The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-12 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, APRIL li.

Thomas Street and John Bluett were indicted
for stealing an ass, of the value of 51., the property
of John Fitzgerald.
The prosecutor lives at Highbury ; and on the
13th of March his donky was safe in Hornsey-lane,
at noon, but in the course of the day he was gone,
and the halter was found in the ditch. He made
great search for his beast in several directions, and
at last he found him at the Veterinary College, at
Camden-town, on the dissecting-table.
Two students of the college deposed that on the
day named the . prisoners brought the donky in
question, which was purchased for 45., for the pur-
pose of dissection. The prosecutor came and owned
it, when they caused Bluett to be apprehended.
They are in the habit of lecturing on asses in lied
of horses, as the anatomy of the ass is very similar
to that of the horse, and much cheaper.
The prisoners put in written papers, in which
they declared their innocence.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN sentenced both the prisoners to
be transported beyond the seas for the term of seven
years.

Officer—They have only been out of prison a
few days for the same offence.
The CHAIRMAN, in no measured language, cen-
sured the conduct of the students of the college for
purchasing animals of such persons as the prisoners,
at the low price of 4s.
One of the students said that it was proved by
" the demonstration" that the glands were dis-
ordered ; but, perhaps, it might be worth 6s. or 7s.
Prosecutor—l should like to pay 5/. for it now.

SURREY SESSIONS.-REIGATE, MARCH 11.

Mr. Thomas Wallis, the proprietor of very ex-
tensive premises at the corner of Duke-street and
Wellington-street, near the New London Bridge,
appealed against the refusal of the magistrates of
East Brixton and Southwark, to grant him a
victualler's license. An appeal was made on a
former occasion against a similar decision, and dis-
allowed.

The case of the respondents was, that the pre-
mises were adapted only for the purposes of a gin
shop, and not with the view of furnishing the ac-
commodation which a public house afforded.
Mr. Samuel Jenkins, a cop-dealer, in Tooley-
street, Mr. Conner, vestry clerk of St. Olave's,
Mr. W. Nash, steward of St. Thomas's Hospital,
Mr. T. Southey, auctioneer, Mr. Wrattall, church-
warden of St. Olave's, and Mr. J. Clarke, surgeon,
of Canterbury-square, gave evidence to the effect
that the house was capable of being used only as a
gin shop ; that it was near a coach-stand ; that
there were already forty public-houses in St. Olave ;
that the Greenwich rail-road would commence
there ; and that the influx of company always at-
tending a gin-shop, in a crowded thoroughfare,
would prove a serious nuisance.
The appellant's case was as follows :—Mr. Wal-
lis's old public-house, the Crown and Sceptre, which
he conducted without any complaint being made,
was required for the London Bridge improvements.
He accepted 1,4801., as compensation, the com-
mittee engaging to supply him with another house
on the same site. Mr. Wallis expended 3,500/. on
the premises, and now ought he to be ruined by the
refusal of a license ? Was it likely he would con-
duct the house improperly, when the magistrates
had the power of taking away his license ? On the
last appeal, the Bench told him to take out a
beer license, and he might then have some chance of
obtaining a victualler's license. This he had done,
and his house had been conducted with the utmost
propriety. What was the opinion of the six wit-
nesses to the petition, of 540 gentlemen residing in
St. Olave's and St. Saviour's parish, in favour of
Mr. Wallis.

Mr. Newman, clerk to the Bridge-house Estates'

Ctnnmittee, and about a dozen respectable witnesses,
gave their opinion that the house would be one of
great and general accommodation.
The Magistrates consulted a few moments, and
the Chairman, Viscount Eastnor, said they were of
opinion that the appeal should not be allowed. The
following Magistrates were on the Bench :—Lord
Eastnor, Lord Monson, Mr. Crawford, M.P., Mr.
Allcock, Mr. Aubertin, Mr. Turner, and Mr.
Trotter.