Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-09-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHIP LAUNCHES.  On Thursday afternoon Messers Richardson, Duck, and Co. launched from their South Stockton iron shipyard a fine iron screw steamer of the following dimensions : Length between perpendiculars, 24534 breadth, 3if t. ; depth in hold, 18ft. ; depth to tank top, 16ft. 6in. Gross tonnage, about 1,450 tone. —This steamer has been built to the order of Messrs C. 0. Young and Chriaties, of Cardiff, whc have since sold her to Messrs Anderson, Anderson, and Co., of London, the owners of the Orient line. She is built on the cellular principle, with double bottom fore and aft, and is classed at Lloyd's 109 Al special survey. She has a long raised quarter-deck, an enclosed bridge. house for the accommodation of engineers and officers, and a topgallant forecastle for the crew. Her upi er decks are iron. The forecastle is extended about thirty feet in on the main deck for increased cal go space. Al; she has a full poop, with ealopn, passengers' and captain'e accommodation. She will be supplied with four double cylinder steam winches and Emerson and Walker's patent windlass. The engines, by Messrs Thomas Richardson and Sons, West Hartlepool, are 120 horse-power; cylinders, 29 and 55 ; stroke, 33; revolutions, 65 per minute. Sue will be rigged as a schooner, and is specially designed for the West India sugar trade. As the vessel was leaving the ways she wag gracefully christened the Carib by Mies Douglas Brown, of Arucliffe Hall, , Northallerton.  On Thursday afternoon Messrs M. Pearse and Co. launched from their iron shipbuilding yard at Stockton an iron screw steamer ot the following dimensions :—Length between perpendiculars, 300 ft. ; extreme breadth, 38ft. ; depth, 251 t. Gin. She is about 2,500 tons gross register, and of a dead weight carrying capacity of 3,550 tons. She has double bottom for water ballast, four steam winches, steam steering gear, arc. ; is built off the three-decked rule, having two laid. She will obtain the highest class at Lloyd's under their special survey, and will be rigged as a two-masted schooner, with double topsails on her foremast. Her engines are of 200 h.p. nominal, by Messrs Blair and Co., Limited. She will be fitted with all the most recent and improved appliances for expeditiously loading and discharging cargoes. As she left the ways she received the name of Brankelow from Miss Pearce, daughter of ithe builder.  The transit receipts of the Suez Canal on Wednesday amounted to 170,000 francs. The shares of the Company advanced 3i francs on the Paris Bourse on Thursday. Six hundred and forty-six Mormon emigrants arrived recently at New York as steerage passengers on the Guion steamer Wyoming. The Rothschild are virtual owners of one-fifth of the fertile land in the Delta of the Nile. Their share iu Egyptian bonds is populally estimated at £12,000,000. One of Arabi's tents at Tel-el-Kebir was lined with crimson damask silk, the other was embroidered with forget me-note, pomegranatee, and other fruits, in a manner which would put some fine-art needlework associations to the blush. Mr Passmore Edwards, M.P., speaking at Salisbury on Toursday, said he had hopes of yet setieg, a Hmse of Commons established at Cairo on a national representative basis. John G. Eggleton, a Derby chemist, has committed suicide by taking a dots of strychnine. He fell down dead in the house of a friend. Serious apprehensions are, it is stated, felt for the health of Mr Gray, M.P., now in prison. He is suffering from an affection of the ohest, aggravated by cciafinement at Oran. The International Arbitration and Peace Asiociation will hold an international Conference at Brussels on the 17th, 18th, and 10th of October, and the Mayer of Brussels uaa accorded to it the Mite Of the Palais de la Bonrse. . . .  The well-known novelist, Captain Mayne Reid, has finally been placed on the pension I,st of the United States Government. He was an °facer in the let New York Volunteers (General Ward Barnett's regiment), and was wounded at Chapultspee.