The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-14 00:00:00

FATAL FIG UT AT BAT'7BRSEA.

During Sunday and yesterday morning consider-
able excitement was caused in the immediate

neighbourhood of Messrs. Easton and Amos's engi-
neering works, in the Grove, Great Guildford-street,

Southw,ark, in consequence of a report being cur-
rently circulated that a man employed in the factory
had been so brutally knocked about in a pugilistic
encounter with another man, named Williams,
that his life was despaired of. Unfortunately the
worst apprehensions were more than realised, for
the poor fellow expired at half-past four o'clock
yesterday aft( raoor, and now awaits the coroner's
inquest.
The short facts of this lamentable case are as fol-
low :—For some time past a great deal of ill-feeling
had prevailed in Messrs. Easton and Amos's fac-
tory between two of their workmen named respec-
tively George Mitchell and Williams. The conse-
quence was that they both agreed to fight on
Sunday morning for a sovereign a-side. A man
named Davis was appointed either one of the stake-
holders or referees, and who also worked in the
same factory, and he accompanied the belligerents
to Battersea•fields, where they had a regular stand-
up fight for a considerable period, during which
i ime it seems that George Mitchell was repeatedly
knocked down, and that more than once he fell
heavily on the side of his head, besides receiving
violent blows on the temples and chest. The unfor-
tunate man was prostrated several times, but
nothing serious or fatal was apprehended, and he
was able to walk home, but in a state of severe
suffering. Dr. Leech, of the firm of Wood and
Leech, surgeons, of Union-street, Borough, was
promptly in attendance, but he at once pronounced
the unfortunate fellow to be in articvlo mortis.
Everything, however, was done that humanity or
surgical skill could devise, but without the least
beneficial effect, and he expired at half-past four
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
It also appears that the man Davis, one of the
seconds, had gone on Sunday morning and knocked
Mitchell (the deceased) up, when his wife refused to
let him go out, the man telling her that he was
only going to have a running match for a sovereign
a-side. She accordingly allowed him to go out,
and hence the fatal result.
Information of the melancholy occurrence having
been sent to the Stone's-end station of the M Divi-
sion of the Metropolitan Police, Acting-Inspector
Gardener was despatched by Mr, Monford, the
superintendent of the division, in search of the
guilty persons, but the only persons engaged in
the fatal affray that he could find in the factory was
the man Davis, one of the seconds, who was at once
removed in custody.
Mitchell's antagonist has not yet been appre-
hended, but it is expected he will be in a day or
wo.

The unfortunate deceased lived at No. 3, Cottage-
place, Castle-street, Southwark-bridge-road, and
was considered a very clever workman. He has
left a widow and four children in a state of utter
destitution to deplore his untimely end, and it was
only by a subscription amongst his late brother
workmen that they were enabled to get a meal
last night.
From the fact of the wife of the other man
being known to be in Yorkshire, it is expected that
he will be found there.
The coroner's inquest, it is expected, will not be
held until Wednesday or Thursday.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

!COLCHESTER-Am 11.

A fair supply of wheat. Prices is per qr advance on
tho currencies of last week. Very little deirig in spring
corn, with prices as before. The weather 'still continues
unsettled. .

Wheat, white 6os to 654 Beans, Mwzagran..37s to 40s
red 54s to 58s Middle & small 40s to 440
Barley 2Bs to 32s White peas 3Bs to 40s
I Oats 26s to 28s Grey 40s to 42s

CHELMSFORD—A.I,G. 10.
There was a rather fair supply of wheat, and business
was not brisk, at barely late rates. In Spring corn little
doing worthy of notice, but quotations firm. Pease scarce
article.
Wheat. white 44s to 61s Peas, Partridge ..428 to 43s
red 43s to 578 White 42s to 455
Barley 34s to 40s Boiling ..42s to 45s
Chevalier ....35s to 40s Dun 37s to 40s
Grinding 32s to 36s Beau, Tick ....39s to 45s
Malt 61s to 67s Harrow Ticks 40s to 48e
Chevalier 64s to 69s Mazagan. 37s to 425
Oats 25s to 30s

YORK—
The supply of wheat was
were is to 2s higher. In thi
crops are progressing steadily,.
Wheat, red .58s to 62s Oats....
White do .62s to 65s Beans
Barley .32s to 35s Pens .: .• 48-288: ttt o: to 3-
—520:
Malt, 68s to 70s per qr. ; rye, 39s per qr. ; flour, 42s to
44s per sack.

.I.TG. H.

;ain moderate, and currencies
neighbourhood the growl"