The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-03-19
ENGLAND.


| Ihe freedom OF the city Of London has beer
formally presented, in 4 handsome gold box tr
Lord Elgin, on account Of the important com
mefciai services which his Lordship has rem.
dered to his country.
| meeting Of .he Newspaper and Periodical
! Press Association had been held in Iondon
ior the purpose Of advancing the projec,ed re.
out that the London Times was workino
against the repeal, and it Is stated that strenu.
Gus efforts were being made elsewhere to de.
| feat the measure
| The steamer Nimrod bound from T.ixernoo,
for Cork, was driven upon the rocks on the
Welsh coast, OIL St. David's Head and quickly
| went to pieces. All on board, numbering ID
or oo persons, were drowned The disaster
happened but short distance from the shore
but it was impossible for any assistance to
reach the wreck.
An explosion in the Burradon Coal PIT
near Nor tn Shields, is supposed to have kiIlaT
| nearly 50 persons.
The English papers pu blish IAN Appeal to
Christians throughout the World" signed hy
some free negroes expelled from Arkansas
VINO protest against the law which banishes
them
THE "GREAT" PRIZE FIGHr-The London
papers. both sporting and newspapers. are
teeming with accounts of the approaching
prize fight between Heenan and Savers. One Of
them gives the opinion of the English fighter
concerning the American champion. as fol-
lows
The English champion took benefit at the
81. George Hall in London, on the 2sth ult,
previous to going into active training at his
fayoriie quarters at Newmarket. Jack Hamil.
ton, who trained Morrissey fer his fight with
the Benicla Boy, ac ted master of the cere-
y sIne~ees, and introduced Sayers to the audience.
Inc later showed his champion belt and cup
and In the course Of few remarks addressed
10 the company, stated that he was shortly to
contend again for that identical belt, and he
earnestly hoped that 'the test man Nigh.
win It." He was ready to lay f5G0 to f4UO on
the nSht, and although he was at one time
very des1rous OF seeing his American antaeo-
nist, yet AS the In tier had broken faith with him
on previous occasion when he had appoin ted
to meet HI m at Owen Swift's, and never came
near the place. he now did not care about see
Ing him until they met in the ring on the 10th
of April next. He disclaimed any personal
feelings OF lll-Will agaius, the American, and
only hoped that they both might be we'll on
the day, so that neither might have any excuse
or palIlation TO urge for his defeat
The Field says:
5oth the champions have issued their silken
coiors for the fight Those of Savers present
quite patriotic apprarance-the Union Jack
neing displayed at the four corners, and the
Br'tish lion rampant in the centre Those OF
Heenans are not quite Of SO national a charac-
Ter. 1hey nave the red white and blue bor-
GERS, surrounded by the thirteen stars with
the American eagle in the centre, bearing the
motto. May the Best Man VIM The dis.
posaI OF tnese coiors constitutes very impor-
tant part OF the work of the puglist who is
ABOUT TO fight in England. They are ALWAYS
made OF silk, and the two men matched use
every eNerlon to induce their friends and
hackers to take their colors with the stipula Z
ton, not expressed, but universally under
stood, that shonld he prove the winner of the
coming HEht lie Is TO receive Il sovereign (>SO
Tor the colon if he is bea ten he is not entitled
TO anything at all.