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and flukes, has a large round head, shaped like a dish, or a por- 

 tion of a sphere : the latter is like a cooper's adze. They are boths 

 made of fast iron, with a shank of malleable iron riveted into them: 

 this the counsel insisted was the same method as that described 

 by the plaintiff, and therefore his anchors were not new. 



The answer was, That these were not the kind of anchors 

 claimed or described by the patentee, whose anchors had arms 

 and flukes, and were described as ship's anchors, which these 

 were not. It was proved, even by the witnesses for defendants, 

 that these anchors were employed only for stationary moorings 

 — and not for ships' anchors used on voyages. 



It was now put to the jury, whether there was any necessity 

 for the plaintiff's counsel to take up their time? and they stated, 

 that they thought it not necessary, as they were perfectly masters 

 of the whole case. 



The Chief Justice now addressed the jury. It was not neces- 

 sary that he should recapitulate the whole evidence respecting the 

 particular infringement complained of, as the plaintiff's counsel 

 . had not been called upon to address them. He wished, however, 

 in giving their verdict respecting the infringement on the chain- 

 cable, to be also informed by them, whether they found the 

 anchor to be new and beneficial ? 



The jury found for the plaintiff' upon all the points: namely, 

 that the specification was sufficient, the chain-cable and anchor 

 new and beneficial, and that the defendants had infringed the 

 ehain-cable. Nominal damages alone were sought for in this 

 action, the question of Right being all that was to be tried, as 

 the defendants were to account, under a previous suit in Chan- 

 cery, for the profits they had made by the use of the invention. 

 The jury accordingly awarded One Shilling damages, besides 

 costs of suit. 



The verdict seemed to give very general satisfaction to a 

 crowded court. 



LXXIII. Notices respecting New Books. 



Lately published, 



X RAVELS in Sicily, Greece and Albania, illustrated with nu- 

 merous Engravings. By the Rev. T. S. Hughes, Fellow of 

 Emanuel College, Cambridge. 



An Essay on Involution and Evolution; containing a new, ac- 

 curate and general Method of ascertaining the immerical Value 

 of any Function of an unknown Quantity; particularly applied 

 to the operation of extracting the Roots of Equations, pure or 

 adfected. With an Appendix. By Peter Nicliolson, 8vo. 



New 



