The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-18 00:00:00

KUSTRALIA-EMIGRATION

TitE.pert of Liverpool is still entitled to malze,the proud
boast of being one of the first emigration . Tents in the
world,- If not the very 'first ; and she is without doubt one
of the-“and outlets for the yet rising tide 'of Australian
emigration. This is greatly owing, no doubt, to the faci-
lities possessed by. Liverpool as a general-seaport; but
moreparticularly to the high character deser7edly attained
bY•her noble fleet of,emigrant ships, whieh in point of
safety and comfort,vannot be surpassed:;! and which for
celerity of voyaging-defy competition. +lustre' of these
iplemlid vessels took their departure last week for Aus-
tralia and America, ezal they will bespoedily followed by
Others of equal reputation and desert. Among the
Australian departures, the Joni KNOK, ',Captain Killea,
one,of the "Thistle" line of packets. belonging to Mr.
Duncan Gibb, sailife on Wednesday, afternoon for •Mel-,
'bourne, with a large complement of • emigrants- and an .
extensive and valuable cargo of general merchandise on
board. On Friday, the MINDORA, Captain Crowell, of th
',Golden" line, belonging to Messrs. Millers and Thompson.
:weighed anchor,..ani stood down stream on her voyage 'to
'Melbourne, with...T.7o passengers, and..npwards Of 1400,
tons of cargo, •cor.sisting of manufactured and other.
-woods. The • BET., Captain IZaisbeek, one of Messrs.
.Gibbs, Bright, .and Co. s " Eagle"..dine of packets, with
.300 passengers. ona.oard, proceeded to Ara early this morn-
iir.g, on her.way to:Melbourne. The M.r..u.co PoLo, Capt.
Vyld, the most.ietbrated of the celebre.ted "Black Hall"
line, belonging to Messrs. James Baines and Co., went
into the riverou-Ssturday and mustered her passengers,
'numbering in.ii l '613, making, when 'added to her crew,'
IT% individuals-en board. Besides .ker passengers alie
.carries a large arid valuable cargo Orlee, and generally
light goods. She.avill take her de&rture on Thursday.
The iminecliattely_succeecling shipstgthose above-nainera.
Ic..° the respective lines, are,--in the. ":Golden" line, the.
mew clipper n OF TIIE Illonx.rya, which is adv•er-
Need to leave on .the 10th 'of nextlizanth,and on or about
that period she...-wal depart, many of ,ler berths 'being
:already engaged. The passengers lay this line are limited
te from 280 to 390,.;per ship, hence their Accommodations
'ere of a high class. In the "Black Ball" line, the famous
'lifarco Polo will laa,succeeded by the CLANMERDEN, a, •
,Sihip of 1787 tong. Messrs. Pilkington:alid Wilson,. pro-
prietors of tire- .".White Star" line, it is expected,
':despatch the ship-F.lmA, Captain Underwood, in• course
(tithe present week; as will also Mr. Fox, of the "Fox
line, despatch the '..DELGANY, of 1350 tens; and Mr.
Ti:althew, of the:' °.Liverpool" line, -Will send out the
fx,Ecerirx —all of which are rapidly fillingwitla pasiengers.
The Emigration . fornmissioners are . also active, and
have,
.dnring the pst fortnight, chartered the ship
Mvaorr to sail from.23irkenhead for Adelaide on the 15th
of .next month. Thy have also advertised for vessels to
tarry emigrants—one, for Sydney, is to be ready on the
2d, and one for. AdElaide and one for Portland Bay on
they2sth'of Angustnest._

