The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-04 00:00:00

ARRIVALS.

The Marquis of Headfort, at Gould's Hotel, Jermyn.street,
from Ireland; Viscount Clifden, in Hanover-square, from his
seat in Northamptonshire; the Earl of Ossory, at Symmons's
Hotel (late Jordan's), St. James's-street, from Oxford ; the Earl
and Countess Gower, at their seat in Shropshire, from a tour ;
Mr. and Mrs. Peploe, at their seat, Geanstone, Hereford, from
the Earl of Dartmouth's seat, Sandwell, Staffordshire; Sir Law-
rence and Lady Palk, in Bruton-street. Berkeley-square, from,
their seat, Renne House, Devonshire ; Mr. and Mrs. J. Monck,
in Wimpole-street, from the Continent ; Lord Saltoun, at his
seat in Scotland, from a tour; Captain and Mrs. Hall, in Pall.
mall, from Cheltenham ; Mrs. Bury and J. Bury, Esq. at the
Berners Hotel, Berners-street, from Waltham Abbey; the Rev.
Mr. Bell and Mrs. Bell, at ditto, from Dublin ; G. C. Thornton,
Esq. at ditto, from his reat, Hertford; G. Lewin, Esq. at
ditto, from Brighton ; J. W. Hearne, Esq. at ditto, from the
Ridge, Herts.
DEPARTURES.

The Duke of Rutland, from South Audley-street, for Stanten
Wood-house, Derbyshire; Viscount Anson, from Staffordshire,
for his seat in Leicestershire; Mrs. Bigg and family, from War-
ren's Hotel, Regent-street, for their seat In Hampshire; James
Crosby, Esq. from ditto, on a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Drake, from
Albemarle-street, for Bath; Wm. Meyer, Esq. from the British
Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Oxford; Captain Percy, from ditto,
for Brighton ; Lord J. Thynne, for Longleat, Wilts ; Mr. and
Mrs. Hughes, from Brook-street, for their seat in Herts ; Sir G.
Crewe, Bart. and Lady Crewe, from the Beruers Hotel, Ber.
ners.street, for Shooter's-bill, Kent. .

SPARRING AT THE TENNIS COURT.

Yesterday the Court was opened for the benefit of Ned
O'Neal. The interest that the affair of Tuesday excited in
the public mind, the simply curious as well as the deeply
interested, had the effect of bringing together as large a
company as we ever remember to have witnessed within
the walls of the Court. The tattle of the knots in every
direction was curious enough, and party feeling was to be
heard in whispers, or in foaming vehemence, according to
circumstances, all around ; indeed it was evident that the
sparring occupied only a minor portion of the attention of
the audience.

Harry Jones said he was ready to fight Bishop Sharpe
for 100/. a-side.

Phil Sampson was ready to fight Big Brown for 3001.
a-fide, if Brown would coma to within a stone of Phil's
weight; or if Brown would give 3001. to 200/. Phil
should fight him, and Brown might come to the scratch as
heavy as he chose.
The prime feature of the day was reserved for the ap-
pearance of Ned O'Neal. Tom Spring was the first to
drop his bow, and then the combustion of party feeling,
which had hitherto been smothered, broke cover, and
burst out into groaning and hissing. Ned O'Neal was no
better received—the same feeling was expressed towards
him by a portion of the audience; but the friends of
Spring and O'Neal were hearty in their support, and the
groaning and signs ofdisapprobation were perhaps mingled
in about equal proportion with cheering and cries of
" Bravo!"

