The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-20 00:00:00

woman he saw the prisoner trip Lim up and kick
while on the ground.
Mr. Beadon said, for such an assault, under such Cit.
cumstances, he should commit him for trial.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.

A. REGULAR AND THAMES.
AN IRREGULAR SHOEBLACIL"
Patrick Donovan, a dirty rough-looking Irish boy, vibe
is connected with a very wicked family, and whose
parents have been frequently punished for assault,
drunkenne.is, and disorderly conduct, was brought be fore Mr.)Yardley, charged with stealing 7 foreign coiner
the property of Robert Goby.
The prosecutor, a clean well-behaved lad with bbl hair combed with neat precision, formed a striking con'
trast to the dirty blackguard alongside of him. Gob!
is a member of the Ragged School Shoeblack Brigade,
and was dressed in the uniform of the class to which be
belongs, with a badge on his arm. He said he had a stand
assigned to him in Grace's-alley, Wellclose-square.
The
prisoner waslalso a shoeblack, but he did not belong to
the brigade, and often abused visitors, and attempted to
rob hien. Yesterday afternoon ho left his box only for
a minute, and upon his return be saw the prisoner in
stooping position over his box where he kept his black'
ing and brushes. lie asked the prisoner what he vial
doing there, to which he made no reply, but ran awaY. Witness directly missed seven foreign copper coins from
his box, and ran after him, and be soon overtook him.
He asked him to restore the coins, which he refused to
do, and swore at him, and said he would have all the
money in the box. He called a police-constable, who
Blade the prisoner restore the coins, and sent the prisoner
about his business. Soon afterwards the prisoner
and
five or six others came to his box and commenced
beating him. The policeman came again and took the
prisoner into custody.
The prisoner said he took the coins for a lark, and
policeman, after he had restored them to Goby, kicked
him, and would not let him blacken any more shoes.
Policeman, No. 173 11, said, he did not kick the pri'
soner, but he made him turn out the foreign coins from
his pocket and told him to go about his business. About
three minutes afterwards he saw the prisoner and others
boating Goby, and he then took the prisoner into cue'
body. The prisoner was a regular pest to the neighbour'
hood, and his father was a most incorrigible drunkard.
Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner wile
an old thief, who had passed through his hands more
than once.
Mr. Yardley said it was most scandalous to be pig'
ing tricks with and robbing a lad who obtained a living
by honest industry. He convicted the prisoner, and
sentenced him to be imprisoned for three days and to be
well whipped.

SE RIO US PO ACHING AFFRAY NEAR
B kIGHT ON.

Between two and three o'clock on Saturday
morning a most desperate fight took place with trio '
poaohers and three watchers ou Colonel Paine's
grounds at Patcham, three miles northward of
Brighton, at which place the poachers resided.
They are two most desperate characters, named
Poplett and Winton, the former of whom was
mixed up in a garotte case some time since. Oa
Friday night, the local constable of Patcham,
earned Graitnes, had his suspicions aroused, and be
obtained the assistance of two men, named Clark
and Brown (enip'oyed by Colonel Paine and Mr.
Tanner as watchers), and all three proceeded to
some unenclosed laud belonging, to Colonel Paine,
where they found several rabbits wired and a large
quantity of snares set. They lay by. them till the
above-mentioned time, when Poplett and Winton
came along, and proceeded to take the rabbits out •
of the wires ; Clark then walked up to them,
and without a word being passed he was struck a
heavy blow over the head with a bludgeon by Pop-
lett, who called upon Winton, at the same time re-
peating the blow, to "Come and knock his brains
out. Graimes and Brown immediately ran to the
assistance of Clark, and a most desperate encounter
took place, and even after Winton was secured by
Brown, Poplett had afeatful fight with the other
two, and it was not before he was nearly killed that
he was secured and handcuffed, and placed under
the care of the East Sussex constabulary. All
parties were severely injured, and Mr. Dixon, sur-
geon, who attended, said he was an hour and a half
in dresdng Poplett'a wounds, he having received ,
seven severe cuts on the head, besides contused
wounds on the body. His captors were also severely
punished. The case was taken before the countymagistraLs at Hove in the afternoon. The chair-
man of the bench (Mr. C. Carpenter) said they •
we:'€) bound to convict, but they thought great vio-
lence had been used, perhaps more than was neces4
nary, seeing that the watchers were the stronger of
the two parties. lie then sentenced the two pri-
soners to one month's imprisonment each, and
ordered them to find sureties to keep the peace for
six months from the expiration of that time, them-
selves
in 101., and sureties each in 61. At the con-
clusion of the case, Mr. Carpenter said he thought
it WAS a sad pity that inthe neighbourhood of large
and populous towns like Brighton unenclosedlands
should be preserved.