The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-24 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 23.

CLARK V. NEWSOM.—FALSE IMPRISONMENT ON A CHARGE
OF FORGING RAILWAY SCRIP.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. Edwards was present at the time the plaintiff was
given into custody, and the plaintiff offered to pay down
lot., and to deposit some Indian scrip as security with
Mr. Robins for the payment of the remainder, but upon
the.artival of Mr. Newsom (the defendant) who came in
at the time when the offtl. was made, he (the defendant)
said, " No, no. this will not do ; it is necessary for the
character of Mr. Robins, and due to his position on the
Exchange, that the affair should be publicly inves-
tigated, and that he would be no party to any private
arrangement of the matter." Witness also attended at
the Guildhall during the hearing of the case. The de-
fendant did not in the least degree oppose the release of
the plaintiff from custody on bail ; it was entirely the
decision of the magistrate, who refused to accept bail.
There was no angry feeling on the part of the defendant,
and the plaintiff did not in any degree complain of his
being given in charge.
Sir F. THESIGER having replied,
The LORD CHIEF BARON, in summing up, said, that
in point of law, if the defendant was guilty, he was only
to be held liable for that portion of the injury complained
of which arose from taking the plaintiff from the
office to the station-house, and thence to Guildhall; but
after the arrival of the plaintiff at Guildhall he was en-
tirely out of the hands of the defendant, and what took
place after was done under the law; and if he (the
Lord Chief Baron) had been in the situation of the
plaintiff, and had been the instrument of uttering
forged documents, and was taken, as stated by one of the
witnesses, without complaint on his part, and with all
possible courtesy on the other ; before a magis-
trate, who, acting upon his own opinion, had con-
fined him for four days, he certainly would not
have brought the present action ; and upon the part of
the defendant, he thought he ought certainly to have
obtained a warrant for the apprehension of tag
which, from the subsequent conduct of the Magistrate,
no doubt he could have obtained at once.
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

Leave was then given to the plaintiff to move to enter
the verdict for the plaintiff for the sum of one farthing
damages, should the Court be of opinion that the forgery
of the scrip did not am..unt to felony.
The Court then rose for the Christmas vacation.

WILLENHALL.—IMPORTANT TRADES' MOVEMENT
—An union of the various trades has lately commenced
in this place, having for its object the establishment of
a fund, created by weekly contributions, by almost all
the masters and workmen in the town, and which is to
be available to any of the branches of trade, in the ab-
sence of a demand for their particular manufacture; and
as far as possible to render assistance in such times to
small manufacturers, who, for want of capital are com-
pelled to take orders at any sacrifice. It also limits the
h. ours of labour, which was very much needed. The
immense number of small manufacturers acts as an in-
cubus upon the trade of the town; many of them have
been suffered to have four or five apprentices, whom they
have kept at work fourteen or fifteen, and in some in-
stances sixteen hours per day. Besides, itis well known
that many of them are incapable of governing them.
selves, much less to govern apprentices; and it ought to
be known to those
opfarwtihesomwhaor
are
parishaN-e the
officersplacingin
out of
apprentices,many
agri-
cultural districts, that it is often the case that a lad is
placed apprentice, say, to some
particular branch of the
lock trade, his master has neither ingenuity nor capital
to invent or carry out any improvement in such branch
of trade; consequently the apprentice is kept working
at the self-same thing during the whole ten or eleven
years of his apprenticeship, at the expiration of which
time be finds himself incapable of working at any other
kind of locks, and in many instances is next door to
beggary all his days. If it had not been for the inge-
nuity and enterprise of a few respectable manufacturers,
the track of the town would ere this have been lost.—
Birmingham Journal.

We have already mentioned the failure of the house
of Schiller and Co., of Breslau, for a sum of 800,000
thalers (3,200,0001.). We now learn from Dresden that
M. Schiller, the chief of the house, attempted a few days
days ago to commit suicide in a bath in that city, by
opening the veins of his arms. He was found alive, and
removed to an hospital, but in such a state cf exhaustion
that little hope was entertained of his recovery. M.
Schiller had a fortune of half a million thalers (two mil-
lions of francs) from his father, which by long industry
he had trippled, but latterly he had speculated exten-
sively in railway shares and other securities, and lost
so much, that the amount to be divided among the
creditors of the house is estimated at only 100,000
thalers (400,0001). M. Schiller is said to have
lost
havingthe C rfaealloewn
one million of thalers (four millions of francs) by the
ißnaeinlrropaodra, toiofnwhofichCrhaecowwa;s shares
athlearge holder,
of
30 per cent.—Galignani.
POST-OFFICE, CHRISTAIAS-DAY.--YeSterday notice
was given by R. Smith, Esq., the superintending presi-
dent, that, agreeably to annual custom, there will be no
delivery of letters on the afternoon of Christmas-day.
But letters for the General Post and foreign mails will
be eolle,;tcd from the receiving-houses and forwarded in
the afternoon, as usual.
Lord John Russell has received the halves of a
50/ and of two 104 notes, transmitted to him on account
of tho income tax.