The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-16 00:00:00

BOXING.

The fight between Sun7p;;;;the Birmingham Youth, and
Jem. Burn, took place on Tuesday about twentyeight miles
fiom town; within. the confines of Bedfordshire, the parties
having been c haced from Hertfordshire by the illagistrates.—
The contest lasted an hour and ten minutes, during which time
twenty-three rounds were fought, when Jam. being quite ex-
hausted and nearly blind, gave in; he fought bravely to the
end, though it was easy to see that he stood no chance after the
third round. Sampson was led away amid the shouts of hie
friends. He did not show one scar on his face, although his eye
was swelled. In point of science Burn was certainly the better
of the two, but Sampson displayed the greatest coolness, and
met his man with a tremendous welcome. Burn seemed anxi-
ous to take the lead after the first four rounds and finish it, but
Sampson was not to be out.generalled. The fight was more
a specimen of tactics than hard hitting, but Sampson would
not fight but when compelled, until the 18th round, when he
took advantage of Jern's blindness' and set to in earnest. --The
vanquished was woefully punished.

WELSH NURTIALS.-Our readers are not perhaps aware
of the existence of a curious wedding ceremony amongst the
Welsh. The bride gathers round her a party of friends on
horseback, and being herself mounted upon the best horse she
can get, she sets oft, pursued by> the husband and his party,
similarly equipped. When the bridegroom has caught the
bride, he becomes entitled to-espouse her. • These races are
more or less numerously attended, according to the respect in
which the parties are held ; and are sometimes obstinately pro.
longed. Even after the bride is caught, the-race continues for
the prize, which is some mark of distinction given to the
winner. One of these marriages took place last week, at
Merthyr Cynog, to the great entertainment of that part of the
county of Monmouth. One hundred and fifty horses had a
race of 23 miles, at full- gallop, during the whole of which
distance the bride was one c)t the foremost, and was cap-
tured with much difficulty by the bridegroom. The race was
at last won by a grey mare, and as our informant says, none
of the slenderest. .

Pon.kntA.— This celebrated Musician was
spending a day at an Abbey in Germany, when
the Monks requested him to assist at the Office.)
in order hear their organist, whose talents
they greatly extolled. The office finished—
" what think you of our organist ?" said
the Prior--:-" Why (replied Porpora) he is a
clever man !"--" Arid likewise," said the Prior,
" a good'and charitable man, and his simplicity
is really evangelical.' ." Oh, as for his sim-
plicity.," replied Porpora, " I soon clearly per-
Teived •thal, for his left'hand krrow-eth pot. what
his right •hziod dbeth,"

FOR THE SUN.

The fifth vial was poured out on the seat of the Beast, &c.—
(Revelation, chap. xviii.)

•
MR. EDITOR—Upon these denunciations of
Gon's wrath the Roman Catholics and Protest-
ants are not agreed, the Catholics applying them
to the Protestant, and the Protestant to the Ca-
tholic ; which is right can only he determined
by events, for events that accord with what has
been foretold are its best expounders ; a single
apparent instance only is not wholly t.o be de-
pended on ; but if we can ascertain that two events
foretold have come to pass in the order they have
been foretOld, we may, with some degree of confi-
dence, presume that they are rightly understood.---L.
Roman Catholics, however, as well as Protestants,
seem to agree that the woman (chap. xviii.) means
the City of Rome, and the beast that carrieth her
the Empire of that city, which was to be sup-
ported by ten Kings or Powers, and to continue
1260 years.—There has been much doubt abotit
these ten Kings. Powers that have long passed
away have been pointed out as likely to have been
meant ; but as they are to give their power to
the Beast till the words of God are fulfilled,
they must-of course be with him till the end'of
his reign, since the words of God will not 'be
fulfilled before ; at which time they are to turn
against him. Thus much promised, I should
ask the Roman Catholic, whether the Empire of
Rome, and that Empire only, has not continued
for the term of 1,260 years or near it ? Has it not
of late years been supported by these ten Powers,
France, Spain, Austria, Poland, Sardinia, Tus-
cany, Venice, Genoa, Naples, Portugal, and do
they not give their power to it till this day ?
Now can we expect to see the pouring ott(or
the fifth vial of Lion's wrath more fully exem-
plified than it has been by the calamities that
have befallen the territories of these ten Powers,
and of Rome in the course of the last thirty
years ? Is not Spain, which has been stiled (he
great toe of Daniel's image, drinking the cup of
his anger even now to the very dregs ?
Have Ireland, and South America, 6r any cor-
ner of the globe,. where the authority of the Pa-
pacy prevails, escaped it ?
Do not these events stamp a strong mark .upon
the era (with respect to the prophecies) in whi-ch
we live ? and will .not presumption amount a. 1.-
most to a certainty, if the fall of the Ottomau
Empire should follow„ which seems 'ikely to
happen ? • • '

The sixth vial is to be poured out on the rivet
Euphrates, which is to be dried up, that the wag
moj be prepared for the Kings of the East. Nov!'
by the river Euphrates some commentators under-
stand not improperly the seat of the Mahomme:
dan Empire, and by the Kings of the East, the
Jews (who are numerous in the East) and %vita)
are to be assembled at Jerusalem to take posses-
sion of 'the Kingdom.—See Isaiah xi. xxx..6th
V.—This brings me to the same coucluSiot; made
in my-last letter,—:(See The Sun of Dee. 17 last,"
--Wherein I- referred the Reader to the last verses
of Daniel, c. xi:, and first verses of c. xii., to shevi
that the restoration of the Jews was to take place
upon the fall of the Ottoman EmpireoeToGENARIUS.
June, 1825.

Letters from Milan say, that urgent steps are
being taken by that distinguished Order, in aP-
cient times, the Knights of Malta, to endeavour
to interest the griat - Potentates now in that ci?
to espouse their cause so far as to authorize theiC
being incorporated again, under a certain•rnoP
fication of their Statutes, and praying that 0:0
may be re-established either at Malta, or ••'sg
some of the Isles in the vaster!) A rchipelago. It
is said they have proffered the dignity of tl,:ir
GRAND MASTERSDIP to the King of INAi.Lto.
And it is further added, that the. virtues atid
nevolent principles. which. have, ever characterii'
ed the Knights of-this most honourable' Order
have created a•very powerful syMpathy in their
favour,' which, it is hoped, may issue in sotric
arrangement approximatory to their wishes.
An article in the New York Gazette of the
14th ult. says—" On the arrival-of intelligen9e
in April of the rise of cotton in tngland, i!!".
dividual was dispatched from Philadelphia t°
Huntsville, in Albania. The`distance is nearly
1000 miles. He arrived therein twelve
having performed the whole journey on: horse-
back, and reached Huntsville six days in advance
of the mail." •

The third. part of Paradise Lost, illustrated bq
Mr. MARTIN, has been publishid. The letter press contains
the whole of the third hook of the Poem, and_ part of the7foufai,i
The subjects of the two plates which accompany it, are derived
from Book 11. I. 727, and Book XI. .1. - They are bdj,utril;
ful specimens of art, and full of that high poetical feeling which
must guide the pencil of any one who attempts ,the bold tasi, °
illustrating MILTON.

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BIRTHS.
On Wednesday, the 15th inst., in Bolton-street, the 1(1f
V. S. Reynolds, Esq., of a son. ••'' •
On the 14th inst., the lady of Alfred Chapman, Esq,
daughter.
The lady of the lion. James Caulfield, R.N., Lowet
street, Dublin, on the 10th inst., of ieson.