The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-09 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

The Brookside Harriers on Mondays at Newmarket Hill ; Fri-
days, at Telscombe Tye—half-past 10.
The Brighton Harriers on Mondays at Patcham ; Wednesdays,
at the Race Course ; Fridayi, at the Dyke.
The Thanet Harriers on Fridays at Hengrove ; Mondays, at
Acol ; Wednesdays, at Minster Rough-10.
Mr Carr's Hounds on Monday at the Kennel-; Thursday, the
Chase-10.

The Cheltenham Harriers on Monday at Andoversford ; Satur-
day, at Charlton Abbotts-11.
Mr. Fretwell's Hounds on Tuesday at Naunton Inn ; Thursday,
at the Kennel ; Saturday, at Beckford Inn.

Mr. S. Owen's Hounds on Monday, at Cruckton Hall ; Wednes-
day, at Pitchford ; Friday, at Atcham—hf-past 10.
The Winnstay Hounds on Monday at Pickhill-bridge ; Wednes-
day, at Overton Cross ; Friday, at Allan Sadlers-11.
Mr. Leche's Hounds on Tuesday at Shocklach
The Cheshire Hounds on Monday at the Three Greyhounds ;
Wednesday, at the Windmill, Ravensmoor ; Thursday, at Wilkes-
ley Village; Saturday, at Hurleston Village—half-past 10.
The Cambridgeshire Hounds on 'Monday at Toft Bridge; Friday,
at the Downing Arms—half-past 10.
Mr. Mure'alounds on Tuesday at Cockfield Green; Thursday, at
Bournbridge—hf-past 10.
Lord Petre's Hounds on Monday at Southall Bridge ; Thursday,
at Woodham ; Saturday, at Langdon Hills—half-past 10.
Mr. Horlock's Hounds on Monday at Wick Monks ; Wednesday,
at Ford Gate ; Saturday, at Great Wood—hf-past 10.
Mr. A. Smith's Hounds on Monday at South Grove ; Tuesday,
at Conholt Park ; Thursday, at Clatford Oakcuts ; Friday, at Oare
Hill-11.

The Warwickshire Hounds on Tuesday at Honington Turnpike;
Thursday, at Newbold Pacey ; Saturday, at Foxcote-10.
The North Warwickshire Hounds on Monday at Dunchurch ;
Wednesday, at Ryton Tollgate ; Friday, at Stone Bridge—qr. to 11.
Mr. Meynell's Hounds on Monday at Catton ; Thursday, at Rol-
lestone ; Saturday, at Loxley—half-past 10.
The Marquis of Hastings's Hounds on Monday at Swarkstone
Bridge ; Wednesday, at Hathern Turn ; Saturday, at Horsley
Priory—hf-p. 10.
Mr. Hall's Hounds on Monday at the Windmill Inn, Cherriton ;
Tuesday, at Redlynch Gate ; Thursday, at Arthur's Bridge ; Sa-
turday, at the Wheatsheaf Inn, Corton—half-past 10.

Mr. Adam, the legal adviser to the Duke of Bed-
ford, has forwarded a letter to the Secretary of the Com-
mittee of Proprietors of Drury-lane Theatre, of which the
following is an extract :—" I have no hesitation in autho-
risng you to acquaint Mr. Bruges, the Solicitor to the Com-
pany of Proprietors, that I will recommend his Grace to
make a permanent reduction of 5001. a year upon the rent
%of Drury-lane Theatre, which Ido not doubt his Grace
will adopt ; but it must be upon condition that the renters
and bondholders consent permanently to the reduction men-
tioned in Mr. Burgess's statement, viz., the renters to the
extinguishment of 7501. a year (3d. per night), and the
bondholders to take 21 per cent, in lieu of the interest they
now receive ; and it must be shown that these extinguish-
ments have been made before his Grace's consent to the
~permanent reduction of 500/. a year be Signed."
On Saturday last one of those very serious accidents
which too frequently occur from the improper use of fire-
arms happened to a young woman (daughter of a poor man
named John Sacket) who was in the service of Mr. Whit-
low, of Churton. It appears that she went out into the
yard about noon, on Saturday, and on returning into the
house met one of Mr. Whitlow's sons (a boy about nine
years ofd), with a gun pointed towards her ; she imme-
diately asked if it was loaded, and the reply was that " it
was, and cocked too !" Scarcely had these words been
spoken, when the gun was fired off, and :lint the young
woman dead on the spot, the whole charge having entered
the head.—Chester Courant of Tuesday.
AN AQUATIC HARE.—As John Wilkinson, car-
man to Mr. Stone, Romney Wharf, Millbank, was stand-
ing on Monday morning near the coal-barges off the wharf,
he was astonished to observe a poor hare swimming with the
stream in an almost exhausted state. He succeeded in
drawing it from the water with a hitcher, and after rubbing
the poor animal for nearly two hours it entirely recovered,
.and began to frisk about the counting-house, although it is
supposed that it must have taken water near Erith (as it
came up with the flood), where the Kent harriers have for
the last week been out. The effect pf its aquatic excursion
has been to render the animal perfectly tame, and to use the
captor's own expression it will soon run about the house like
a cat.

