The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

THE LITTLE TRANSATLANTIC STEAMER,
"EARL OF ELGIN."

In our paper of the 9th of July last, we furnished some
particulars of the beautiful model and fine machinery of
"The Earl of Elgin," a very sharp anti elegant iron'
schooner-r'gged steamer, of 115 tons burthen—the hull
built by Mr. John:Laird, of Birkenhead, and the engines
(of 32. horse power) by our townsmen, Messrs. George
Forrester and Co., for Mr. Thomas Lundie, Oldhall-
street, and his house in Jamaica. (Messrs. Lundie and Co.)
and intended to run from port to port in that colony, with
passengers. The length of the voyage, with so compara-
tively small a vessel, however scientifically constructed,
naturally excited considerable interest amongst nautical
Men, and we partook of the anxiety they expressed; yet
aware of her'excellent qualities from personal inspection,
we ventured an opinion at the time, that, (bating some
untoward accident which the largest ships cannot always
escape,) we had no doubt but she would reach her des-
tined haven in safety. It will be gratifying to all inter-
ested in the progress and achievements of steam and also
0 sailing, navigation to learn that our hopes have been
fully realized. She made a fine run out; steamed for 8
days only, and sailed the remainder of het...passage. She
called at the island of Antigua for suppin s, and after-
wards reached Kingston, front that colony, in five days.
tier appearance was hailed with the greatest enthusiasm t
by all classes, and the colonial journals (before us) unite
in praise: of her beautiful form, admirable engines, and
extraordinary speed acknowledging, ; at the same time,
the liberality and enterprise of her owners in furnishing
them with EO delightful a mode of conveyance round their
island, and w shing them every possible success in their
enterprise. Several of them quote the whole of our arti-
cle describing her. She had commenced running,
in lieu of another steamer, belonging to the same
parties and requiring to be repaired, between Kings-
ton, Port Henderson, and Port Royal, and had
given the utmost satisfaction. One paper states her
speed to be " eleven (and more) miles an hour," another,
that " she performed the passage from Port Royal to
Kingston,"—a distance, by the five-foot channel, of five
miles—" in twenty-three minutes ;" and another says,
" In these depressed times, when people cannot afford
.the old, expensive mode of travelling, or conveying their
persons and .luggage from one part of the country to the
other, the facilities afforded for locomotion by a steamer,
making a rapid circuit of the island, are gratifying in the
extreme, and will doubtless bent fit many poor invalids
desirous of a cruise, or change of air to recruit their
shattered health." We heartily congratulate the owners,
and also the builders, on this success of "The Earl of
Elgin," and with regard to her sate arrival out—as we
thought much of the voyages of "The Royal William,"
to and from New York, before we had larger vessels on
the station—we may surely say of a craft not a fourth of
her size, " Well done Mee one!"

DEATH FROM FIGHTING.—On Sunday morning., at
Chelsea, a man named George Benson, a labourer, was
killed in a fight which took place by appointment between
'him and a man named Henry Jones.
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