The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-16 00:00:00

BEDFORD SESSIONS, JAN. 13.

Thomas Jeeves was put to the bar, charged with
having, in November last, unlawfully rescued a
donkey, whilst in the custody of the howard of Leigh.
ton Buzzard, the said howard being at the time in
the act of conducting the donkey to the pound.
It appeared that the prisoner kept half-a-dozen
donkeys to carry sand and whitening about the country
for sale; that he had turned them out on a common,
.and that one of them had strayed into a piece of
barley belonging to a farmer named Mann, the barley
being cut in cocks ready for carrying. The howard
went thither to take a horse into custody, but the
horse was gone, and the poor donkey supplied his
place. The owner met the howard, and said his
donkey must not go to the pound, for he wanted him
to go to ivork. The howard refused to release him,
whereupon the owner's dog, set on by his master,
seized the ass by the nose, the master slipped the
halter from the neck of the beast, who, upon being
released by the dog, galloped home. No violence was
done or offered to the howard. The next day the
owner went to the farmer to ask what damage
had been done, and to pay what might be demand-
ed. The farmer said he knew nothing about it, and
did not say what, or if any damage was done. The
offender was taken by the howard before the Rev.
Mr. Lewis, the Magistrate, and on the 7th of No-
vember last committed to Bedford gaol for walgt of
sufficient sureties.

Mr. SMITH, for the prisoner, addressed the Jury
at considerable length, and strenuously insisted that
the punishment suffered already by his client was
enormously beyond the offence he was charged with,
and that if they, the Jury, could conscientiously do
so, they were bound to acquit him. Should they,
however, feel compelled to return a verdict of guilty,
the smallest punishment possible was amply suffi.
cient after so long a previous imprisonment,
Sir ROBERT INGLIS, in summing o,b,served
that a great part of the Leained counsel's address
was mote for the cortsideMio,P of the Court than
the Jury, and a verdict of Guilty was returned.
The COURT then sentenced the prisoner to e,
week's imprisonment and hard labour.

The late severe weather has occasioned a
most unusual supply of wil4 fowl, aid a cart load of wid-
geon and wild ducks„ brought all the way from South-
ampton, tea's on Weduesday exhibited for sale in West-
gate7street, For the latter tis. Gd. per couple was asked.
--Bath Herald.

PUGILISM.--In the absence of ITIOIT
able employment, the elegant art of pnOli:an is making
rapid progress in this town. (Art gaturday night last,
about eleven o'clock, tvc, mad of the uirue of MACABEE
and YATES e;-k.,4red the ring; the tirst.nauted hero had
Int.; oac natural leg to stand on, having left the othq
alongside the Marquis of ANGLESEA'S, at Wa,terlm rtust
in its stead a wooden one had been
sul4;tlte4; the other
man had been more fortunate it; li:ts siieoulations, having
kept himself aloof frpty, war's alarms," he happily re-
tained lTith 'finis circumstanced, they set to, and
the battle was not over till eleven o'clock on Mondikx
morning! having adjoutneti over Sunday. We tatnent
to say that the " Waterloo hero" uft;a I.tt-iterged by his
opponent —Readiny .