The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

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Mr. Simpson- is again the lessee of the Theatre-Royal.
The operative plasterers have agreed to comply with the
request of the masters to work one hour longer each
week.

On Tuesday morning, Margaret Kenny, a middle-aged
female, lodging in Crosbie-street, fell down in a lit while
cleaning some clothes, and died shortly afterwards.

ST. JUDE'S CHURCH.—The Rev. William Carpenter,
D.D., of St. Barnabas, Douglas, "Isle of Man, has been
appointed to succeed the Rev. Dr. M'Neile in the incum-
bency of St. Jude's Church.

Mi. Meagher and Mr. Doheny, two of the Irish con-
federates, passed through Liverpool on Friday, on their
way from Dublin, to attend a sympathising meeting in
Manchester.

►SUDDEN DEATH.—Joseph Brown, a porter, fifty-three
years old, died suddenly, on Wednesday, as he was assist-
ing another man to measure oats, on board the Prince
Albert, in the King's Dock.

On Thursday night, John Dawson, living in a court in
Milton-street, went to bed in his usual health, and during
the night his wife discovered him to be dead. He died of
apoplexy _ _ _ _

On Thursday Edward Kinley, aged 26, one of the
hands of the Earl of Liverpool, No. 3, pilot boat, was
lost overboard in Douglas Harbour, where the vessel had
put in the same evening.

CUSTOMS.-Mr. H.H. Sutton, searcher of the senior
class at the port of Liverpool, has been appointed to the
situation of landing-surveyor at that port, rendered vacant
by the nomination of Mr. W. Barber to a landing survey-
orship at the port of London.
NEW AMERICAN TRANSATLANTIC STEAM-SHIP.---A
new steam-ship, of about 2,300 tons burden, with very
powerful engines, named the United States, has recently
been constructed at New York : the hull by W. H. Webb,
the builder of some of our finest packet-ships, and the
machinery by Secor and Co., engineers. She belongs to
Messrs. C. H. Marshall and Co., of New York, the
owners of the "black ball" line of packet-ships trading
to this port. She is intended to be employed between
New York and Havre, but she will make her first trip to
this port. The New York Herald, describing her trial
trip, says that she steamed upwards of sixteen miles an
hour with ease.

HOLYHEAD MAIL STEAM- VESSEL.— Her Majesty's
steam-vessel St. Columba. after being coated with Hay's
composition, and having her outfit completed, made a
run, on Thursday, as far as Point Lynas. She left the.
Rock Light at 11 30, passed the Bell Buoy at 12 7, and
reached Lynas at 2 38; thus making the distance of 471
nautical miles in 3 hours and 71 minutes. Her return
voyage was made by the Rock Channel, in 3 hours 18
minutes, allowing for the detention caused by waiting for
water to cross the bar. The wind was about north-east,
a fresh breeze, and cross sea. On the outward passage
the engines made 25 to 26 revolutions, with a 28-feet
wheel, and on the return, with her head to wind, from
241 to 25. _ _

MILNERS' SAFES.—On Thursday a public testing of
these safes took place at Oxford, before Professors Powell,
Dawbeny and Walker, a number of the tutors of the
various colleges, and several professional gentlemen and
tradesmen. One of these gentlemen's cylindrical cases
was filled with sundry articles, consisting of books, papers,
a gold watch, a X 5 Bank of England note, a packet of
gunpowder. &c. At the same time a chest of the ordinary
construction was filled with books and papers, and one
of Milners' single-cell safes was also so filled, and the
three safes were subjected for five hours to a strong fire.
In the first safe when taken out, not an article had sus-
tained the slightest injury. The watch was still going,
the gunpowder had not lost any of its original properties,
and all the things presented the same appearances as
when put into the safe. In the single-cell safe the things
were slightly discoloured, but in the other chest the papers
were found to be destroyed. The experiments excited the
greatest interest.

THE NEW HOLYHEAD STEAM-SHIP " HIBERNIA."—
This beautiful iron vessel, built for the Chester and Holy-
head Railway Company, by our townsmen, Messrs. Vernon
and Son, made a prefatory trial trip on Thursday, and the
result was highly satisfactory. She steamed several times
up and down the river, from the Rock to the Sloyne, and
finally went outside and rounded the Formby Light-ship.
She accomplished at one time 41 miles in three quarters
of an hour, and afterwards, with 22 strokes of her engine
per minute, steamed within a fraction of eighteen statute
miles an hour in slack water. She is a remarkably beau-
tiful vessel in hull and decorations. The cabins, &c.,
will be finished in the Flemish style of architecture, with
oval panelling, fitted up with pictorial ornamentsin papier
mache. The engines are on the oscillating 'principle,
built by Messrs. Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy, and are
superb pieces of mechanism, in finish equal to the finest
clock-work. We shall notice her more at • length when
she is completed. _

EXTRAORDINARY DEATH FROM MENTAL EXCITEMENT.
—On Friday evening, about six o'clock, a respectable
married woman, named Charlotte Sewell, aged twenty.
nine wife of a tide-waiter, living in Upper Frederick.
street, was passing across St. James'-street; opposite
Duncan-street, with an infant in her arms, and another
following her, having hold of her gown, when she hurried
out of the way of a spring cart. The child than followed
her fell down close under one of the wheels,-Whieb went
over it. Deceased turned back and picked up the child,
which was taken to the Southern Hospital, not danger.
ously hurt. The deceased followed the party who carried
the child, and on "getting in took the child in her arms,
and instantly fell down and expired. Mr. Morris, house
surgeon of .the hospital, made a post niortem examination
and, at the inquest on Saturday, said ". I can find no dis-
ease sufficient to account for death: The only cause I
-can as-4n Istthat deeeised-dier4 from pare fight, or shock
to the systm,-aiising from mental excitement. —Verdict
accordingly.