The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-16 00:00:00

THE RING.

JeHN MARTIN AND YOUNG DUTCH SAaI.-A sovereign
a-side for this match having been posted on Tuesday
se'nnight, and an agreement entered into to put down a
further sum and draw up the articles last night at Martin's,
his backer attended with the rag. The person, however,
who had posted the goldfinch for Sam said that he was not
authorized to deposit a further sum, and of course it was
given up as forfeit. When the matter, however, was
agitated, another friend of Sam's offered to put down Si,
for a new match, which was met with promptitude, and
the following articles of war drawn up and signed :
" The said John Martin agrees to fight the said Samuel
Evans otherwise ' Young Dutch Sam,' for 2001. a-side.—
A fair stand-up fight, in a twenty.four feet roped ring,
half-minute time, on the third Tuesday in May, IS2B,
within 50 miles of London : the place of fighting to be
named by Mr. Jackson."

In pursuance of this agreement, 61. a-side are now depo-
sited in the hands of John Martin, to be placed in the hands
of Mr. T. Cribb, who is appointed Stakeholder after the
next deposit. A further deposit of fifteen pounds aside, to
be made at the Black Horse and Swan, Blackman street,
Borough, on next Tuesday, Jan. 22. A third deposit of
thirty pounds aside, to be made on Tuesday, 12th Feb. at
the Sol's Arms, Wych-street, A fourth deposit of fifty
pounds aside, to be made at Mr. Cribb's an Tuesday, I Ith
March. A fifth deposit of 501. aside, to be staked at
Joshua Hudson's on the Ist of April. The sixth, and last,
deposit to be made at the Black Horse and Swan, Black-
man-street, Borough, on the first Tuesday in May, making
good 2001. a-side. All these deposits to be made between
the hours of eight and ten o'clock at night, or the money
down to be forfeited by the party not staking. Two um-
pires to he chosen on the ground, one by each party, and a
referee to be chosen by the umpires. The decision of the
referee to be conclusive, and the battle-money shall be given
up as he shall decide. In the event of magisterial inter-
ference, in the absence of Mr. Jackson, another place of
fighting to be named by Mr. D. If either party refuse to 11
fight, he shall forfeit all the stakes.

Signed, SR. D., for J. Martin.
J. H. H., for S. Evans.

Witness, J. B.

This important business being settled, the sovereign for-
feited was spent by Martin's backer, and " May the best
man win" rang merrily round.

A young man who has never fought in the London ring
was, with his backer, ready to snake a match with Bishop
Sharpe—give and take half a stone, but the latter's friends
not being authorized to b;ek him against more than 10
stone Gib. the parties agreed to meet again on Friday night.
The unknown is said to be " a werry ruin un."

The 'Carlisle mail was about three hours be-
yond its usual time of arrival last night, its progress being
retarded, we were informed, by the late fall of snow.-_
Caledonian Mercury.

DESTRUCTIVE FlRE..—Last night, shortly
after seven o'clock, a flame suddenly burst forth, from a
store, in Dunbar-street, belonging to Mr. THOMAS Dux-
EAR ; the store contained several hundred provision casks
and firkins, with a quantity of hoops, twigs, and other
materials used in the coopering business. Had it not been
for the great exertions to save the surrounding premises,
the entire square, extending from Dunbar-street to Mary-
street, must have been inevitably destroyed. The illumi-
nted horizon was observed several miles from the city,
and induced many to come to town to learn the extent of
the calamity. Considerable damage had been sustained in
the removal of property from the adjacent houses.— Cork
Mercantile Chronicle.

On Monday last it blew a tremendous gale
from the South East, which continued without intermis-
sion during the whole day. About noon, the brig Sarah,
of 150 tons burthen, Tiros. COLLINGWOOD, master, from
Newfoundland for Poole, with a cargo of fish, oil, and
lumber, sought shelter from the storm by running into
Falmouth harbour. After dragging her anchor for some
time, by three o'clock in the afternoon she drifted close to
the rocks on the Trefusis side of the harbour, and hoisted
a signal of distress. As the gale continued with unabated
fury, and the night was falling in, the lives of those on
board were placed in jeopardy. At the suggestion of Capt.
SUTTON, of his Majesty's packet Stannzer, the inhabitants
of Flushing made a good light with furze and tar barrels
on an adjacent hill, which was of great advantage; the
masts of the brig were necessarily cut away, and a cable
being conveyed on shore, the crew, with a gentleman and
his two daughters, passengers, were got safely to land in
an empty cask which was slung and traversed on the cable.
The vessel fortunately held together until the gale abated;
the cargo is being discharged, and the hull will be got off
in the course of the coming spring tides.—Cornwall
Paper.

SMYRNA, DEC. 2, 1827.—The most per-
fect tranquillity continues to reign in this city. Some ap-
prehensions were at first entertained about the increase of
force (all irregular troops) that the PAcsi received from
different places in the interior of his Government ; but these
wild-looking warriors have been hitherto as orderly and
quiet as the disciplined tacticoes, 'to whom they are far supe-
rior in person;dress, and equipments. They are, indeed,
nearly all of a fine stature, muscular, and active, They
hare the theatrical gait and springing step that Lord BYRON
remarked in the Albanians, and which are common to
most mountaineers. The young men who compose the re-
gular troops do not seem of the same race. It was curious
to see a hundred and fifty, or two hundred, of these savage
but pictuiesque figures strutting thronii the streets after
franca Bay, the head of the police--he a punchy, solemn-
looking man, with a gilt axe in his hand, riding along on
a Turkish saddle, with his knees tucked up to his stomach,
and they keeping pace with him on foot, without any ap-
pearance of extraordinary exertion, or without losing any
of the dignity of their step. The poor tacticoes who were
sometimes mixed with them, were kept at a downright
run. Trade, of course, is suffering an entire suspen-
sion. The state of uncertainty in which we are
still lingering, is ruinous to the merchants, who
are paying heavy freights for the goods they
have embarked, and which, though things have re-
mained tranquil, they are not yet justified to rebind. The i
dealers n the bazaars refuse to meet their obligations, and
most of them refuse to pay even a para in cash. Some
transactions have taken place in way of barter, the merchant
giving goods, which were eating themselves up in ex-
pences, against opium, yellow berries, and valonia, which
he may forward at once to Europe. A fact that has ex-
cited a good deal of indignation is, that these bazaar dealers,
who are chiefly Armenians (a dull, thick-headed set, with
just talent enough to be rogues in business), have been
buying up the opium and other articles in demand, with
the very money that was due from them to the European
merchants, and have bartered these articles for fresh manu-
factures, colonials, &c. at an immense advantage in their
own favour. Let the business end when it will, the Frank
merchants must suffer heavy losses; if it he long pro-
tracted, the ruin of many of them is certain—and this
may somewhat excuse the violent disapprobation I every
day hear expressed against our Government's interfering in
the Greek question, and deeper curses than ever against
the whole of the Greek people. " Let those laugh who
win," is a vulgar axiom, but not more generally acted
upon than that those who lose will complain ; and when
the lose is so great, and the first feelings of irritation not
yet calmed, we may excuse a little departure from modera-
tion and justice.