The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-09-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

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 Southampton 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 service 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 therefore 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 between 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 shocking 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 inquiry 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 Wrington, 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 neighbouring v:" housemai  which she had been dismissed a short time ago in consequence 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