text:  As the main battle has been fought in London and nothing but a confused report of the great object in dispute may have penetrated beyond the sound of Bow bells we think it will not be amiss to put on record in the imperishable brass and marble of our pages an account of the mighty struggle--of the doughty champions who couched the lance and drew the sword in the opposing ranks--and finally to what side victory seems to incline on this beautiful 1st of May in the year 1843