The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-10 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

FATAL CONSEQUENCIISOFINTOIICATIO/L, Yesterday
John Key, a labourer, and Eliza Leek, a common prostitute,
were charged before Mr. Henry with having caused the death
of their illegitimate infant, six months old.
John Constable, a policeman, 43 L, deposed that on that
morning, while on duty at Tower-street station-house, a person
named Saunders came there, and said he wanted him to take
two persote into custody for having caused the death of their
child. I accompanied Saunders to the house, No. 24, in
Tower-street, and upon entering the bed-room in which the
prisoners were, he found the body of a female child on the
bed. Both the prisoners said they went to bed very mueh
intoxicated, and on awaking in the morning found the infant
dead.
Stephen Saunders said he had the management of a lodg-
ing-house, No. 24, Tower-street, and that on the night be-
fore the prisoners engaged a bed there for the night. Both
were intoxicated at the time, but having known them for
some time, he did not object to let them the lodging. They
went to bed with their infant, who then appeared in good
health, and he heard nothing more of them until that morn-
ing, when the female came down stairs running, and ex-
claimed,' t‘ Oh, my poor child is dead." Witness went up
stairs and found the female infant dead in the bed with its
clothes on, and it appeared to him that it had not been stripped
all night. In reply to the questions of Mr. Henry, the wit-
ness said both the prisoners seemed very much affected, parti-
cularly the female ; and from what he had always seen of them,
he thought they were both very fond of the infant.
A certificate from Mr. Wagstaff, a surgeon, who had exa-
mined the body of the child, was put in, and from it it appeared
that the child's death had been caused by suffocation in being
overlain during the night, and that there were no marks of vio-
lence on the body.
The female prisoner, who seemed to be in much grief, said
that herself and her companion went to bed much intoxicated,
and upon awaking that morning she placed the child at her
breast, but finding it did not suckle she became much alarmed,
and awoke its father, and they then found it was dead. She
ran down stairs and told the landlord as soon as she could,
and shortly after the policeman came and took them inte
custody.
Mr. HENRY remarked that the case was a very shocking
one, and there could be no doubt the death of the unfortunate
infant had been caused by being overlain by one or other of the
prisoners. He then remanded the prisoners to a future day to
give time for an inquest to be holden on the body.

THE FIGHT TOlt THE CHAM-
PIONSHIP.

Yesterday this affair was brought to issue at Suffie:d-green,
in the county of Northampton, after two adjournments, includ-
ing in their transit the counties of Buckingham, Oxford, and
Northampton. It may, perhaps, be necessary, for the informa-
tion of those who are not adepts in the mysteries of the ring, to
state that this contest for 2001. aside, the championship, and its
accompanying trophy, the belt, was the result of an ancient
envy and heart-burning between the competitors, this being
their third tourney in the listed field. In the first Caunt was
worsted, he having struck his adversary while down ; in the
second Bendigo was adjudged to have lost the tight for falling
without a blow ; and a third " passage of arms" would then
have come off, had not a serious accident, whereby Bendigo
fractured his kneecap, placed him for a considerable period
hors de combat. After lying by for upwards of two years, the
last-mentioned pugilist again dared his rival, and the other
responded to the call. The articles were signed, and the day
fixed for Tuesday, the 9th of September.
For some days previous to the event rumour pointed to the
vicinity of Newport Pagnell, in the county of Bucks, as the place
whereat the fistic venue would be laid, and this publicity,
doubtless, was a main cause of the vexatious shiftings of place
—the gallopings across country—the knocking-up of man and
horse, and the knocking down of vehicles, which, throughout
the entire day, brought back vividly to the fancies of ancient
ring-goers, the humours of " the road to the fight," as chanted
by Mathews. Eleven was named as the hour, but at five
minutes before tun the veteran commissary, Tom Oliver, had
pitched the stakes and completed an admirable outer and inner
ring at a place called Whaddon-field, about six miles from
Stratford, which is about the same distance from New-
port Pagnell. Here, for two hours, did some six
thousand persons broil in a September sun ; but at
five micutes past noon a horseman, fiery. hot with haste,
informed the multitude that there had been magisterial inter-
ference, that the stakes must be pulled up, and the fight would
not take place in Bucks. High and low, those who rode and.
those who padded the hoof, were quickly on the move ; Strat-
ford is again reached, and thence, at about half-past one, all
started to the fixture at Sutfield-green, passing through a por-
tion of Oxfordshire. There a second ring was formed and sur-
rounded by at least 10,000 persons. A long and annoying delay
now took place in the appointment of a referee, and it was not
until the men had been nearly an hour in the ring, that a gen-
tleman, a sexagenarian sportsman, well-known on the turf, in a
word, 6‘ the old squire, was prevailed on to accept the onerous
and thankless office. The seconds for Caunt were Wharton
and Young lgolyneux, the black ; for Bendigo, Nick Ward,
brother to Jem Ward, and Johnny Hannan. A t five minutes
to four, all being ready, the men shook hands, and threw them-
selves in an attitude for
THE FIGHT.

