The Ethel

BENEDICT, District Judge.

These are two actions heard together, the second of which is brought by the owners of the British bark Ethel against the cargo of that vessel, to recover upwards of $6,000 of freight, claimed to be due upon a charter party. The other is brought by the consignees of the same cargo against 'the bark to recover upwards of $20,000, for damages arising from short delivery and deterioration in that cargo.

The charter party in question was executed at Valparaiso on the 22d of February, 1870, by the agents of the ship on the one side, and Hainesworth & Co., of Valparaiso, as…