The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-21 00:00:00

SAILING OF THE ROYAL WILLIAM.

This splendid vessel sailed yesterday, at two o'clock, on
her second trip to New York. Though the novelty of a
steam-vessel sailing from this port across the Atlantic no
longer remained as an attraction to see her start, vet thou-
sands of spectators were collected, and completely lined the
walls of the George's and Prince's Piers. Every berth, we
understand, has been taken, and this time she carries out
no less than 67 cabin passengers, as many we believe, as
she could possibly accommodate. lhis is the best criterion
of the increasing favour for steam-vessels fur America ; their
certainty as to time of arrival as well as their quick rate of
travelling creating the greatest confidence in them. At two
o'clock the bell was rung to give notice that she was about
to start, two guns were fired from her bows, and the splendid
vessel turned with the tide and gallantly steamed down the
river, amidst the cheers of thousands of spectators, which
were heartily answered from on board. As she passed down
the river she was greeted with salutes from either shore, the
loud booming of which were answered by the guns on board
her. Having the tide running strongly in her favour, she was
quickly down the river, round the rock, and out of sight.
We heartily wish her success, and need hardly hope she will
have a quick passage.

DAVIS' STRAITS FISHERY.

HuLL.—Abram, 12 fish; Swan, 14 fish, 160 tons; Comet,
22 fish.

NEWCASTLE.—GrenviIIe Bay, full; Lady Jane, full; Lord
Gambier, 26 fish.
LElTH.—Clarendon, 10 fish ; North Pole, 6 fish; William
and Ann, 7 fish.
KllMALDY.—Caledonia, 1i fish ; Chieftain, 14 fish, 130
tons; Hecla, 22 fish, 230 tons; Regalia, 3 fish.
ABERDEEN.-13011 Accord, 16 fish, 165 tons; Neptune,
11 fish.
BoNEss.—Alfred, 19 fish, 165 tons.

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DUNDEE.—Advice, full; Alexander, 8 fish; Ebor, 12 fish;
Friendship, 11, and .8 dead fish; Horn, 4, and 8 dead fish ;
Princess Charlotte, 22 fish.
'PETERHEA D.—Joseph Green, 8 fish, 100 tons; Traveller,
14 fish, 220 tons..

The'above are reported by the Princess Charlotte and the
Bon Accord, arrived off Aberdeen.

THE LATE STEAM BOILER EXPLOSION AT
NEWrON.

At noon on Tuesday a highly respectable jury met at the
Bull Inn, at Newton, to inquire touching the deaths of Jo-
seph Dangerfield, amuei Appleton, George Fazakerley,
George Hough, William Wells, John Dean, and Thomas
Price, the seven engineers who were killed on Monday by
the bursting of a boiler attached to an engine at the Viaduct
Foundry.

Peter Traverse, a labourer, residing at Burton-wood, stated
that be was in the employ of Messrs. Jones, Turner, and
Evans, and had worked at-the Viaduct Foundry since March
last. He knew all the deceased men. They all worked for
Messrs. )ones and Co. Dangerfield was the manager of the
works, and had the overlooking of the setting-up of the new
boiler. Witness went to work about twenty minutes to six
o'clock. There were then about twenty or thirty men stand-
iug before the boiler furnace. Witness works as a coke
burner. When the bell rung at six oclock, Dangerfield was
working the engine. He desired witness to bring a can and
fetch some oil, and said after he had oiled the shaft, he would
have a lair start. He stopped the engine. Some men put
ou the straps while witness oiled the shaft. When that was
done Dangerfield started the engine. There is a wall be-
tween the engine and the boiler. The engine had not been
at work more than a minute when the boiler burst with aloud
explosion. Several of the men were thrown into the wheat-
field adjoining. They were knocked through a sheet of paling.
Daugerfield, Fazakerly, and Appleton were killed dead on
the spot. Dangerfield only gave one sigh. Wells died at
eleven o'clock. Three of the others were only just alive.
The boiler was not burst, it was only the flue.
Mr. Jones deposed that he was dressing himself about six
o'clock ou Monday morning:, when he heard what he at first
conceived to be a loud clap of thunder. He immediately
went to the foundry, and there found Fazakerley, Appleton,
and Dangerfield dead. The survivors were removed to their
several places of residence. The boiler was quite new. It
was made at witness's foundry, and was fixed up and set
going on Saturday jar the first time. It worked well, and it
was intended to at it fairly on Monday morning. The en-
gine was a ten horse power, and the plates of the boiler were
thick. The boiler was 12 feet long and 4 feet 6 inches dia.,.
meter. There was a tub through it of the same thickness.
The apparatus to the bailer was two gauge cocks, and' water
gauge, and it bad two safety valves upon it. It was calculated
to bear a pressure of 801hs to the inch. Only 351bs was upon
it when the accident happened. Witness had endeavoured,
' to ascertain the cause of the accident, and he was of opinion,
that there was not
,a sufficient quantity of water in the boiler,
which caused the flue to get red hot, and when the engine
pumped in the cold water the boiler collapsed. The boiler
remains sound and firm on its bed. There is an aperture
made in the flue at the further end of the boiler. The boiler