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Laveypopl is fully maintained up to the present time, and,
eatigratks... celebrity of
1171 s thus 'mest that the
obvious, that the prestige is on the increase. Prosperity
so far,ns existing imrinations warrant, the,conclusion is
uuchegnered in so impirtant and ertensivc:a branch .of
traffic:is not to be looked.for, and during the vast week it
has received a shock du the unhappy eircinestances at-
tending _the return of gic Dingo. The alarroing and
fatal out.-reak of the AsVic pestilence on board that ship
is deeply to be deplored: hut, like other mysterious and
afllietivazyisitations liroxidence, although bilging the
precautigns_adopted by human prudence, ithas been one
so totally Independent of loca.l connexion or eontrpl as not
in any degree to be chargeable against the emigration
arrangements of Liverpool. On the coutmr, the
elaborated ypecautions adopted by the owners for 'Rearing
the ssrPtyPf :.the passengers, prior to their embaaAtion,
*have provredlO'he .of the mostjudicious kind arid. since
the return orthe vessel their ,ap.xiety, for keniethig the
health and comfort of the uninfected, and for securhw the
convalescence of OP sick, )148 egteded all praise; Secorlded
by the efforts of the emigration officers, nothing has 4en,
left undone whi+.7lilonmanity con!.4 prompt or science sAg-
gest to assuage. trie.mufferings',of the one and insure ,t4e
safety and comfort of the .other doss. The outbreak ef
the epidemic has !been clearly traced to sufferers why,
'having forsaken giggler emigration. port and come to
LiVerpool, have nr,consciously brought them tile.
seeds of digeriQ Mithictith; Mid" cliiselnifnafed" these among
their hapless .fellowtpasse,ngers. L'inlia the luckless cir-
cumstances'whieb 'Wive ;hang upop their fate, it is credit-
able
for Liverpool, and satisfactory in qery point of view
-to know that no suggestion of benevolence, and no effort
oaf skill, has been wanting
_to avert the ,alamity, or to
Aleviate the sorrows of;tbesktdcerer?.

3111? PATA.GONIAN AtiSLIWIC.
.00' Liverpool
Stardard of the 20th ultimo .we
allnded to -M.,. progress
of whip to -be named the-Allep Gardiner, then;in process
of being built at Dartmouth, for. the Purposes pi'The mis-
sion to Patagonia. . We also
.alluded to the .shortness of
funds r:hich the society experienced in having t ,e ship
compleio and properly furnished. Since then7the,yessel
has been,completed. "Under the datlL.sky of Noverpher,"
says a repo,rt of the proceedings on the: interesting cicca-
lion, " with fervent prayer, her keel sups Ipid z in the
bright sun a summer, and with praise And joyous sco;a-
mation, her construction was, accomplished. With few to
witness, the first part of her frame WAS Ma 9n the blocks.:
with many witnesses on the. 11th of hly, the perfected
vessel glided sw,iftly off those blocks intO:tAe sea, amidst
the acclamations of about 1,500 spectators."-.-A sale of
useful and ornanratal work was 'held in the Assembly
Rooms, .Old Button-walk, Dartmouth, ..ou the morning of
the same day, for the benefit, of the Patagonian Mission,
At which not less- than R7O was collected to ,assist in
fitting out the vessel. We have much pleasure in Adding
that tbe 'ensign and °titer flags, to the number of eighteen,
were provided for the Oen Gardiner by the liberality .of
certain members of St'. Bride's congregation, in *this
town ; and by the display of these the decoration of the
missionary ship was much increased, while she lay for tbo
last hour on the stocks and us she glided into the water.
Contributions in aid of the mission will be received by Mr.
A. T. Ritchie, Oxford-street.

SuiclDE or A LADY IN LivEappor..—On Friday, Mrs.
Baguall, aged thirty-four, widow, residing at No. 5, Monu-
ment-place, Loudon-road, committed suicide by cutting
her throat with ,a razor. She appears to have contem-
plated the rash act for some time ; for, about a week ago,
she sent her three children, the eldest of whom is not
more than sixteen, and her servant, into Wales, having
no one with herself but a boy, occasionally, to clean the
shoes and knives, and go of errands. She was last seen
alive, on Friday morning, about eleven o'clock, when a
charwoman called upon her for the purpose of ascertaining
when her services would be required. After paying the
woman a shilling, which she owed her, Mrs. Bagnall said,
" I shall not want you any more this week ; but, if I do,
I will send Johnny (the errand-boy) for you?' The lad
was in her house on Saturday morning, but did not see
his mistress, having to leave at an early hour to assist. his
father. He returned to Monument-place in the afternoon,
about half-past five o'clock ; and, not finding,Mrs.Bagnall
in the lower rooms, he went up stairs. After calling and
knocking at the door of her bedroom without receiving an
answer, he went in. On the side of the bed lay the dead
body of the unfortunate lady. There were three gashes
in her throat, extending across the windpipe
.to the right
ear, which had evidently been inflicted by some sharp in-
strument held in the deceased's right hand. In a pool of
blood, near the bedside, he found an open razor, and the
deceased's garters. An alarm was raised, and surgical
aid obtained, but life had been extinct shout twenty-four

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hours. On a table in the bedroom were found some pow-
ders and bottles of medicine. Some very painful suppo-
sitions, we have heard, will form a subject of inquiry at
the inquest, wilie4 is appointed for to-day (I\lo§4o,