The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-07 00:00:00

SPRING, TILE PUGILIST, BOUND OVER TO KEEP

PEACE.

BRIGHTON, APRIL (I.—FATAL EVENT FROM BORING.-4
pugiitstie contest took place on Brighton race hill on Friday
afternoon, In the presence of a numerous crowd of specta-
tors, between a person named Dann, a bricklayer, and one
Smith, a sawyer. The latter was the heaviest Man. '1 N!.
battle lasted upwards of an hour. and was truly of a san.rol-
nary description. The sawyer in the end got a quietus from
a tremendous blow placed under the left ear. He W
borne from the ground in a state of insensibility, and exp;r-
'ed at about four o'clock 3 esterday morning. Dann is i 3
custody. Spring. who is here for training, purposes, ar.d
Shelton, as they seemed busy in the ring, have undergono
examinations before Sir David Scott, Bart. They aro
held in a recognizance of 1001. each to keep the peace fir
one year, and a surety on both side% in a moiety of the strn
named must be found. ere they regain their liberty, Query.
—.Will not this restraint on Spring occasion the battle Ext..'
to take place between him and Neat to he postponed, if not
entirely superseded ? A Coroner's Inquest, on view of thu
remains of paor Smith, will be held here t3-morrow.

SPORTING FOOT-RACE.-41.1LTON &ND ASHTON.—A
match has been ma- e between the friends of these leaders
of Yorkshire awl Lancashire, to run four miles over the
Doncaster Course, on the 30th instant.T—Halton's backers
have staked 300 sovereigns to 200. Betting 3 to 2 in
favour of Halton.
FIDESTRI AN ism.—On Tuesday morning, Mr. J. Broth.
of Derby, undertook to run ten miles within the.hour, for
a wager of 501., on the road near that town, but failed in
his task by 3 min. 7 sec.
Saturday, at four o'clock, a Gentleman belonging to
the Yager Company of the lion. Artillery Corps, decided
a wager made at their mess table, by ascending the Mo-
nument ster, 310 in number, in two minstes ar.d a half ;
which he completed within the rhne.,,

On Thursday, his Majesty's sloon CPignri, Captain I'.
Bennett, arrived from toe Cape c f Good Hope sta. ion.
She left Simous' Bry on the 26th of January, Sr. Helena
11th of (:ebruary, and Ascension on the list sante mo.d h.
During the cruise of tie Cygnet on the east coast of
Africa, sate pnt Into the port of Mozambique, and that
at a most critical' moment for the safety of Cie Porto-
guese settlement, the natives having risen en the factory
and fort, which they had nearly reduced, when the s-a-
men and marines of rise Cygnet being landed f+r the sup-
port of the Europeans, order and security were restored,
and measures taken to prevent a recurrence of such a
plot, which had for its ~bieet the total expulsion of the
Moringnese from the is'an 1, Fy murder or any other
means.—(Hampshire Telegraph.)
Cone EXCHANGI, Pat'. 7.-1 here was a very large
arrival of flonr last week, but of all kinds of Orals the
supply «as bat modern e. This [Milling there was
s droe good quantities of corn in from Kent, but act
much from other part.. Wheat continues precisely in
tie same state as reported last Monday.—Fine Becky
meets purchasers ea full as good tenni as last puled.
Other sorts sold heavily. Peas of both descriptions
fully maim tin their %aloe. There is nothing. doing .at
present in the trade for Beans, which rem lin at last
Monday's price'. Oats come to market sparingly, and
the demand being considerable, ;his article obtains
higher price.. The fl aw trail.. is 'init.
D MARK CT, A e.ti t. i.—There wis a Tiro I
su:tply of all descriptio: set eagle at market this morn-
ing, and the pries were rather lower than on last market
day. Owing to the badutas of the weather, the trials
as rather heavy,

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