The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-07

to have miscarried The diplomatic corps were,
however, much occupied with the unsettled state
of the island.
TRIESTE, April 1.-THE Trieste Gazette saws ::
"According to authentic private information from
Messna, to the 9th, the Austrian Consul had left.
bombardment of Messina was expected on the
9th"
THE FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONsHIP-HEE-
MANS PROTEST.
To the Editor of the London Times
SIR:-I am desired to state, on the part of Mr..
John g. Heenan, in answer to your report of this
morning, that neither he nor any person author
lied to act for him requested the referee at the late
encounter between Sayers and himself to stop the
fight when the ring was broken into. On the con-
trary, he and his friends nearly all of whom were
grouped in little handful at his corner, repeatedly
protested against the invasion of the ropdA and de-
manded that the fight should not be interrupted
In proof of this, Heenan breasted his way three
times through the crowd of persons who poured
into the arena from the side ofSayers to renew the
combat after that outrage had taken place, and who
refused to leave the ring, and did not do until
Sayers had been withdrawn. He wishes me to say,
moreover, that he feels sure that had not that
currence taken place, he would soon have made his
victory manifest to the most preudiced person on
the ground. AS to the suggestion which has been
kindly made by the editor of Bells Life, that Say
and he should have belt apiece, he begs to say
that, while he will cheerfully subscribe to a new
testimonial for his brave and honorable adversary,
he will have none other than the one he came 5000
miles to get, and which he honestly feels he has al
again. if required to do so and if it be really amen
able to conquest by stranger, he will not leave
your shores until he brings his late contest to new
and due conclusion.
On the part of many Americans in London who
have called upon me, we repudate entirely the
idea expressed at the conclusion of your article
namely, that Heenans American supporters "con-
sent to the contest being considered drawn battle
They, the contrary insist that the fight if not
decided to be already won by Heenan, shall be con,
sdered still pending, and subject to renewal at
the earliest possible day. Through a note from
the referee, which lies before me- learn he
has refused arbtrament this week accord
ing to the usual custom). con the ground of hu-
| manity;" but, while the friends of Mr.. Heenan
cannot object to such a highly credtable motive,
| they discaim for him the requirement of any such
consideration, he being quite capable of respond
ing to the orders of the referee, and will respond
| at ar hours notice. The friends of Heenan, while
they acquit the upright and gallant Sayers and
! his immediate hackers from any participation in
| the violent interruption of the contest, wish to
declare the clearness of Heenan's supporters from
any completely with that outrage and in this con-
nection desire me to say that when man in our
| country who has engaged to subdue another re-
| qures outside aid to help him, as given to
! Sayers in the 39th round, he is considered to be
| beaten. In short, whenever "humanity" justihes
such interference, the verdict is given against the
man whose conquered and hopeless condition re-
qures the practical interposition of such senti-
| ment.
| In conclusion, wish to say for myself that in
the haste of writing my long report, the battle part
of which has been published here in an illustrated
EXTRA few crept in which could not be cor
rected for that edition, as | had no time allowed
me to either revise my manuscript or read its
proof. One of these omission of the
word "at" in the last line of one of the closing
rounds, when, in speaking of the conduct of the
persons who broke into the ring, it should read
."they kicked at and struck at him" instead of
clicked and struck him."
| send with this corrected copy of that report,
nd on will Low hafo fha m who
prepared your aby-written account of W edneSday,
and he will point out anv errors | have made
therein, will cheerfully correct it for perusal in
America Very truly yours,
GEORGE WILKES.
| Adelphi Hotel, London, April 10.
REPLY THE REFEREE.
The referee, in his own vindication, has published
| the following statement of how and in what man.
ner he was conveyed from the ring:
"We have taken some pains to trace out the ac
tua state of the to the struggle at the ropes
| when we were forced out of place by the
| crowd-and also to the fact of Heenan's having
struck the seconds of Sayers after the battle was
! virtually over, and we are informed by gentlemen
| position, who were present, and who had an op
! portunity of seeing, that once if not twice, while
! Heenan had Tom on the ropes, the latter got his
| knees on the ground and lifted up again by the
| Boy, and again held in his vicious grip. If this
the case, and not the slightest reason to
doubt its truth it is fortunate thing for Heenan
that the referee was prevented from SEEING for had
he witnessed this act he must have unquestionably
decided against Heenan. By the rules of the ring,
a man on both knees is down, and if interfered
with after that event before time" is called he is
| entitled to the money. On the other point, we
have only the statement of Macdonald to contradict
the testimony of some twenty or thirty gentlemen,
! besides our own reporter, as to Heenan's having
struck down and kicked Jenny Welsh, and knock
ed Sayers off his seconds knee. As to his kicking
Brunton, the evidence is not conclusive, but IN the
case OF Welsh and the Champion we have do DOUBT,
especially as we are corroborated by the account
in Leslie'8 Illustrated Paper alluded to below below
which was written by Mr. wilkes, ot t1I,uar n"re
! Shirt of the Times That account says: "Heenan,
''inding that though Sayers could not, OF Wouia
"not rise from his seat in his corner, and his
| sseconds refused to award him the victory that
| "belonged to him, by throwing up the sponge, he
| "adyauced upon him in the midst of his seconds,
"and struck him where he sat-" This admission is
tantamount to an acknowledgment of defeat by a
foul blow; and yet Mr.. Wilkes calls on every i'm
martial Englishman to award the belt to Keenan,
Our own opinion of the matter is this-that as the
men were fighting in crowd without any order or
regularity, and as Heenan was almost blind, and
his noddle was doubtless in a state of considerable
| confusion, he did not quite know what he was
about, and may therefore be excused for the unjus
tifable act. Nevertheless, had the referee been
present, he would have had to do his duty, and nc
one would have more regretted this than himself
We omitted altogether to state that the referee
was only enabled to approach the ring-after being
driven away-through the efforts of some of Hee
| mans friends
From the Times Of april 2S.l
THE LATE FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP
Yesterday the friends of Heenan and Saver
again met at the Office of the referee in the Stran
! to endeavor to arrive at some decision that ma,
bring the late contest to satisfactory and amica
BILE conclusion. Sayers again attended, now bear
ing scarcely any tokens OF the battle his face
His arm, however, is still powerless, and indeed
has got ratherworse than better, the whole hml
being swollen, discolored, and painful in the ex
| treme. As ON the previous occasion, Heenan wa