The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-04 00:00:00

The jury immediately gave a verdict for the plaintiffs.

COMMON PLEAS -(THIS DAY)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice ELLE.)
lIARTLEY V. CUMMINGS AND OTHERS.
This was an action brought by Mr. Hartley, glass-manu-
facturer, of Bishop Wearmouth, against Mery, Cummings
and Company, also glass-manufacturers, residing at Gates-
head, to recover damages for enticing away four workmen,
who had been in the employment of the plaintiff under a
contract. The damages were laid at 1,304/. Me. 4d.
Sir Thomas Wilde and Mr. James appeared for the
plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Allen and Mr. Fry for the de-
fendant.

Evidence was called to prove that the workmen in ques•
tion had been engaged under a mitten contract, and dm
they had been enticed away into the employment of the de.
fendant, by which the former had suffered great loss and in•
convenience.

For the defence it was urged that the contract was
not a good one in law, being deficient in mutuality,
as, while it provided that the workmen should do certain
work for a given time at a specified price, it did not provide
that the employer should find the workmen with regular
employment.
His LORDSHIP thought that there was mutuality in the
contract, and that the men under it would have had a good
ground of action for any deficiency of employment that
might arise. _ _ _

Mr. Sergeant ALLEN addressed the jury at some length
in denial of the allegation, that the defendants had used any
enticement to take away the workmen from the plaintiff,
and in support of the point that the contract was of a de-
fective character.

A verdict for the plaintiff was given by the jury for 6521.
62. Bd., with leave to move the full Court to enter a nonsuit,
on account of want of mutuality in the contract, should
their Lordships so interpret it.
There was another case precisely similar, for enticing
other four men away, for which a verdict of 652/. 6s. Bd.
damages was also given—being 1,3041. 132. 6d. in all.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner Gour..buics.)
IN RE ORRIDGE AND PRITCHETT.
To-day was appointed for a dividend under the estate of
these bankrupts, who had carried on business as glove ma-
nufacturers at Charlbury, Oxfordshire.
The Learned CommissioNEß, in the course of his proceed-
ings, expressed great satisfaction at the conduct of the bank-
rupts, which he said had been unusually honest and fair.
As their losses were made apparent they lessened their ex-
penses, which had always been on a moderate scale ; the
consequence would be that the creditors would receive a very
large dividend.
Mr. Orridge having died shortly after the bankruptcy,
Mr. Pritchett had made up the accounts, which were of a
peculiar nature, from Mr. Orridge having kept the books.
The Learned COMMISSIONER allowed Mr. Pritchett eight
guineas for his trouble.
'rbe amount of the dividend will be named in a few days.

BIRTH.— This day, July 4, in Wilton-crescent, the
Viscountess Newport, of a son.
SHEERNESS, THURSDAY.—A melancholy suicide took
place here, in the person of a young mid,hipman of the
Dido, Mr. R. Greig, whose appointment to the Dido was
given a few days ago. He joined three weeks ago, but im-
mediately asked for leave, which was granted to him, and
from which he returned on Monday last. lie was, therefore,
almost wholly unknown to the officers of the Dido; all that
was known of hlm was, that he was some time in the
Samarang, in the East Indies. On Tuesday, lee dined at a
tavern in Blue Town, with one or two of his messmates,
when hd showod no symptoms of a depression of spirits, one
of whom accompanied him to the Royal Hotel, in Mile
Town, where he spent that night; and on being called next
morning, as he requested, answered "all right." As he
did not make his appearance, however, he was called a
second time, about nine o'clock, when he answered as before.
On being called a third time, at noon, he made no answer.
An alarm was raised, the door was broken open, and a me-
lancholy spectacle presented itself. The young man was
found stretched and lifeless on the floor, with a pistol in his
right hand, and his upper extremities saturated with blood.
He had shot himself through the head, inserting the pistol
in his mouth. No report, strange to say, had been heard.
An inquest was held on view of the body to-day, when a
verdict was returned "That the deceased had shot himself
while in a state of temporary insanity."
LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL—Letters were received
yesterday morning by the Duke of Bedford and Lord John
Russell, from Genoa, giving more favourable accounts of the
health of Lord William Russell. Mr. awl. ;44(.1Y Elizabgl
Russell axe atayieg iTith the N9ble I.9rd.