New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-06-21

In no small degree made up by his extraordinary
muscular development and his enormous width
ACROSS the shoulders.
Having sufficiently gratried their audience with
night of thom, the friendly athletes naxt aeknowI
ssdEed the honoru that had been paid them.
IneH 9gstory might serve as nodelA Of brevity and
surlng nit friends that that was the hnppiest rlo-
ment 81 ~ Me; and Tom Saysrs in turn, said he
IelIoweo q " comrades wake, and was much
Both Of The men iooked in admirable condition,
ana snen slsages ooTs 70 perceptbie traces OF the
me ne ,asa q Apr Let Us hope that
equally cffaced from the minds u tie combatauts
and their sympathizerB.
The ceremony Of the presentation d 20 be re-
peated at the same place to-day, Fridzy and Sat-
nrday; and sayers and Heenan are aissswsrds to
go on tour through the provinces, to give th1ir
country admirers 40 equal opportunity 81 witntss-
Ing the happy termination Of their manly 1ivalry.
The proceedings at the Alhambra were agree
ably diversified BY tlie vocal and Instrumental
performances Of the African opera troupe.
To THE EDT-oR or THE LONDON TrMgs-ST The
capy Of my address on the occasion Of the pre-
sentat0n of the belts was simply inscribed Anne
rica to Tcm Sayers, instead Of I. america TO
Thomas Sayers, Champion Of Engiand.r Will you
please note This as fact, and much oblige your
obsdient servant GEo. WILKES. u
Adsiphi Hotel, London, Nay 81, 1850. :
EFrrn shs Ioudon ohronicIe. JBas IL
The last act Of the famous prizesfght came Of
on Tuesday night 1t the Afha1nbra The drama
now stands before The world and ths world j. vel
country woald hxrs gathered ynat assembiaga.
ehampiops decorated wiik Z belt, Sd ! theatrical
a'Ra R. aes cold q " sssss s e .ss u ss NJ 9ass
! stages have occurred A&SsENxn: 49, N Wteya also
i could big American di9e1f Mrs thrown the uopu-
lation INIT mt = emotion rhsfsvs. y vent Where
fnl farce before he had been month ID ne eoun-
| tryf Where sIse would the attention Of Paziia-
| ment have been called to the intended battle!
Where else would the said battle have been Z
national afair one half of the World encouraging
| 1t, the other fepr0batfng It, every one talking
about it Where else would the police machinery
Of great nation have been put In motion to stop
to be bafied after all, where slss would 1 rail.
way company have run express trains on the occa-
sion and q correspondence follow between them
selves and the Government, to be laid on the tabls
OF the House Of Commons in consequence OF dz-
hnct motioni Where eae would the hHht Itself
| have been recorded and commented on BY the
| ablest pens Of . literary and learned people
And yet we are not one whit the more for al
kind. II the thing had been common with N, we
should not have made such . fuss about IT, John
Bull was wild this year about Jack Heeuan, few
ycara ago he was wild about the Chimpanzee, and
some years before that be was wild about Gem Tom
Thumb. Quarrel with his taste by all MEANS tut
don't mistake him. he was not then nation Of
Chimpanzees or nation Of Ton Thumbs, nor b he
now nation OF Heenans. It viii be very long
before another prize fight awskens hir interest.
Let General Garibaldi come amongst MS and ue 60
guess at the consequent sensation We believ4 that
there IL no people upon earth more likely to give
him ovation, or less likely to give him followers.
We have had our fling ont Of Sayers and Heenan-
= good, honeat manly fling it has been-and we are
not ashamed Of it, But the Englishmsn in his
whims. and the EngliAhman in his realities, are two
very different beings and we warn those who would
understand us not 70 confonnd them