The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-30 00:00:00

SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY.

Yesterday afternoon some Cockney sportsmen were:
strolling in the fields near Holloway, shooting at sparrow
and other game, when t,) their infinite astonishment they
turned up a hare. If puss was alarmed at the sight of toe
Cockneys, they were no less so at the sight of her, but as
soon as they had recovered from their surpri3e, they fired,
a volley at her. It is almost needless to add, that not ta
single shot touched her. Puss took to the road, followed
by a variety of " mongrel dogs and curs of low degree,"
whose sweet music quickly brought an assemblage of
bipeds, who joined in the chase. Others, however, acted
differently. The idea of running away from a hare m.,iy
appear strange to those accustomed to the sports c,f thr
field, but it is absolutely a fact, that many an elderly gen-
tleman, as poor puss approached, thinking from the shouts
of the mob that a mad bull was coming, sought refuge in
the neighbouring shops to avoid the attacks of the " in-
furiated animal." Puss was at length caught nearly op..
posite Cloudesley-terrace, Islington, by a journeymen
penter, who bagged his game in his apron. A gentleman
presont offered him 4s. 6d. for his prize, but he refused to
part with it, saying that as it MIS the first hare he had
ever caught, he would keep it as a curiosity.

YORK POST OFFICE.—We understand that
the attendance and delivery of letters and papers, at our
post office, will be extended to ten o'clock at night, from
and after Thursday next (to-morrow).— Yo, k Courant.

The Justitia convict hulk, lying off the Royal
Arsenal, at Woolwich, has for a long time been in such a
bad state of repair that it was deemed necessary to bring
her alongside the wharf, that if she sunk it might not be
in deep water. She has lain there upward■ of two years,
grounding at low water, but making from three to five feet
water in her hold every tide. With perseverance at the
pumps the convicts contrived to free her until Thursday
last, when the water rushed into her with sueb velocity,
that she sunk almost instantaneously, and had it not beer
for the promptitude of Captain SMITH, the soperintentlant,
the whole of the prisoners on the lower deck (upwards of
200) must have found a watery grave. There is no com-
munication from one deck to another, and the hatchway
that leads to each deck is only sufficiently c►ide to admit
one person at a time. It happened that the Dnnregara
Castle and Bussora Merchant had comedown from Dept.
ford to take in prisoners for New South Wales, when SO
were immediately sent on hosed the former, and 100 on
board the latter ship ; others were sent to the other hulks
that lie here, so that the lower deck of the sunken ship is
cleared.—Kent Paper.

On Tuesday last, a couple were united toge-
ther in wedlock at Trinity Church, Hull. After the
ceremony was performed, and duly reeistered, the bridk..
groom was asked for the usual fees. He replied he had its
,a,sakseedquhai s wllylion
pfroory
itdhee
d.iL needfulea:i
Leaving
the
hsehita\, un-
pfmolerodtnugeneya,tleaielny(,dieparted to raise supplies, having indignantly
rejected a proposition to deposit the wedding-ring as se-
curity. On his returq, after an absence of half an hour,
he lamented his want of success, and then expressed his
willingness to leave the ring, which was taken off the
finger of the bride, and handed to the attendant. When
the parties had got clear off, it was discovered that the
artful rogue had substituted a brass ring fof a gold one !
Next day, a parry of soldiers were in quest of the bride-
groom as a deserter, and it was stated that he had Afte,•,4
wiveB living,.-Boton Gazette.