The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-30 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS--'-(THIS DAY.)

This morning these Sessions commenced at the Sessions
Ilow.e, Newington causeway, before 11. HEDGER, Esq
Chairman, and a Bench of Magistrates. .
MAC h ILE Di LI NQUiCNCY,— Henry .111anIty, a boy only
twelve years id age, was in licted for stealing 16s. in silver,
the prouerty of hi: Master, Wm. Snasby, a costermonger.
• The prosecutor Stated that he took the prisoner into hiS
employ, in consequence of his mother having a large family
unprovided for. On the 11-th• instant he went out, as
usual. wi,h his donkey, taking the prisoner with him.—
While they were out, however, the prisoner seized an
opportunity of leaving him, and on returning home he
nursed 16s. from a drawer. Suspecting the prisoner had
Bioko the money, the prosecutor went to look for him.
and round him in the gallery of Astley's Amphitheatre.—
On asking him what he had done with the money, he said
be had bought a pair of shoes, and had apent some, hut
the rest he had in his pocket, and produced it.
The Juiy fimnd him Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN asked the prosecutor what the boy's
habits had been, and he replied that he had, not long ago,
stolen two silk handkerchiefs from his mother !

The prisoner was then ,enteneed to one week's solitary
confinement, and to he whipped.
Mary Jones, a girl of the town, was indicted for steal-
ing a silver watch from the person of James Kerr, a
Carter, living in New-btreet, Newington. She was found
Guilty, and sentenced to three muck' hard labour.
Priscilla Moss, a gh I of the town, was sentenced
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to seven-years' transportation for stealing ir silver watch,
chain, and key from the person of Gearge Florence.
Harris, for stealing a waistcoat, the property of
Frederick Jenner, at Sutton, was sentenced to three
months' hard labour.

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MEMBERS RETURNED.

SCOTLAND.
Ilurgh of Kirkunal.—Jamen Loch, Esq.
Banjj'District llurghs —Hon. General run:
County of Argyle.—W. F. Campbcll,

EXECUTION IN .JAMAICA.

By the Hector, trading vessel, recently arrived in
the Thames, we have received the fallowing inte-
'resting, but painful narrative of the execution, at
Montego Bay, of a 'rioted criminal, whose desperate
character, stained as it was With almost every
offence in the catalokue of crime, had rendered him
the terror of that }ma of the colony :
" Yesterday being the dm, appointed for the exe-
cution of John Thomas Bent, convicted of horse-
stealing, at an early hour of the morning his Re-
verence the Rural Dean, the Rev. John Smith, and
the Rev. Peter Duncan, a Wesleyan Missionary,
who • had been unceasing in their endeavours to
reconcile the culprit to his fate, attended the gaol,
and soon after nine o'clock the prisoner was per-
mitted to leave the tell he had occupied,' and
pay a farewell visit to the other two convicts
under sentence of death for the same offence, but
'for the execution of whom no authority had been le,
ceived. After the usual preparations, the mournful
procession moved from the gaol, escorted by a
party of the light infant!), and fourth battalion
companies of the St. James's Regiments, to the
usual place of execution, at the River Bay, where
the gallows was erected, and where Bent,
dressed in white, was conducted by the Reverend
Divines. •On arriving at the foot of the scaffold
he gazed wildly around, and appeared callously in-
different to his fate. After a short prayer he was
desired to ascend the ladder, but his foot slipped,
and he fell, in consequence of the steepness of the
ladder, and being so closely pinioned. The cords
by which he was bound being loosened, be ascended
the platform, and, after an indecorous manifestation
of hardihood and impatience, called to a boy in the
crowd, by the name of "fom,' to come and take
his shoes, which he kicked off with much coolness.

"'The Clergyman then commenced reading the
Funeral Service, when he was interrupted by the
cries of Bent for water, and to have the cap removed
from over his eyes. A bottle of water was offered ;
but of which having refused to drink, the signal for
withdrawing the bolt was given, and the -drop fell,
when the miserable sufferer fell to the ground, the
rope by which he was suspended, not being suffi-
ciently strong. A simultaneous shriek of horror re-
sounded from the spectators, mingled With the
half-strangled cries of o Help !' from. the sufferer,
and the most piteous exclamations and writhings of
his body. After some short time spent in re-ad-
justing the necessary apparatus—during which the
attention of Bent was attracted by the solicitous
care of the Reverend Gentleman—a rope was, put
about his neck, and he remounted the scaffold, and
with very little delay he expired after a slight con-
vul►►ive struggle. He admitted in prison that h►e
had been guilty of a great number of heinous crimes,
but declared he had never committed-murder.

" There was a great, number of persons assembled
to witness the awful spectacle."

fig MAJESTY and the Duke of 'WEL.
I.IVOTON have Lady bad several conferences on the subject
of the Civil List, and it is said that the }*Na has given
instructions to the Duke to 'educe its amount to the
greatest possible extent. It is supposed that the reduction
will extend to emc-fourth. '

We rejoice to say, the concurrent statements
from all parts of the countiy, satisfy us that the crops,
generally, are plentiful and excellent—far exceeding, in
both respects, the produce of the two last years. In this
immediate neighbourhood, a great portion of the wheats are
safely housed, in the beat possible condition ; and the
weather still continues favourable to gather in the re-
mainder. A lirger firmer, on the Oxfordshire side, in-
forms us, that his wheat and oats were never better. We
fear barley is a partial failure—although' there are some
satisfactory exceptions. On the whole, however, we have
reason to he thankful to a superintending and kind Pro-
vidence fur such plentiful gifts of the fruits of the earth.--
Berkshire Chronicle.

CONVERSATION.--Often lie talked a great
441, sometimes even a little too much ; but he convened
in a manner than which nothing could be more agreeable,
or more truly engaging. His conversation seldom ran on
light or humourous subject, never upon frivolous matters.
Sometimes be amused himself, in a little circle, by relat-
ing anecdotes or' presentiments and spirits. This occurred
always in the evening, when the day was closing. Ile
prepiind his auditors by some solemn observation. On
one occasion, for example, he began by saying, in a grave
tone, 4' When death strikes at a distance a person who is
dear to us, a presentiment almost always announces the
'event, and the individual whom death temoves appears
to us at the moment of our loss." After this introduction
he related to us the following instance :—" A great peno-
nage in the court of Louts XIV. happened to be once in
the gal:ery at Vet milks, when that monarch was reading
to his cOuttiers the bullet n of the battle of Friedlingin,
gained by VILLAnS, in Germany, Suddenly, at the very
moment, the courtier beheld, at the extremity of the
apartment, the shade of his son, who was in the army
With VILLA Its, 411 d exclaimed ' son is no Mire I,an
instant after the King. named him among the staie.'
Constables Niseetiony,.-.Vol, LVIL