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was authorised to sell the !suer. paid the sum stated to have
been given. It was also caar that Mr. Curtis had promised
to refund the money which had thus improperly got into his pos-
sermon. With regard to those companies, he wished it to he
understood, that if persons received money upon the pretence that
there were shares existing, while, at the smile time, there we. no
rovnti for saying so, they might consider themselves very well off
if they escaped without being prosecuted tot receiving money
under false pretences. Ile also expressed a hope that the parties to
the numerous frauds which had been lately prutiuett in speculations
of this kind would be severely punished.
The Jury immediately found a verdict fur the plaintiff, to the
full amount of his demand.

SECONDARIES• OFFICE. Cottm.or-sTatEr,
:MONDAY, Nov. 7.

SPF.Nfift n W•TERTIOCST,

Mr. Baontimix,;!; the part of the plaintiff; stated the case to
the Jury. The action was brought by his client, Mr. Spencer, a
jeweller, against Mr. Waterhouse, the well-known proprietor of I
the Swan-with-Two Necks, in Lad-lane, under the following cir-
cumstances :--On the 31 of January last a box, containing articles '
of jewellery of the value of 1:.01., was booked at the defendant's
coach-office, to be forwarded by The Courier coach to Mr. John
Wl/04.1011, Dale-street, Liverpool, a traveller in the employ of
the plaintiff. Mr. Woodward left London on the 3d of January,
the day the parcel was booked, and arrived there on the 7th ; he
immediately made inquiry after the parcel, but found that it had
not arrived ; he waited on several of the plaintiff's customers for
orders, but could not obtain any, in consequence of the box con- '
taining samples of the goods he intended to sell not having arrived :
'he could have sold goods to the amount of 40/. had the box arrived,
by which the plaintiff would have cleared a profit of 13!. After
waiting in Liverpool until the Uth of January, lie returned to
town, and, on inquiry, he ascertained that the box had been for-
warded to Liverpool by The Champion instead of The Courier
coach, and that it was sent back again to town, after which it
was again forwarded to Liverpool by The Courier coach, but on
its arrival there, the plaintiff's traveller had left that place._
The box was restored to the plaintiff on the 20th of February. The
plaintiff' therefore sought by the present action, to recover, first. the
expenses incurred by the plaintiff's traveller, while staying at Liver-
pool, and cf his journey there and back. Secondly, for the ex-
pense, of the plaintiff's attorney, in attending on the defendant, to
make inquiries respecting the parcel, amounting to 2/. ; and,
thirdly, foe the prohts the plaintiff had lost in consequence of the
non-delirery of the box, preventing him front diapo.ing of
content.. The Learned Counsel then called 111 r. N oodward, the
plaintiffs traveller, and Mr. Sergeant, his attorney, who proved the
abnre statement.

Mr. LEE, in addressing the Jury for the defendant, said, that his
client having suffered judgment to go Ey default, the only guea-
lion for the consideration of the Jury, was Cie amount of the
damages to be nwarded, and which, in his opinion, ought to be
eery trifling. The goods had since been restored to the plaintiff.
who had no doubt made a profit by the sale of them.
The Secondary then summed up the evidence, and the Jury re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damagesl2l.