The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-03 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, JUNE 2.

This day the Sessions having terminated, the
Court adjourned, and at a quarter to two o'clock
the RECORDER, attended by Aldermen ANSLEY and
FAREBROTHER, took his seat on the bench, for the
purpose of passing sentence upon those prisoners
who had been convicted (luring the Sessions, who
did not receive judgment instanter.
The awful sentence of death was passed upon 11
unfortunate individuals, whose names and offences
\rue given in The Sun of yesterday.

THE FOLLOWING WERE ORDERED TO BE TRAN-
SPORTED FOR LIFE.-Hugh Hughes, James HarriF,
William Horton, and Margaret Brown.

FOR FOURTEEN YEAus.LJane Lovell, whose case
and carious defence appeared in The Sun of yester-
day, John Jones, John Dewart, Henry Newman,
John Carrington, John Rose, Philip Porter, Sarah
.Jones, John Tubley, John Dean, Wm. Deacon, and
John Barnes. The latter was convicted on Tuesday
of a robbery at the mansion of the Marquis of
Bath, to whom he had been a confidential servant.
TRANSPORTED FOR SEVEN YEARS.-Wm. Walker,
Ann Arms worth; 'Wm. Wells, John Crouch, George
Brooks, James Nicholson, Geo. Box, John Wen-
man, Samuel Baker, Geo. Brown, Thos. Bolton,
Henry Rose, Mary Stevens, Thos. Collins, Wm.
Williams, George Topper, Thomas Smith, Jere-
miah Rogers, Maria Payne, John Line, John
Hedges, Wm. Green, Margaret Gorman, John Wm.
Coxon, John Edward Adams, Henry Little, Thos.
Smith, John Wardrop, John Watford, James Ro-
berts, . Robert Roster, Wm. Illingworth, Mary
Jones, Louisa Hewgall, Mary Dunn, Benjamin
Stern, Mary Dunn, James Steers,Charles M'Carthy,
Edward Burnett, John Baptiste de Matthews, Wil-
liam Everett, John Cross, John Close, Edward
Low, Thomas Lancaster, Mary Charlotte Moore,
John Carney, John Bryant, Thomas Ferrell, Hen-
rietta 'Williams, Amelia Anderson, Charles Smith,
Joseph Vares, Edward Simmons, John Mapleton,
Samuel Cooper, and 'William Cosgrove.
A great number were sentenced to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for various periods from
seven days to two years; others were ordered to be
privately whipped and discharged ; and the judg-
ments, in some cases, were respited until the next
Sessions.

Sophia llforgan, the widow woman convicted of
concealing the birth of her illegitimate child, was
sentenced to be kept to hard labour for two years;
and Sorah Barnard, convicted of bigamy, for only
ten days' confinement in Newgate. .

The Sessions were then-ordered to stand ad-
journed until Thursday the Bth of July.

CALCUTTA.-TIGER HUNT.

On the morning of the 18th of November,
at about eleven o'clock, intelligence was brought
that three bullocks had been killed by a tiger
near the village of Bliopawar ; two the night
before, and one that morning. We immediately
sent to procure correct information with regard
to situation, &c. tilled early, and sallied out to a
tope of trees within a mile of Major W.'s house,
at the corner of which there was a patch of
sugar-cane of about 70 by 50 yards, in which
we were informed the tiger lay, and in fact from
its situation, being bordered by nullah, and from
the crowd of villagers assembled, and numerous
Bheels armed with bows and arrows, many of
whom were seated on the boughs of the adjoin-
ing trees, we little doubted that the tiger was
near at hand.

After the usual ceremonies of loading guns,
mounting elephants, &c. we entered the k'hcte
and prepared for action. Major W. and Dr. F.
were on one elephant, and myself and a servant
on another. Taking different sides, we moved
slowly forwards for about one minute, when
Major W., who has an experienced eye, saw and
fired at the head of the tiger ; it afterwards proved
that this ball took effect on the tip of the brute's
nose, passing through the roof of the mouth,
and carrying away One of the tusks of the upper
jaw. After receiving the wound the tiger made
a mast noble spring, his whole body absolutely
floating on the air, and, had not the elephant
already turned to run, he would, in all probabi-
lity, have been upon the howdah ; he, however,
fell short, and bit the elephant severely in the
hind leg. Both Major W. and Mr. F. fired,
but the sudden twist that the elephant made,
trumpeting from pain, and gallantly returning
the charge, prevented any possibility of a certain
aim ; this was but a momentary impulse of
courage on the part of the elephant, for he again
turned and ran, following the example of mine,
which bad already left the field. After consi-
derable difficulty we got them to re-enter the
k'hete, side by side. I had been told that tiger-
shooting required the " eye of a hawk and the
heart of a lion," and, as this was my first essay
at this noble sport, I need not attempt to de-
scribe my feelings, as moving steadily onwards
to the spot where I had just seen a wild tiger
for the first time in my life; standing up in
.a
howdah, with my thumb and finger ready to
obey the wink of my eye, which was in vain
searching for its object, my heart beating vio-
lently in my bosom from the most intense anxiety,
created altogether a more lively though thrilling
sensation than I had ever experienced, and such
as I verily believe can only be felt when a man
is, for the first time, in such a situation.

" With beating hearts the dire event they wait,
Anxious, and trembling for the birth of fate."

I have been trying to describe the feelings of
a minute : I had not long to meditate, the tiger
sprung with a tremendous roar from under the
elephant's feet ; I cocked my gun, and was in
the act of presenting, when the sudden jirk of
the elephant's facing about to retreat discharged
it in the air. I had a second barrel, but the
tiger having found his way behind the howdah
sufficiently high to shake the elephant by the
root of the tail, and claw him most handsomely,
so frightened my servant, that he stood up, and
prevented my using it. Major W. knocked him
off in very good style, while the mohout's mate,
who had climbed behind the elephant, was thrown
off. As the tiger was otherwise engaged he
escaped unhurt : both elephants were now run-
ning and trumpeting together, and were only
brought up by a nullah. After much trouble we
got them back as far as the cane, but neither
coaxing nor punishment would urge them into
it. They beat the ground with their trunks,
kicked it about with their feet, and one of them
took up a plough that was lying by, and smashed
it with rage. We now sent for fireworks, and
threw some dozens of them into different parts
of the cane, where we thought the tiger most
likely to be ; they, however, proved useless;
although they set fire to the dry leaves of the
sugar-cane, the tiger would not move ; our natural
conclusion, therefore, after observing the flame
pass over the whole surface, was that he..must