The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-26 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
THIS DAY.

OLD COURT,

BINOIR MIL JUSTICE Caine-WALL AND MIL ',MICR WILLIAM.
WIPRINI Mason, a respectable looking young man,
pleaded guilty to two indictments charging him with hay-
ice forged bank of England notes.
Mr. Clarkson, who with Mr. Bodkin, appeared for the
prcuestion, informed the court that the primmer was eon-
rued in 180 of passing counterfeit coin, and sentenced to
rift months' imprisonment, and he was convicted a second
time cf • similar offence in 1831, and sentenced to 18
months' imprisonment. Upon the present occasion be bad
Passed er • farged notes in the space of eight days, and
there was reason to believe that he had for a considerable
time bees engaged in these practices.
Ms prisoner, who is • cripple, and walks with tintcheei
addressed his lordship, and said he had always regard
crime with " high disgust," but he had been compelled b
poverty and other circumstances to commit the acts with
which be was charged.
Hr. Justice Cresswell said that the offence of passing
forged notes was of the most serious character, and it must
be repressed by severs punishment. Ho then sentenced the
?firmest° be transported for 20 years
6"rfi Clements.: 27, • post-office letter-carrier, was
charged with stealing • post-letter, the property of the
l'actniuter-General. .

It appeared that the prisoner was on duty at the Charing-
cross branch office on the lith October, end engaged at the
sorting table in inning the letters for the different districts.
While so employed something occurred which induced one
of the poet-office inspectors to watch hint, and the prisoner
sriu observed to place me particular letter suds! a bundle
of others in his left hand, and he then drew a handkerchief
from his pocket, and, after some manteuvriag, he
the handkerchief and the letter into his pocket. Itelardeas
immediately taken into custody, and the letter won bead
to hie peseeellen.
The joy returned a verdict of Guilty.

A SAD STORT.—A boatman on returning to Fa-
so., is Sleswig, on the 6th inst., reported that he had
sighted a vessel at sea capsised ; boats were sent oat in
*enroll, and on approaching the hull a tapping was heard.
A hole was roads in the bottom, and a young -Englishman
discovered in a delirious state, standing up to his cheat in
weer. He was taken to Nordby, and cannily tended, but
died there on the Bth inst. In hie wanderings he
continually repeated the inscription of a medal he wore,
" Let every mac de his duty.- It if supposed that the
newt had been bound from Hull to Hamburg, and was
kst in the storm of the night of 26th September, in which
ease our hapless fellew-countryman had been in that piti-
able position 11 days before he was eztricated.
TnE HALF-HOLIDAT MOVEYINT.—A public meet-
ing of the trades of Edinburgh and Leith was held on
Thursday in Brighton-street chapel, to promote the success
of the movement for a Saturday ball-holiday and Friday
payments. The meeting, which was largely and respect-
ably attended, was presided over by john Hope, Esq.,
W.S. Statements were made showing the progress which
hail been made in obtaining the half-holiday. Already the
building trades enjoyed the privilege, and a hope was ex-
pressed that, by the countenance and support of the in-
fluential inhabitants of the city, it would become universal.
Resolutions affirming the expediency of restricted hours of
labour, and pledging those present to use their best endea-
vours to effect the desired change, were cordially agreed
to, and the int eting adjourned.—Edinburgh
AUDACITY OF PERSIAN THlEVE.,.—Account, from
the camp of the Persian army state that the audacity of the
thieves shows that there exists no system of police whatever.
The sword of the commander-in-chief had been earned
away from under his pillow. It was a present from the
Shah, and was richly mounted with diamonds. One of the
ministen had his inkstand, seals, and handkerchief taken
out of his hand while sleeping; and another chief, high in
office, had the gold buttons of his uniform cut off; and the
Prime Minister, who was dosing in the afternoon in a chair
an his tent, next to that of the Shah, had his gold spectacles
Men off his now.