But how the beaks in wrath proclaim’d, amid the motley race, That no prize fight or milling match should then and there take place; And how the pugilists themselves looked very down and blank, While the spectators made a move both retrograde and flank―― And how they managed after all to give the traps the slip, And hastening back to Sawbridgeworth prepared at once to strip; How seventy gallant rounds were fought ’till deepening shades of night With its extinguisher forbade the finish of the fight―― And how the assembled multitude with sundry rueful shrugs, Homeward retraced their weary way with disappointed mugs; And how in Despond’s dismal slough a lot of worthies fell―― Next week the bard of “London Life” will accurately tell. But tho’ no victory was achieved by well intended thumps, Both men have proved undoubted game, and turn’d out genuine trumps; And all uninjur’d and unscath’d in Tuesday’s battle fray, Slasher and Freeman both survive to fight another day. The referee having been called on to name the next time and place, the parties interested met at his house the next day (Friday). The Slasher was present, and expressed an anxious desire to have the fight over; he declared he had no wish to evade the meeting, and was quite ready to fight the following day (Saturday). To this Spring replied that as the Commissary had not yet returned to London with the ropes and stakes, and as his whereabouts might not be known in time, the proposal would not be accepted. The Tipton objected to a long delay, and as Bungaree the Australian and M’Ginty were to fight on the following Tuesday, it was suggested that both couples should be “asked out” at the same place and time. It was then found that the backers of Bungaree and his opponent had selected a locality where it would be most imprudent for such noticeable men as the Giant and Slasher to show themselves without certainty of interruption. The Bungaree division, however, proposed to alter their plans and effect an amalgamation, by jointly hiring two steamboats for the conveyance of the men and their friends to the field of battle――that the vessels should leave London Bridge on the Tuesday morning at eight o’clock, and proceeding down the river, pick up the “big’uns” at places appointed; and that, with the view of securing the absence of undesirable voyagers, two sets of tickets of contrasted colours should be issued by Spring and Broome only, no person to be admitted on board except those presenting the one for the downward the other the homeward voyage.