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THE LATE FIGHT FOR THE

CHAMPIONSHIP.

(From Belt's Life.)

Very great exe;.tement has prevailed respecting the
torrnination of this fight. Fresh instances are reported
of the disgusting scenes and the gross outrages perpe-
trated on the roads to and from the field of battle.
Almost every person having the semblance of respecta-
bility was hustled or stopped, and every pocket cleaned
out, while some were actually thrown down, and their
boots taken off, to ascertain whether they had there
concealed their cash. The toll-keepers were in many
places surrounded, and "cleaned out" of all their takings,
in search of which visits were paid, with unblushing
effrontery, to their houses. Almost every publican was
robbed, the upstairs rooms often ransacked, and resist-
ance treated as a serious offence ; such gangs of preda-
tory marauders were never before let loose on the pub-
lic. It was openly said at Nottingham and elsewhere,
that any money betted against Caunt was safe, as it was
never intended to let him win.

It appears that the,:referee, who was present in the
Subscription Rooms at Doncaster daring the week, still
adheres to the decision he gave respecting the battle on
the field. He appeared to be strongly excited by the
statements that had been made with regard to his con-
duct, particularly by what Spring said in his speech at
the benefit of Caunt, " that the referee decided under
the influence of intimidation, and that in fact from his
own acknowledgment in the presence of several persons,
he had not seen the last round." This the referee
repudiates very strongly. He acknowledges that
he said that he knew his own life and the lives of the
Editor of Bell's Life, as well as Torn Spring, Molyneux,
and several others would have been placed in jeopardy,
had he not decided in favour of Bendigo; but he states that
no apprehension, arising from this knowledge had in any
respect biassed the opinion he gave upon the last round.
He denies that any appeal was made to him when Bendigo
struck Caunt on!the abdomin in the 92d round. He described
Caunt as a great, big, overgrown fellow, awkward, and
no fighter, who could neither hit nor stop with precision,
and who depended on catching and hugging his man at
the ropes, ansi hanging or falling upon him. He spoke
with indignation of the length of the spikes in his shoes,
and designated him as a man in every way objectionable,
and said he would not mind fighting him himself " on
horseback," a position in which the referee, it is under-
stood, has already signalised himself. In answer to these
statements, it is urged that Caunt had no other means
of opposing his man but by the system he adopted, fur
Bendigo invariably endeavoured to fall and elude him
immediately upon having delivered a blow, and that
Bendigo's plan of falling to avoid a return, and,
after a round was finished, jumping up again to
catch his opponent treacherously and unawares, was
unmanly, awl contrary to the rules of fair fighting.
The report is, that Bendigo, who was himself in the
town of Doncaster, apparently quite recovered from the
consequences of his late conquest, has, however, suffered
severely from the punishment given him, and that one or
two of his ribs were broken in the falls to which he was
exposed. During the last week a letter was addressed
to the editor of Bell's Life, as the stakeholder upon the
occasion, from a solicitor on the part of Caunt, giving
him notice not to pay over the stakes without his con-
sent, under the penalty of legal proceedings being com-
menced against him ; but this, it is supposed, will be
withdrawn, after the decision of the referee, which is
contained in the following letter addressed to the editor
of Bell's Life, stakeholder, &c., and which, it is pre-
sumed, will terminate the disputes upon this knotty
question :
'

TO THE EDITOR OF " BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON,"
STAKEHOLDER, &C.

