The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-21 00:00:00

THAMES.

A MARINE THlEF.—William Simpson, a sailor
who looked in good condition, was brought before
Mr. Benson, charged with stealing a suit of
clothes, the property of another seaman named
Roderick.

Yesterday evening Peter Smith, a constable in
the West India Dock, saw the prisoner leaving the
dock, and he looked so very bulky that he was in-
duced to stop him and ask him if he had anything
about him not his property. The prisoner said he
had not, called out " All right, governor," and was
rolling out of the dock in true nautical style, when
the constable seized him and dragged him into his
box. The prisoner then said that he had a waist_
coat in his bosom. Smith took it from him, and
found a pair of trousers round his neck, inside up
like a scarf. The prisoner had a coat on under
his own. Smith asked the prisoner to what
ship he belonged, to which he replied to the
Era. Smith took the prisoner on board the Era
in the export dock, and saw the prosecutor walking
the deck. He was asked if he knew the prisoner.
Roderick said he did not, and owned the suit of
clothes taken from the prisoner. They had recently
cost him £3. The prisoner said, " I may as well be
hung for a sheep as a lamb. I stole them."
Mr. Benson asked the prisoner if he would plead
guilty or not guilty. If he pleaded not guilty he
should commit him for trial.

The prisoner, who treated the case with great in-
difference, said he was gi.ulty, and that was all aboul

Mr. Benson said the prisoner had committed a
very serious and dastardly robbery to rob another
sailor, who had worked hard for his. clothes. He
sentenced the prisoner to three maths' imprison-
ment with hard labour.
The prisoner --All right, your honour.

AN ODD LAPSUS in the Saturday Review.—ln an
article on Mr. Disraeli and the Ritualists, a writer in the
Saturday Review sets out with an allusion to what he is
pleased to call the old Ciceronian proverb, Nemo tetigit qui
non ornavit —tho words being (in place of any old Cicero-
nian proverb) a portion of Doctor Johnson's famous epitaph
on the monument of Oliver Goldsmith in Westminster
Abbey— Nihil tetigit quod non ornavit.
NOTABLE REPRlNTS—appear to be just now the
fashion : for, simultaneously there is announced in
one direction the republication of Charles Dickens's
Household Words, and in another the republication
collectively for the first time of the political articles contri-
buted by Douglas Jerrold to Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper.
Part I. of the last-mentioned reissue has already made its
appearance, illustrated with a portrait of Douglas Jerrold.
It deserves, by reason of its sterling wit and genuine libe-
rality—what it will doubtless receivo—a wide and long-
sustained popularity.
MR. ANTHONY TROLLOPE has sailed for the
United States, where he is empowered to arrange the
terms of a new postal treaty.
DEAN MILM AN is preparing a work on St. Paul's
Cathedral of a similar popular kind to that published by
Dean Stanley on Westminster Abbey.

GOUNOD has composed a new opera--name as yet
unknown—but the libretto is from the pen of M. Gabriel
Legouve, who has written many pieces, that of "Adrienne
Lecouvrour " being perhaps the best remembered. It is
whispered that the music is very pretty, in the "Faust''
rather than the " Dtereille " style, and very dramatic.