The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-16 00:00:00

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None of the pat=sengers were injured further than being
severely shaken, and comparatively little damage was
done to the engine or luggage waggons.
DEATH OF THE EARL OP DONOUGHMORE.—WE regret
to have to announce the death of the Right Hon. the Earl
of Donoughmore, which occurred at his lordship's seat,
Palmerston House, near Dublin. His lordship was, for
some years after the downfall of Bonaparte, familiarly
designated "Lavalette Hutchinson," from the part which
he took in the escape of General Lavalette from a French
prison, after he had been condemned to death for treason
to the Bourbons, His lordship was born in 1V37, and
was consequently in the 64th year of his age. He was
married in 1825 to the seventh daughter of Luke Viscount
Mon etjoy, by whom he had two children, the survivor
being Lord Suirdale, now Earl Donoughmore, and a
daughter, who died an infant. The late earl married a
second time, the daughter of Colonel Reynell, by whom
he has left a son and three daughters. His lordship was
a Privy Councillor and lieutenant of the county Tipperary.
MURDER AND SUXCIDE.—A melancholy tragedy was
perpetrated on Saturday week at Collingbourne, a few
miles from Salisbury. It appears that a gentleman
named Merryweather, formerly a clerk to Messrs. Hod-
dings, Townsend, and Lee, solicitors, of Salisbury, has for
a short time past resided with his sister. Mrs. Short, at
Collingbourne. Mr. Merryweather had been long suffer-
ing from a disordered state of the digestive organs, which
affected his nervous system generally, but it was hoped
that he was improving by the change of air and scene. On
Saturday, however, he was visited by a paroxysm of the
malady which had before attacked him ;under the influence
of which he first destroyed his sister (Mrs. Short) to whom
he was moat affectionately attached, and who had been
assiduously attending upon him during his illness, and
then himself ! The event' has excited the deepest sym-
pathy in the neighbourhood, Mr. Merryweather and his
sister being both highly esteemed and beloved by all who
knew them. An inquest was held yesterday week on the
bodies, ands verdictreturned of "temporary derangement."
GIGANTIC NEW STEAMERS.—The Amazon, one of the
five colossal steamers now nearly completed for the Royal
West India Mail, Steam-packet Company, is expected to
arrive in Southampton water early in November, and will
immediately commence running on the main line of the
West India mail route scheme, that is between Southamp-
ton and the Isthmus of Panama. The Orinoco will
shortly afterwards follow the Amazon. It is probable
that the Parana will be the third that will be ready for
sea, she leaves Southampton in a few days for the
Clyde to have her engines put in. The whole of the five
gigantic steamers will be performing, the government ser-
vice at the latter end of this year or the beginning of the
next, The Orinoco and Magdalena are sister ships, built
precisely alike. Their superiority in speed,if any,will there-
fore entirely depend on their engines. The Oronoco will
be engined by Napier. of Glasgow, the manufacturer of
the engines for Cunard's vessels ; and the Magdalena will
be engined by Maudslay, of London. There never waa
such a fair opportunity for the Thames and the Clyde ter
struggle for supremacy. Seaward and Co. will engine the
Amazon, and Caird the Parana and Demerara. The whole
of the old fleet of the West India Company, except those
ships that are not worth it, will be put in the same state
of efficiency as the Teviot. The engine works of this ship
contain every improvement discovered up to last year,
and form a perfect model. This steamer, which brought
home thO Brazilian mail this week, made the passage be-
tween Rio and:England in six days less than thecontract time,
Two WOMEN POlSONED.—lntelligence was received at
Bristol on Thursday afternoon of an occurence of a shock-
ing kind having taken place at the village of Wrington,
sit

uate at about ten miles distant from that city on the
Somersetshire side. The rumour which first reached was
that two women had been murdered by poison, but on in-
quiry being made on the spot the particulars were found
to be as follows :—The names of the deceased women
were Sarah Ann Roberts and Charlotte Birch. Roberts
was the widow of a shoemaker, who, about a year since,
absconded from the village and emigrated to one of our
colonies, where he shortly afterwards died; his wife (who
was between 20 and 30 years of age), was left with two
youngchildren, and without any means of provision for them
and herself beyond what trifle she could earn by binding
boots and shoes. She occupied a little cottage near Wring-
ton, and was latterly understood to have formed an

ment for a young man, between whom and herself, it now
- an illicit intercourse had been carried on, as
time of her death somewhat advanced in

appears,

other female (Birch) was a native of a
(Churchill), but had recently lived as
th a family at Weston-super-Mare, from

pregnancy. The
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which she had been dismissed a short time ago in conse-
quence of its being suspected that she was pregnant. Upon
her return home Birth became intimate with Roberts, and
on Tuesday last she was at her cottage, as was also the
young man with whom the latter kept company. They
were neither of them, as far as has transpired, seen to
take anything, but in the afternoon they were both seized
with severe illness. Roberts was immediately put to
bed and Birch conveyed home, and surgeons were called
in to see them. It was soon ascertained that they were
suffering from the effects of some poisonous drugs, which
they had taken for the purpose of endeavouring to procure
Suspicions are entertained that the deleterious

abortion