OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.—These sessions met on Thursday. The only case
of any interest was that of Clifford, the man charged with stealing a milk-pot in Pickett Street, or, as he alleged, taking a milk- pot with a view by the taking to test a scheme for the reform of the criminal laws, in which he has long been engaged, and respectingwhich he has written several pamphlets. He was found guilty, but recom- mended to mercy. During the trial, a bundle of his pamphlets were delivered to him, which he immediately commenced distributing to the persons in Court.
The following is the calendar for the Sessions :—Househreaking 1, highway robbery 7, cutting and maiming 6, coining 1, uttering a forged power of attorney 1, uttering forged notes 3, cattle-stealing 2, horse- stealing 2, stealing in dwelling-houses 8, embezzlement 5, stealing from the person 38, larcenies 178, fraud 1, uttering counterfeit coin 2, con- spiracy 1, receiving stolen goods 7. London prisoners, 38; Middle- sex, 23I—Total, 209.
The following is a list of the prisoners in the report made by the Recorder on Thursday to the King in Council— Henry Otter, aged 18, and Will:ion Jones, 25, for housebreaking ; Levy de Sizer, 21, for highway robbery ; these WrIV convicted at the July Sessions. Samuel Fisher, 19; John Anderson, iC ; Thomas Dubber, 21; William Jones, 19; Henry Smith, 17 ; Henry Trevillian, 20; Richard Robins, 17; James Elwood, 25; James Field, 34; John Gregg, alias Hurley, 23; Charlotte Lloyd, 23; Charles Wilson, alias George Mumford, alias Smith, 27; Thomas Ford, 29; Thomas Anderson, 24; and Henry Cross, 23, for housebreaking; John Wilson, 20; George Towers, 30; William Adams, 21; Samuel Austin, 25; and Sarah Newman, 17, for highway robbery ; Francis Sharpe, 60, and Thomas Fuller, 48, for cutting and maiming ; convicted at the Sep- tember Sessions. Andrew Morgan, 52 ; John Dalton, 29; Elizabeth Peacock. alias Paternoster, 49; Thomas Fuller, 44; and Cornelius Driscoll, 41; convicted at the last May Sessions.
The whole were respited during his Majesty's pleasure.