Sir,—An appal having been made to me as referee,
through the medium of your paper, by Mr. Spring, to
reverse my decision in the late fight between Bendigo
and (;aunt, on grounds unworthy of my consideration, I
request you will confirm that decision by paying over
the stakes to Bendigo, who, in my opinion, is justly en-
titled to them. It was with the greatest reluctance, and
at the particular request of my friends, and the una-
nimous solicitation of the backers of ie men, that I
accepted the office ; but I shall always consider it one
of the greatest acts of folly I ever was guilty of in my
life. In discharging my duty, I endeavoured to do justice
to the contending parties to the best of my abilities and
judgment ; and, arriving at the conclusion I did, and now
confirm, I was actuated only by a complete conviction of
the justice of my decision, and not from the intimidation
of the " roughs," as Mr. Spring states in his letter. It
would redound more to the credit of the ex-champion, if
he termed my decision an error in judgment, rather than
a direct robbery. Such insinuations against a gentle-
man who undertakes the office of referee, merely to
oblige both parties, and unanimously chosen by them,
are not cieulated to induce any gentleman in future to
accept it ; and, in taking leave of the ring, I should ad-
vise all my young friends to avoid so thankless and un-
satisfactory an office. Had I been under the intimi-
dation of the " roughs," I had several opportunities of
putting an end to the fight before the conclusion, by acts
on the part of Caunt.
A noble lord and several gentlemen who stood close
to me during the whole fight can corroborate this state-
ment. I most positively deny that I stated to any one
that a man going down without a blow, after he himself
had treacherously delivered blows, was fair. In no one
instance, in my judgment, did Bendigo break the laws of
fair fighting. I must also contradict, in the most positive
manner, that I even stated to any person that I did not
see the last round, which Mr. Saunders, of St. Martin's-
lane has advanced. I saw every round distinctly and
clearly, and when Caunt came up the last round he had
evidently not recovered from the 92d. After the men
were in position Bendigo very soon commenced opera-
tions, and Caunt turned round directly and skulked
away with his back to Bendigo, and sat down on his
nether end. He never knocked Bendigo down once in
the fight, nor ever got him against the ropes in the last
round. In my opinion Caunt got away as soon as he
could from Bendigo, fell without a blow to avoid being
hit cut of time, and fairly lost the fight.—l am your
obedient servant, THE OLD SQUIRE.
Doncaster, Sept. 18, 1845.

HYDROPHOBIA.
THE LATE DUKE OF RICHMOND.

The following particulars, given by Mr. Tolfrey, in
his rcccnt publication, will be read with interest, par-
ticularly by those (and there are many in Brighton as
well as in Sussex) who personally knew the estimable
Nobleman to whom the melancholy details refer.
It will be necessary to observe that the conversation,
with which the account opens, took place at a tent
dinner-party in the woods, given on the occasion of lay-
ing out the site of a new town

As the Duke was sipping his claret, he observed to
Colonel Cockburn, ' I don't know how it is, Cockburn,
but I cannot relish my wine to-night as usual, and I feel
that if I were a dog, I should be shot for a mad one."

" What must have been the feeling that could have
dictated such an extraordinary speech ! Was it the re-
sult of disease operating on the nervous system, and af-
fecting the mind in connexion with the accident itself ?
This is scarcely conceivable ; for, up to the moment of
the utterance of this singular expression, the Duke had
never alluded in any way whatever to the circumstance
of having been biter. The insidious poison lurking in
the veins may have given rise to sensations which called
forth the observation ; but under any circumstances it
must be quoted as a remarkable instance of prediction, if
not prescience. To the majority of the party present
the words were unheaded, or perhaps looked upon as a
quaint and passing observation. Not so, however, with
Colonel Cockburn and Major Bowles, who viewed the
matter in a more serious light ; for as soon as the meet-
ing broke up and the Duke had retired to his tent, they
held a consultation, and communicated their thoughts as
well as apprehensions to each other.'
The disorder unhappily made progress ; and the fatal
result is thus described by Mr. Tolfrey:—
" Colonel Cockburn and Major Bowles pressed the
Duke to partake of some nourishment: but the tea and
coffee were untouched, and an impatiert gesture of the
hand betrayed the sufferings of the object of their soF.-
citude at the sight of liquids. The meal was hurried
over with all practicable dispatch, and the Duke con-
sented to accompany the gentlemen down to the river
and embark in the canoe ; and it had been decided upon
that Major Bowles was to attend the Duke while Colonel
Cockburn rode from the place of embarkation to the
Rapids, there to make arrangements for the Duke's being
conveyed down the O:toway to Lachine, about nice
miles from Montreal. Leaning on the arm of his com-
panion the Duke walked to the river's side, but the
moment his Grace saw the water, a spasmodic seizure
told the agony he was enduring. He was turning away
from the obnoxious element, when his Grace was en-
treated to muster resolution and enter the canoe. With
a desperate effort he did so. exclaiming, as he rushed
into the frail bark, Charles Lennox never was afraid
of anything.'
" Major Bowles quickly followed ; the Canadian boat-
men shoved off, and the canoe, with its illustrious freight,
was soon floating down the current. Its course, how-
ever, was but of short duration ; for a few seconds
had scarcely elap,ed ere the Duke, in a paroxysm of
agony, seized one of the Canadian boatmen by the
throat, commanding him with frantic earnestness to row
to land.

