The Phoenicia

BROWN, District Judge.

The above four libels were filed in behalf of some 60 consignees to recover the damage to their goods, which v,ere shipped at Hamburg in January, 18i)5, on board the new steamship Phoenicia, and damaged to the amount of about $1-0,000 on the voyage to New York. The goods in question were all stowed in the between-deeks of compartment No. 4, and consisted of a large quantity of sugar in bags, and much other miscellaneous merchandise, such as linen goods, hosiery, woollens, paper, rubber goods, earthenware, toys, musical instruments, hardware, feathers, barley, coffee,…