The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF LEEDS AND THE

BO lANISTS.

Tun BARRICADING or GLEN TILT.—The following
s a fuller account of the encounter on Saturday week
between the Duke of Leeds and the botanists. After
pvercoming the first attempt at arreatment, the party
iroceeded onwards, watched by two or three gillies,
who closed one or two gates, which were on the road
hrough the glen, though open before. At length
hey reached a gate just at the end of the glen where
-.here is a lodge of the Duke's opposite, and found it
,adlocked, and a gillie on the other side, who told
hem they could not pass without the Duke's permis-
sion. They consented to wait till the Duke was sent
t'or, which was accordingly done, while they remained
three-quarters of an hour in the rain, drenched,
shivering, and hungry; at length the Duke appeared,
and asked the Professor if " he was not aware he was
;in a private road and trespassing ?" Professor—
" No." The Duke—" Did you not meet a party in
the glen who told you you were on a private road and
trespassing ?" Professor—" Yes." The Duke—
" Then you were warned, and must take the conse-
quences. You don't move an inch further, but must
return as you came." The Duke also asked the
Professor " if he had anything to do with the
society in Edinburgh for protecting the glens ?"
Professor—" I have heard of it, but have nothing
co do with it." The Duke—" Oh, you have heard of
it, it's all the same. You don't move an inch further."
the Duke here produced a clay pipe, which he began
smoke industriously, and the other gentlemen fol-
lowed his example. The Duke then demanded names,
which were given, and the Duke then said, " Well,
you must return. You don't move an inch further
Inless you break open the gate, which you may do,
end take the consequences." Professor—" But what
ire we to do ; we are drenched to the skin, and
shivering with cold, and one of our party has a bad
•ough, and it may be the death of some of us to
.eturn." " That's your look out ; you have been
warned." The professor then, followed by some of
he party, moved up a small side walk and stamped a
ittle with his feet to warm them, when the Duke—
`
Don't spoil my walks with stampin f. Come off
hat walk, every one of you. Every step you take
-here is a trespass —a new trespass." The doctor
then returned, and asked repeatedly to be informed of
the shortest way to get off the Duke's grounds, but
received no answer. He also said, " Oh, it's a trespass
every way, to go back or to go forward." The Duke
—" I shall not consider it an additional trespass if you
return on the main walk." Professor—" *Oh,
it's a trespass then on the side walk, but not on the
main one ?" The Duke—" I shall not waste any
more words with you. Y.-at must return." Soon
,fter this the professor returned some 200 yards along
he main walk, and then struck off to see if he could
roes the river, but finding that impossible, made for
a wall within twenty yards of what even the Duke
allowed to be public road, and so, with his party,
escaped into the aforesaid road ; not, however, before
me of the party had been seized by the collar, but
within a minute released. And they all t':en gained
the Tilt Inn, drenched, shivering, famishing, and
disgusted. The men were watched till midnight by
the Duke and his gillies, and divers justices, con-
stables, and lawyers, were sent to, but little seems to
have come of their deliberations, as the party re-
.:eived no further molestation. It appears that neither
-he present Duke's grand ather nor father ever at-
tempted to close the glen, hut his grandfather, on the
contrary, encouraged intercourse between Braemar
ind Blair Athole by Glen Tilt; and, assisted by the
Earl of Fife, improved the road, and in some places
made small patches of new road in a different course.
Of these patches the present Duke avails himself to
entrap the unwary traveller, and -then challenges him
for being on a private road.—Scotsman.

PUGILISM.
REIDIE AND DRISCOLL FOR 501. ASIDE.
The fistic encounter between this brace of old-
school pugilists was yesterday brought to an issue,
as unexpected in its result as its fixed time was pre-
mature. We must, however, correct our phrase, for
both combatants not only proved themselves ripe and
eager for the fray, but warmed the heart of every old
ring-goer, and admirer of
The art without pretence,
The good old manly art of self-defence,
by an exhibition which, with all due allowance for the
age of the antagonistic parties, must be deemed nulli
secundas for science, endurance, and game. Those
who were in the secret betook themselves to the
Borough terminus of—the South-Eastern Railway,
and arriving at Horley, received the " office ;" others
in more aristocratic style— and among them was the
hero of the day, the gallant Tom himself—did it in
the olden style, and came to the rendezvous in drags
of various descriptions—the principal performer in a
four-horse, profusely decorated with his blazing
scarlet, and attended by sundry pairs, chariots,
phaetons, and buggies. And thus the time wore on
till the twelfth hour, when the veteran commissary
of the prize-ring, old Tom Oliver, having fixed his
lists, the cavalcade and pedestrian procession moved
off. Now, we say that the ground was chosen with
judgment, or that there could not have been a
more convenient or pleasant spot for a ,man to be
thrashed on than that chosen by the impartial master
of the ceremonies !
At a few minutes before
D one o'clock Reidie tossed
his cap within the ropes,Driscoll quickly
and here a word about the men.
To those who know London life, by which we must
beg to be understood
" The west and worst end of the city."
Reidie, otherwise " The Colonel," may say,
" Not to know me, argues yourself unknown."
His former battles, the last seventeen years since,
were by no means remarkable for courage of a high
order; hence, although his skill and gift of hitting
were beyond dispute, his gay life, and lightness, as
compared with his stronger, heavier, and, doubtless,
more lasting adversary, were thought as fairly de-
manding the odds against him, which ranged from 5,
6, and even 7to 4. On entering the ring Driscoll's
weight was 10st. 131 b. ; that of Reidie 9st. llb. An
excellent arena having been formed, the men stood
up. Of the fight, which deserves " a column to its
praise," we will only say that in the first round
Driscoll, who was a Hercules to an anatomic vivant,
hit down Reidie by a left-hander on the breast; in
the second, despite Tom's scientific dodges, he drove
him over, and was uppermost in the fall. In the
third, Reidie displayed a degree of generalship which
electrified and delighted his backers and friends. He
jobbed his opponent, fought on the retreat, broke
ground, got away, waited for his man, and " planted"
on him in artistic style. In the 13th round, 50
minutes having elapsed, it was clear the burly
Driscoll was a mere chopping-block ;he could only
exhibit, in a style instructive to the uninitiated, who
conceive brute force the first principle of pugilism,
that skill, activity, and the savoir faire, are the first,
second, and third things in the manly art—offensive
and defensive Poor Driscoll, though game and
strong, was a mere exemplification of this till the 934
round, when 93 minutes having been told by the
clock of the timekeeper, he was unable to answer to
call of " time," because
his hearing and his sight were
defective. The returneya
nt
coeh
townas
alike
these days of steam conveyance
ruch as i n
worthy of note.

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The American papers announce the death of Mr.
Amos Phelps, the eminent anti slavery advocate. Ho
died at It •xbury, on the 20th of July, in the forty-third
yeu cf his tge.