gOn the men standing up the disparity in bulk, height, thews,
sinews, and strength, was indeed fearful, Caunt standing 6 feet
2 inches, his antagonist 5 feet 9 inches; the champion's weight
14st. Sib., the Nottingham hero 12st. lib. Caunt looked as
hard as he was big ; Bendy, even at his fighting weight,
looked fleshy. A little measuring of distance, feinting, and
posturing took place, neither remarkable for its science or
gracefulness; Caunt seemed as eager to be at the little 'un,
and " eatawampously to chew him up," as an alligator going
open-mouthed at a spaniel pup. Caunt tried both hands in
succession, but Bendigo shifted, and got cleverly away. Wild
hitting on the part of Caunt, at last Bendy made his plant, and
during some exchanges not remarkable for precision, the little
'on gave Caunt such a shoot over the right eye, that the purple
fluid instantly followed. Caunt went at him ding dong with
more haste than discretion. Bendy got down cleverly to
avoid the Bruin's hug of the giant. Shouts of uproarious de-
light from the Leeds division ; first blood for Bendigo. This
settled many bets, as odds were demanded in favour of Bendigo
on this single event.
After thirteen rounds, Caunt began, under the direction of
Wharton, his second, to let out his blows much better. He
caught 13endigo on the body, but nothing to signify. Bendy
broke ground, was on all sides of the ring, and at last a rally of
right down hammering took place, during which, as Caunt
swaa,-,., partially round from the force of a missed blow, the
Notting,`:ana hero caught him a blow on the right eye that
grassed him.—(Uproarious shouting. " Who'll have Bendy at
evens?") Fi-rit knock-down blow for Bendigo.
The character and style of the remainder of the fight may
he judged from the sample here given. Suffice it to say, that
with alt ornate advantao, the fight was protracted to 93 rounds,
the details of which we wi!i spare the reader. The confusion,
the outer ring being broken in, and the riotous violence of the
crowd, made the position of umpires, referee, and reporters,
anything but safe or enviable. In tbe 92d round, Bendigo struck
Caunt very hard in the pit of the stOlTlizch—it was a winder.
An appeal and wrangle, was got up for the sixth or eight
time, and while several respectable men declared that Bendigo
struck Caunt below the waistband, other; strenuously denied
it ; the referee, who was almost crushed by a mob of roughs,
ordered the fight to proceed, and in the 93d round, Bendigo
having been partially down, sprung up, renewed the tight, and
went at Cauat, the latter supposing the round finished, and
probably wishing to husband his strength, certainly sat down
almost deliberately. Another appeal was made—the umpires
disagreed, and the referee decidedly and emphatically declared
that Caunt went down without a blow, and had lost the battle ;
and thus ended the grand tourney in the triumph of Bendigo,
after an unsatisfactory fight, which lasted two hours anii eight
minutes, during which 93 rounds were fought.

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SuiclDE.--Yesterday,
about noon, the passers-by on Blackfriars- bridge were considerably
alarmed by a married woman, named Harriet Cellgrove, residing
in Parson's-court, Bride.lane, attempting self-destruction, by
jumping off that bridge into the river in a most deliberate manner.
The unhappy creature, it seems, was noticed by several persons
wandering over the bridge in a somewhat excited state, and, on
reaching the recess of the second arch on the Surrey side, she
deliberately mounted the seat, thence on to the balustrade, and
threw herself over. It being low water, where she fell was scarcely
covered ; and, being perceived struggling, two watermen, named
lift2or and Miller, immediately went to her aid. On being re-
move,l to the Royal Humane Society's House, in Upper Ground-
street, a:thDZ
igh no bones were broken, she was found to be fright-
fully laceraior about the body, and the police instantly conveyed
her to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where she remains in a very
bad state. The cause of her attempting the rash act is said to be
domestic unhappiness';
TIIE LATE REVOLTING DEATH IN A BROTHEL.—
IDENTIFICATION OF THE BODY--YesterdaY morning a Middle-net!
woman, of respectable appearance, waited upon the parochial
authorities, for the purpose of being shown the westing apparel
left off by the man, unknown, who died in a brothel, in Piwil-
mer's-row, Commercial-road East, early on Tuesday morn og bet,
On being shown the articles, the poor woman immediately fell OW
hysterics. On recovering from the At, she stated that her hus-
band's
n,
then e,
bodyan d wason
name was James Williamson, a basket-maker, arid that he
htlonged to Hull not Birmingham. She had been married to him
athee"'i" veersatb o l time,
rsd motheray evening,
voef.
gv seven children.
autho-
rities have commenced proceedings against the
avowed tenants of
with a
the houses of ill-fame in Plummer's_row,view to their ex-
tirpation. Sines

TeI.I.RoITGIT T
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of o'clock, as a young man of the
gas Messrs.
su Warman, the grocers,
LAM P. —Last evening, HE PALL OF A
name of Masson, in the employ
lamp, from
in front of the
ymlinsgoine cause, rid_
a :flea
noannw:,...thotoghuerltohwenr
in Drury.lane, whilst lighting the
shop, the iron-work which holds the lam
dcnly snapped, and the lamp, which is a very
with the piping, fell into the street. The yohunisg
oil' the ladder, in his fall severely fracturing
shoulder,
besides otherwise bruising himself. The nursemaid belonging
Mr. Parkes, of Lincoln's Inn fields, who was entering the shot;
with one of the children, was struck with the lamp, and much cut
with the broken glass. The child, fortunately, was not hurt.