" The mandate was of too imperative a nature to ad-
mit of a refusal or even delay : it was obeyed on the in-
stant ; and the canoe had scarcely grated on the strand
I:wfore the Doke had leaped upon the bank. and was
make g for the woods. Coi. Cockburn, who had mounted
'his horse for the purpose of apprising the Batteliers at
the station at the head of the Rapids of the Dula& ap-

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our other repositories of the humanizing creation of
heaven-born genius. Few living statesmen have served.
s-
interestedly. as honest Joseph Hume. When he en-
tered Parliament, upwards of a quarter of a cen-
tury ago, he found the finances of the country in a
Mate
of the greatest confusion—extravagance an .a
jobbing in every department of the Government
the public accounts purposely perplexed by corru
subordinates, so that Ministers themselves died not al_
derstand them—and the most reckless disregard ;he
principles of economy in every office under the Cro fen.
Like alraast every great benefactor of his country in
the House of Commens, Mr. Hume addressed all the
energies of his indomitable mind to the accornplishm sot
of one great purpose. He had resolved to penetrate
the mysteries of the State expenditure—to lay 'etre
every avenue to public corruption—and to er tee
blish the real responsibility of Ministers by plac'.ngs
the nation in a position to judge of th eir
fidelity as stewards of the patronage of 116
Crown, and the taxes of the people. I 'is
first attempts were naturally unpromising. The
country could not judge: of the importance of his'
labours ; and the courtiers, whom his exposures annoyedl,
assailed him with gibes, sneers, and menaces. But tat
threats and entreaties he was equally deaf. Gradually
others joined him ; his perseverance wearied out Minis-
try after Ministry ; and at last the most important re-
turns were ordered, to escape from the fatiguing ems: ;-
questioning of the then lion. Member for Middlese fe.
Nor were his labours confined to exposures of the extr
vagance of the Government in the House of Comm) is.
To the Ministerial heads of the public departments 4( •
privately communicated plans for cutting down oit •
expenditure in their respective offiees, and was conte tit
to award to them all the merit of originating such of h is
suggestions as they adopted. This gave him an infl• re-
ence with Ministers but little understood out of doors's,
and the result was the full and complete accomplish-
meat of a purpose which has saved this country the pro-
fligate expenditure of millions of public money ;
which has placed the whole scheme of our finance 3
within the comprehension of a school-boy ;
which has infused a spirit of honour and i f
integrity in nearly all our public offices. But finan-
cial re:orms did not satisfy the patriotism of Mr.
Hume. He was one of the first to expose, and one
the most active in removing some of the worst abuse a
of the Irish Church. None toiled harder to procur 3
the passing of the Reform Bal. He assisted in th. 3
woik of Corporate Reform ; and though he was no
in Parliament r. hen Sir Robert Peel's Tariff wets
introduced, the' Premier's Budget had been submitted
to him before it was Opened in the House of Com-.
maps. Mr. Wyse had his aid in maturing his seism,
of National Education. Mr. Wallace had all th 6'
benefit of his experience, endeavouring to reforna '
the abuses of the Post-office ; and Mr. Hutt could{
calculate upon no surer supporter when dwelling;
upon the hardship of the Sound and Elbe dues top
British shipping. For the last two years he has more
especially addressed himself to the business of obtaining ;
for the people free admission to our na`ional monuments ,
with a view to enlarge their sympathies, purify the; r
tastes, and exalt the standard of their moral feelings ;
and, we are delighted to add, with most gratifying sue-.
cess. Principally through the exertions of a society of
which he is chairman, and which numbers amongst its
members Lord Francis Egertrn, Lord Lowther, Lord
Worsley, Lord John Manners, Mr. llutt, and others, many
of the national edifices hitherto closed against the working
classes;, by reason of the fees charged for viewing
them, are now either wholly or partially open for some
days of the week free of any charge whatever. For
instance, the British Museum is open free, three
days in every week ; the National Gallery is free
four days ; St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey (except
the chapels) are free every day I the Society of
Arts is free five days ; Hampton Court Palace six
days ; the Woolwich Model every day ; the Norwich
Cathedral an hour daily ; the Bath and Wells Cathedral
every day ; the Durham Cathedral (except the chapel of
the Nine Altars) every day ; and the whole of the treasures
of the Tower of London can now be inspected for one
shilling, instead of eight times that sum. Liverpool ad-
mits its mechanics to its Botanical Garden two days in
the week, free of expense ; the Royal Botanical Garden
of Edinburgh is open, free to all applicants ; and the
Dublin Botanical Garden is accessible to the peasantry,
free of charge, two days in every week. Now, it has
reached the ears of Mr. Hume, and some other members
of this patriotic society, that Hull boasts of a Zoologi-
cal and a Botanical Garden—that our Philosophical
Society possesses a Museutn—that we have a magni-
ficent old parish church—that Beverley Minster is
a glorious specimen of gothic art ; and they are
curious to know to what extent the working classes
may participate, without charge, in their humanising
influences. Mr. Hume urges that fifteen years'
experience has satisfi. d him that the people, when
admitted free to cathedrals, museums, and gardens,
uniformly conduct themselves with the greatest pro-
priety ; and that the effect upon them, mentally and
morally, is of the most gratifying description. They
acquire habits of personal neatness in dress, politer
forms of speech and deportment, a greater lore of order,
and a general desire to extend the boundaries of what-
ever knowledge they may possess. The more imperfect
their own acquirements appear, the more eager are they
to obtain a better education for their children. We
regard
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trovertibl.e; and only
regret
to b ast of what Hull has done in the way of
throwing open public places for the ra• ional
recreation of the working classes. Some answer,
however, must be returned on behalf of the proprietors
of our Zoological and Botanical Gardens. Shall we say
as
that it is contemplated to throw them open gratuitously
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to
returning any answer, we :h ill be glad to receive infor-
mation from the hest informed quarters upon these and
other questions indicated by the whole tenor of this ar-
ticle, The subject is an important one, and we shell
early return to Adrerfser,

