The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-15 00:00:00

LORD DRUIVILANRIG AND THE

PRIZE RING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sur,----Froaapaiag;aphin Tuesday evening's Sun, I
find that there is a dispute as to whether Count or Ben-
digo won the prize battle, and that thousands of pounds
are dependent on the ♦erdict in the case of " Caunt v.
Drumlanrig," being an action, as appears by your report,
to recover from the stakeholder the wager or battle-
money deposited in his hands to abide the decision of
the fight. Now, Sir, is there any reasonable man ex-
isting who for one moment can suppose that the
Judges of the Court of Exchequer will suffer themselves
to be made the umpires of the prize ring ? If there be, he
will surely be disappointed ; for the instant it appears
that the money sought to be recovered was a wager to
decide the event of a contemplated breach of the peace,
will the judges stop the trial.
My opini,ar is, that any loser of a prize fight may
bring an action against a stakeholder, and recover, not
the whole stakes or battle-money, but simply his own
deposit ; so if Caunt has taken this position, and seeks to
recover loot, and not the double deposit, he will most
certainly recover his cash. Caunt will prove the deposit
of a certain amount of money in the hands of
Drumlanrig : do you suppose that the Court
will allow the defendant to prove that he has
Paid it away to a party who committed a
breach of the public peace, and that in the committal Of
such offence the event terminated against the piaintiff.
and that he paid away the money agreeably to the terms
of the deposit ? The Court will be very likely not only
to inform Lord Drumlanrig that he must repay the
plaintiff the money deposited by him, but that his Lord-
ship has also rendered himself liable to an
indictm, nt for taking part in a breach of the
pence by becoming stakeholder in a prize fight.
Whichever position Caunt takes—viz., to recover the
battle-money or simply his own deposit, you may rest
assured that the event of the trial will not decide the
bets on the prize fight between Caunt and Bendigo.
The Court of Exchequer, I say again, will not allow
itself to be made the umpire of the prize ring.
Yours, &c.,
" LOMBARD-STREET TO A CHINA ORANGE."
Ilfracombe, Dec. 11, 1845.

Sciwr.—The barque John Esdale, reported last
week wrecked on the Western Rocks, drove ashore on the
Island of St. Agnes, notwithstanding the exertions of the
pilots and boatmen to prevent this happening, and to get
her to St. Mary's. The hull now lies on the rocks literally
broken in pieces, and will be sold in a day or two for the
benefit of those concerned. The next spring tide would
carry all away. About seven thousand deals have been
landed on St. Agnes, which is strewed with fragments of the
wreck. The weather has been so boisterous that the master
of the Seven Stones' Light Ship has not been able to get off
since the Ist instant.— W est Briton.
ARAtoUTII.—THE Fm
E HERRING ise.—The sea-
son which is now drawing to a close has been, on the whole,
one of the most successful which has been known for many
years, and we trust the benefits of that success will be felt
in the provision which the poor men employed therein have
been enabled to make for their support during the winter
months. One firm in this town employing eight boats has
realised an average of 41 lasts a boat, one realising 56 lasts,
and another 533. x. The crew of one boat divided 2301., and
the firm paid 1,7001. only for doles to the several crews, ex-
clusive of ferrying, victualling, stores, &c. &c. This large
outlay at this season of the year affords a timely relief to
who might otherwise have been compelled to
pinchings of want. We repeat the hope
we expressed last week, that the facilities afforded by the
railway for securing a profitable market for the proceeds of
our fisheries will lead to a consolidation of their interests,
which will greatly tend to the promotion of their prosperity.
—Norldh Chronicle.
PRESENT FROM SIR J. E. TENNENT TO THE
IleftuterEulairasATbeßenE BELFAST.—We
received Weby
Na-
tural History and Philosophical Society of this town,
learn,tiie secretary of the with pleasure, that a
from Sir James Emerson Tennent, stating that he
has been on a tour through Upper Egypt, and that he has
procured, in the neighbourhood of Thebes, two mummies for
the museum in connexion with the above Society. Sir
James states that he intends one of these as a permanent
gift to the Museum, and the other to remain in it till claimed
by his son, if lie should, at a future period, visit Belfast.
Our late representative speaks of a mummy cat, also, which
he means to contribute towards the Society's collection of
curiosities; and, last, not least, he mentions that he has
brought down from Thebes the hand of the colossal states of
Arrtunoph 11. (born B.C. 1580), which travellers used to
remark at the south-west propylon of the Grand Temple of
Karnak; the four fingers of which are two feet five inches
across. correspoiviing with a full length figure of 56 feet.
The Paella. in order to allow Sir James an opportunity of
thus complimenting his former constituents, has permitt .d
thp exportation of this relic of art, together with the objects
above specified ; and we expect soon to be enabled to an-
ToNnce theif arrival ,A.t their qestinatio4.—Fanner of Ulster.