PETERSFIELD, Saturday, April 20.
MISADVENTURE OF A BRICKLAYER AND HIS LABOURER.—On the morning of Tuesday a somewhat singular capture was made of a bricklayer, named William Paine, and his labourer, William Jordan, upon tramp from London to Portsmouth, took place under the circumstances stated, about 5 o’clock, upon Windmill Down, in the parish of Chalton, between Petersfield and Horndean. It appears that at the time named James Webb, keeper upon the Idsworth estate, was watching upon the Down, a short distance from a rabbit he had found caught in a trap, where, at a short distance away, was also sly, but unfortunate Reynard, firmly held by one of his pads in the iron grip of another trap. At this time Webb was quietly resting in a brake of furze, when his attention was arrested by seeing the two men making their way along the Down, some distance away from the road, till they came to the rabbit, which they at once took from the trap. Perceiving the unfortunate position of poor Reynard, they at once proceedad to and were in the act of killing him, when the keeper put in his appearance, and changed the contemplated scene by releasing the prisoner from his painful confinement to liberty, and taking his would-be destroyers in charge, and handing tbem over to Police-constable Henry Grant, at Horndean, who brought them to the station at Petersfield, and on the same day they were taken before Mr. J. Bonham Carter, M.P., who remanded them to the Petty Sessions on Tuesday next.