To the Right Hon. Earl Spencer a medal was recom-
mended for his four years and seven months old Durham
ox, bred and fed by his Lordship.
A three years and six months old Durham steer, fed by
the Hon. John Simpson, of Baleworth, Nottinghamshire,
and a four years and eight months old Hereford ox, fed
by Mr. W. Giblett, of New Bond-street, were highly com-
mended.

CLASS 2.—For oxen or steers, of any breed, under six
years of age, weight 90 stone and upwards, that shall not
have had cake, corn, meal, &c., previousto Aug. 1, 1836 :
A prize of 20 sovereigns to William tort; Esq., of Trus-
thorpe, for his five years and five months old Durham ox,
bred and fed by himself. A silver medal was also awarded
as the breeder of the above ox.

CLASS 3.—For oxen or steers under five years of age,
of any breed, under 90 stone, and above 70 stone weight,
that shall not have had corn, cake, &c., before Aug. 1,
1836 :

The first prize, of 15 sovereigns, was adjudged to Wm.
J. Bailey, Esq., of Shenley House, near Stony Stratford, for
his three years old Hereford ox, bred. by Mr. Watkins, of
Ford House.

A silver medal was adjudged to Mr. Watkins, as the
breeder of the same.

The second premium, of 10 sovereigns, was adjudged to
Mr. J. Bailey, of Stony Stratford, for his three years old
Hereford ox.

CLASS 4.—For oxen or steers of any breed, not exceeding
four years and three months of age, under 70 stone weight,
that shall not have had corn, cake, &c., before Aug. 1,
1836 :

A premium of 10 sovereigns to Wm. J. Bailey, Esq.,
of Shenley House, for his four years Scotch ox, bred by
Mr. M'Turk.

CLASS 5.--For fatted cows and heifers under five years
of age ; freemartens and spayed heifers not qualified :
A prize of 15 sovereigns was adjudged to Stafford
O'Brien, Esq., of Blatherwyke Park, Northamptonshire,
for his three years and seven months old Durham heifer ;
and also a silver medal as the breeder of the same.

CLASS 6.—For fatted cows of five }ears old and upwards,
freemartens and spayed heifers not qualified :
To Mr. Samuel Bennett of Bickering Park, near Wo-
burn, the first prize of 15 sovs. in this class was awarded
for his six years old Durham cow, bred by Mr. Wm. Brown.
A premium of 5 sovs. to the feeder of the second best
cow in this class was adjudged to Mr. Henry Cleave, of
the Edgware-road, Middlesex, for his seven years and eight
months old Durham cow, bred by Lord Montague.
CLASS 7.—SHEEP.—A prize of 10 sovs. was adjudged
to Mr. John Painter, of Burley, near Oakham, for his
three twenty months old Leicester wethers, bred and fed by
himself. There were no other competitors in this class.
CLASS B.—For long-woolled fat sheep, two years old,
without restrict-ion as to feeding :
A prize of ten sovereigns was awarded to Mr. R. Bird,
of Biggleswade, for his three twenty months old Leicester
wethers.

