The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-19 00:00:00


ortioned in sizfirWgength, and weight.
a.,211„he siool up almost in the shadow of
..,w7WaIIFM Rant, seemed confident, though of
course very cautious. Lightly Mace moved in and
out, feinting and smiling, as with a noiseless bound
like a cat he sprang just out of distance of the pon-
derous arms that seemed only required to move to
crush him. Gradually they drew nearer and
nearer, the giant waiting for his chance, which the
other now and then appeared to give him, though
in reality he ventured nothing. At last Mace
carefully ventured in, and struck his opponent
slightly three or four times in the face. They
were only light blows, but enough to show him
that he could reach the slow unwieldy boxer when
he chose, and get out of all danger of return with
perfect certainty. Apparently satisfied with this
knowledge Mace began the fight with a terrific
blow, which completely closed Hurst's eye, and
seemed to make his bulky frame tremble to his very
feet. Before the first round, which lasted nearly
12 minutes, was over, Hurst was half-smothered in
his own blood, and his face so °(-asked that, as fur as
appearances went, Mum might have been assault-
ing him with a razor. Still, as it was known that
Hurst had but to give one blow to win the day, no
one seemed inclined to back Mace, who might at
any moment get a stroke that would annihilate
him. Yet the tremendous blow that seemed always
impending never came. Hurst knew evidently
nothing of boxing, and his antagonist therefore
merely drew aside with the most perfect sang froid
from the slow, awkward, movements of the ponder-
ous arms, delivering his own strokes full on the
head and face of the giant with a force and rapidity
that was terrible. In vain, like a blind Cyclops,
Hurst threw his arm abroad, and strove to grasp,
to strike, even to touch his lithe wiry foe—in vain
he strove to hem him into a corner. Mace would
simply inflict his tremendous blows full on the
smashed face of his opponent, pass under his arm,
and be gone, almost before the eye could follow his
movements. Hurst was literally deluged with blood
which poured over his huge figure in such streams
that Mace himself was covered with it, and the
clothes of Hurst's two seconds almost saturated.
Nothing showed the enormous strength of the man
more than that he could sustain thisfearful punish-
ment and loss of blood with apparently little dimi-
nution of his colossal power. He stillpursued Mace
with unabated determination, but never once even
touched him, while, on the other hand, Mace's
blows sounded loud all over the ring, till from a
sharp crashing smash they gradually deadened
down to a splashing sound like striking raw meat
that was sickening to hear. Nothing stoppedt :
copious streams of blood that flowed from all part
of Hurst's face, and the whole of this one-sided cot.
test became disgusting and horrible beyond all
description. After there had been ten rounds,
and the fight had lasted some three-quarters of an
hour, Hurst's seconds and backers saw that his
chance was hopeless, and urgently strove to make
him discontinue. ut .though now utterly blind,
his features smashed out of all recognition almost
as a human being, and reeling from his fearful loss
of blood, the gory disfigured giant still tottered from
his corner, only to be sent staggering back by an
antagonist that he seemed capable of annihilating.
Mace now no longer fought cautiously, but hit when
and where he pleased, and even closed with the
great wrestler and threw him heavily. It was all
over. Hercules himself would have succumbed to
such fearful blows, and the alarming haemorrhage
which followed them, and which '*w began to soak
all the grass of the ring. Brettle, Hurst's chief
backer, at last rushed into the arena, and insisted
on his fighting no more, but the maimed giant
seemed incapable of understanding his defeat from
such a little man, and groped and staggered out
again. Blind and fainting it only required one or
two more blows to finish the affair; but the inflic-
tion of those on the helpless heap of flesh was hor-
rible and sickening beyond all description. His
seconds and backers gave in for him without his
knowledge, and kept Hurst in his corner till he
gradually became almost insensible, and all the re-
storative arts of the ring were exhausted in efforts
to keep him from fainting, which, in the absence of
a surgeon, and in his then fast failing power, might
have been a most serious affair. The spectacle which
he presented is too horrible for description. Even
the oldest champions of the ring were aghast at the
fearful punishment inflicted in 50 minutes. Mace
had not a single mark on him. The dockyard police
were despatched in a steamer from Chatham to pre-
vent the fight, and arrived just as it was over—quite
official that. It is a kind of set off to this revolting
business to say that poor Hurst's comrades on both
sides were most solicitous in their care of him after
his defeat, and Mace went about among them, and
raised a subscription for him amounting to Such
facts, though undoubtedly praiseworthy, but poorly
counterbalance the horrible nature of the whole
contest. Yet pugilists think that in a few years the
Ring will again glow with all the brutal magnifi-
cence of the days of the Regency. Revive the Ring I.
It would be easier to restore the Heptarchy.

CAPTURE OF BALTIIIO.RE B.Y GEN.

BUILER.

The future course of the campaign is naturally
kept as secret as possible; but I have heard it
stated by a gentleman who has the very best means
of obtaining information that Harper's Ferry is
positively to be attacked this week, and that General
Butler has received orders to take Norfolk at the
same time. He is not the man to delay one mo-
ment after he receives his orders; his fault being
rather an excess of rashness than the reverse—at
least so think the regular officers. If he is the
extremely able commander that he is stated to be,
he is certainly a heaven-born general, as till a few
weeks since he was a lawyer, and a very success-
ful one, and was made a U.S. major-general by the
Cabinet after his successful seizure of Baltimore.
I have not seen any account of the way he took
it in print; so I daresay it may interest your
readers to know what turned him from a militia
brigadier into a U.S. major-general. He com-
manded the Annapolis district, and was with 1,200
men at the Relay-house. Baltimore was then en-
tirely in the hands of the State Government, and
was in imminent danger of secession. It :is within
20 miles of Annapolis, and consequently within the
limits of that command. Butler accordingly
writes to the War Department, asking if lie is iu
error in supposing Baltimore to be within his
i com-
mand. The answer, I understand, was that t cer-
tainly was; and certain persons were named to
him as being dangerous characters, whom . would
be well to look after in the event of Baltimore
being occupied by the United States troops. An
elaborate plan was in preparation here ; three
columns were to march on Baltimore—a sea force
was to co-operate—everything was arranged to
insure success. In the meantime Brigadier Butler
collects his 1,200 men, gets together a number of
railway cars at the Relay-house, and announces his
immediate departure for Harper's Ferry. His men
get on to cars, the engine's head is turned to
Harper's Ferry ; the train starts, and all the Bal-
timore people who have been hanging about to
watch the troops go off to Baltimore with the news.
Two miles beyond the station he stops the train,
has the engine shunted round, and in an hour is
encamped in.undisputed possession of Baltimore.
Extremely rash, unscientific, and completely suc-
cessful

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