Ned O'Neal addressed the audience. He said, he regretted
very much that the fight of Tuesday last should have been
interrupted. And, as it was well known to the pnblic,
that he had been bound over under 2001., and two sure-
ties in 1001. each, he could not now fight in England for
one year ; but to show that he meant fighting, and nothing
else, he was willing to put 3001. to the present battle mo-
ney, if Sam would do the same, and go to France, and
fight for the money.
Sam mounted the stage, and was received with general
acclamations. He briefly alluded to the battle-money
having been given against him, in the match with him and
Sharpe, when on that occasion he (Sam) was talcen from
the ring by a warrant. O'Neal had submitted to be taken
without a warrant. Sam added, that he had appeared in
the ring, fulfilled all his engagements, and, unless the
battle money was given up to him, he should consider
that he was robbed of it. He said, when he had won
battle money fairly, he was unfortunate enough not to
receive it; and when he sought an oppottunity of retriev-
ing-his bad luck then, lie was now baulked by a fresh
manoeuvre. He was not averse to fight again for double
the sum, but he meant to insist on his legitimate claim to
the stakes as they now stood. He lad, expended at least
60/. in training for the battle,
Ned O'Neal replied that Sam had made a merit in his
claim, by stating his expense of training at 60/. ; but be,
Ned O'Neal, had been so desirous to obtain a chance of re-
paying the loss of his last fight, that he stood in this match
150/. of the baige-money, and had been at the sole expense
of his own- training.
Sam replied, in terms of sarcasm and sevetity, on the
part of the officers not being armed w;th a warrant, and
asserted that a Magistrate in the town of Guilford had, in
the most unequivocal terms, told O'Neal that the officers
had no right whatever to take him ; that if OA: offieers
had been assaulted in the attempt, they could net have ob-
tained redress. The same Magistrate told Ned to "Go
and fight, and the officers at theie peril might attempt to
stop his departure," But," said Sam, turning round to
O'Neal, " had the officers run away, you would have fol-
lowed V em—they did not need a warrant to talce you
away."

red O'Neal rejoined that Hall, the o4icer of Union-
hall, had distinctly declared that the information was given
anl the interruptioe planned•by, the friends of Sam.
During the speech-making, there were continual interlitie-
ations of hissing and cheering by the parties opl-4useil to
one another; but when O'Neal made this tissertion, it was
received .with tremendous disapprobatioe.
It is useless to enuppeiatc: all that passed between the

ren, or the annoyance that was offered to ti a speakers.
)'Neal said that if any one could prove that he or his
fiends were the instruments of the interruption, be would
sabmit to the money being given to Sam; and if the set
could be traced to Sam, or his party, he, Ned, considered
that he should have the money. But the matter remained
altogether precisely the same.
A young gentleman who had been talking from the
body of the Court, that 5001. could be had for O'Neal
to go to Newmarket and fight, was persuaded to mount
the stage and to inform O'Neal personally of the offer.
The gentlemen had just uttered the introduction of his
subject, and named the sum (we thought lOW. in earnest
of the offer), when Tom spring, who hid lost his temper,
and had been employed in altercation with one or two of
Sam's most active friends, instantly laid held of the
stranger, who appeared not more than nine stone, and
seemed to intend bundling him off the stage. The exe-
crations of the crowd were then unmeasured ; the stage
was immediately covered with the partisans of both
parties. Sam rushed forward, and took the stranger from
the grasp of Spring—Sampson was in the Insirt of the
clump, and Ned O'Neal stepped in between S..ni and
Spring. The confusion that ensued ..precludes the possi-
bility of relating what was said by any one ; all that we
can infer is, that the actions of several seemed to imply
menaces. Something very serious was expected ; and
had so dense a mob as surrounded the stage given way to
the war►nth of feeling that seemed ready to break out, we
might have had to detiil tie report of a transa, tier' awful
in its circumstances, and unparalleled in its consequences.
The whole strength of the police and constables present
hurried to the spot, and order was with difficulty re-
stored, and Spring and O'Neal began their set-to, both
evidently labouring under extreme agitation.
During their wind-up they were made the butt of ail
manner of taunts and jeering; but we shall not repeat
what inuendos were thrown out, and other aggravating
measures that were adopted by the audience that imme-
diately surrounded the platform.
O'Neal, at the close, said a few words of thanks, and ex-
pressed a hope of the continuance of public support.
A brother scribe had the misfortune to have his pocket
turned inside-out: and of course the contents purloined.
THE YOUNG PHENOMENON AED NED O'NEAL.—The
noise of yesterday at the Coa► t, regarding this affair, was
terminated in the evening at Tom Spring's with as stormy,
boisterous, and fearful a meeting as ever it was our lot to
be present at. The avowed object of the meeting was for
the purpose of corning to a final conclusion, as to the dis-
position of the battle money, but whatever was the avowed
purpose of the meeting it would " puzzle a conjuror" to
tell what it was. The discussion at first proceeded with
quietness, while the-stakeholder and chairman nag rated the
incidents of the matter, all of which, we have already pre-
sented to our readers; but as the subject got in advance,
decorum decreased, and gradually a scene of the most com-
plete confusion, noise, and actually apparent danger en
sued. We never wish to witness another scene of the same
kind ; the excited feelings of the parties seemed to know
no bounds, and every thing alarming was to be dreaded.
The stakeholder concluded his introductory statement
with a declaration that the magisterial interfer, nee that
had been exercised against O'Neal was a sufficient reason
why the money should not be given up to Sam.
Sam, in reply, urged his claim likewise on poi:As which
we have already mentioned, and in no very gnarled terms
declared that the interruption hud been managed by the
friends of O'Neal.

