The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-13 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Mr. J. Solilt, the landlord of a beer-shop and coffee-
house in Duke-street, London-bridge, near the railway-
station, was summoned by the police for keeping open his
house for the sale of coffee contrary to the act of parliament,
which prohibits him from selling liquors or other articles
before one o'clockon Sunday afternoon.
The evidence was that a police-constable went into the
house between seven and eight, when he saw five people,
some of whom were taking their breakfast. Be did not
believe any of them were travellers.
In answer to the charge, evidence was produced that all
the persons in the defendant's house were travellers, and
were going by the early train to Brighton. The names and
addresses of all five were handed up.
The magistrate said there was no ground whatever for be-
lieving that the persons in the house were other than tra-
vellers whom the defendant was bound to supply with sa-
-1 freshments.

The summons was, therefore, dismissed.
LAMBETH.

William Jones, a youth of 18, and an expert thief, was
charged with attempting to pick the pocket of a lady named
Clackford, in the booking-office of the South Western
Railway. It appeared that about three o'clock on that
afternoon, on the prosecutrix putting her hand into her
pocket to take out her purse to pay her fare to Windsor,
she found the band of the prisoner there. The prisoner
struggled hard to get off, but the lady held him until he
was secured by an officer. Bergoant Bent deposed to the
fact of the prisons being a convicted thief, and the con-
stant companion of a gang of disreputable cliaracten and
thieves who infest Graeby-street and the Waterloo-road
The prisoner himself admitted that he bad had two:mouths
from this court for picking pockets, and this time he was
sentenced to three months' hard labour.

--.31;.71;ciar(1 aisniosis--- attache to the Por li
-
tuguese embassy at Paris, was charged before the Hon. G.
C. Norton, with wanking Mr. Francois Napoleon de
Sazostakowsky, a Polish refugee, at the Vauxhall gardens
on the preceding night.
Mr. F. J. Van Zeller, the Portuguese consul-general,
attended, and occupied • seat on the bench during the
heating of the case.
From the statement of the complainant, whose head was
bandaged, it apneared that during the performance at the
amphitheatre, in the I/sashed-gardens, on the night be-
fore, he said to a friend, alluding to the defendant, "That's
a Portuguese I have been looking out for, for seven years."
The defendant asked him what for ? The reply was that
he must know very well, and that some years ago he was in
the habit of meeting him at a gambling-house. The defen-
dant assured him he was mistaken, gave him his card, and
said he was an attache to the Portuguese embassy in Paris.
Complainant said he did not believe it, and the defendant
then struck him with • stick on the head, and inflicted a
wound. .

In his MIS examination the complainant admitted that
he said he recognised the detendant as a gambler, and that
be had been frequentiy in his company, and that In 1847 he
had loot a large sum of money. Ito did not say the defend•
ant was no gentleman, but, believing his. to be • gambler,
did not consider him one. Did not challenge the defendant
to go out of the theatre, or say " your man ;" but they
did go into the place where the fireworks are discharged
and ho took off his gloves. Did not strike the complainant,
but had intended to do so.
. . _

Defendant admitted the auault, but said that the com-
plainant being mistaken in his personality had accused him
wrongfully.
M. Van Zeller assured the magistrate that the complain-
ant was very much mistaken in the defendant, and spoke
very highly of the gentlemanly bearing and high respecta-
bility of the latter.
Mr. Norton thought that the justice of the ease would be
met by the defendant's putting in bail, paying fur the
complainant's hat, and also paying the surgeon's bill for
dressing the wound.
This was at once complied with.
THAMES.

Inspector Reuon, of the A division, the officer appointed
by the Commissioners of Police to carry out the provisions
of the act for the regulation and registration of common
lodging-houses, attended to support 18 summonses, taken
out by him against persons for a violation of the law. The
°Minden were, in every east, natives of Ireland. In one
desk, dirty, and unwholesome* zoos, rented by s wretched