The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-30 00:00:00

PUGILISM.

THE NO-FIGHT OF WELSH AND GILL FOR 100/. A
SIDE.—Most people have read or heard of " Colebs in
search of a wife," " Japhet in search of a Father," and
" Punch in search of a Policeman ;" but all and each of
these were yesterday cast in the shade by the utter blank,
the complete disappointment, the " story without an
end" that could be told by those who confidingly en-
trusted their corporealities to the South-Western Rail-
way as the means whereby they could be witnesses of
the contest for the championship of the light weights
between Jemmy Welsh, of Southwark, and Wm. Gill,
of Coventry, better known hitherto in the fighting circle
he has so strangely deserted as " Paddy Gill." We do
not deal in dry chronology, or much space might easily
be filled with the doings of the men here spoken of ;
suffice it to say that they were matched to meet on Tues-
day week, and their day was postponed to Monday
last, with the understanding that they should settle
their difference of opinion in the same arena as the two
" big ones," whose performances on Monday last we
have already chronicled. How that day was "cut to
waste," and how the voyagers were entrained and die-
trained, till two of the clock had seconded, has been al-
ready told. Daylight, in these dark days before
Christmas, forbidding the second encounter on Frimley
Green, it was mutually agreed to refer to the stake-
holder the nomination of day and place for the deferred
meeting, and accordingly Woking, between the hours
of twelve and one, and Thursday, were the time and
locality decided on. Whispers, loud as those on the
stage, were heard that there would. be "no fight ;" and
the condition and conduct of Gill were liberally com-
mented upon. At the hour of twelve the stakes being
pitched, and the ropes " all taught," Welsh
showed, attended by his seconds and friends. Of the
Coventry hero, however, not oven " Peeping Tom"
could get a sight. Rumour, with her busy tongue, spoke
of his abiding place being hard by ; he had come from
Kingston by an early train, had breakfasted, with his
trainer, " contagious," as Mrs. Malaprop says, to "the
common." Where was he then ? And to this question
Paddy's oeho answered, "By my sowl, I don't know."
At a few minutes to one—" the stage yet waiting"—a
Surrey justice of the peace slowly walked into sight,
and, after declaring that he was sent for to do a duty
which he was determined to perform, was told that
there was not only no intention to commit a "breach
of the peace of our Lady the Queen," but an
impossibility of doing so. His Worship, who though
firm, possessed the suaviter in mode), patiently waited
(we don't know how he could do otherwise) till the time
" the wee short hour avont the twee" had expired, when the
representative of the stakeholder announced that Welsh
being the only man present, and there being no proof of
magisterial interference baying prevented his showing at
the appointed place, Welsh was entitled to the stakes
with the proviso of an unanswerable impediment being
proven on the part of the Coventry champion. At a later
period, Broome, who had backed Gill, came forward,
and publicly stated that he had searched in vain for that
individual, and that he himself must frankly admit,
though at great pecuniary sacrifice, that the battle-
movey was the right of the man there present. With
the head•stakes of course go such bets as have been re-
newed since Monday's postponement. We could en-
large on the mischief thus done to fair-play, and the re-
putation of pugilism; but forbear, till time, which clears
most obscurities and solves even the riddles of the ring,
shall make plain who were the wrong-doers in this
shuffling transaction.

BUILDERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—The above
institution, established in 1827, for the granting pen-
sions to the decayed members of the building trade and
their widows, held its first annual election yesterday,
at the London Tavern, %hen, from a list of eleven can-
didates, four males and one female were elected, the
former to receive 241. per year each, and the latter 201.
per anima,. _ _

GUIDALCANAL SILTER MINING COMPANY. -- The
ordinary half-yearly meeting of this company was held
yesterday at their offices in Broad street-buildings, but
no reporter was admitted to the meeting.
Man's knowledge is but as the rivulet, his ignorance
as the sea.—Elizet Cook's Journal.
FIRES IN THE CITY•ROAD AND GOSWELL • STILEXT.—
Last night, between eight and nine o'clock, two alarm-
ing fires broke out. The first was at the Albion, No. 23,
Macclesfield-street, City-road, the property of Mr. Bats-
will, by which the upper part of the house was burned
out, and the lower rooms much damaged. The other
fire happened on the premises of Mr. Graves, a stay-
maker, carrying on business at 81, Goswell street. The
flames were confined to a workshop in which the fire
commenced, but great damage was done to the lower
portions of the premises by water, and the contents were
seriously injured by hasty removal. Mr, Graves was
insured in the Sun Fire-cffice.

FIRS AND PROBABLE Loss OF LlFE.—Yesterday
morning, about ball-past eleven o'clock, a fire broke out
in the private resichnce of MI s. Mary Pewtner, a lady
of independent property, situate at No. 40, White Lion-
street, Pentonville. The flames originated in the back
parlour, at which time Mrs. Pewtner was lying in the
room asleep. The cries of the poor lady brought assist.
ante, and by dint of great exertion the fire was sub-
dued, but not until nearly the whole of the bedding and
wearing apparel in the room were destroyed, and Mrs.
Pewtner so frightfully burned that little hopes are
entertained of her recovery.
Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs,
had an interview, on Wednesday, with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer.