9th Dec. Tue judgment delivered by the Chief Justice, Sir Nicholas Hannen, yesterday morning in the Newchwang-Onwo collision ease came as a great surprise to all those who knew the particulars of the collision, and remembered the proceedings and finding of the Naval Court; but it ought not to have been a surprise, for, as we wrote in May last: "The initial responsibility for the collision was with the Wewckteang, but Naval Courts, Admiralty Courts, and Arbitrations are very prone to find that the other steamer was also in fault if they can." Sure enough, the Chief Justice has found the other steamer also in fault, reversing the finding of the Naval Court which was that the master of the Newchwang "was solely in error in that he did not observe at first Rules 15 and 21, and afterwards Rule 16 of the Fegulations, for Preventing Collisions at Sea, that he
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