It is gratifying to obser...
It is gratifying to ebserve how the press, or at least the respectable part of it, precedes the ordinary authorities of the land in the correction of abuses. It is llow some time since we stigmatized prize-fights as brutal exhibitions, disgraceful to the country, and abstained, in consequence, tromn giving any account of them. The practice imme- diately drooped, anid many subscribers to what was called the Pugilistic Club withdrew their names. I'he Judges have at length followed the currenit of public op.inion, de- nounced boxers and their abettors as guilty of a breach of the peace, aud pointed out how they may be rendered amenable to the law. We have no doubt bit that the opiaiion of Judge BuauourH is that of his learned bre- threp,on the bench, who may have conferred togetlher on the occasion. If Magistrates and Grand Juriesi tberefore, will do their duty, public prize-fighting is at an endl; and it caii bardly answer to the combatants to sell their blood in private circles. The first step of the Magistrates should be to discover, as they easily may do in any case, the pub- lic-houses at which the fights have been planned, and to deprive these, without pity, of their licences. The next hS, to apprehend the two combatants for an assault upon each other, and their seconds and supporters as aiding in the breach of the peace; and to proceed against all these with the utmost severity. It is true that neither of the mea- sures recommended is of a preventive nature-they follow the commission of the offcnce: but they have the merit of being less liable to evasion. Therc can be no doubt, after the fight has taken place, in what- county the brech of the peace was committed: the combatants cannot then step back from one county to another, to avoid theoperation of the law. Magistrates should make constables do their duty, in simply and quietly rendering themselves caiable of identifying the combatanits and their ruffian attendants; and Government should stimulate the lagistrates, through the dread of seeing their names erased from the commis- sion: for, noNv that the Judges stand pledged for the sup- prcmsion of the evil, they slhould not be deserted by the po- litical authzorities of the state.