Star.
London, England, 1828-03-12 00:00:00

THE FIGHT.

At the commencensent.Larkins made first play, jobbed with his
left, followed up with his right, and bustled his man in good style.
Kelly returned but slightly, Mk in the close both down. In the
second round, Larkins again planted his left and right in good style,
and hit his man down. In.tbis• way he took and kept the lead,
peppering away in excellent style; and in the fourth round it was
ten to one in his favour. Kelly came up with great courage, and.
-popped in a teazer on Larkines smeller, but this was all the damage
done on his part ; be was out fought for the remainder of the fight;
and in the ninth' round injured his knee so as to lessen his chance.
Still he stood to .his nun; although cautiously; but having been re-
peatedly floored, and his left eye clan d, in the fifteenth round his
seconds, seeing be had not a chance, gave In. The fight lasted but
sixteen minutes, during which Larkins bad it all his own way, and
left off without a scratch, and with the loss only of a few drops of
claret from his proboscis. Larkins, from this specimen of bis talent,
has placed himself high in the estimation of the "knowing ones,"
and may kink for a more experienced customer.
There was a second fight between Ned Stockman's brother and a
Woolwich lad, named Dyer, under the auspices of Bishop Sharpe
and Burke, for a purse of 345. Stockman had the advantage of
length and science, although out of condition, but Dyer proved
himself a trump, and stuck to his man with great vigour and true
game. The superior out-fighting and heavy hitting of Stockman,
however, was more than he couki resist, and after being severely
jobbed—in the sixteenth round, finding that the chances were against
him, he prudently deefitted-prolonging the contest, and StOckman
pocketed " the ether'," little the worse for wear, while poor Dyer
carried home certain changes of colour in his physog, which must
have induced kis friends to believe that he bad been coupling his
name with the profession which it betokoneci. He left off, however,
,Oith a full share of applause, and was any thing but disgraced.
Thus ended the sports of the day, a'nti the enlightened assemblage
toddleehaek to their respective quarters, absorbing in their way no
small portion of heavy wet and other enlivening potations.
hoe WARD ADD Java Cum—The second deposit for the fight
between these men, for £5O a-side, was made good last night at
Frank Redmond's, Loam's Pond, in the presence of a respectable
muster of the " Lively ones." Carter. is resolved to " have a shy,
If be loses his stick;" and though he may be stale, he has sufficient
confidence in himself to believe, that he is fresh enough for Ward.

Smock-alley Theatre, in Dulalioewas built with such
dispatch, that it was finished and opened in the same year that it
was commenced. It met afterwards with a fate similar to that of
the Brunswick Theatre.

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In the year 1701, on the first night ,of performing
T. Sasowsu.'s Libertine, the house was very much crowded, and
put of the Theatre suddenly gave way, and buried the audience in
its ruins. As the Play was a very profligate one, the circumstance
was considered by the people as a visitation of Pacivinuica fur en-
couraging such a representation.
A temperate habit,- and a placid gentle disposition,
are excellent anodynes they assuage pain and soften misfortune,
leaving Nature free to work her own wonders.
Mr. CONWAY, the tragedian, who went from this
country to America, a few years since, fell, on the 24th of January,
into the ocean, whilst on hievoyage from New York to Savannah,
and was drowned. Mr. C. about a year ago relinquished the
stage, and devoted himself to the study of divinity.
A grey•bird's-nest, with four fledged young ones, was
found last week at Dartmouth.