The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-27 00:00:00

SPARRING

Carter had a benefit at the Fives'-court yesterday, but there
were so many other benefits in the line of Christmas boxing that
the attendance was very shy.
Ildlt,abd Cooper (the gypsey.)—This was the only set-to fit
to be looked at. Holt is a great genius with his mauleys, and
made an excellent set-to against a good man of superior
weight. Both, as tacticians, afforded a fine specimen of
science.

A Russian merchant was extremely, even im-
mensely rich, yet lived in a small obscure room,
with hardly any fire, furniture, or attendance,
though his house was larger than many palaces;
burying his money in casks in the cellar, and
was so great a miser that he barely allowed him-
self the cornmot necessaries of life. He placed
his great security in the possession of a tremen-
dous large and fierce dog, who used to go round
his premises barking every night. The dog,
as most dogs will do, died one day. His
master was inconsolable ; but, remaining strict
to his principle of economy, would not buy
another, and actually performed the faithful
creature's services himself, going his rounds every
evening, and barking as well and as loud as he
could, in imitation of his deceased friend.
A MARINER'S BEQUEST.-At Burgh, in the
Marsh, the inhabitants have a tradition, that a parcel of land
was given by a sea Captain, the profits of which were to be ap-
propriated annually for the purchasing of a silk cord for the
great bell, in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. The tra-
dition states, that the above was given in gratitude for a deli-
verance from shipwreck, by hearing the sound of the bell, when
rung in the evening. It appeared that the mariners were lost,
and the night being very dark and stormy, they must have suf-
fered shipwreck, had they net heard the timely warning.

About three o'clock on Christmas niorning, the
neighbourhood of Chancery-lane was alarmed by the cry of fire.
It broke out in the house of Mr. Living, tallow-chandler, in
that street, within a door of Holborn. Several engines were
on the spot in a short time, and succeeded in extinguishing,
the fire, but not before the joists, flooring, and wainscot of
the first-floor were destroyed, and the furniture very much
damaged. The fire originated in a chimney, in which there
IA as no fire kept, and it is, supposed that a great quantity of
soot had accumulated in it, which must have been ignited from
some of the adjoining flues, and communicated to the joists and
wainscot.

BURGLIR Y.—Tuesday night the family of Mr.
Isaac Moss, in Brewers Gardens, Vauxhall-road, after they re-
tired to bed, were alarmed by the violent barking of the house
dog in the back yard. The maid servant got out of bed, and bay-
ing lighted a candle, went into the kitchen, where she observed
a fellow packing up a large bundie of linen and apparel, the
contents of a chest of drawers which stood in the front par-
lour. She gave a loud scream, and the ruffian, fearful of
being taken, instantly ran into the back yard, where there
were two of his companions, all of whotn escaped over the
garden wall, and got off. The family, by this time, were
all up, and on examination they missed several articles of plate,
a time-piece, and numerous other portable and valuable ar-
ticles taken from the front parlour, kitchen, and pantry,
by the thieves. A pannel had been taken out of the back
kitchen door where the ruffians gained an entrance. They left
a dark kmthorn, a crow bar, and a bunch of picklock keys be-
hind in their hurry to escape.