The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

A USTRALIA.

TEE ship Marco Polo, Captain Clarke, arrived on Saturday
from Melbourne, with adfices to the 25th July, 350 passen•
gers, 125,000 ounces of gold on freight, 450 bales wool, and
120 tons smelted copper.

The Royal Mail chip White Star and British Trident, hence,
had arrived at Melbourne, the former on the 17th, and the
latter on the 18th July.
The Legislative Council had been prorogued to the 4th of
Sept., but it would not meet for the despatch of business until
December. Mr. O'Shanassy had given notice of motion to
the effect that, whether the new constitution should have
answered or not, responsible government should be introduced
without further delay. The revenue returns to the 30th of
June showed a decrease on the year of £70,729 145.; on the
quarter corresponding with the same time last year the de-
crease was £171,917 Os. 7d. The total income for the year
was £3,148,847 14s. 2d. Trade was dull, employment scarce,
wages much lowered, and the necessaries of life exorbitantly
dear. Many of the government works had been stopped for
want of funds.

Some new diggings had been discovered in the WhipstiCk
Scrub, about fourteen miles from Sandhurst.

An expedition was about to start from Sydney to explore
the interior of the Australian continent.

Mr. W. A. Eyre, who formerly held a commission in the
British army, had committed suicide by cutting his throat.
He has a wife and laige family in England. On the voyage
he had been drinking to excess.
At Geelong a numerously attended meeting of Scotchmen
had been held, for the purpose of affording relief to the
suffering poor of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and
also to discuss the position of many of the working class of
Highlanders in the colony, relative,to certain debts due by
them to the Highland and Island Emigration Society.
At Adelaide, on the 17th July, the weather was mild and
seasonable. The necessaries of life were very dear. The
number of unemployed single young women supported at
government expense in Adelaide was 519, and on board ships
at-Port-Adelaide 376.

Arrangements will soon be made to save the expenses
attending the transmission of wools 200 miles by railway, the
consideration for-which has. to be paid by the producer of the.
woos,• and the consumer (notwithstanding the extra cost) b-
at a greater disadvantage.
This- will be obviated as soon as sales are properly com-
mencect in Liverpool; and if once-tried on a large scale are
certain to be continued. On comparing the rates of freight
from Sydney and Melbourne to London and Liverpool, it will
be seen that the difference is upwards of 5 per cent. on the
declared value in favour of Liverpool; or, in the phraseology
of the Scotdr banker, "five bales out of every hundred" are
taken for freiglt from Sydney to London more than from
Melbourne to Liverpool. If the clip of Port Philip is esti-
mated at £1,000;000,: by this means a saving is effected of no
less than £50,000;. which would otherwise• have come directly
from the pocket of the shipping owner.
This is a consideration which cannot be overlooked, and the
parties offering it must ultimately succeed in the undertaking.
There is no doubt when a market is establishediin Melbourne
—which both merchants and squatters agree is• necessary—
wools will be brought here from the neighbouring colonies,
inasmuch as it will pay them to send it this way. The central
position of Melbourne marks it at once to be the metropolis of
Australia.

The transactions in tallOw for shipment during thelast two
months have been limited, nearly the whole being taken for
consumption at extreme rates-. Good description of mutton
selling- at £6O to £65. Mixed beef and low mutton, 4337 to
ZIO: Hides, salted, each, lls, to 12s. 6d. Sheepskins-
(country), 2.5. to 2s. 6d. Feights to Liverpool. 40s. Freights-
on wool to Liverpool, id. ; to London, id.

NABIZATIVE OF TtTE FRENZY 01P'
JOHN BRIGHT
(AFTER, POPE.)

(From the Prem..)
THESE' things, Christian reader, were communicated to me,.
being at Manthester, in the county of )Lancaster, on affairs, by
one Obadichullieshpots, a friend of the unhappy person whose
malady is hereinafter depicted. They.-are set down, not for the
mortification;orthis man, or this, while malicious interpreta-
tion may be putupors my narration by-the malignant, but for
a threefold end----via-, imprimis, that we may note to what
Tying and forgery:unrighteous men will descend when egged
on by the Tempter.; seeundo, that the rottenness of such
mendacious practices may be fully exposed and laid bare; and
fertio; that all of humane disposition maylend their pity and
commiseration, and,as-tteheathen poet snith, misero succurere
diseante.

Coming into my bed-rcom at the Grr,b-Inn,. Shoddy-lane,
where I was making-lip my- accounts, as a ,commercial agent
is 'bound to do at nightfall„ the said Obadiah; of whom I had
knowledge, for we rs,er.e.onae fellow shopmen. didapproaeh my
talle something hastily,.annt with no by yaur.leave did drink
up pertain rum and water. Then, sitting clown upon my bed,
and:'strluting me by .tY„erfamMar title of Old Cock. (my name is
Peter Druggett), instigated rze to order two-more sixes, hot.
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kindly disposed towards them who submitted ,to 'him_ But
that something which he had read in a diurnal, *sailed the
Times, lid utterly overturnedarxi routed him, To. my demand
what Wf18• this writing whieh• had been so hurtfulrObadiah
replied that he had not seen it,. but that he bad-heard it was
a declaratiOn that three merr.had sworn an eternal.friendship
and brotherhood, and that they woldd overthrew-the-Queen's
Majesty's .6.,evernment, enter together into office; and. make
peace with. the Czar of Russia:. That these three-men were
declared brthe said TiMesta,be. the said Bright] the• Right
Hon. Beattnin; DZarucli, o•nit the, Right Hon. William, Ewart
wadstone.

