The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser. — 1854-07-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

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 mission 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 ciccalion, " with fervent prayer, her keel sups Ipid z in the bright sun a summer, and with praise And joyous sco;amation, 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, Monument-place, Loudon-road, committed suicide by cutting her throat with ,a razor. She appears to have contemplated 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 instrument 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  . hours. On a table in the bedroom were found some powders and bottles of medicine. Some very painful suppositions, we have heard, will form a subject of inquiry at the inquest, wilie4 is appointed for to-day (I\lo§4o,