CLASS 9.—For long-woolled fat wethers, two years old,
fed without restriction, above twenty-two months and under
thirty-four months old, a premium of ten sovereigns was
adjudged to Mr. Richard Rowland of Creslam, for his three
thirty-two months old wethers.
A gold medal, value five sovereigns, was adjudged to
Mr. William Bird, as showing the best pair of long-woolled
sheep of any class.
CLASS 10. SHORT-WOOLLED SHEEP.—For short-woolled
sheep, without restriction as to feeding.
To the feeder of the best pen of three twenty-two
months old wethers .—A prize of fifteen sovereigns was
awarded to Stephen Grantham, Esq., of Stoneham, Sussex,
for his twenty months old South Downs.
A silver medal was also awarded, as the breeder of the
same.

The second prize in this class was adjudged to his Grace
the Duke of Richmond for his twenty months old South,
Downs, bred and fed by himself.
A pen of South Downs, bred and fed by Thomas Ell-
more, Esq., of Beddingham, Sussex, were highly commended.
The South Downs exhibition, by the Hon. Locke King,
and also those of Mr. Jonas Webb, of Babraham, near
Cambridge, were commended.

CLASS 11.—For short-woolled wethers, two years old,
without restriction as to feeding :
To the feeder of the best above twenty.two months old,
a premium of 10 sous. was awarded to his Grace the Duke
of Richmond, for his three thirty-two months old South
Down wethers, bred by his Lordship. A silver medal as
the breeder thereof.

The second prize in this class, of 5 sovs., was adjudged
to Stephen Grantham, Esq., for his three thirty-two months
South Downs, bred by himself.
A gold medal was awarded to his Grace the Duke of
Richmond for his three thirty-two months old South
Down wethers, which also gained the first prize in class 9.
Pius.—The first prize in class 12 was awarded to Fran-
cis Tanner, of Hoydon Mound, for his three twenty-three
weeks old Essex and Neapolitan pigs, a prize of 10 sovs.
A silver medal, as the breeder of the above, was adjudged
to Mr. Tanner.

The second prize of 5 sovereigns was awarded to Wm.
Poulton, of Hornsey, for his three seventeen weeks old
Suffolk and Norfolk pigs.

EXTRA STOCK.—Asilver medal was awarded to Mr.
Wm. Giblett, of Bond-street, for his four year and eleven
months short-horned ox, bred by Mr. J. Bluck, of Dene-
don, near Hereford.

A silver medal to the exhibitor of the best long-woolled
sheep was awarded to Lord Sherborne for his four years
and eight months old long-woolled ewe.

A silver medal was adjudged to the Hon. L. King for
his 33 months old South Down wether.

A silver medal was adjudged to Mr. William Poulton,
of Hornsey, near London, for his Suffolk and Hereford pigs.

POPULATION.—In the United States the rate of
increase is such as to double the population in 22 years. In
Russia, the period of doubling is 42 ; in England, 52 ; in
Sweden, 100 ; and in France, 125 years.

It is feared that the late gale has done a good deal
of injury to Westminster Abbey. A large fragment of
ornamental stone-work, which surmounted a niche in the
western tower, fell with an alarming crash on Wednesday
morning. Since then one of the pinnacles which stand on
the summit of the same tower is said to have inclined from
the perpendicular ; if this should fall upon the roof, the
consequences to the fabric without, but still more to the
venerable work and respected monuments within, will be
most deplorable. Several pieces of cement and other
minute fragments are seen occasionally to descend as the
wind, with renewed violence, rushes round the old but-
tresses and the unrepaired wall. The' gale is yet far from
subsided, and while it blows with moderate force in other
parts of the metropolis, it sweeps i
here the area formed
by the Abbey, the Hospital, and Princes-street, with the
circuitous force of a whirlwind.

BOTTLES, &C., SUNK IN THE SEA.---Captain
Smyth found on two trials that
.the cylindrical air-tube,
under the vane attached to Massey s Patent Log, collapsed
and was crushed quite flat under a pressure of about 200
fathoms. A claret-bottle, filled with air, and well corked,
was burst before it descended 400 fathoms. He also found
that a bottle filled with fresh water, and corked, had the
cork forced at about 180 fathoms below the surface ; in such
cases the fluid sent down is replaced with salt-water, and
the cork which had been forced in is sometimes inverted.
Captain Beaufort also informs me, that he bas frequently
sunk corked bottles in the sea, more than 100 fathoms deep,
some of them empty, and others containing a fluid, the
empty bottles were sometimes crushed, at other times the
cork was forced in, and the bottle returned full of sea-water.
The cork of the bottles containing a fluid was uniformly
forced in, and the fluid exchanged for sea-water ; the cork
was always returned to the neck of the bottle, sometimes,
but not always in an inverted position.—Buckland's Bridge-
water Treatise.

