The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-07 00:00:00

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POISONOUS ANCHOVIES.—A woman has:died in London
from eating what were alleged to be preserved anchovies
but, according to Dr. Letheby's evidence before the coro-
ner's jury, was a Dutch fish, cured in a putrid state, with
oxide of iron.
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was killed on Sunda,
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Henry Randleson, of Carlisle,
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.alroom, three stories high, at
morning, having mistaken it for the door
evidently been searching for the room door.
AN INFURIATED BULL.-A few days since, much con-
sternation was caused in the neighbourhood of Pentonville
and Islington (London), by the breaking away from its
drivers of an infuriated bull. After doing much injury,
though not of a serious nature, after a two hours' run, he
was finally captured, and carefully secured.
BOYLE v. WisEmA Y.—ln the Court of Exchequer, on
Thursday, Mr. James obtained a rule to show cause why
the nonsuit in this case should not be set aside, on the
ground that the Chief Baron had improperly rejected
secondary evidence of the letter to the Abbe Cunyard in
which Cardinal Wiseman was alleged to have admitted
being the author of the libel in the Univers.

31inixvicma LEGACY.-At a meeting of the Consump-
tion Hospital at Brompton, the treasurer announced a
bequest of £5,000 from the late ➢Zrs. Wilson, of Eaton-
square. It was added that, the hospital being entirely
dependent upon voluntary contributions, such bequests
were of infinite importance in maintaining and extending
the usefulness of the charity.

POPULARITY.—The Euiperor and Empress of the
French have been in such danger of being smothered with
flowers and petitions when they ride abroad, that the
prefect of police has been compelled to issue a proclama-
tion against throwing bouquets and letters into the im-
perial carriages, but every facility is to be afforded for
bringing petitions under the eye of the Emperor.
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THE MEDICINE—AS BEIDEE.-011 Sunday afternoon
the police in Glasgow discovered an apothecary selling
whisky, slightly medicated, to customers shut out from
the public-houses by Forbes Mackenzie's Act. The liquid
was poured out of a medicine-glass, and the phials or other
I)rought by the purchasers were carefully labelled

vessels
" Chole
a-day."

mixture; dose—half a wineglassful three times

A-CHANGE which interests travellers between England
and Ireland has taken place, in the intercourse between
Kingstown and Holyhead. During the winter season,
the express steamer will leave Kingstown at 8.30, a.m.,
Dublin time, instead of 9, a.m., as hitherto, and the train
from Holyhead will start at 2.10, p.m., English time,
arriving at London at 10.40, p.m.
COLONIAL POSTAGE.—The first reduction of postage to
Australia, via Southampton and Singapore, took place on
Friday. All letters for South Australia, Victoria, New
South Wales, and Van Diemen's Land, sent by this mail,
will now be charged 6d. the half-ounce only, instead of Is.
as heretofore. Newspapers will go free. All letters, how-
ever, sent by the route of Marseilles, the mail for which is
made up on the evening of the 9th inst., will be liable, in
addition to the above, to sd. for every quarter of an ounce,
French postage, and newspapers to a charge of 2d. The
postage must be paid in advance. The above regulation
present extended to West Australia or New

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Zealand

POOR MADAME SoNTAG.—Extract from a private let-
ter :—" Vera Cruz, Oct. 4th. One great subject of con-
versation here for the last week has been Madame Sontag.
Her husband departed from Mexico immediately after her
death, leaving the remains behind. The coffin containing
them has been brought to this place by one of the ordinary
carriers' carts, like any common baggage, having been
valued in the carrier's invoice at 200 dollars. On its arrival
here it was first placed in the church of St. Augustine ;
but being found offensive it was taken without ceremony,
religious or other, to a deserted church outside the town,
to wait the consent of some ship's captain to convey it to
Europe ; as yet none has been found who would admit it
into his vessel. Assuredly if this poor lady did, not anti-
cipate in her childhood that she should become one day
une grande dame of world-wide celebrity, she can have
dreamt still less of the indignities her remains have been
subjected to, such as the poorest peasant would sacrifice
everything to spare any member of his family."

