AN UNFOUNDED CHARGE.—A scene was enacted at Petersfield on Saturday last, which, for the credit of the English name, we would fain hope is without a parallel, and which has excited universal disgust and indignation through out the whole neighbourhood. A person who resides about "four fields" from the town having a private grudge against a very respectable young man, sought his revenge by means of the following dastardly stratagem.—He went to the superintendent of police about the middle of the night, and laid a charge against him of having stopped him on the highway and robbed him of 5s. A policeman was immediately sent to take the accused into custody, whom he found in bed, but called him up, and conducted him to the station-house. After being detained here some time, he was allowed to return home, the policeman, however, accompanying him, and remaining in the house during the night and the greater part of the next day (Sunday), until the case happened to reach the ears of an influential gentleman in the town, who immediately made himself responsible for the appearance of the accused person to answer the charge before a magistrate, and he was thereupon released from custody. The next day the parties met before Colonel Hugonin, one of Her Majesty's justices of the peace, who, after sifting the matter with that patient and impartial attention which he is won't to bestow on all cases brought before him, dismissed the charge as utterly destitute of the least foundation, and administered a severe reprimand to the man who preferred it for heartless conduct.—Hampshire Telegraph.