At Chelmsford Assizes, last week,a prisoner who pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking into a church to steal, delivered to Mr Baron Martin a brief written address, which commenced with this appeal:-" My Lord,- I have been over eighteen weeks a prisoner waiting for my trail. If it impresses your kind judgement in my favour I shall be ever thankful,and I will bring you as fine a bird for a present as ever was brought from India next voyage". The reading of this excited, of course much merriment.It was evidently meant in all simplicity, and the Judge laughed as heartily as any one. The learned Judge sentenced him only to three months imprisonment, observing," But, mind you most not bring me that bird " A saluary lesson to a cabmen was taught by Mr. Partridge, on Monday, at the Southwary Police Court. A driver who had refused a fare while upon the stand at the London Bridge Terminus, and had also used insulting language,was fined 2 pounds 4 shillings, with the alternative of twenty-eight days imprisonment