PATAGONIAN MISSION.—SAILING OF THE "ALLEN
GARDINER."—On the 24th ult., at an early hour, the
"Allen Gardiner " left Cumberland Basin, Bristol.
Several clergymen, Lieut. Justice, R.N., and other gentle-
men of the committee, and a party of ladies, were on
board, and accompanied the mission party down the
beautiful river Avon as far as King's-road, when a fare-
well service was performed, the whole crew joining
most heartily in the hymn, which was one composed by
the late devoted servant of Christ, Allen Gardiner. The
friends of the mission then disembarked. Three cheers
from the deck and two reports from her guns told them
that the Allen Gardiner was gone—not on a voyage of
commerce, nor on one of discovery, nor to the scenes of
war and bloodshed ; but in obedience to the great Captain
who said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the
Gospel to every creature." Her destination is the land of
West Frankland, in which colony the British Govern-
boject, under the direction of a

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clergyman of the Church Of England, is to bring over,
maintain, and teach as many natives of Terra del Fuego
and Patagonia as can be induced to come. When once
their language (of which the Hon. Secretary already pos-
sesses a dictionary and grammar) is learned, and friendly
and frequent communications with the mainland opened,
stations will be taken up in various parts of the country.
The Captain of the Allen Gardiner is the author of a most
interesting work on the Arctic Expedition. He acted as
second in 'command on board the Prince Albert, Lady
Franklin's vessel, fitted out by her to search for her
unfortunate husband. It is encouraging to the friends of
the mission to have such a commander to navigate the
Allen Gardiner between-the Falklands and South America,
as it is also to have had her built under the able superin-
tendence of Captain Sulivan, R.N., (now on board H.M.S.
Wellington), who for a long period was surveyor of those
coasts.

THE WEIR SHIPWRIGHTS.—The unfortunate and ill-
judged strike of the shipwrights on the 'Wear still conti-
nues. A large meeting of the men was held last week in
the Athenaeum, Sunderland, when it appeared that some
disinterested gentlemen of the town had interposed, with
the endeavour to have the matter arranged by constituting
an arbitration court—a species of tribunal, which has been
before resorted to at this port for the settlement of dis-
putes between the operatives and master shipbuilders. The
men, it was stated, were willing to adopt this course, but
the masters would not allow that wages could be a subject
for arbitration. Up to this time the strike had not ex-
tended to every building-yard, a few employers, who had
contracts to complete, or were otherwise laced in posi-
tions of emergency, carrying on their business as usual.
This the men looked upon as tending to prolong the strike,
and they resolved that all hands should knock off and the
strike be made universal. Some of the speakers com-
plained of the masters of this place being alone in their
attempt to reduce the wages of the workmen, thus placing
them in a disadvantageous as well as difficult position with
regard to the neighbouring ports. 'We believe, however,
that as regards the Tyne, at least, the master shipbuilders
are now giving notice that the wages of the men will be
reduced from 6s. to ss. a day, the same as at Sunderland..
The meeting was conducted in an orderly manner, and
the speakers advised the men to refrain from all improper
conduct. .

SCENE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—A correspondent
gives an amusing account of a scene which occurred lately
in a railway carriage on the South-eastern line, as he was
coming up from Dover to London. At Reigate three well-
dressed persons got in, and entered into conversation with
the other passengers. Presently one of them proposed a
quiet rubber, another offered to take a hand; but, not be-
ing able to make up the game, one of the " gentlemen"
proposed to show them a " curious little game that has
been very fashionable with the allied armies in the camp
at the Crimea." The " curious little game" is very com-
mon at the race-courses, and the other passengers were
preparing to stake, which, as may be supposed, would have
been to lose their money, when the whole party were
thrown into confusion by the correspondent threatening
to give them into custody as soon as they arrived at Lon-
don Bridge. For the rest of the journey nothing could be
more comical than their " silent uneasiness with regard
to their future!' The letter-writer, however, was good-
natured, and let them go, when they vanished, he says,
" like fire-works from the yard ;" and he adds :—" I be-
lieve this business has reached an alarminc, height on the
railways. At the Stafford assizes, a weeoago, a traveller
from ➢ianchester swore that he had lost to these ruffians a
ring and watch, over £5O in value; and one of the barris-
ters on the trial showed the trick to the jury, which, au
reste, is explained in any sixpenny conjuring book."

DREADFUL DEATH.-At Middlesborough-on-Tees, on
Sunday week, some working-men went down the river in
a boat for the purpose of gathering cockles, On arriving
at the large tract of sand about three miles down, bare at
low water, five of them got out of the boat and left the
sixth man in charge of it while they proceeded in search.
The wind was blowinc, strong from the N.W., and the man
in charge of the boat alleges that it was blown away and
drifted to the opposite shore. After employing themselves
in filling their bags with cockles, the five men came to
where they had left the boat, and found it and the man
gone. Their position became alarming in the extreme, as
the tide began to flow around them on every side, and the
nearest land was a quarter of a mile distant. Two of the
men became frantic with fear ; they tore their clothes off
and ran up and down the sand rending the air with their
cries. The tide had by this time come up to their feet,
when a steamer passed on, which they recognized to be the
Victoria. They shouted and shrieked, but those on board
did not hear them and the vessel ran by them. The tide
still rose higher and reached their knees, and death seemed