The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-19 00:00:00

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MAILS FOR AUSTRALIA.—The I

Ll Mail Company being about to

Of his

steam vessols to Australia, to take up the regular service
of the Australian mails, under their contract with her
Majesty's government, the Postmaster-General intends to
avail himself of the departure of these steamers for the
transmission of the mails to Australia, instead of sending
the mails by sailing packets, as provisionally arranged;
and a contract for this service has been made with the
company. According to the present service of the Aus-
tralian mails by sailing packets will cease after the depar►
ture of the packet appointed to leave Liverpool on the sth
October next ; and thenceforward, up to the month of
January, the mails will be made up in London, and de.
snatched, by day mail, on the following dates, viz. :—On
the 18th October, 12th November, 12th December, and 12th
January, for conveyance by the European and Australian
Company's packets from Southampton, via the Cape of
Good Hope. These packets will proceed to Melbourne
and Sydney only, but they will carry mails for all the
Australian colonies. All letters, newspapers, &0., for
New South Wales, Victoria. South Australia, Tasmania,
end New Zealand, posted after the sth of October next,
will be forwarded by these packets, when not addressed
to be otherwise sent ; but letters, &c., for Western
secretary.
—General
l Post.:Posr
office, Sept. 15, 1856
Australia, will continue to be sent, as a rule, by private
ship direct, and will be transmitted by these packets only
whenm as
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a uaddressed.—Byilll 1, s

A SHIP STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. —Loss or Lars.—Oti
Wednesday the schooner Susan, Captain White, front
off
ffemncoi aas ,tp
ear reFrmi
ivaneridts
taeibnrlreteh,
ees
whiche Ta ph ea
injured two others. The shocking occurrence took place
ser
on the evening of the 6th inst. They had encountered a
mheas having
on
killedffg tboheneeen Cmsu
tsartnuo
,cmk a Huse,bnydo
itoanufi
stneigyr
storm the previous day, and during
.the succeeding
evening a complete calm prevailed, the alr was excessively
hot, and the clouds were charged with electricity. Sud-
denly, when all the crew were on deck, and the two hands
aloft, a ball of fire struck the foremost, and exploded like
the report from a cannon, emitting forth a vivid and bril-
liant charge of elect, icity which fell over the forepart of the
ship like the spray of a sea, but of a peculiar vividness. A
current, however, descended the mast. and destroying the
cook's galley, passing along the deck, through the long boat's
chock ; split the main hatch combing, tearing off the tar-
pauling and unbattening the hatches, forced its way into
the hold among the cargo, and eventually escaped up the
companion of the cabin. For a few seconds all hands ap•
peered paralysed by the fearful scene. The captain, who
was at the wheel at the time, saw one of the crew named
Daniel Bloomfield, who had been standing near the cook's
galley, stagger forward a few paces and then fall heavily on
deck, and, after giving one or two frightful gasps, expired.
His body was cast into the deep the following day—the
captain reading the prayers, Two ether men were also
injured.

POISONOUS SAUSAGES.—lnspectors of nuisances and
medical officers of health might busy themselves advao
tageously just now, by calling at some of the sausage
shops and observing the colour of the sausage skins. So
far from this being a mere matter of taste, it involves
sanitary conditions of the deepest importar
age, after having been some time k'pt. I
yellow in patches, the change in colour is
is coincident with, the generation of a subtle

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poison

The sausages in which it is generated are t
mon materials ; have not been highly
smoked : and a certain time must have ell r
manufacture of the sausage and the comm
organic change to which the formation
is attributable. Sausages I
are common enough in London

zr are these.

ith corn•

een the
of that
poison.

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anire°tttllle:tl istupcpbeaariticnrie,asosaetzaecstaerreisitwiet
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of the formation of poison within. Loa ;on sausage dealers
are perfectly
good, and they will occasionally warn a purchaser whose
eustom they car, care for of their condition of inferiority.
Nevertheless, a London sausage dealer does not seem to
be aware that in selling these mottled changelings he is
selling a poison the more terrible that its symptoms are
veiled, its working insidious its detection imposswibn.le,Thea
against the ravages of which no antidotes are
is the white or yellow
thiskn° diseased
mast prominent symptom of poisoning by
the flesh• At first
substance is a general wasting
the wasting is unaccompanied by pain. peligne'neral characteristics
are severe grieings and colic. The
poison are, it will be of the disease resulting from s(a.o
i The most alarming cirri
seen, those of poisoning v
b;viltehathis sort of poisoning is, how-
cumstance in conneetiornacing
it to the real source, and the
ever, the difficulty of
ist symptoms are likely to be referred
of
ultimately there
It. is strange that, notwithstanding
to natural causes.chn emical science has made, no process of
the advances
hitherto tried has been able to accomplish the
analysis
sausage poison. It is believed, however,
separation of
infectious
the nature of the matter of certain _
to be of .
&c. Although diseases—•lil:e the small-pox, the plague, disease
use of
the population of this metropolis do not make
ahnosutandela.:—*rnin.
and therefore the
facility
usage
swsitohpwrohich
sa profusely as the Germit
not likely to be
sausages bearing
effects of swallowing sausage poirtnos'fre
so serious, nevertheless the quatibtley
and :seen in London win-
the "plague spot " of poison to
should receive the
dews, is something alarming,
attention of sanitary officers w

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