Hereat I Shouted, with soms.contamely, the falmilood, and
impossibility` of such a union. being apparent to any, rational
man. liut Fleskrpots shook hiss head, and declaod it was. no
jesting matter; Composing myself, therefore,. I.,,heard; as
follows :

That on thesoii Bright rearlingxthe statement iirquestion,
he danced roma, the room eight times, to the confasionof his
family, who, with himself, belong to a religious-. soeiety to
whom all dancing .abhorrent..
That, proce3dingfrom bad to worse (for nemo Kopento frit
tigrpissimus),. he cried with a loud. voice that he would. be
Mowed if he wouldn't be Premierby First Month.. Swearing
being still more-contradictory to, his, tenets than dancing,. his
family were itexpressibly shocked;. rushed from his presence,
and sent for sweral. noted members, of his sect, to whom he
behaved in a most unbecoming rummer, offering to bet them
new broadbrims,that he was mate-a. Lord by Third':Month in
the new year, • an& proposing to -fight them for farthings.
Having thus, rln:onebrief hour, committed dancing, swearing,
gambling, and 'fighting, he became- calmer, and kicked them
all out of the house.. • _ _

_ He then set- to. work to qualif.jf himself for tlia_coalition
which he. supposed was to take place; and began hy reading
oneof Mr. .Gindstone's speeches,. Which occupied Lim: seven
hours. At the.-end of that time he-obtained a Latin-grammar
belonging to a young member of his family, audeleclarkig
that he also must. make classical speeches, committed. to his
memory (whish•isexcellent, when Ile likes) several. gerunds
and supines, andthe- three concords,: which he asserted would
come in well im-a peace speech. Ile- also learned thepropriel
von maribust trilistaniur. His servant-maid then coming in
to demand What he: would like br, dinner—for the Friends,
or.. Quakers, do understand good, t living—he -said..that he
should like threecoarses to be beforehim. Furtherimitating
Mr. Gladstone; he said that the • servant-maid's-damand was
inexact, for, that there was a diSrenee between -svhat, a, person
liked and what he would have, hut that.if, he ccauded: to her
that she was to pleas -upon the tablethat which
he should selteti he was next prompted. to ask himself what
was in seeson,...and a reply to this. entailed the -.necessity of
possessing certain information which he. made it; an, instruc-
tion to her to.obtain from the tradesmen who-supplied the
mansion with,edibles. The servant, unaccustomed. to be so
addressed, immediately gave warning._
John Bright sent to his bockaeller for the -whale of Mr.
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persuasion,. conceived that such. a demand,..professing to come
from the said Bright, winags incon-
tinentlyatn:tpneouirptsoautl,Sweildladinidig,,a)agaild,stil
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in. whose
remained., In the meantime the said Bright declared that he
too, woutlwrite some novels-and romances-which sbould take
the shine, as he phrased it, out of everybody, and he sat up
until :the:middle of the night, writing a nelitical tale, in which
the heroine, being the wife of a dandy 2,1,1).,- ~ who got tipsy on
the nUat of an important debate„dressedherself in her hus- .
bancrs-.clothes, put on a moustache, and,. easily passing for
effeminate lord, took her seat in the Noose, but, being worked,:
upor„by the impassioned uratory of,a celebrated Quaker mem,.
ben very carefully and favorably described), threw herself into
his arms, sobbing and crying, to the great scandal of the
Speaker and the Sergeant-at-Arras.
On the proximate day,the said Briat's bewilderment atthe
unexpected tidings teas, another turn, and he insisted ;von
holding a levee, at which. All the magnates of Manchestertwere
summoned to attendand kiss.his la-aul; whereto some of them
demurring, he went, round to their-houses and punched their
heads, severally and.respectively,_he being, as is well 'known,
of pugilistic tendencies.

rilien he wrote letters to the said Gladstone and Disraeli, to
their utter mystification, prenaioing to stand by them like a
good one, and asking how they thought the great offices of
State should be•distributed, aiding that "something must be
done for poor dear Cobby"—by which he was supposed to
mean Mr. Cobden, M.P., one of his dependents. The said
Gladstone and. Disraeli each returned him a soothing answer,
and wrote privately. to his friends advising a straight waist-
coat.

His last freak, was writing to Sir Charles Barry, architect of
the Houses. of Parlianumt, ordering him to, make a separate
seat, with arms to it, on the Treasury bench, for him, Bright,
and threatening to hang him (though generally opposed to,
capital punishments) in case of a default,

-
But some well-wisher (he has several) having sent him
a copy of a Conservative paper in which the whole statement
of the Times was explained to be utterly unfounded, or rather
to have been founded on some joke in an Irish paper, male-
volently expanded into a story, he burst into a great rage, ex-
claimed that he had always said that all newspapers (except a
few.under his own thumb) ought to be put down, and went off
to meeting._

Obadiah Fleshpots having concluded his statement, I gave
him some more rum and water, and hastened to pen down
these particulars for the reasons I have above stated, and which
I leave to the favorable consideration of the charitably-minded.
P. D.

CHESTEIt AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY,---The traffic for the
week ended October 14th, 1855, was as follows:—Passengers,
parcels, &c., £3,214 Bs. 4d.; steam-boats, £520 14s. 2d; goods,
£2,376 7s. 3d. ; total, including Carnarvon traffic, £6,111
9s. 9d. Corresponding week last year :—Passengers, parcels,
&c., £3,041 13s. Bd. ; steam-boats, £491 18s. sd. ; goods,
£1,795 ss. sd. ; total, including Carnarvon traffic, £5,328
17s. 6d. Increase, £782 12s. 3d.
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