The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-20 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

(Sittings in Banco, before the Lord Chief Baran, and
Barons Alderson, Bramwell, and Watson.)
ARANGUREN V. SCHOLFIELD AND ANOTHER.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a Spaniard,
to recover a sum of 7901., the amount of a bill of ex.
change which the defendant had accidentally thrown into
the fire and destroyed, under the belief that it was a
piece of waste paper. A rule Ras obtained at Cham-
bers, before ➢Tr. Justice Crowder, staying proceedings,
in the case, the defendants being willing to pay the
amount, on the plaintiff giving them security, as an
indemnity against their being sued by any other per-
son on the bill.

Mr. Manisty having shown cause against the rule,
Mr. Burney supported the rule. The plaintiff was
anxious to try the case. The rule obtained stayed
th• proceedings in the case because the plaintiff,
being a Spaniard, was unable to give the required
security, and in effect he was prevented from recover-
ing the amount. Already three months' time had been
lost, whereas the plaintiff might have gone to trial and
obtained a verdict.

The Court made the rule absolute, giving at the
same time the defendant two days to plead.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.

SOUTHWARK.

CAUTION TO PIIBLIOANS. UTTERING COUNTERFEIT
SHILLINGS.—fohn, _Hayes, a middle-aged, dirty-looking
man, was brought befora Mr. Burnham, charged with
uttering two counterfeit shillings at the Rose public-
house, Snows-fields, Bermondsey.
Henry Ballard, barman at the above house, which
is held by Mr. Joseph Carter, stated that on the pre-
vious evening the prisoner came in and asked for a
pint of porter and a screw of tobacco, for which he
tendered a shilling, which witness examined and found
to be a counterfeit. He bent it and threw it back to
the prisoner, who then asked to be trusted. Witness
told him he could not trust, and as Mrs. Carter was
coming from the bar parlour he bolted out of the
house. Mrs. Carter then asked witness if that man had
tendered a bad shilling. He told her he bad, when
she said he ought to be given into custody. Witness
then went after him, and saw him leave another public.
house close by, which he entered, and ascertained that
he had unsuccessfully tendered one there. Witness
again went after him and gave him into custody. On
the way to the station he saw him drop a shilling in the
gutter, which he picked up, and believed to be the one
tendered to him.

Eliribeth Carter, the landlady of the Rose public.
house, said she knew the prisoner. On Tuesday evening
he came into her house and was served by her with a
pint of half-and-half. He gave her a shilling, and she
handed him the change. She had some suspicion of the
coin as it felt so smooth, consequently she placed it by
itself on one side. On the following day she carefully
examined it and ascertained it to be a counterfeit. That
same evening she was sitting in the bar parlour when she
saw the prisoner throw eontething down which the bar-
man said was a bad one, and the❑ the prisoner left the
house. She went to the bar and asked her servant
whether the man who had left had tendered any bad
money, and on his replying in the affirmative she sent
him after the prisoner. Witness produced the shilling
which she took of the prisoner, and it seemed to have
been cast in the same mould with the other.

Mr. Burcharn remanded the prisoner until Saturday
for the attendance of tho Mint solicitor, as he thought it
a case for him to take up. There could be no doubt of
the character of the prisoner.