The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-09 00:00:00

WRESTLING.

THE MATCH FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP..--The inter-
eating struggle for 501. and the premiership of the
wrestling ring, between Robert Atkinson, of Sleagill, and
Thomas Longmire. of Troutbeck, both in Westmore-
land, took place on Saturday at Copenhagen House. The
contest was for the best of five falls, Atkinson giving his
opponent one fall. The men have often before contended
with varied success, their last struggle being near Win-
dermere, in 1848, when Atkinson proved the victor. The
disparity in size between the atfeletce was striking; At-
kinson stands six feet two inches, and weighs seventeen
stone and a half. Longmire, a fine wiry man of 5 feet
IA inches, and balancing over thirteen stone. IR the
first bout Atkinson lifted Longmire and threw him
cleanly, by the first hold, in a minute and a half. Again
Atkinson tried the hoist, but Longmire put on the stop,
shifted and threw the Goliath a clean back fall ; the
cheers were ear-splitting. The third round was a repe-
tition of the first, and the fourth and deciding one a
clever shift was made by Longmire, after his opponent
had made the forward lift ; Atkinson struck with his
right foot but Longmire slipped by his knee, when At-
kinson made the gripe, and brought his adversary to the
ground with as much skill as strength. His success was
loudly applauded, as independently of his wondrous
strength and size he exhibited first-rate science. The
bouts stood thus:—
Atkinson ... •
Longmire

... 1 0 1 1
... 0 1 0 0

Four -small prizes were afterwards wrestled for, the
successful competitors being:-Ist, Anthony Dawson;
2d, J. Pearson; 3d, Thomas Longmire; 4th, John Dick-
son, senior.

NEWMARKET

RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
The Hinchinbrook Plate.
Indus walked over.

Handicap Sweeps. D. M.

Beetlelore
Retail

Handicap. T.Y.C.

Sagacity
,Franciscan

Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each. D.M.
Firefly colt ... ••• •••
Quinine
Escalade ... .0 •

... 1

... 2

... 2

... 2
... 3

Match. D.M. 500.
St. Roalia received forfeit from Galata filly.

POLY TECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Dr.Bachhoffner has been engaged during the past week
in delivering a series of lectures on astronomy. The Pro-
fessor chooses as his theme a consideration of the word
universe, which he says is misapplied by us when we
speak of it as meaning our earth, which in truth is but
an atom, as it were, in one large universe of planetary
system, of which the sun is the centre. Ile called the
attention of his audience to the fixed stars, described as
being heavenly bodies like our own, only at such an in-
finite distance from the earth as to appear, when beheld
by the human eye, mere little twinkling stars. The
principal stars, he said, were Ursa Major a d
Minor, and near it is the North Star, which
time served as the mariner's guide.
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the curious phenomena of shooting
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lecturer conclu e y describing the planetary
‘al
system. The sun he considered the centre, and the • .
rious planets. with their attendant satelites, revolving
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round it. Nurnerouexhibited after the
manner of dissolving views,s diagrams,e
the subject.

The Right lion. the Speaker of the House of
Commons and Mrs. Shaw Lefevre, and the Misses Le•
fevre, have left town for their seat, in Hants. The
Right lion. Gentleman returns to Eaton-square on Sa-
turday next.
ST. STErIIENIB, WALBROOK.—W. F. Rock, Esq.,
has been unanimously elected as guardian of the poor,
instead of Mr. Alderman Gibbs, who has hitherto acted
as chairman of the board of guardians of the city of
149ud9u th 4911 At Csiumulitreet.