Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-05 00:00:00

LAUNCH AT BIRK.E.NraEAD

On Saturday last, a very beautifully built steam yacht
was launched from the iron shipbuilding yard of Messrs.
Peto..Brassey and C) Birkenhead: This splendid
sp-almen of naval arehitectu-e was built there from a
de.sign, and lA., Messrs Ch ,rtes de Bergee.and Co., of the
Strangeways Iron Works, .Manchester, and is to b 3 pro-
pelled on an entirely new principle. Instead of having
ei her paddles ors strew, its propeller, a flit bled wll work
in a chamber ie the centre of the vessel, mucl the me
as as eel in the wa'sr, ani it is expected that it will
answer the ful'est expectations of its inventor. The
engines will ale be entirely on a new principle; and will
have a high pressure steam eondenser of GO•horse power.
The vessel itself is 120 feet oe the load-line, 14 feet
wide, and 7 feet 6 inches deep, audits tonnage is 124 tons.
:The weather being very unfavourable, there was not so
large' an attendance to wanes the cerenmy as there
Would otherwise have been ; but the launch was most
successful, and the vessel glid• cl into the ricer
amidst the cheers of ell present, and was much
admired by all who saw her. She was.christenel by Mrs.
Char:es de Bergue, the wife of the owner, and is called
Minnow, after the fi-h of that name. Her figure-head
was carved by
-Mr. Allen; Ent is an ex tee.lingly beautiful
piece of workmanship. • By Mr. St Clare J. Byrne,
the manager of the eeteblishment: the company were most
c turteon-ly trea.ed, and. everything payed off with the
greatest,eclat. This is the sevewli vessel that has been
launched from the above yard within a very short periA.

80Y.,' CLOTHING 'TA DE WITEI G a IeAT I'A,TE, atILEVVIS an

COMPANY'S. la anglivzh-street.

A RATTIER AWKWAhD fourt en years
ago (as s ory reaches us), a vvorking man sullenly left
his w fe and two child'en in tbi.3 town, and nothing more
g heard of him it was cot.c'uled that he was dead.
Seven years having elapsed, and no tidings hear];
h s wife contracted a marriage with another, by 'whom alto
had isqua three, children. Toe years rolled away, when
the other day the wire wt.s.startied by the re-appearance of,
her first lover, who • had returned from the "di gins,"
with a large sum of money. Row the wi?e,and this two
husbands have settled mattes is unknown to us. arby
Reporter.
FATAL BULL FJOIIT.—A hull fight, 'aeCOMnanied with
fatal results, oecuited-litsT weak neer the Grange station
on the Glauces'er a:id Dean Forest Railu a,. Two balls,
ihe property of different farmers, were grazing on opposite
sides of the line, and seem to have conceived a de?dty
enmity towards eech Other. The} each leaped over a fit- -
barred gate upon he railw.:y, and a fierce combat ensues',
when the down .xnrers !rata apriaaehed,,and imtnedatelr
put an end to the I.llht, and to the existence of the CM-
batanto. One of the animals viti sent spic.ning into •
ditch by the side of the railway, and the other was st.nok
fu!l in the side by the engine, and knocked a distance of
at least twenty yards apt) the metals of ths up-line. We
understand the owners of the cattle have made a claim
upon the company for compensation.— Nottingham; Review.

At LEWIS At OMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street.
BO 'I'S are CM) I'Ef) from the Ages of Six to Twenty Years.