The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-15 00:00:00

LAW AND _POLICE.

THE FACTORY Acrs.—A case has been tried in the
Court of Queen's Bench, involving the question whether a
slate quarry was a factory within the meaning of the
Factory Acts. The defendant, Mr. Ashley, of Carnarvon,
was charged with employing a boy in a certain manufac-
turing process without a certificate of age as required by
the Act, and also with not having registered the name of the
boy. The magistrates before whom the case was first brought
dismissed the summons, and the complainant appealed.
After hearing lengthened arguments, the court held that
the decision of the magistrates was right, and ought 'to be
upheld. Converting the slate into tiles to be used for
roofing purposes was no doubt a manufacturing process,
but it was incidental to the purpose of quarrying, and to
which the legislature did not contemplate applying the
term manufacturing process so as to bring it within the
terms of the Factory Acts. Judgment affirmed.
COUNTERFEIT COIN.—In the Court of Criminal Appeal
the case of the Queen v. William Martin has been heard.
The prisoner was convicted at the last Leeds summer
assizes on the charge of being in possession of counterfeit
coin, having been previously convicted of uttering counter-
feit coin. The question was whether the judge, Who tried
the case, was right in refusing the evidence of a previous
conviction. The court held that the evidence was rightly
rejected, and gave judgment accordingly.
SINGULAR CASE.—M. Julius Rochat, a watchmaker,
trading under the name of John Barwise, Piccadilly, has
been summoned at the Guildhall for obtaining nearly £2OO
worth of watches under false pretences. He had obtained
a large number of watches from a firm in Holborn, on the
plea that he wanted them for shipment. The prosecutor
afterwards drew bills upon the defendant, which were not
yet due. Afterwards the defendant's creditors held a
meeting, at which the prosecutor was present, and on
inspecting the books was surprised to find no mention of the
watches. The defendant, when questioned, confessed that
he had not told him the truth about the shipment,
that he had obtained the watches in order to pawn them
for his rent and other things. For the defendant it was
pleaded that the case should not have been brought into a
criminal court, as it was only for a civil debt. Sir Robert
Carden said it was a very difficult case, and he should re-
mand it for a week, taking bail.

Tho Ulster United Protestant Banquet and Demon-
stration, which were to have taken place in the middle of
October, but were adjourned in consequence of the Earl of
Derby's illness, will come off on the Bth and 9th of Decem-
ber. The Duke of Manchester will preside at the banquet;
the Duke of Abercorn at the demonstration.
A MECHANICAL REGISTER OF DISTANCES.—The
Council of the Society of Arts offer their silver medal for
the best instrument, to be affixed to a cab or other hack-
ney carriage, for indicating the fare as between the pas-
senger and the driver, whether by registering the distance
travelled or otherwise, and which instrument shall also
indicate, for the cunvenience of the cab owner and of the
driver, the total distance travelled during the day and
the total amount earned. The instruments competing,
with full descriptions of their construction, to be sent to
the Society's house before January 1, 1870.
THE NEW BISHOP OF CARLISLE.—Tile writ em-
powering the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle to elect a
Bishop of the See of Carlisle, in lieu of the late Dr. Waldo-
grave, deceased, was received in Carlisle on Wednesday
evening, and the Dean and Chapter held a special meeting
on Friday for the purpose. The proceedings were formal,
and resulted in the unanimous election of the Rev. Harvey
Goodwin, Dean of Ely, to the vacant bishopric. The con-
secration of the now Bishop will probably be held in
York Minster. but the date of that qfge4l9llY ha4not yet
been fixed.