The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-11-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DESTRUCTION OF A LARGE STEAMER BY FIRE.—The following has been received at Lloyd's New Orleans, Oct. 12.—The ship Hero, Captain Ensor, master, which arrived here yesterday, from Havannah, reports that on Thursday last, at about 1 O'clock in the morning, they were surprised at observing the reflection of an extensive conflagration in the horizon. They immediatelymade all sail in the direction whence it proceeded, wh when, after going 10 or 12 miles, they discovered it to be a vessel on fire. Upon coming up to her, at about 7 o'clock, she proved to be a very large ship—unquestionably a steamer. The fire by that hour had almost consumed the deck, the masts had fallen overboard, and she was rapidly burningthe water's edge. They cruised round the wreck for an to;our or till she went clown, which took place almost instantaneously. two,Upon first coming up, no person appeared on board, nor was any boat about. They, however, saw a bark bearing away to the westward, which it was supposed must have received the crew and passengers. From the mark of an anchor, which was hanging at the cathead, and the appearanCe of several Orleansjudged tßhaulluentiftunorofntahtee steamer to be English.L spars which were overboard, they Ntheivey 12th of last mouth contains a paragraph confirmatory of the above. PUBLIC ATTEMPT AT MultnEß.—At the Town.ball, Cambridge, on Monday, Charles Triplow, a green-grocer, living in that borough, was charged with having attempted thr at in the unarkr •  to murder his wife by cutting her throe, d, that o.la Saturday, on Saturday. Charles Wilderspen depose he was in the market between six and seven in the evening, if standing against their' when he saw the prisoner and his wife , ana usuea at her stall. The prisoner went up to his wife two or three times, as if angry, and they a eared to have been quarrelling. A woman called out to Witness, " He's cut her throat! lie hastened to the prisoner's wife, and saw her bleeding from the neck. The prisoner turned off, as if to run away, when witness collared him. Some one then.,.e,s said to the prisoner, w You have been cutting your it throat :" and he replied, " Yes, I'll cut her -- heart out before I've done with her." The prisoner was not drunk. Charles Gunn deposed to having seen prisoner and his wife wrangling. She struck him on the side of the head, to make him get away from the stall, when he went up to her and jobbed something into her neck. Witness saw a great gash in her throat. Another witness deposed, that the prisoner caught hold of his wife's threat, "as if he was going to choke her, and held her a short time, and then cut her throat." The woman was conveyed to the hospital. One of the surgeons of the hospital deposed that the wound was t ree inches in length, and one in depth ; the external jugular vein had been cut through. On his way to the station-house, the prisoner said he meant to kill his wife, and if she was dead he should be happy ; he intended, after killing her, to kill himself. The knife was produced with which the wound had been inflicted ; it was a very large clasp-knife, with a sharp point. As the woman was dangerously ill, and not able to give any evidence against her husband, he was remanded for a few days.— Globe.