The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-14 00:00:00

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At the Southwark police court on Saturday, Jas. Green ,
Wells-road, Sydenham ; Chas. Thomas White, Camber-
well ; Wm. Lawrence, John Brooks, potman ; John Free-
stone, carpenter; R. Pearce, fitter; H. Gibbons, 10, Wor-
cester-street, Walworth, gentleman ; John Cleave, 57,
Stamford-street, gentleman ; F. Deane, 9, Camberwell-
lane, Brixton ; S. Howlett, ; Win. Gillbanks, 5.
Bow Church-yard ; G. Church, Kent-street, turner ; R. •
Roberts, coffee-house keeper; Wm. Garner, Peckham,
gentleman ; Wm. Keene, Ship Hotel, Charing-cross ; Geo.
Edwards, Peterborough-villa, St. John's-wood; S. Taylor
Camberwell; W. Stevens, Jas. Jones, John Hillman, Geo.
Stone, Wm. 114'Pherson, Thos. Dorrington, John Costello,

John Taylor, John Armitage, Joseph Matthews, Fredk
Wallace, Joseph Deane, Henry Webb, James Greene, and
John Brown, were brought before Mr. Burcham, the
latter being the landlord of the Two Brewers, Ewer-street,
Gravel-lane, charged with keeping a place for cock-fight-
ing and dog-fighting; and the first-named defendants,
with aiding and abetting in cock-fighting and dog-fighting.
Mr. Sleigh, instructed. by Mr. J. Colam, the secretary
of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
mals, attended to prosecute, and in opening the case said
that the defendants Brown and Brooks were charged with
using, keeping, and having the management of a place for
dog and cock-fighting; and the other defendants were
charged with aiding and assisting. The 3d section of the
act empowered the magistrate to inflict a penalty of £5 ;
and the 18th section authorised the magistrate to com-
mit the guilty parties to the House of Correction for
three months, with or without hard labour. The
defendant Brown was the principal, and kept the
Two Brewers beer-house, in Gravel-lane, and was
well known by the cognomen of the King of the Dog-
fighters, which business he carried on successfully for
some time past. However, through the activity of the
police, and the exertions of the Royal Society for the Pro-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, the detection took place,
and all the defendants were apprehended by the police. He
should be able to show that Brown charged ss. each to the
parties, who were considered to be select.

Mr. Bradbury, on the part of Brown and Brooks, pleaded
guilty, but, as for the others, they denied the charges.
Jesse William Mohun, of the Royal Society for the Pre-
vention of Croelty to Animals, said that on Wednesday
last be wont to the Two Brewers beer-shop, kept by the
defendant Brown, and purchased two tickets for a cock-

fight, and paid Brown 10s. Ou Friday evening he went to
his house, and at the roar ho found a great number of peo-
ple. They were in the bar at first, but afterwards pro-
ceeded into the back room. Ho recognised some of the

defendants. Brown, Deane, and Brooks took a very active
part. The space where the fight took place was boarded
up. The cocks had steel spurs, and fought about twelve
minutes. Ono was wounded, and bled very much from
the head; the other also bled, and was taken away. Two
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more wore brought in, but they would not fight. After
that some rats wore put into the pit and were killed. Then
two more cocks wore brought forward, and after fighting

For 15 minutes they wore withdrawn, fearfully injured.

Ono of them was cut on the side, and its log was broken.
The other was mangled.

In answer to Mr. Burcham, witness said that the place
was a kind of skittleground at the rear of the premises,

and appeared to be specially fitted up for cock and dog-
fighting. Tho spectators were betting money with each

othor.

The defendants wore hero ranged in a sort of line, and
after an investigation 14 were discharged. Tho remainder

were fined 10s. each, and Brown and his man £5 and 40s.
The fines were paid.

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ting ting at Conway the commissioners decided on a claim by
John Jones, of Tanralt, to use a fishing basket at a certain
spot on the river Sledr at Bettws-yeCoed. The claimant
is the owner of a small farm on the banks of the Sledr
tributary of the Conway), at a spot where the river falls
over one of the picturesque waterfalls of that remote dis-
trict. At this point the river on Jones's side tumbles off a
rock into a natural hollow or chasm, and thence by a
smaller fall—about a yard—into a lower level. Tho fish
in ascending the river easily jump up the lower fall into
the natural basin above, but here they are stopped by a
barrier only passable in high floods. The water running
entirely through rock is almost always clear, so that the
salmon can be seen from above when lying in the natural
basin. John Jones, therefore, when ho sees a fish between
the two falls, first places a man on the top of the rock,
holding by a rope a wide-mouthed basket which rests
against the outlet of the second fall, while with a long
wand ho tickles the snout of master salmon, who is
vainly waiting to get higher up the river, on which the
affrighted fish immediately turns tail and rushes down
stream head first into the basket, where he is trapped.
This trap it was proved had been used for generations by
the same family, and so was certified by the commissioners.
MUSICAL ON DITS.—The Orchestra mentions
that one of the first features of the next season at Covent-
Garden will be the production of Verdi's " Don Carlos '
Mdllo. Tietjons, who is now in Paris, is about to sing at
Vienna, where " Antigone," with Mendelssohn's choruses,
will shortly be given. During the past year 23 new operas
have been produced in Italy, of which only four survived
a first performance! It is expected that "Don Carlos" wi I
not be ready for production at the Paris Opera before the
end of the month, as Verdi is making certain changes in
the score.