PETERSFIELD.
ANOTHER HUNT FROM PETERSFIELD TO FINCHDEAN.—On the 19th ult. we had occasion to report the clever capture of a "General thief," under the heading of "A first-rate day with the Petersfield pack," by the "Huntsman in blue," and several other, who after a rattling pace was fairly run into, in a well contested chase that proved “a reg’lar buster," and although strange in its character, concluded one of the best runs of the season even in this well hunted district (at least in the estimation of the party therein concerned). Little dreaming at the time that we should so soon again have to note a somewhat similar hunt, but which partook more of the trailing, tracking, harkback, and checking character, that occupied four long hours, a cross country from the time of starting to the take. The following are the facts of the case:—On Sunday evening a man aged about 30 years, upon travel, giving the name of Thomas King, engaged a bed at the Crown public house, in this town, and in the same room a lodger also slept of the name of Joseph Hobbs. On Monday morning the prisoner, finding his fellow occupant quietly resting in "slumbers sweet," took the opportunity of opening his box and taking therefrom a pair of trowsers, of which Joseph had divested himself on the previous night, which he had deposited therein, and which ultimately became the "pressibles" for durance vile. At early dawn the unsuspecting sleeper awoke, finding his partner for the night non est proceeded at once to his box, and to his inexpressible sorrow he found himself deprived of his Sunday’s best. He then sounded the alarm, when several lodgers and others started off in pursuit along the Portsmouth road and up the Causeway, where the thief, Renard-like, perceiving his pursuers, broke to the meadows on the left, and on to Nursted Hanger, where the scent became cold and the pack called off. The return was then made to the station and information given, when the “huntsman in blue" and his men proceeded to Nursted, where trail was picked up, which continued on to Buriton, and Ditcham, when it was found the thief had skirted Chalton on the left, beyond which he came in view, and was finally run down at Finchdean. Upon being searched the prisoner’s case was found to be doubly inexpressible, as beneath his own he was found wearing the trowsers missed from the box at the Crown. On Monday the prisoner was taken before Capt. Sandeman, at Stodham House, and remanded to the bench on Tuesday.