The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

SSAITLT NY SPANISH SAILORS.-011
in High-street, Deptford

atrocious

Sulliv..an and Thomas Bresiam

Three or four me

ill-using a respectable woman, near the gate of the Dept-
ford Dock-yard, when she screamed violently, and
Sullivan and Breslam went to her assist=

when a

de;;;;Te attack was made on them by the Spaniards, and
Breslam suddenly staggered and fell to the ground, ex-
claiming, " Oh, I am stabbed." Sullivan was also
stabbed immediately afterwards. The Spaniards, on the
cry of murder being 'raised, managed to escape.
MILITARY QUARREeL.—The following affair appears to
v( little sensation from the rank of the parties
us Abm-it two weeks ago an affray of a very novel
al _ dace in the Citadel barrack-yard, Corfu,
between I t-Colonel Denny, 71st Highlanders, and Dr.

have caused

concerned.

character tool

Barry, the deputyinspector-generai of
principal meffical officer at the station. It appea
the doctor fount fault with the colonel for drib,-
so much in the sun, which gave rise to
-' 'hem .11- which the colon(

his men

stormy altercation

aetween ti. , •duFing Nv
doctor's whip, -alleging nth:

he (the doctor) made use of it

in a menacing manner towards him. On this request
being refused, the colonel attempted to take it by force,
which he was,prevented from doing by the doctor throw-
ing the whip over the railings. Me affair ended by the
colonel placing the doctor under arrest, and had him
escorted to his quarters by an efeign of the 71st. It is
not known how the matter was patched up, but they are
both doing duty as usual.—United.Serrice Gazette.
SEVER PEOPLE DROWNEP.—The fog on Monday last
week at Simurbridge was the occasion of several fatal
accidents. "Two young women, sisters, on their way
home from work, missed the Wordsley dock, and walked
into the water. Both were got out of the water, but not

until one :of them was past recovery, awl the other appears
to be in .a somewhat precarious state. Two young women,
sisters-in,law, named Reece, with a young man named
Alfred Hampshire, who was courting Miss Reece,_ were

present when they were brought to their house; and Miss
Reece having observed to Hampshire that they had better
go to look for her father, who would be by the canal side,
they started together, and it:appears soon met the father,
with a lighted candle sheltered between his hands. The
fattier joined the party, and almost immediately afterwards
the whole leer walked into the water together. All were
brought to land, but not before life was extinct in both
the females. A young man, named Joseph Ridley, married
and having one child, was also drowned in the same
neighbourhood ; also a bay -called Mail, and an Irishman,
a name unkneivn. A boy who had been bedding up a horse

on the Stotuinidge .can al side, in endeavouring- tO-find his
way home, walked into the canal and was drowned.:
POSTAL AIaO3IALIES.—The postage on a letter exceeding
an ounce in weight by the smallest scruple, transmitted to
India rid Marseilles, is 7s. Pd. ! This is probably the most
expensive route in the world, still it is not the weight or
bulk of the mails conveyed in this direction that makes
this exorbitant charge for letter postage necessary—for a

ka-rseilles-for 3d. or for only per ounce. Thus
manuscript mail matter is charged at the rate of 812,000
per ton in this direction, printed matter pays only at the
rate of £l5O per ton. The postal anomalies in other
directions are more striking still. - From the Channel
Islands to the remotest of the Shetland group, changing
from steamer to railway, and from railway to steamer for