Star.
London, England, 1820-12-14 00:00:00

BOXING.

The match between Harry Burton, the tinman,
and Thornton, the Warininster butcher, took place
on Monday, for 100 guineas aside, in a ten acre field
belonging to Captain PHILLIPS (Thornton's backer),
at Hurst, near Strathfieldsay, Hants. The combat-
ants, who are in respictable life, met to fight out a
grudge, rather than to aspire to fame as boxers, and
Moth meant mischief at going in. Burton was se-
conded by Harry Ford, and Thornton by Gee, Capt.
r. Lt PS'S groom.
In the first round many heavy blows were thrown away from
over anxiety to take the lead; but at length a stand was made,
and some heavy tvistycastors were exchanged. Both proved
game receivers ; they closed and separated four times, until at
length a severe struggle took place at in-fighting, and they both
went dowr. .

2. After a short pause, Thornton was met by a chattering
blow on the side of the head, which floored him, and he laid
as if he had been served out of one of llodges's two-gallon
max cans.
5,4, 5: These rounds were in favour of Burton ;but, although
his adversary had not rectivered from his stupor, Burton was
d9abled sip by a heavy right-handed blow on the side, which
seemed to set him asleep.
6. Both went heavy to the scratch ; they were inanimate from
punishment and fatigue—both fell.
A cessation of hostilities now took place for seve-
ral minutes, die ring being broken by the pressure of
horsemen upon the people on foot ; a drawn battle
•was suggested, but refused by the backers.
7. A very gallant round was fought, and heavy counter hits
were exchanged at the head, until Burton was getting bland fast
from the inclination of his head to swell.
In the 9th and 10th rounds Burton was too blind to find his
adversary, and in the 11th Thornton won it by a finishing body
blow, which brought his adversary down upon his face.—lt was
a game fight of forty-eight minutes.

The renowned Tom Cribb, R.gent of right-handed facers, and
undisputed Champion of all England, brought a little shrivelled
tailor before Sir It. BAKER, on Tuesday, at Bow-street Office
and charged hint with calling him, the said Champion, " A
great big fighting covi:;" with exclaiming, " Oh ! that I was but
big enough to whop you !"—and with frequenting his house, the
Union Arms Tavern, Panton-street, for the purpose of abusing
him, and annoying his company. In reply to this, the little tailor
looked up in the Champion's face, and humbly begged his par-
don, promising most solemnly, before his Worship, never to
offend in like manner again. Cribb's sentiments are well known;
h. , who has so often stood unshaken before the stoutest hearts
In the ring, could not withstand this pathetic appeal, but, relax-
ing his features into a smile, bt confto.sed himself appeased, and
.the tailor was discharged.
Mr. LOCKHARTS black b. Lustre, was this year
the winner of the silver goblet at the Bowers Cours-
ing Meeting ; Mr. KENT'S y. b. Kotzebue, the silver
collar ; and Mr. Tntsout's Tulip, the • first prize of
the silver cup and cover.
ANNUAL CATTLE SllEw.—Yesterday afternoon,
the fat oxen, cows, sheep, and pigs, intended to be
shewn for the premiums of plate and gold medals,
liberally given by his Grace the Duke of BEDFORD,
and by the Smithfield Club, began to arrive in Mr.
SADLER'S yard, in Goswell-street, to form the twenty.
second of these annual exhibitions. Before dusk,
the Duke of BEDFORD, the Marquis of TAVISTOCK,
the Earl of BRIDGEWATER, and several other dis-
tinguished breeders of cattle and sheep, had sent in
stock ; and from the notices to Mr. SADLER, an un-
usually full exhibition was to be expected.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—During the examina-
tion of a female prisoner, last week, at Bath, for rob-
bing the lodgings of a chairman of an unmarked
Silver table-spoon, which the woman had pawned,
the man was asked by the Magistrate if he could
swear to it ? to which he replied in the affirmative ;
and on being desired to state how he came possessed
of it, be said, that about two years ago he met it dog
in the street with the spoon in his mouth, and suc-
ceeded in getting it from the animal. This story,
however improbable, proved to be the fact ; for, upon
further inquiry, it was found that the spoon in ques-
tion was stolen from a greasy dripping:pan, about
the time mentioned, by a strange dog, which got into
the kitchen of Mr. lstitn, a linen-draper, and the
chairman was able to identify the spoon, by the
marks of the dog's teeth on the handle, and the spoon
was of course claimed by Mr. BIRD as his property.
So that the dog stole the spoon from Mr. BlRD—the
chairman robbed the dog of it—the woman stole it
fidm the chairman—and the right owner got it
again after having lost it two years.
BURGLARY.—Four fellows, well armed, forced an
entry into the back part of Mr. Major's cottage, Eal-
ing-row, on the north of the Bayswater-road, at dusk
on Sunday evening. Mr. Major was reading in the
parlour, when he heard one of the maid-servants
shriek in the kitchen on the ground-floor; on going
to the door, he was met by one of the thieves, who
fastened him in the parlour, without offering further
violence. There was another female servant in the
house, who made her escape when the robbers en-
tered, and, suspecting resistance, they made a pre-
cipitate retreat across the fields towards Paddington,
carrying with them a time-piece and six silver spoons.
Thursday se'nnight, the Church of Carbrooke, in
Norfolk, was broken into, and all the plate, surplice,
communion-cloth, &c. stolen. And on Monday se'n-
night, or early next morning, the Church at Eaton
was broken into, and a surplice, the green cloth from
off the communion-table, a pewter basin, and several
Y. aver-books from the pews, were stolen.