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London, England, 1823-04-24 00:00:00

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• BOXING.
A pegilistfe contest took Oa( t on Tbursdiri.; In the gokitit Clio
relizse.Pint Gaffunif. Saltabutl•; which excited, from the atileen
arPenfrilitce and winded acirnte Of the pahies, feiy eonilderdbill
interest. Perriteittkle Die* And ehartvinl Jrrct, th► Ramer head
tit-bask and titelAtser frrint wU tatual hied, exerted theataelies
the utmoSt the battle la -tad sit hour and a belt: The glare{
flawed in praltillota and, at length, the bets *ere $e ft undecided;
some contending that Perrlwink le had tite better of Cita iecial, and
tiro versie. The owner of the garden bad the lied of It; fat bii
made the Mod of it.

esterday Irony Iftiretee took a benefit at the litres Calerti
which wat well -attended. The bets-to were between the fini•
tAte millers of the lting, who knocked each other abotti in Brand
style, to the high citisfaction of the admirers of iherAte art.
Warren (At the Fives' Cdurt yesteiday) has offered to give ani
nun above his weight. Carts said he was under Wan-clef
weiett, Rod Vtould fight hint fur FlOO 'side. Aim also ota
tered to etch Warren.

Join. I I tnisax ANT) SillitOtt further &Tilsit of ,t2O a-side
was made last niz;ht, at the east end of the tonto, between the
.11..0ve pugilists ; Shelton, on his part, waiving all difficulties...-1
The ring-goers tvere all in !Agit spirits ou the oitaiikla, ettlalos.:
ing, " That looks like fighting." •
liar.rox xa-b pvgllist it dettinslised to gibe hie
warm hearted count tytiteri a chance to pick up thair.lost &am!:
Ten guineas aside were deposited lan night .at the Castle Tao
vern, liolbarn, for the above Itbzers to fight in three weeks:
It Is expected to be a hard battle.

HOPPING IN A' SACK.
Yesterday morning, between six and seven o'clock, Jansen
Kondrick, a journeyman butcher, better kninvia by the name at
Jumping Jemmy, tied up in a back with only his head eat, •n=
dertook for a wager of one sovereign, to hop round Queen:
square, a distance of three furlongs, in the short space of thir4
teen minutes, whirls ardaous,task, to the astonishment of all
present, he performed bt eieseh minutes and a half; althougls
he fell down twice by the way, and had much difficulty nal
time in getting up, on account of his hands being inelosed within
the sack. Although the performance took place at an early hoer;
the concourse of spectators was immense, outing to the novelty
of the undertaking. At starring, bets were four to one against him.
HORSE" DEALING EXTRAORDINARY.

&complaint, which has caused a great deal of conversation in -
Bath, was nude a few days ago by a French Gentleman, named,
Lafu, against a Clergyman Who resides in the neighbourhood of
that City. The Magistrate applied to on the occasion recom-
mended that the circumstances should be stated in a Court of
Law, after having the following account front the lips of the
Frenchman :

"Igo to buy a horse from lim, and he auk me 40 guinea. I
say no, by Gar, Ino give that. Well, say the Clergyman, I tell
you What ; you shall have him for 35 guinea ; but, 4—n my eyes
you shall no hate him leis."
nagistrate.—You tould not think of dealing with a Clergy
man who was so ready to swear ?
Frenchman.—psi, I did ; I thought a Clergyman would not
swear anything but true ;so I paid him the money. Wsdl, I go*
upon him, and be go beautiful. Then I put him up in de Bell's
stables, and I ride burn next day, but he go upon three leg: so I
put him up again, but lie still go upon three leg, and then I gavot
him a doctor; but, by gar, he walk open his knee, and so I say,
ah, ah, if you walk upon your knee, I do not walk upon your back:
Magistrate.—You mean that the horse was unsound?
Frenchman.—Oui, he got de very bad gout.
Magistrate.—The gout ! horses don't get the gout.
Frenchman.—But he was a Clergyman's home, and they both
have de gout. The horse's leg was men, and so was de master's
Magistrate.— Well, I suppose you sent back the horse ?
Frenchman.—No: the Clergyman said, d—n his eye he'd no
have him : but I ask Mr. Bell to buy him for thirty-five guinea ;
but he said no, I not give more than 15 : so I keep him in di
stable twelve week, and then I send him to be sold; and what
do you think I got?

Magistrate.--Wky, perhaps five pounds.
Frenchman.—No, by gar ! I got fifteen pounds.
Magistrate.—Well, I think you received more than you had
Hen to expect in your ti ansaction with this worilty Clergyman.
Frenchman.--Receive! Akfi / I receive de nothing. I got
fifteen pounds to pay for de dinner !
Magistrate.—For the dinner?
Frilichman.-oai. For my horse's dinner for de tWelve weeks
in Mr. Bell's stable.

The unfortunate Frenchman thus lost, by his dealing with the
reverend horse-jockey, no less than thirty-five pounds.

Monday, as a restive horse in a cart was passing
the shop of Mr.W asron, linen-draper, in North-street,
Brighton, the animal suddenly reared, and threw his
foie-feet into the shop window, forcing in the frame.
work and glass with a tremendous crash. This awk+
ward customer, in the shop of a linen-draper, was,
after some litee difficulty, removed, severely cut by
the fragments of the window.
Sunday afternoon, a servant woman, carrying n
child, was walking along the footpath to Dudding.
non, on the south side of Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh,
and while passing under the huge basaltic columns,
commonly known by the name of Sampson's Ribs, a
small piece of the rock came tumbling down the pre•
cipice, struck her on the head, and.klled her to the
ground. The child fortunately was uninjured. She
was carried to the Royal Infirmary, where the opt•
ration of trepanning was med; but she has
never spoken since the accillentr . .

A distressing accident took place in one of the
Devon Iron Company's coal pits, on Wednesday sent. •
night. Several of the workmen had assembled at the
bottom-of the pit, preparing to come up, when four
of them stepped into a tub, which was about to
ascend, but unfortunately bad not observed, till the
engine was set on, that one of the books which ath • •
tattles the tub to the frame, had started from iti
plate ; the consequence was, that the tub hung corn=
pletely to one side, and thus taking away the equi-
librium of the frame, acted as a swivel, and set the
tub into a whirling motion as it ascended. One of
the men, seeing the danger they were likely to be
exposed to, leaped from the tub, after it hadascended
a considerable way, and saved himself, but was se-
verely bruised. The other three were carried up,
clinging to the tub and frame. When about 100
feet from the bottom, one of them, Joseph Paterson,
a fine young man aged 26, struck one of the beams
of the pit, which, breaking his arm) destroyed his
hold, and he was immediately precipitated into the
yawning• gutph below. Paterson survived only a
few seconds. The remaining two (one of whom was
P.uerson's father), still continued to ascend, till the
twisting of the rope attracting the notice of the en-
gineer, he caused the engine to be stopped. Their
tuation at this moment may be mote easily concthed
than described- -clinging in breathless despair to the
I unsteady frame, and hanging suspended over a depth
of nearly 300 feet. However, their presence of mind
'had not forsaken them, as they scam recollected that
they were near a landing-place in the pit, which they
were enabled to reach in safety, by the lowering of
the tub. The poor old man remained there till the
tub was toweled to the bottom of the pit, and only
came to a sense of his protracted existence on the re-
ascension of the tub with the mangled remains of the
unfortunate youth ; finding then that the cup of his
ov.n deltvetauce had been mixed with the bitterness
of death in the loss of, a dearly beloved toe—The
deceased has left a wife and child to lament his loss.
.—Stirting Jumrital.