The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

211 E CIZA-11PIONSHIP.

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SAYERS AND HEENAN.—Both mean are zoing 04 steadily
with their training, but we regret to hear that Heenan has
again been compelled to change his quarters, owing to
hostile interference. There have been various unioUrs
and statements in some Of the papers that be lies had a
trial with Ike Baker, who defeated Skeyte, and that Baker
had all the best of it; and, also, that he has been compelled
to obtain medical advice. We have cousultea Mr. Falk-,
land, who is acting as his event, on this subject, and Mr.
Falkland ridicules the idea of the latter statement ; but, a.
to the former, he says that, six weeks back, Baker did go
to Salisbury, and put on the gloves with the Benicia Bt,y
but, as to obtaining any advantage over him, he thinks, if
Baker has made such a statement, it must have been in-
vented by him to deceive Lis own friends, or must have
een dreamt by him when sent to dorse by Jack's left maw-
ley. That one or bath statements have obtained credence
among certain persons usually well informed cn such sub-
jects is certain, from' the fact that those persons and.,
their friends have freely bette.l 2 to 1 on Sayers to the
tune of several hundred pounds. It follows either that
their means of obtaining information must be bettor than
ours, or that there must be a dodge at work to throw lleplana
back in the market, in order to enable his frienda to get on on
better terms. Even supposing Baker did, as ho thinks, get
the beat of it, it is scarcely probable that Heenan would
have done all he knew. That Sayers by his performances
is entitled to the position of favourite is undoubted, but that
such odds as 2 to 1 should be laid we think is preposterous.
We warn our readers that they should Lake every rumour
they may see in other journals cum grand. Even the state-
ments that have been made as to the alteration of the day
are pure inventions of the gentlemen of the press. No-
thing has yet been definitely fixed, as to the day ; and as to
a conveyance, it was only on Friday that this was settled
satisfactorily. We are glad to state that such arrangements
have been made as will ensure the comfort and convenience
of all intending spectators, who, however, will have to pay
X 3 a head for theirfrezghtage. The extraordinary distance
which the vigilance of the authorities has rendered neces-
sary involves a start long before daybreak, so that we would
recommend all to take out their sleep in the few previous
nights, so that they may keep fresh for the occasion. We
have been requested to state that the fight between Lynch
and Shaw cannot take place in the same ring—that there
will be no free passages granted, except to ring• keepers, on
any consideration whatever—and that unless all are em-
barked by the time named on the tickets, they will be in-
fallibly left behind.--Bell's Life.

HERTFORD, Saturday.—This afternoon Colonel
Archibald Robertson, chief constable of the Hertfordshire
police force, made application to the justices assembled in
petty session at Hertford fora warrant to apprehend Thomias
Sayers, the " Champion of England," and John Heenan, the
American pugilist, in order that they might be bound over
to keep the peace. Colonel Robertson stated, as the ground
of his application, that he had received information, upon
which he could rely, that the fight announced between Sayers
and Heenan was appointed to come off in the county of
Hertford. If the assemblage upon the occasion werelikely
to be an ordinary one the force at his command would be
ample to prevent a breach of the peace, but he had reason
to believe that not less than 8,000 persons would accompany
the pugilists to the spot fixed upon for the encounter, and
he therefore felt it was necessary to take the precaution of
binding the parties over to keep the peace.- The Bench said
the matter was one of great importance, as there was no
knowing what mischief might be done by the irruption of
8,000 per;ons of the class likely to assemble at a prize-fight
into a quiet agricultural county. The warrant was at once
granted, and signed by three magistrates—Mr. T. Milts,
M P., the chairman of the bench (who is also a magistrate
for the liberty of St. Alban and the county of Middlesei),
Liout. W. R. Baker, and Mr. G. Brassey, who is a magis-
trate for the county and liberty. It was understood that
the warrant would be at once executed, and the parties re-
quired to find sureties to a heavy amount, as the magis-
trates are determined to prevent, if possible, the fight from
coaling off in Hertfordshire.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.