The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-24 00:00:00

LAUNCH AT TRANMERE

Although shipbuilding had been abandoned at Tranmere
Pool for upwards of seventeen years, it is being pursued
with extraordinary activity since its recent renewal by
Messrs. Harland, Redhead, and Brown. Only a fortnight
ago they launched their first vessel—a tug steamer—and
on Saturday they sent :a second steamer off the stocks.
The latter is a handsomely-modelled wooden paddle boat,
90 feet in length over all, 16 feet beam (32 feet across the
paddle boxes), 9 feet depth, and about 100 tons builders
measurement. The little vessel looked exceedingly well ou
the stocks, her hull being painted in light colours. All being
prepared, precisely at 12 o'clock the daggers were struck,
and the vessel glided rapidly into the water, after being
named.the Elizabeth, with the usual ceremonies, by Miss
Galloway, a young lady from Manchester. A salute of six
guns was fired after the vessel was fairly afloat. She will
be brought over to Liverpool this week to receive her
machinery, which will consist of two side lever engines,
of 40 horse power collectively, manufactured by Messrs.
Galloway, of Manchester. The owner of the Elizabeth is
a wealthy Maltese merchant, of Constantinople, named
M. Dementina, who intends to use her as a pleasure
yacht for excursions from the Crescent city, upon the
Golden Horn and Bosphorus.

I On Tuesday evening, whilst the performers at the theatre
in King Charles' Croft, Leeds, were enacting an adaptation
from the novel of " Temptation," one of the actors, named
Waterhouse, who was representing the villain of the piece,
was suddenly seized with a fit of apoplexy, and died soon
afterwards.
THEATRICAL DEMONSTRLTtON.—A private letter from
Sienna, of the 10th inst, gives the following account of a
demonstration there in favour of the celebrated artiste
Maria Piccolomini :—" We left Florence yesterday to be
present at the benefit of the Piecolomini before her depart-
ure for Mantua and Paris. A great many Florentines were
with us, bound on the same errant as ourselves, and the
railway station was positively encumbered with bouquets of
white and red camellias, ordered by her admirers, said to
hate b-en to the value of more than 100 dollars. The
theatre was densely crowded ; every passage was choked by
people who could not find standing room in the pit—far
more, in fact, than the house was ever intended to hold. Th 3
opera was Verdes Iroeatore. After the first act the people
lost all controul over their feelings; they c3ntinued con-
stantly applauding their favourite before the curtain, and
showering, bouquets at her feet. This was repeated
at the conclusion of each act, and at the finale it
appeared as if they never would cease. For half an hour
she was obliged to remain and receive this boisterous
homage. She was deluged with bouquets, crowned with
garlands, and, amid waving of handkerchiefs, clapping of
hands, shouting of vivas, accompanied with baloons sent
from the boxes, and gold eaf and flowers thrown on the
stage, she was at length allowed to retire, but not before
the lights were being extinguishe,l. At the door she was
received by the gentlemen of sienna with candles, who
formed a pr,ces,ion to light her home, preceded by a band
of music. It was truly a most interesting sight, and one
that must have been deeply felt by the person in whose
honour it took place'