The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-09 00:00:00

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FIGHT BETWEEN SPRING AND LANGAN.

(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
IR our report of this battle yesterday we detailed each round
to the 46th. with the result of the contest. The subsequent
rounds were nearly all in favour of Spriug. The last three
rounds. viz. the 73d, 74th, and 75th, were very punishing.—
Spring had it all his own way, sod in the 75th round, he struck
a right handed blow on Langan's jugular, when he fell, as if
struck with a shot, and was deaf to the call of " time." Josh.
Hudson and Reynolds, his seconds, on finding him insensible,
proposed to carry him to a surgeon's to get him bled. Time
being again called, Spring's seconds asked if Langan was
coming up to the scratch? Joel. replied, " No, we give it it,:;
he shan't cone again." Langan, who, from an application of
cold water, copiously thrown over his face and head, recovered
a little. was told lie had lost. wheel he said. " No ; I can tight
on, I will not give in ; but he could not raise himself on his
legs, and upon the umpires being referred to, they decided
Spring was the conqueror. •
The battle would have terminated mach smiler could Spring
have used his left hand effectively : but after the eighth round
he could use it only defensively, having hurt his knuckles by
hitting a tremendous blow on Langan's head. Another car
curestance that retarded the final issue was the destruction of
the inner ring; the combatants were so closely surrounded,
that they had not room for action, which was greatly to Spring's
disadvantage. Langan has proved a perfect glutton, en 1 that
he is the best man that ever came from Ireland. After the
fight he was exceedingly ill.--Ile was put to bed, and thirty
leeches were applied to different parts of his body. He an 1
Spring will both "show " on Tuesday next at the Flve's
Court, should Langan's health permit.
We lament to state that not fewer than one hundred persons
were injured during the fight, by the falling of the temporary
hustings on the Race Course. and that two are dead, and 17
in Worcester Infirmary, with broken limbs, &c. and others at
different Inns and public houses.
The fight lasted two hours and thirty minutes, and ended at
a quarter past four. Another fight was to have taken place In
the same ring between Belasco and Neil for 501. aside ; but the
dusk of the evening had approached, and it was prevented.—
Owing to the serious accidents that occurred, the Magistrates,
we understand, refused permission for them to fight on Thurs•
day, and it is believed that they will fight on Monday next,
either at Warwick or near Birmingham, when Cabbage of
Bristol, aad a promising youth Irons Cheltenham, are expected
to contend for a purse.
A great deal of money has been lost, notwithstanding the
victory of Spring, by the backers of this ehamplon. There are
many bets that he would beat the Irishman in 20. 25, and SO
minutes. The Springers were confident he would beat the
Irishman off band.

The Sessions of the Peace for the County of Middlesex,
will begin on Monday next, the 12th instal', when the
trials of the traverser. and others out on bail, on matters
of assault, nuisance, and misdemeanour, will be proceeded

upon.
Removal. of vie PRISONERS. —Yesterday the prisoners
who stood coniuritted on charges of felony, were removed
from the several gaol. in the City of London and County
of Middlesex to Newgate. preparatory to their trials at
Justice Hall in the Old Bailey, where the Sessions will
commence on Wednesday next.
On Monday afternoon last, a decently dressed couple,
the woman having an infant in her arms, were walking
along Piccadilly, when, as they were passing the gate
leading iute the Green Park. she suddenly rushed towards
the canal, placed her child on the ground, and plunged
into the water. Her husband, who was a step or two in
advance when she left him, turned his head, and seeing
her perilous situation, he ran towards the canal, intending
to leap in hinted, but Wooton, one of the Bow Street
daypetrol, seized him by the coat and jumped in himself,
and rescued the woman at the risk of his own life. The
husband could not swim, and be and his wife wonld probrl
bly have both been drowned, but for the conduct of
Wooton, who ti abort time before performed a similar' act
of courage and bomanity. A quarrel between the husband
and wife w4is the cause of her attempting the dreadful
act of suicide.
TRAWLS, Dec. 31.—0 n the night of Sunday last we were
visited here by a tremendous tempest (from W.S.W.)
attended by thunder, lightning, hail and rain, as awfully
dreadful as any remembered for many years past.—
The hurricane was at its height about five o'clock
on the morning of Monday, and from the violence with
which it raged for the whole of the night of Sunday, and
the greater part of the following morning, it was consider.
ed impossible that any vessels on our coast could have
weathered the storm. We are, however, happy to say, that
we have no account of any loss either of life or property.—
(Western Herald.)
UNPARA WALED Ouinaose—A few nights sive., some
nocturnal depredators entered a school house, which had
been erected at considerable expense in Saggard. by the
Governors of the Trinitarian Charity, as an asylum fur one
hundred orphans. and levelled the entire building to tne
ground, The heartless and unfeeling wretches did not
reflect that they were perpetrating an act. which, if the
effects he not averted by the commiseration of a humane
and charitable public, which has for the space of twenty
seven years supported that charity, might be the means of
leaviog one hundred little innocents without support or
shelter.— (Dublin Morning Post.)
During the awful thunder•storio on Sunday evening
week, the Flag-staff of Duncannon Port was shivered to
pi-ces by the lightning.—(Deblin Mail.)
Among the instances of the mildness of the season,
the following is sot the least remarkable; on the 30th
olt, in the garden of Mr. Thomas Jefferson, Highhead
Castle, on the edge of Broadtield, in this county, was
pulled a tea-cup full of ripe strawberries, and the plants
not bearing fruit, were mostly in fell flower.
On Wednesday night, as one of the Blackwell stage-
coaches was returning to town, et the Commercial Road,
near the turnpike gate, it received a sudden jerk, by which
one of the outside passengers (apparently a sailor, who
seemed to be a little intoxicated) was thrown from his
seat into the street, and the whee passing over his foot,
so shattered it, that after being conveyed to the London
Hospital, immediate amputation became necessary.
The girl at Lawton is still in a very doubtful state.—
She says that Sime not only asked her to drink of the
vitriol, but thrust one of his beads into her mouth, in order
to keep it open, while, with the other, he endeavoured to
,pour the liquid down her throat. He also, after having
cat her throat. wanted het to go down with him to Lunen
Water, that he might cleanse her of the blood ; but she
refused to comply, fearing that he might attempt to drown
her. - (Dundee Adeerlieer.)
The Directors of the Lunatic Asylum at lioniisburg
have established the game of nine pins, for the amusement
of the unfortunate inmates. The desire of winning, as well
as the anxiety displayed in taking good aim, and the init.
rest excited in counting with precision the number of eitit•
ties overthrown, oblige the players to fix their thoughts
upon a particular object. Order and tranquillity have al•
ready succeeded the noisy confusion which first attended
the opening of the games, and happy results are expected
from this experiment.
Three children of Daniel Butler, of Broughton, just
below the Bank Mal, Salford, were suffocated in their
bed on the evening of Christmas Day. The bra rug, by
some unaccounted for wane, hod taken fire, and there
being no chimney in the :ehililren's room; and the door
closed; the poor creatures WWI putilivd by suffocation.
—(Maneliester Herald) •