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was to recover the value of the insurance on the old
goods which were lost ; but eley were never part of
the freight ; and an action might just as well' be
brought for the insurance of a bag of money, with
which it was intended to purchase goods. The De-
fendant insured the Plaintiff from the loss of his
-homeward cargo; and something else was lost, which
I through certain media was to procure that' home-
ward cargo. There was no pretence to say the De-
fendant insured that something else.—Nonsuit.
vim KING V. MARY LIDDLE.
This was an indictment against the defendant for
wilful and corrupt perjury. The perjury was assign-
ed out of certain interrogatories.put to the defendant
in the Ecclesiastical Court, Doctors' Commons,
The ATTORNEY GENERAL stated the case to the
Jury. It appeared, that a Gentleman of the name
of Chambers, having recovered a verdict for 20001.
damages against the late Captain Caulfield, for cri-
nainal conversation with his wife, commenced a suit
in the Ecclesiastical Court to obtain a divorce. In
answer to that application, Mrs. Chambers, who is a
daughter of the late Lord Rodney, set up a plea of
Cruelty. and harsh usage in bar to that divorce, and
called the defendant:Who was her servant, to prove
the alledged facts. Instead of doing so, she swore
that she could recollect no instance of ill treatment,
and that she had never said that she contemplated
Mr. Chambers's conduct with abhorrence, and pitied
Mrs. Chambers. •This was the perjury assigned, and
he should call evidence to chew that it was wilful and
corrupt. The Attorney General then went on to ac-
count for the defendant's reluctance. He said Mr.
Chambers had removed her from the humble situa-
tion in which. she moved, and had made her mistress
of a school at Huntingdon, and had confided the care
of his own child to her superintendance. The
Counsel stated a great deal more, but as the case was i
not gone into, it would be improper to det.til the fur-
ther particulars.
After the Attorney General had finished, ap ob-
jection was taken to the record, namely, that i 1 did
not set forth that the interrogatories put to the defen-
dant were material ; which, it was contended, was a
fatal omission.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH concurred, and a verdict of
Not Guilty was recorded.

COURT 'OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 22.
SHIP BROKERAGE.
• TULLOrK V. LINDSAY.

This was an action brought by a ship-broker to re-
cover about 1201. alledged to be due to him froth the
defendant, for services rendered in the way of his trade.
The claim was five per cent. for chartering a ship.'
to and from Oporto, the per centage having been up-
on the cargoes out and in. The defendant paid two
and a half per cent. into Court upon the cargoes ;
but there was also a claim by the plaintiff for five per
cent upon the demurrage received by the owner of
the vessel, which was called the Frederica, for a de-
tention at Oporto. This the defendant resisted.
Serjeants Ltws and VAUGHAN called nine witnesses
for the plaintiff, who deposed that the usual charge in
cases of th;s kind was five per cent.
Serjeants SHEPHERD and Bus; for the defendant,
tailed several witnesses.

The first, a Mr. Nicols, who did a great deal of
business in this way, swore that he never charged
more than two or two and a half per cent. out andin.
The others varied somewhat in their rates of charge,
according to circumstances, so that the evidence for
the plaintiff was more uniform.
The Judge told the Jury that they must determine
upon the custom, from the evidence and from their
own information on the subject, as the evidence was
certainly at variance. He also directed their atten-
tion to the fact, that no question had been put to any
of the witnesses upon the claim for demurrage.
The Jury retired, and, after a lapse of an hour,
found a ♦erdict for the defendant.

BLANKENHAZEN V. THE LONDON ASSURANCE COMPANY.
This wis an action brought by the Plaintiff to re-
cover the sum of £2,500, being the amount of a po-
licy of assurance on the ship William, bound from
England to a Russian port. It appeared in evidence
that the William had left England for Russia, under
convoyf and that on her approach to her destination,
she having learned the state of hostilities betweel the
two countries, and the embargo laid on in conse-
queuee, put back by order of the convoy, and after
lying six days before Gottenburgh was totally lost on,
her return. The defendants resisted the payment of
the policy, on the ground that the William had de-
parted from/he voyage, and at all events ought to
have' pet in to Gottenborgh until she might have had
some intelligence as to the probability of the continu-
ance of the embargo.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.

MoUnt Vesuvius, at The commencement of the last•
month, threatened an eruption ; in cOnsequence of
which, the town of Torre del Greoo, which had been
covered with lava during the last Volcano, had been
deserted.

Oa the 9th inst. a very extraordinary accident oc-
curred at Christielands, on the estate of Stapleton,
near Annan.—The bucket and rope of a draw. well
having Accidentally fallen to the bottom, DAVID MIL-
'LED, a brother of the tenant, descended by a rope, to
the depth of 40 feet, when he recovered the bucket
and was ascending, when unluckily his foot forced
out one of the stones on the side of the ,well, near to
the bottom, when in an instant the whole 'building
rushed down, and completely closed upon him, and
the well was filled up to within two feet of the top.
His wife, mother, and brother were on the spot,
sad witnesses of this dreadful scene, and their agony
was indescribable.—The alarm being. given, a crowd
of people from the surrounding neighbourhood as-
sembled, who immediately set to work in removing
xhe rubbish and stones from the well, to which they
were the more encouraged, from hearing, at times,
the sound of the unfortunate man's voice from below.
The accident happened about nine o'clock in the
morning • and the people having wrought with the
most indefatigable and unremitting exertion, till about
eight at night, their efforts were crowned with suc-
=cess. They got all clear above him, and brought hint
„up alive—and, astonishing to relate, without a broken
['bone, and so well, that he was able to walk into the
house, and is now in a fair way of recovery, ItAp-
pears the stones had formed a kind of arch over his
bead, which must have been the moguls, gyring his
life.