The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-25 00:00:00

THE INDIA, STEAM-SHIP,

This beautiful specimen of naval architecture took an ex-
perimental trip on Tuesday, from Blackwell to Sea Reach,
for the purpose of trying her machinery, prior to her depar •
ture on Saturday (to-morrow) for another hemisphere. The
India has been more than once described, and it will be only
necessary, therefore, for us to say, that alterations have been
effected by throwing a portion of the width of the saloon into
the private cabins, and making them drawing-rooms in
miniature, rather than mere ante-rooms for the passengers.
The deck has been raised nearly two feet, and thus the saloon
is the loftiest we remember to have seen, and the cabin, or,
as oar East India friends would term it, the caddy, is the
most airy apartment in the vessel.
The day was unpropitious for such a trip ; it was, in fact,
a regular soaker. Popes were entertained that at noon the
sun would burst through the clouds which impaired its bril-
liancy, and that a glorious evening might compensate for the
disappointment of the morning : it was not to be ;—rain, un-
pitying and unrelenting, interfered with the contemplated
arrangements, and ultimately no less than 60 or 70 gentle-
' men were compelled to amuse themselves as they best might
beneath the spacious decks, which, under more favourable
auspices, would have been a delightful promenade.
The experiments were upon the whole satisfactory. The
vessel maintained the average speed which she ought to have
kept up had she been laden, and the inspection of the ma-
chinery afforded the greatest gratification to the gentlemen
present, most of whom joined the company at breakfast on
Tuesday morning.
• On arriving in Sea Reach, various manoeuvres were re-
sorted to, with a view to test the capabilities of the India,
and all of them were attended with a satisfactory result ; to
use a nautical phrase " She behaved herself well."
A very handsome entertainment was given by Captain
Henderson, on the return to town. Several gentlemen ad-
dressed the company on the importance of steam communi-
cation with India, and their sentiments were warmly re-
sponded to by the meeting. The conviviality was kept up
until a late hour, when the vessel returned to Blackwell.

We have only to add that there were many gentlemen on
board who had served as officers in India. Those gentle-
men spoke in the most indignant terms of the conduct of
Lord Cardigan, in applying the term " Indian officer" to
any one as a term of contumely, and their observations were
cordially responded to by the meeting.—Morning Herald.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

The Ballyshauvon Herald states that two men, named
Smith and Carr, have been arrested for the murder of,Samuel

The Board of Works is about to expend LIO,OOO in re-
decorating the entire suite of state apartments at St. James's

The fixed income of the Deanery of Durham, under the

new law, is £3OOO, and the Dean required to be in residence

eight months out of the twelve.
INLAND COALS.—We understand that in the course of
this week a quantity of coals from Clay Cross, Derbyshire,
will be brought to the London market. They are said to be

equal to the best Wallsend, and can be bought at a cheaper
rate.—llill paper.

A gentleman resident in this town received a day or two
ago, through the medium of the penny post, a living viper,
from the foot of Cadcr Idris, in North Wales ! It arrived
safely, and was not at all the worse for its journey.—Here-
ford Journal.

MAN'S LAUGHTER.—A verdict was lately found by a jury
in Worcestershire, upon a prisoner who was convicted of hav-
ing tickled another man till he burst into a tit of hysterical
mirth so violent that he died. The verdict was man's laugh-
ter. This is genuine.—John Bull.
The Earl of Eglington has had a magnificent candelabrum
presented to him by 300 citizens of Glasgow, as the inscrip-
tion states, " as a tribute of respect, and in acknowledgment
of the courtesy which distinguished him as Lord of the Tour-

nament, held at Eglington Castle, in August, 1839."

SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. HUGH HAMNIERISLEY THE
BANKER.—This gentleman died very suddenly on Saturday
evening last. He had been walking in the park and returned
to his residence at a quarter past six, when he was immedi-
ately taken ill, and was dead at seven.
DEATH OE LADY CATHERINE MACARTN EY. - Her
ladyship, who was widow of the late Sir John Macartney,
Bart., died on Thursday. The deceased lady, who was
second daughter to the late Right Hon. Walter H. Burgh,
Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, was in the 70th year of
her age.