SrEAM-BoATs.-l lmportont decisaon.

 .Moaks vs. Hdrtkeu.
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.N00fS vs. Hartley.

 II appears by the following decision in the court of kings bench, that if the steersman of a steamboat, by careless- Y coming too near another vessel, there- by sinking her, owing to the swell of the water, the proprietors of the former are liable, although there should be no actual contact. 1t was an action a~ gainst the owners of the Eclipse, Mar gate steam packet, to recover the vaI- ue oi barge belonging to tue plaintiff, la proprietor of .barges on the river Ihames,) which had keen run down by the carelessness of the defendants ser wants. On the 7th of October last tho plaintiffs barge, (the Jane No. ISD,) was conveying ballast from the Vest India docks to the Sarr, canal. The Eclipse steamer was coming up the riv- CT af the rate of nine miles per hour.- She was called 10 by the men on board the barge to ease her steam, but the cali was unattended 10, and the stcam- CT came So nearthe barge that the swell accustomed by the paddles, and the ra- pidity of the motion, dashed great quantity of waterinto the barge, which ina 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 hundred pounds. When raised out of water she was only worth tenpounds. She had been sold for elev.s enpounds. Thejury found forthe plaif- if d'i.g ds!siii'i.ges eighty pounds.

 London paper.