The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-30 00:00:00

SECONDARIES',-{THIS DAY.)

FESEMEYER 1.1. DUTTON.
The plaintiff in this action is a solicitor in Bedford-
row, and the defendant a brewer in Dutton. street,
Cromer-street, Gray's Inn-lane. The action was brought
to recover the sum of 61. 3s. 2d. for law charges in
endeavouring to raise money on mortgage.
.„Slr. THOMAS stated the case. The facts were these :
"ring the last year the defendant had caused extensive
alterations to be made at his brewery, and had employed
it Mr. Styles to do a great portion of the work, and being
ttoable to pay him or to get money advanced on the pro-
perty he requested Mr. Styles to endeavour to do so, and
the latter introduced defendant to plaintiff, and the de-
-I!utiant gave the necessary instructions. The plaintiff
then placed himself in communication with a Mr. Whit-
taker, a solicitor, and the money would hnve been ad-
7aneced if on the survey of the plant, &c., it had been of
the value described by defendant ; as it was not, the ne-
gotiation
w?.! Put an end to and the plaintiff now sought
called for
recover his bill of costs
Mr. Styles wasthe services rendered.
was deputed to act as the a
, and proved distinctly that he
had introduced the latter,
gent for defendant, and that he
structions. _ who had himself given the in-

Mr. Whittaker proved that he had had several in-
terviews with, and received several letters from the
plaintiff, on the subject of the mortgage, and the nego-
tiation was broken off solely in consequence of the survey
of the property not being satisfactory.
On the part of the defendant, a notice was
in Which the plaintiff was called upon to pro" put in,
prove the re-
tainer. It was submitted that there ought to have been
a retainer in writing.
, The Learned SECONDARY held that that was not abso-
lutely necessary, although it was a great security to
'atomics.
The defendant's attorney then contended that it was
evident that the very object of Mr. Styles to raise the
nrie7 was to obtain payment of his debt, and that he
ll' employed the plaintiff, who in the usual course
Would have deducted his costs.
Mr. THOMAS said, if it was admitted that the plaintiff
might have was
deducted the amount, i 'tclear that de-
fendant considered himself liable.
The Learned SECONDARY said the first question was,
had defendant retained the plaintiff ? and the next the
Value of the services?
The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed.

CLERKEN Wk.LL.-(THIS DAY.)
A reapectable-looking middle aged man, who stated
utinself to be a watch-movement manufacturer, residing
at 6,
mr Compton-street, Clerkenwell, was charged before
, • Combe with having obtained, by means of fraud•i-
tent representations, a gold watch, of the value of 201.
tualtr, • Thomas Frederick Cooper said he was a watch-
weir. carrin on business in Calthorpe-street, Clerken
and had k g nown the prisoner for some time. The
isoner came to him about a month ago, and told him
that he knew a gentleman named Webb who was en-
gaged in the erection of Nicholson's distillery, and re-
quested the witness to let him have a gold watch to
8149 w to Mr. Webb, as he thought he should be enabled
to sell it to him. The witness let him have the watch,
telling him, at the same time, that he was on no account
„i
telling him, at the same time, that he was on no account
~2Part with it without being paid the full price for it.
Wtness had since called several times at the prisoner's
'louse to make inquiries, but the only answer he could
get from the prisoner's family was, that Mr. Webb was
out of town, and they were not aware when he would
return. Ha endeavoured to find out Mr. Webb, but al-
though he had reason to believe there was such a person,
still he (Mr. Cooper) could obtain no information re-
specting him. He went to the prisoner's residence this
morning, when, being told that necessity had compelled
the family to raise a little money upon the watch, he
gave him into custody.
A pawnbroker produced the watch, which was iden-
tified by Mr. Cooper, and stated that it had been pledged
by 2
woman whom he believed to be the prisoner's wife.
The prisoner said his representation about Mr. Webb
buying a watch was lrondfide. Ho denied having pawned
the watch himself, and said it was done by his wife
without his cognizance.

Mr. COOMBE ordered the case to be remanded, in order
that the prisoner's wife might be in attendance.
A watchmaker, named Hickman, who had committed
1s violent and unprovoked assault upon Mr. James Mown-
lug, of the Duke of Bridgewater Tavern, Macclesfield-
Street, whose house he had entered in a state of intoxi-
eah°n, was ordered to find sureties to keep the peace.

WORSHIP STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
This morning Corporal Stephens, in the service of the
East India Company, and belonging to the Walley
Barracks, Brentwood, applied to the sitting magistrate,
Mr.Broughton, as follows :—lle said, that on the 11th of
November his wite left London by the Eastern Counties
Railway, for the purpose of joining him at the Walley
Barracks. She had with her, previous to her departure,
an infant, and a bundle valued at about 5/ The latter
she lad by her side, at the station whilst paying her
but before that was completed, her parcel was
tlikt n away by one of the company's servants, and placed,
as she was given to understand, for better security,
ul one of the luggage trucks. On arriving