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

WRESTLING.

THE MATCH FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.—The inter-
esting 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 athletes was striking; At-
kinson stands six feet two inches, and weighs seventeen
stone and a half. Longmire, a fine wiry man of 5 feet
101, inches, and balancing over thirteen stone. In 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 ..• ••• 1 0 1 1
Longmire ••• ... 0 1 0 0
Four small prizes were afterwards wrestled for, the
successful competitors being :—1 st, Anthony Dawson;
2d, J. Pearson; 3d, Thomas Longmire; 4th, John Dick-
son, senior.

NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

The llinchinbrook Plate.
Indus walked over.

Handicap Sweeps. D. M.

Beauclerc

Retail

Handicap.

T.Y.C.

Sagacity ... . ••• ...
Franciscan ... ••• ••• ••• ...
Sweepstakes of 50 sous. each. D.M.

Firefly colt

Quinine
Escalade

~, 2

... 2

Match. D.M. 500.
St. Rosalia 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. He 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 beheldh
by the human eye, mere little twinkling. stars.
principal stars, he said, were Ursa Major and Ursa
e
Minor, and near it is the North Star, which for so long a
time served as the naariner's guide.
the curious phenomi tna of shooting stathrsesae
philosophers
The Learned Professor than proceedendd ttohedensucrrnibrae
borealis. With regal :d to the former osfed 0
5,
f mall particles
are determined that- they were come
caused
ward by a commoti on m tdhe
rendered them incandescent,
of matter, that bec :ame unitehdesavendsr
tuhseedratpoidsittayrtwfeitrh-
which they were
and so giving to tb ,em the P
ar pearance of shooting stars.
borealis to be the effect of
He described the aurora.
ect *al action on the skies.
sunwi c centre,Letehoenirsi.daetrteenddtahnets a
te l it.
easn, and
revolving
topelle
el
ThOri lecturer cc included. by describing the planetary
va-
riousrsoyustnedmp.liat.nTeht.sekLUZ,l 3rous diagrams, exhibited after the
views, were introduced to illustrate
manner of dissolvt ng
the subject.

The Right-1
ion. the Speaker of the House of
Commons and It I..rs. Shaw Lefevre, and the Misses Le-
fevre, have left t own for their seat, in Hants. The
Right Hon. Gentl,,)man returns to Eaton-square on Sa-
turday next.
ST. STEPUEX"/ 5, WALBROO/L.—W. F. Rock, Esq.,
has been unauimo usly elected as guardian of the poor,
instead of Mr. Al( Lerman Gibbs, who has hitherto acted
as chairman of tt ,e board of guardians of the city of
London Union qf Cannon-street.