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

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

',Sittings in Banco, before the Lord Chief Baron, and
Barons Alderson, Bramwell, and Watson.)
ARINGUREN V. SCHOLPIELD 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 rale was obtained at Cham-
bers, before Mr. 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
the 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 PrILICANS. UTTERING COUNTERFEIT
SHILLINGS.—John, Mayes, a middle-aged, dirty-looking
man, was brought before 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 atter 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.

Elizabeth 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
banded 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 something down which the bar-
man said was a bad one, and then 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. Burnham remanded the prisoner until Saturday
for the attendance of the Mint solicitor, as he thought it
a case for him to take up. There oould be no doubt of
the character of the prisoner.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
DESPERATE ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLE.—John Hag•
gerty, a rufanly looking fellow, was charged before Mr.
Bingham with violently assaulting Goddard, 302 A,
under the following circumstances.

The constable, whose head was dreadfully cut and
bruised, stated that on the previous night he was at the
top of Crown street, Soho, when he saw the prisoner
carrying a bag with something heavy in it, on his
shoulder. He followed him to a marine store shop in
the same street into which he went, and taking a lot
of lead from the bag placed it in the scale. Witness
entered she shop and asked prisoner where he got the
lead from. The prisoner pretended to know nothing
about the lead he had put in the scale, and said
he was about buying some lead, and not selling
any. Witness told him lead was not sold that way,
and taxed him with stealing it. The prisoner again
denied all knowledge of the lead, and at that mo-
ment the shopkeeper came out and said he was
about buying it of the prisoner when he (the officer)
came in. Witness then took the prisoner into custody,
with the lead produced, weighing 521b5., in his posses.
sion. On the way to the station-house the prisoner
became very violent, and swore he would not go to the
station. He then kicked witness in a dangerous part of
his person, and felled him to the ground, and while he
was lying on the pavement he kicked him again about
the head and face, and nearly knocked out one of his
eyes. At length, after a desperate struggle, he sue,
ceeded conveying him to the station-house.
Mr. Charles Field, the owner of several houses in
Dudley-street, identified the lead as having been stolen
from the roof of one of his houses.

The prisoner denied the charge of stealing the lead,
but admitted striking the officer in self-defence.
Mr. Bingham committed the prisoner for two months
for stealing the lead, and n month in addition for the
assault on the constable.

The Hullah concerts commenced last night at St.
Martin's Hall. Handel's " Israel in Egypt"was per-
formed. There was a very crowded attendance.
A fatal accident occurred yesterday on the Eastern
Counties Railway. ili.' man named Joiner was killed by
being jammed between the buffers of two carriages. '
pres
as btmerta:lnne wetnao sli seen t o step
name of Wilson, Las been apprehended,. tried, and The Ifartlepool Custom-house robber, a man of the
sen-
tenced to four years' penal servitude.
Edinburgh. Between
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN PAILWAY.
—Yesterday morning, shortly. after. nine o'elock, a man
was knocked down and killed instantaneously on the
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line in front of the train, and was knocked down. The
train was at once pulled up, and the guard, upon pro-
ceeding back, found that the man was cut and battered
about so much that it was impossible to recognise his
features. It is stated that a boy observed the person
loitering about the line for some time yesterday morning,
line
looking up and down the
as if for one of the trains.
Information has been forwarded to the coroner, and an
offieial inquiry will take place today.