The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

THE ship Ocean-Chief, belonging to Messrs. James Baines
and Co., arrived here on Sunday from Sydney, with 15,000
ounces of gold, and 30,000 sovereign on freight ; also, 2,260
bales wool, besides a large quantity of other cargo. She left
Sydney on the 3rd June, on which day the Scotia was to sail
for London; and on the 6th June the Boomerang was to leave
Melbourne for this port, with the-mails, which had been dis-
patched from Sydney. _ _

There was a further improvement in almost every descrip-
tion of imports, and, in many instances, brisk sales at the
advanced rates. Confidence appeared to be gradully return-
ing.. Bills on London, thirty days' sight, were quoted, Bank
buying rate, 1 to 2 prem.; selling ditto, 3to 4 prem. The
discount on bills under three months was 6 per cent. per
annum, ditto four months, 7 per cent. Provisions were in good
demand, and for some kinds famine prices were being readily
paid. Beer was firm, the heavy stocks having been materially
lessened. A great dulness prevailed in the demand for wines.
Spirits were less firm. Drapery was dull owing to large
stocks. Ironmongery had improved. Domestic servants'
wages were a little lower.
The screw-steamer Bosphorous would leave Melbourne on
or about the 20th June, for Point de Galle.

The wages of seamen had an upward tendency owing to
their scarcity. Wages ruled at £7 per month.
The supply of flour from the rural districts being almost
entirely exhausted, an advance had taken place in the price of
fine imported flour and wheat.
Little or no change had occurred in the gold market.
From the Ist !January to the Ist June, the receipts of gold
direct by the southern and western escorts were 37,710
ounces.

At the Mint the process of coining was progressing rapidly,
and Australian sovereigns would shortly be in circulation.
The disposition of some of the Sydney Banks to raise the rate
of exchange on London from 3 td 4 per cent. seemed to have
caused much inquiry for wool as a remittance, and au im-
provement in prices for that staple was anticipated.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE SUMMER

AS SIZ.E S.

CROWN COURT.—TUESDAY, AUGUST 21.
(Before Baron Platt.)

His lordship, on taking his seat, which, by au accident to
the high-sheriff's carriage, he was prevented from doing till
ten minutes past nine o'clock, proceeded to the trial of
ASSAULTS WITH CRIMINAL INTENT—in the the course of
which Abraham Naylor was sentenced to transportation for
life, he being convicted of a very aggravated assault on a
married woman, named Prudence Frost. Three men, who came
forward and bore evidence with the intention of proving an
alibi on the part of the prisoner, were committed for perjury.
—William Higginbottom, accused of an outrage on a girl
named Betty Hatton, was acquitted.—William Halliwell, con-
victed of an assault upon a girl named Agnes Heaton, was
sentenced to be imprisoned for six months, with hard labour.
—James Crompton, convicted of an outrage on a child named
Hannah Dawson, was sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve
months, with hard labour. .

MURDER AT NEWTON.—Thomas Peters (aged 29), glass-
blower, was indicted for the wilful murder of James Rose, at
Newton-le-Willows, on the 14th of July last. The prisoner
and the deceased were fellow-workmen at the Newton glass-
works. About four o'clock in the morning, having been
working all night, they went together to a public-house in
the neighbourhood, and had some drink served to them
through the window. The prisoner afterwards lay down in
the road, and the deceased went into a field and lay down.
He had not been lying there long before the prisoner came
and threw a handful of mugs at him and cut his face. A
scuffle ensued, but the combatants were •separated, and the
prisoner went home. The deceased returned to the public-
house. Soon afterwards the prisoner entered the tap-room,
and the deceased said to him, " For two pins I would knock
your d-d head off for that dirty action you have done,"
and at the same time aimed a blow at the head of the pri-
soner. Blows were given and exchanged, and in the course
of the scuffle the prisoner stabbed the deceased five or six
times with a knife. The left ventricle of the heart was pene-
trated, and almost instant death was the consequence. The
prisoner was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to
six months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
BIGAMY.—Robert Henry Jones was found guilty of having,
on the 28th May last, married a woman named Mary Ann
Doyle, his former wife being then alive. He was sentenced
to eleven days' imprisonment,which would expire on the rising
of the court.