THE SENTENCES.
At half-past two o'clock the RECORDER, accompanied by
Alderman Sir. C. MARSHALL, the Sheriff, and usual City
authorities, proceeded to pass sentence on those prisoners
who had been committed during the Sessions.
To be Imprisoned for Seven Days—Mary Perkins.
To be Imprisoned for One Month—Mary Loveland, Ann
Mitchell, Emma Peddle, Mary Keath, Emma Mellish, Jas.
Dottenridge, Frederick Hitzinger, John Vincent, John
Hawksworth, and Michael Dennis.
To be Imprisoned for Two Months—Mary Macke,
Mary Smith, William Davis, and James Donovan.
To be Imprisoned for Three Months—Catherine Ro-
berts, Sarah Hull, Sarah Jones, Martha Taylor, Ann Jones,
George Loveridge, William Shannon, William Vine, John
Doyle, John Reilly, James Sewell, John Warby, Charles
Addams Webb, Edward Teeley, John Watkins, Michael
Connor (and to be flogged), Benjamin Death, Thomas Dor-
rington, George Haines, Edward Mitchell, Edward Silver-
wood, George Street, and David Humphries.
For Six Months.—Anne Williams,-Mary Anne lives,
Anne Mack, Anne Palsey, Catherine Adams, Sarah Brad-
shaw, Mary Collins, John Garfurth, James Kulsley, Mi-
chael Driscoll, 'William Godhard, John Harringham,
Ephraim Darner, John Davis (and one week solitary con-
finement), Benjamin Morris, John Beid, William Morris,
Thomas Dawkins, Thomas Miller (with two weeks' soli-
tary confinement), William Bedford, John Little alias Har-
ris, Richard Kidd, and John Somerville, four out of which
to have four weeks' solitary confinement.
For Nine Months—Carrington Smedley.
For Thirteen Months—Morris Galvin, John Eldridge,
John Pewley, John Day, Francis Badon, William Downes,
and Isaac Seeley.
To be Transported for Seven Years—Sarah Piney,
Phcebe Chord, Phoebe Donovan, Mary Campbell, Mary
Ford, Elizabeth Lane, Martha Millwood, George Hard-
wicke,
Pry Abraham
, John Barnes, Thos
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Harris, James Bastons, George Wade, John Mason, Ri-
chard Jones, William Dunsmore, Edward Lee, Michael
Doyle, William Fletcher, John Roberts, John Keith,
Thomas Brown, William Corbward, Frederick Rotter,
John Beaumont, William Drags, James Spinks, John
Grice, William Sherry, John Bye, F. Bye, Thos. Belsham,
Geyrge James Wicks, John M'Cormack, H. Greenfield,
John Thomas, Wm. Henry Dongell, and George Tull.
To be transported for Fourteen Yeas.—Hannah Wool-
court, Eliza Hirra, Edward Shepherd, John Foncesar,
John Taylor, Charles Bucheno, Luke Braby; Joseph Fisher
Perkins, alias Joseph Perkins, Thomas Johnson, and Lewis
Alexander.

The two last prisoners were for the omnibus robbery.
The RECORDER at some length adverted to the case,
and said, from all which had taken place, he fully agreed in
the verdict of the jury.

For Life.—Jane Morgan, Susan Collier, Ellen Martin,
Elizabeth' Latten, James Williams, George Wood, Thos.
Fowler, George Barnes, James Bowns, James Williams,
James Lockyer, Isaac Cate, James Stebbings, Um. Sarles,
and James Elliot.

Death.—James Lappam, Thomas Mead, Wm. Death,
James Riley, George Jameson, John Thompson, William
Gracey, Wm. Rae, John Welch, all for burglary ; Henry
Heather, aged 15, John Smailes, aged 12, Daniel Turner,
James Turner, for highway robbery ; and F. Fraike, for
cutting and wounding.
The Court then adjourned until Monday next.
The Sessions just terminated have been the heaviest and
the longest since the establishment of the Central Criminal
Court. •