FEARFULLY VIOLENT DEATH OF A MOTHER AND
UNTIMELY BIKTII—A frightful accident, from the upsetting
of a vehicle, occurred on Friday evening last, by which one
poor woman lost her life—one had her wrist broken—one
had her hip dislocated—a poor girl had her face so disfigured
as scarcely to appear human—and indeed the whole of the
occupants of the carriage, nine in number, were more or less
seriously maimed. The melancholy particulars transpired on
the inquest over the body of Annis Wilson, which was held
before Mr. Badger, at the house of Mr. Hoyland, of Wood-
lane, farmer, Stannington, on Monday evening last. De•
ceased was the wife of Mr. Wm. Wilson, of Hall-car-place,
Sheffield, joiner, and the unfortunate couple had invited a few
friends to accompany them to the funeral of one of their
children. The time fixed on was Friday evening, at the
Unitarian Chapel, Stannington—the Rev. Peter Wright, a
Unitarian minister—who keeps a school at Sheffield, not
being able to perform the service earlier in the day, at so
great a distance from home. After the funeral, the atten-
dants called at a neighbouring inn, where they baited their
horse and partook of some slight refreshment, after which
they started for Sheffield, about eight o'clock. Their route
lay through Hoyland Wood-lane, a steep, rough,
and dangerous road, which, being little frequented,
was thickly studded thsoughout with large project-
ing stones. Dennis Wilson_, a brother-in-law of the de-
ceased, was leading the horse, and nine persons, chiefly
women and children were in a light spring cart, in which the
corse of the dead child of the Wilsons had been carried to
its last resting place. They had scarcely got to the top of
this rugged lane when the horse, it is supposed, from having
been pinched by the collar, became restive, and tried to run
Mr. Dennis Wilson, who was leading him, resolutely kept
hold of the bridle as long as he could; but in the strug-
gle, the bit was pulled out of the horse's mouth, and the
bridle over his head. The bluffs, or blinders, being thus re-
moved from his eyes, the horse darted off at full speed, with
his living load behind him, down the steep and fe.irful decli-
vity. Mr. Wilson having lost hold of the bridle, seized the
bottom of the collar, and was dragged for some 30 or 40 yards
and then thrown into the road with great violence. When
the horse had proceeded about 100 yards, the carriage upset,
dashing its occupants on to the stony road. Mrs. Wilson
unfortunately fell under the carriage, and there remained till
the male portion of the party were able to remove it, when
she was taken up insensible, and conveyed to the nearest
house, viz., that of Mr. Hoyland, of Stannington-wood-lane.
There she remained insensible till Saturday evening. when
she died—and when the attendant females were laying out
the body, they discovered that the unhappy woman had
given birth to a six months' child, which also lay dead by
its mother's corpse. No blame being attached to any parties,
the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."—Sheffield
Iris, Sept. 18.
THE APIARY.—By many it is feared that the
present will prove an indifferent honey year, in consequence
of the marked absence of heat early in the season,
most brimful
our
floral treasures of every description should be in
of saccharine matter. In Borgne, which has beens justly
called the Hybla of Scotland, the white clovers. s,uffered.isio
withered earl', greautY
often from blasting rains that they
to the detriment of the industriitsudbeisreocutsr who feed foebedseonn.atthioenir,
petals. In some cases that . fell
the hive inmates perished, either from cold or inanition, it' not
a combination of both. Inan case lately,
exceeded a quarter
pint. A correspondent, in
where two hives
e
were smoked, the produce b
dent in speo k.tl
ing of Borgue, says—smoking
will be general in a few days, and until the results of bee
husbandry are thus tested, I cannot even guess at prices.
Scanty as the produce was in 1843-4, I fear it will be still
smaller in 1845. Some persons maintain that the bees
gathered more honey from the 26th ult. to the Bth inst. than
they at during the preceding summer by name, but net so
in reality. When a labourer had three pints of honey to
dispose of for 305., as was often enough the case, he used to
say—" I may thank the bees for buying many wee odd
things for the family." Within the last few years, I knew a
working man who made 31. by one season's honey and at the
same time retained a stole for breeding for the following.—
Scotch Paper.
TILE PLYMOUTH FISHERY.—Great quantities of
fish have been caught during the past week, by the trawlers
and hooking-boats, and a large quantity of pilchards has
been brought into the town from the Cornish coast. On
Friday last so numerous were the hakes, that cart-loads of
that fish lay on the
.quay for want of mavens to put them in.
We hear that arrangements have already been made, when
the railway to this town is completed, to forward this valu-
able article of food- to the manufacturing districts in the
course of sixteen or eighteen hours. Fish being so abundant
in this town, the hake is comparatively neglected, except by
the poorer classes. There is no doubt that the speculators
will meet with a good profit in the transport of the hake and
other fish into the districts of the north.—Plymouth Journal.

