Great Wrestling Match.

A great wrestling match, for £50 and tha Championship of tho World, iv tin Grajso-Roruan stylo, took pluce at Hengler's Circu- 1, Liverpool, a few days ago, in tho presence of 5000 spectators, between To;n Cannon, tha holder, and John", Carkeek, champion of America. Cannon, wbah 12 yeara ol'or than his opponent,. haß defeated nU tho

leading wrestlers in the Giro jo llomin st)U Tlio match waa thn L> s~. of thr-c filis - Ctnnon won the fi.st, ia Sji 48 ■, and Cat keek lhe second in lljin, Ia tu.-w last fall, Carkoek's shoulttcr beomiug dislocated in tho 'haminerloek ' the aia'.cu was awarded to Cannon.

Commenting on tho growing popularity of this form of wrestling, the Liverpool Po3t says:— The reason ia not far to seek, « considering thit to an onlooker it is tho mo3o i\ fined form of tho game yet produceJ. Ju saying so it i 8 only fair to the Continental nations among whom is orignated, to acknowledge thdr good tast? in produciog, whether through renaissance or puro invention, a form of contest which may be witnessed by all classes, like fetes of ancient Greece, with admiration, and without auy element oH ropugnaucj. It ia a • sport in whiyh physique and stamina lnvo to ba davdlopud to Iho utmost, uulit iho confctsfc between two first-rate wrestlora become a battle oE Titans. It also one of the exigencies which shar^n the wks to a point when one wantiag to hold his owa against a cunning adversary r«.qairo3 to ba planting out hji next movo v/uilo being stvung in the air. , Even the occasional accidents, which are perhaps inseparable from any violent or rapid exertion have, in ihe Bport in question, been ntitlier numerous nor^very alarming -far less so, indeed, than those arising from reclsles* bicycling — though, in the words- of CannoD, ' forcing a powerful oppononf to the ground wioh a combined momentum of perhaps half a ton isn't exactly like laying a baby in its cradle