is called a tabular boiler, made o❑ a different construction

Co the marine engines. Witness does not consider the tabular
boilers more dangerous. Dangerfield had got up the steam,
and had attended the erection of the engine throughout.
Witness considered that Dangerfield was fully competent, but
in this instance had not been sufficiently cautious. The other
men were mere spectators. The steam was not blown off.
In his opinion hydrogen gas was formed in the boiler the mo-
ment the cold water was let in. lie drew that conclusion
from the fact of the engine not having been worked more
than a minute before the explosion took place.
Peter Ditchfield, the watchman, deposed, that Danger-
field ordered witness to call him at five o'clock, and to get a
fire under the boiler at half-past four o'clock. Dangerfield
came soon after five o'clock. At that time the water appeared
to be about a nail's length from the top of the gauge. He
did not try his gauge-cocks while witness was near him.
Witness went with Dangerfield to see some eels on the top
of the pond. They floated in consequence of lime having been
thrown into the Water. He had not started the engine when
witness left, about five minutes before the bell rung. Dan-
gerfield fed the tire himself. A number of men were coming
to the works just as he left. The accident happened ten or
twelve minutes after* Dangerfield might have tried the
' gauge-cocks during the time witness was unlocking the doors.
Two witnesses were called. They deposed to no new facts.
The jury returned a verdict, in all the cases,- of "acci-
dental death," occasioned by the insufficiency of 'water in
the boiler, upon which they- found a deodand of ss. They
expressed themselves also to be of opinion that no blame was
attached to Messrs. Jones, asthe manufacturers of the boiler.

A valuable copper mine has been discovered at Oswestry.
ANOTHERBOWRING BANQUET.—The hood folks pf Rotber-
glen, on Monday last, entertained Dr. Bowring to a banquet
in the Town-hall. The banquet consisted of a slice of stale
bread, a piece of boiled beef cold, and a bottle of excellent
whisky punch per man, fin which 1s 6d a-head was demanded
and paiol. The doctor addressed some dozen or two of women
and children, previous to sitting down to the "banquet,"
from the balcony in front of the hall.—Glasgow Courier.

FORBIDDING THE BANNS.—In the Oldwinsford Church,
on Sunday last, during the time the Rev. S. Cragg was pub-
lishing the banns of matrimony, a sturdy-looking fellow, fa-
ther of one of the intended brides, suddenly sprung up, and
loudly roared out, '• Her shanna ha' him," meaning his
daughter's intended husband. 'I he reverend •gentleman re-
quested the father of the damsel to meet him in the vestry at
the close of the service, when the objections urged by the fa-
ther not being sufficient to dissolve the banns, the pair were
united in holy matrimony the following morning.— Worcester
Guardian.

THE BUSHY Cow.—A remarkably curious animal has just
arrived in this country, from Sierra Leone, and attracting a
good deal of notice among naturalists. It resembles in form
a common cow, but is Covered with a coarse thin hair of a
dirty yellow colour, with tufts of the same hanging down
at equal distances front its broad pendulous cars, and has alto-
gether a most singular appeatauce. It comes from the in-
terior of Western Africa, and is little -known,"even by the
natives, who call it the bushy cow. No previoui specimen
has been brought to Europe, nor is it even known to the
colonists at Sierra Leone, and, it is believed, has never been
described. It has been deposited for the present at the
Surrey Zoological Gardens.