GRATIS.

FINE ARTS AT EDINBURGH.
ROYAL INSTITUTION.
We have much pleasure in calling the attention of our
readers to the arrangements which have been made in
the Royal Institution building, by which a large, varied,
and valuable collection of paintings, marble, and brenzrs
are now thrown open twice a-week for the gratuitowe
inspection of the public. It will be remembered thrt ar-
ran;_Ten.ents were entered into between the Lord
Provost aed Mr. Sheriff Speirs, and the b ,rd of
trust •es of tho Ito!al Institution, with the view of
haling Vie painting I,b, queathe 1 to the university by the
late Sir J. Eiakine, of Torry, Bart , tranaferrt d from the
college to the building of the institution, as aff,rding
better accommodation for the display of these paintings. •
Accordingly the south octagon of the central suite of
room.; has been appropriated to this purpose, where they •
have been hung with great taste and jedgirent. In addi•
Lien to the Torry collection, the directors of the Royal
Institution have very handsomely trans'erre4 their paint-
ings to the hoard of trustees to be exhibited to the pl.blie
on the same terms. In granting this invaluable boon
to the community at large, the Royal Institution have
regone pecuniary emoluments, which in virtue of
their lease from the board of trustees they receiv( d by
the annual exhibition of the Royal Acadatny, and from
the exhibition of their own paintings. Their great ob-
ject, as well as that of the board of trustees, bei.:g to
promote a taste for the fine arts, they have handed over
their paintings to the board of trustees, deeming that
their exhibition along with the Torry paintin ,s will
serve as a stronger induennent to inspection, and conse-
quently facilitate the attainment of the object whit h the
two societies in common have in view. These painting,
which comprise specimens of the creations of the Caracci,
Guido, Vandyke, Rembrandt, and other celebrated
painters, are suspended on the walls of the central :om-
partments. In the northern octagon also the fine large
paintings of Etty, the property of the Royal Academy
are for the present at least displayed: T
room adjacent to the southern octagon has
set apart for private contributions of paintings,
and for the marbles, bronzes, &c. For the bet-
ter display of the latter, an octagonal table has been
erected in the centre of the room: When to these col-
lections is added the much-admired gallery of casts, it
must be admitted that within the walls of this elegant
building is to be f nind an exhibition of the most aurae-
tive description, It is often said of this country that it
provides little or no means of rational amusement ant
beneficial recreation for the working classes ; that, hi -
short, the principles of conservation and excluqott are
too strictly applied to institutions which ought tightly to
be open and accessible to all &asses, and more pa: titu-
larly to that class which, within themselves, have little
or no means of cultivating a taste for the sublime and
beautiful, although it is admitted on all hands to be a
most effectual means of elevating their thoughts and
habits. We hail with pleasure the facilities which the
Board of Trustees have afforded, and trust that the boon
will be eagerly embraced, and that the visitors will show
their grateful acknowledgments by in no way abusing
the privilege so generously granted to them.—Edinbueyk
Acke,