The Sun. — 1856-03-28 (London, England)

BER-FORCE." It is due to the sober that the remaining reason of the intoxicated should warn them not to commit assault, and possibly murder. For policemen, however, we claim in this case, as we, have done in others, the severest vindicati©n of law, and the most liberal compensation for the injury sustained. Captain SOMERSET was sent to prison for beating one with a whip, and rightly. The policeman carries with him, or should carry, in the discharge of his legitimate duties, the anthority of the Sovereign. If he must use force frequently, yet those with whom he has to do should be taught that society expects the authority intrusted to him to meet with ready submission. We see it stated that there h to be a subscription for CHIPMAN, and his wife and nine children. Except as a testimonial from the public, this ought to be unnecessary. The country is bound to maintain the policeman who fights its battles with the depraved at home, as well as the soldier  who vindicates its rights abroad—when either are disabled in their respective services. If we are to be severe, however, on the drunken wretch who endangers a policeman's life —what are we to say to country squires, and even a grand jury, seekingthe life of a rabbit shooter. Our readers will have seen the trial in yesterday's Sun. The man was employedby his master to shoot rabbits. A gamekeeper sneaked along in some high grass, we suppose to detect the man in poaching. The man naturally enough thought the grass was moved by a rabbit—shot—and hit—hut did not much hurt—a gamekeeper ! There was not a shadow of evidence that the mau—or rather lad, for he was but nineteen—thought of murder. He showed great distress of mind—ran for a doctor, and rendered all possible assistance. The Judge, Chief Justice JERVIS, remarked that the grand jury had not the slightest pretence for finding the bill, but added, "it is a game county." He further observed, in reply to an observation of the prosecutor about poaching—that " if this was the effect of game preserving, it ought not to be allowed, it was shocking !" The prosecutor was obliged to withdraw the charge ! The game-preserving squires have had their disgrace, but, alas, they have had also their sweet revenge. The poor lad has been in prison for this accident ever since the 9th of September ! Surely the committing magistrates ought to receive a hint from the Lord Chancellor, or at least one from the Home Secretary, on the propriety of indemnifying the young man. Looking at the two cases we have brought together, we ask, who are the guiltier parties— Squires, who imprison, and Grand Juries, who send to trial, a poor lad—prosecuting him on a charge which should bring him to the gallows— the lad's real and only offence being their fear of his poaching—or, half intoxicated men, who half kill a policeman ? The gentlemen endeavoured to strangle a man lest rabbit shooting might lead to shooting hares and pheasants. MICHAEL HOGAN broke a policeman's leg for proper interference with his irregularities. What are we to say, too, for the comparative deserts of intoxication with game preserving and with beer ? Both are done for excitement, bat your game preserver is a very fiend, utterly reckless of all evidence and justice in regard to the poor rustics whom he suspects of liking game as well as himself. He is cruel and relentless in cool blood ; and, on the bench of what should be justice, coolly cruel, even to imprisonment and death, in behalf of his amusements merely. The criminal through intoxication is always more or lens beside himself. It is high time that game-law offences were no longer tried by the game-preserving class, indeed time that these barbarous relics of Norman feudalism were utterly destroyed.  PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO THE 2d