William Eli Sandham, a decently dressed young man
described as a tailor, was charged at the Thames Police
Court on the 3rd instant, with Stealing a Penny. A
lad named Tighe, the son of a gentleman residing at
Stepney, deposed that he was standing the preceding
evening in a crowd, looking at the Shadwell regatta,
when the prisoner came close to him, and entering into
conversation, picked his pocket of a penny, and then
made his way out of the crowd. The lad's evidence was
corroborated by his companion. A policeman said that
in consequence of a communication from the boys he
followed and overtook the prisoner. He asked him if
he had taken a penny out of the boy's pocket; and the
prisoner said, "No, I have not done so." On the way
to the station-house the prisoner said he was a tailor out
of work, and that he had but Is 6d. in his pocket. The
prisoner was very much excited at the time. The
prisoner: I did not say I was out of work. I said I was
not very busy. I am a master tailor, and have work at
home. The police constable: I found upon the prisoner
1s. 4d., and an old penny piece; it was an old penny
piece. The prisoner: Did not the youth say he did not
know what sort of a penny piece it was? Blake: He
first said it was an old penny piece; then he said he did
not know. The magistrate said the case was so clear he
must commit the prisoner for trial. The prisoner:
"What, for a penny! It will be the death of my mother;
I left her at home very ill. Magistrate: I can't help
it. You are committed for trial.

At the Thames Police Court on the 4th inst,. Captain
Alfred Palmer, master of the ship North Star, appeared
to answer the claims of four seaman, Phillip Neale, John
Hannagan, Charles Williams, and John Wadler, for
Wages, on a voyage from London to Mazatlan and
back. The case disclosed irregularities during the
voyage, which show the necessity of such a measure as
the Mercantile Marine Act, lately passed. The vessel
sailed in September last from London to Mazatlan, in
South America. The crew was engaged at £2. a month
for able bodied seamen, and £1. 10s. for ordinary seamen,
out and home. It appeared from the statements, complaints,
and recriminations before the magistrate, that
the vessel, during the whole voyage, had been a scene
of dispute between the captain and the men, and of a
confusion and want of discipline which must have
produced constant peril. The captain met the demands
of the claimants for wages with charges against them of
idleness, insubordination, and desertion, while they
retorted with imputations against him of tyranny and
oppression. The circumstances are too numerous to be
detailed here; but the captain's charges against the men
were so far substantiated, that their claims were materially
reduced. Their counter complaints against the captain
could not be entertained, as the question at issue was
merely the amount of wages due to them; but the case
showed how much the merchant service stood in need of
regulation.

At the Mansion House, on the 4th, Augustus Styles,
a chemist, of Camden Town, was committed for trial on
charges of Forging and Uttering two bills of exchange
for £300. and £200., which purported to be accepted by a
Mr. Bailey, of Swancombe in Kent, an acquaintance of
the prisoner. Styles pretended that he had received
the bills from Mr. Bailey in payment for land. Mr.
Bailey stated that there was no transaction of the kind,
and that his signature had been forged.

At the Marlborough Street Police Court, on the 4th,
two respectable young women complained of the conduct
of a draper who had a Ticket-Shop in Oxford Street.
They saw dresses in the window marked "Is."; among
the lot was one without a price; a man at the door told
them that that also was a shilling. The women entered
the shop, bought the dress, and put down a shilling;
the shopman threw the coin into the till, and then demanded
1s. 11d, more, snatched back the dress, and
refused to return the shilling. The magistrate, remarking
that this was the third or fourth case of the kind
brought before him within the last day or two, told the
young women that their only remedy was a suit in the
County Court.

On the evening of the 4th, another attempt was made
by the convicts to Set Fire to Parkhurst Prison. A
warder of the Juvenile Prison, alarmed by a strong
smell of burning linen in one of the wards, entered it,
and discovered in one of the cells a mass of fire the
flame of which was reaching the ceiling. Tlie fire was
happily extinguished without further injury; and it was
found on examination that a shovelfull of live cinders
had been obtained from one of the stoves used for heating
irons in the adjoining tailors' shop, placed on the flooring
of the ward, and covered with the sheets and bedding
of the prisoners.

James Hill, charged with Forgeries upon the Austrian
Bank to the amount of £15,000., was, on the 5th, committed
by the Birmingham magistrates for trial at the
next assizes.

At the Richmond Police Court, on the 6th, Francisco
Mouhards, a foreigner about thirty years old, was charged
with delivering Begging Letters to the Duchess of
Orleans, and with obtaining money fraudulently.
He was sentenced to imprisonment for seven days
in the Brixton House of Correction. In his pockets
were found a number of letters in English, French,
and Spanish, signed "Francisco Michods," "François
Michiods," and "Francis Mouhards." They
represented that the writer was a native of Caviaca;
and that he has recently come from Paris totally destitute
of food or lodging, and not knowing a word of the English
language, cannot obtain employment. Among them
was this pithy epistle to the Duke of Wellington:—
"François Mouhards has had the honour to write to his
Grace the Duke of Wellington on the 9th of July last,
and has had no answer; and he comes to beg to know if
his Grace will answer him. London, 6th August, 1850."

Richard Marsh, a beer-shop keeper, was charged at
the Wandsworth Police Court, with Opening his House
on Sunday Morning. A police-officer stated, that on
the previous Sunday he saw the defendant's brother
standing outside the door; on recognising the witness
he gave a signal to the inmates, and on his reaching the
door he heard the bolts drawn. He knocked, calling
out, "It is the police; open the door." There was a
great scuffiing, and he heard the defendant ordering
some one to run up-stairs. After a while the witness
was admitted. He saw several pots, pints, &c.; some of
them full, and the froth fresh. He went up-stairs to a
bedroom, where he found fourteen persons, some lying
on the floor, others in and behind the bed. Some of
them had dogs in their arms, and others had children,
and all were striving to keep their "armsful" silent.
He knew most of the persons present, some of whom
were now in court. The defendant said he did not sell
any beer. He was anxious to get in his money, and the
men only came to pay him; but it should not happen
again. The magistrate said it was a very bad case, and
unfair to the trade. He would inflict the full penalty,
5/., or a month's imprisonment. The fine was immediately
paid.

Edwin Mogg, captain of the Cardinal Wolsey, Richmond
and Hampton Court steamer, was charged before
the Richmond bench of magistrates, at the instance of
Mr. G. Scott, Fortescue House, with having Endangered
the Lives of Nine Persons. It appeared that on the
6th of August there was an amateur regatta at Richmond,
where several thousand persons were present in
pleasure-wherries, skiffs, and other light boats. In the
midst of a crowd of these boats the defendant set his
engines in motion, without giving the slightest warning.
The steamer came in contact with Mr. Scott's boat and
upset it, immersing in the water the nine persons who
were in the skiff. Among those who were thus in danger
of meeting with a watery grave were several ladies, one
of whom sunk five times before she was rescued. Three
of their number caught hold of the steam-boat, which
they were told to cling to, otherwise they would be cut
to pieces by the paddle-wheels. These circumstances
being proved, the bench fined the defendant in the
penalty of £3.

Edward Bishop, a young man fashionably dressed,
was charged at the Southwark Police Court with Throwing
a Cauliflower on the stage of the Victoria Theatre,
and causing a disturbance in the house. Mr. Higgie,
one of the actors, said, that on Saturday night, during
the farce of the "Mouse," he was concealed under a table
in the centre of the stage, while Mr. Forman was on one
side, and a lady on the other. He heard an uproar in