The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-08-31 00:00:00

THE 114111*ESP IN SCOMIND.

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On Thursday a field of oats was cut down on that
•iortiun of Oreat Combray beton zing to Lord Olasgow.
The deficiency of straw was so consid•rabie, that gaaa-
•itirs here and there escaped tl►e sickle.
On the 14th current, the Rev. Mr. Watson, Cm.
rnauhl, rut a field of very fine oats, part of lits
Jere, and the meal was on Saturday avid at Cumbet•
nasal,' market.
The Stirlingahire harvest will be general in 10 days.
Peas are remarkably good, and beans are so prolific as
to double the crop of last year. Both are very early.
Whe:a is a good crop. Potatees promise to be ahem
dant. Harley and Oats in many places are short in the
straw and deficient in the head.

BOXI.NG.

The battle between Dick Acton, the fighting crafts-
man, and Ned Evans, the brick maker, took place ea
Wednesday, for 20 guineas, on the Watford-road; al-
though the rain fell in torrents, the road to the field
was thronged with drenched amateurs of all sorts.—
Acton is a promising pupil of Eales, and the kick
maker who had floored all before him, was upon lei
fond terms with himself, that on the evening beim
fighting, lie sent a polite message to his antagonist," • •
an undertaker to measure him, and have the box rem*
Eales and Paddington Jones seconded Acton ; and Tom
Oliver and Scrogyins seconded Evans, who was hacked
at 5 and 6 to 4.
It was a good fight of three quarters of an hoer ;
from the rain and dirt, it was hard to tell thew apart—
In the first round, Evans, who was rather the heaviest,
rushed upon his adversary impetuously, and ran him

Moan.
2. There was some good steady and equal fighting.—
Several blows were exchanged in a rilly ; both west

down.
3. Evans had a slight advantage and blacked his ad-
versary's eye, but lie received a heavy return upon the
jaw, and made wine Grimaldi faces; Acton was thrown
in a close. Even Evans.
4. Evans received a doubler-up in the mark; he broke
ground to recover himself, but his adversary, awake I.
his distress, went up to his head gaily, and floored him
by a munler.
6 and 7. There was but little fighting from former eit•
ertion, but strength gave Evans something best.
9. A good equal fighting round. Acton was throws.
9. Decidedly in favour of Evans, who met his adver-
sary rushing in by a flush hit upon the nose, which
dropped him cleanly.
It was all in favour of Acton after this, Evans had
all the fight taken out of him, and only stood op is be"
,some receiver-general.
In the 15th round Acton 'as piping, and of
In
cried out to his man, "Go " The watch-wind Teem
Eales was, " Be read'," and so he was—lines was
met by a gush hit on the front of the head, which elid-
ed him, and Acton won the battle in four meads after'
wards.

SCOAR.--FrOM an account of the qnantity of Sugar
imported into Urea Britain for the last fourteen wear*
it appears, that the average price of that twee f
fa
ISIS, was 735. 41d. and this year only S3s. dog*
the quantity imported in each of these years. was
nearly the same. In 1813, the amount sras 4.035,3t3
cwt., and in 1821, 4,063,541 cwt.
As EITRAOkDIXART DRAVOII? or Ftsn.—A few
days since, as a young gentleman of this neigbboor*
hood was fishing with a drag-net, assisted only by two f
keepers, they caught, at one draught, 167 brace o
Teach, the small,st of which weighed above half a
pound.—(Hereford Paper.)

lit ARRIVE
On Monday last. at Conway. North WOW. Sir DIM
Erskine, of Combo. Fifesidre. Bart. erandson of thy of
Kellie. to Jane Silence, only daughter of lb.
lateEHeek
Williams, Esq. of Conway.

DIED.
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Dillow, Esq. of St. Nicholas, Margate ; bee
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