13 APRIL 1861, Page 4

Holland, the letter-carrier who stole the letter containing a re-

mittance of 690/. from Edinburgh to the Religious Tract Society, has been tried at the Central Criminal Court, found guilty, and sen- tenced to six years' penal servitude. George Cohen, a clothier, was tried the same day. His offence was passing "flash notes," as if they were real notes. At the police- court one Moss said Cohen gave 2/. 10s. or 1/. 10s. for 5/. notes, as the case might be. To give a colour of innocence to the transaction, it was pretended that the notes were taken, bon& fide, from Scotch sailors. But at the Central Criminal Court Mass swore that he had been induced to make this statement by Cohen, and that it was not true. Several forged notes were found in Cohen's house. Sentence, ten years' penal servitude. Morgan Blandford, a butcher, residing near Wimborne, in Dorset, has been committed for trial by the Guildhall magistrates, for send- ing diseased meat for sale to a Newgate Market salesman. He sent up by rail the carcass of a cow which had died cf disease. Tile case was fully proved. He has been tried at the Central Criminal Court, and found guilty. Sentence, Confectioners and others who take out a wine and refreshment license are bound to shut their shops on Sundays and other holy days, and keep their houses as close as a licensed victualler. Two confec- tioners were summoned for opening their shops on Good Friday. They did not sell wines ; only a few buns. The magistrate expounded the law to them, and they escaped by paying costs. The police occasionally overstep the limits of their duty in the most shameful manner. Wavman, a constable, has been committed for trial on a serious charge of this kind. It is alleged that he met a respectable woman on her way home alone, at four in the morning, and, acting on the assumption that she had been walking the streets, he kicked or knocked her down, and followed her home, crying out, "go on, „ i no on." The poor woman was seriously injured, but having friends, the constable s brought to book instead of escaping, as he otherwise probably would have done.

Omnibus impositions are on the increase. The other day a Mr. Johns, seeing an omnibus bearing a placard "From Edgware-road to London-bridge, 3d.," in large characters, stopped it and took his place. When he arrived at the end of his journey the fare demanded was one shilling. Johns appealed to a policeman, who opened the door of the omnibus, and on "a movable plate," found written "Express fares, is." By the advice of the constable the man paid the fare, and summoned the conductor. Alderman Rose said he must dismiss the summons, as there had been a compliance with the statute, though it might be a colourable one. If a scale of fares had not been painted inside the omnibus, in addition to the sliding plate, he should have fined him severely ; but, as that was otherwise, there had been a literal compliance with the act, though he was bound to tell the defendant and the company that the practice of exhibiting a fare outside four times less than they really meant to charge operated as a fraud upon the public. The defendant asked to be repaid for loss of time, but the alderman peremptorily refused to entertain the request.,