"A splendid new ship was yesterday launched from the building-yard of Messrs.Lumley Kennedy and Co., at this port, called the Menzies, burthen per register 448 tons new measurement, the sole property of Messrs.Jones and Younghusband, insurance brokers, Liverpool. The Menzies, as regards model, is perfection itself, and she is altogether as fine a vessel as perhaps was ever built in the county. The plank is fastened with copper bolts instead of trenails from the heads of the first foothooks upto the gunwhale, and she is the first merchant vessel ever built in Europe without an iron fastening through her. This splendid ship is intended for the China trade, under the command of Captain Whitham, and will sail for Canton via Bombay early in the month of January next. The Menzies is an A1, thirteen years' ship, and the largest which has yet been launched from the above yard."