Two friends of Sam afterwards answered portions of
the statements by putting questions, the bearings of which
were that when the match was first made, it was con-
tended by O'Neal's party, to have it at the greate,t pos,ib!e
distance from London; and that when O'Neal .:brained,
by toss, the choice of the place of fighting, he r.fused to
go to go to several places where money had been uffered to
take the battle on a road, and had fixed on a rou e so as to
be within the jurisdiction of Union-Hall, where lie might
have the use at convenience of some of the officers, who
were ready to do as he might require them. We need
not mention that it was repeated a hundred times
that Ned O'Neal was very well aware that he never
was in custody, and that he bad no right to obey the
order of Hall and Peple, the officers, particularly after
what the Magistrates at Guildford bad informed him,
that the officers were doing an illegalioct. No instance
was on record of a man having been taken berm e without
a warrant. The opinions were not delivered in metaphor,
but in unqualified terms, broadly stated that the friends of
Ned had done the thing after they found that Sane was
not to be bought. In the course of this the matter was
denounced a rank robbery; and one person, in direct terms,
taxed Tom Spring with being a person who knew of it,
and had taken a part in the proceedings. Tour got upon
the table and challenged the asserter to a repetition of the
charge—the charge was repeated, and twenty others made
by a mob of people, all speaking at once, and literally the
company became ungovernable. Discussion here ended,
and gave place to uproar ; countless were the imputa-
lions that were hurled out, and many were the names im-
plicated ; bat under circumstances where men were sa
ungovernably excited it would be improper either to quote
names or sayings. Spring seeing that there was no chance
of expostulation, left the affair to its fate and the noise to
take its chance; the chair was vacated, and Ow meeting
became a chaos in form, but a thunderstorm in disturbance.
Ned O'Neal, in the early part of rite evening, entered
the room, and at one time got up, as was supposed, with
the intention of speaking ; but a noise followed, and be-
fore quietness could be restored Ned had left the room.—
Ned had been at dinner, and bad indulged beyond Ilia
pability in the pleasures of the table. He was tipsy, The
Sam party made use of that circumstance, and said it was
done from design.
It would be impossible to give even a skeleton of all that
was said—it would 611 a paper—and at the late hour that
we got disengaged our opportunity was much curtailed..
It was asserted by a posse of the established ring supporters
that henceforth not another fight should take place in
England, as they should stop every one proposed ; and
the only thing like an arrangement was, that a kind of
agreement was countenanced in a kind of way that an in-
terview between Sam and O'Neal should determine whe,
ther the point should be decided by the Fair Play Club a'
by Gulley, Jackson, and Cribb.

We cannot at present venture to recapitulate the mass
of insinuations and bold assertions, eriwinatory, that were
expressed—they would make even a villain's hairs stand on
end. These we pass over, as assertion is not proof,
and noise is no argument, and it was only through these
mediums that we heard of them.