintance of his, and she
therefore at her master's house received him as such,
but nothing more. Keefe was afterwards in the habit
of coming to the house repeatedly, and would sit
about the premises for an hour or two at a time,
unnoticed by anybody, and generally by himself, and
on her mentioning this singular conduct of Keefe to
the defendant, he spoke in high terms of Keefe, and
offered to give her a handsome pecuniary recompense
if she would marry him, but she indignantly rejected
such a strange overture, and had never regarded
Keefe in such a light as would justify its being made
to her.
Keefe, a simple looking country fellow, who kept
the audience in incessant merriment by the oddness of
his replies, was then called and entirely confirmed the
complainant's evidence, the substance of his own
being that the defendant had spoken to him of Miss
Gilby as a deserving young woman, who would make
an excellent wife, and that, as he had no particular
objection, he had upon a great many occasions availed
himself of such opportunities as presented themselves
for seeking an interview with her ; but he declared
most positively that he had not the slightest idea at
the time that she would be shortly confined, and said
that her conduct had always appeared to him to be
perfectly correct, and such in every respect as it
ought to be.
Mr. liksistim. thereupon told the defendant's soli-
citor that he considered this testimony had conclu—
sively fixed the liability of his client, and he had
therefore no hesitation whatever in making the order
upon him customary in such cases, and amercing him
in the costs that had been incurred in consequence.
The defendant declared that he should not abide by
the order, but it was mad, notwithstanding.
SOUTHWARK.
The Magistrate received the half of ail. note from
" L.lll .W.," one sovereign from " Y.," and 20s. worth
of postage-stamps from " D.G.," for the poor-box of
this court, the donors requesting that an acknowledg-
ment might appear in the newspapers.