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STEAM BOATS. Important deClSloa. .hoa6s ys. Hartley. It appears by the

 following decision in the court of kings bench, that if the steersman of a steam boat, by carelcssly coming too near an- other vessel, thereby sinking her, ow- ing to the swell of the water, the pro- .prIetors of the former are liable, al

 though there should be no actual con- tact. 1t was anaction against the own CTS ol the Eclipse, Margatc steampack- ct, to recover the value of barge be- longing to the plaintiff, (a proprietor oi barges on the river Thames) which had been run down by tue carelessness of defendants servants. On the 7th of October last the plaintiffs barge, (the Jane No. lS0) was conveying bal last from the West India docks to the Surrey canal. The Eclipse steamer was coming up the rsver at the rate of nine miles per hour. She was called to by the men on board the barge to ease

 her steam, but the call was unattended 10. and the steamer came so near the

 barge that the swell occasioned by the

 paddles. and the rapdity of the motion, dashed great quantity of water into the barge, which in a few minutes was sunk, and with the greatest difficulty the lighterman and another man on board were saved. It was proved that the barge when sunk was worth one hun- dred pounds. When raised out of the water, she was only worth ten pounds. She had been sold for eleven pounds. The jury found for the plaintiff dam- ages eighty pounds. London pa.