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

A USTRALIA.

Ting ship Marco Polo, Captain Clarke, arrived ou Saturday
from Melbourne, with ad flees to the 25th July, 360 passen-
gers, 125,000 ounces of gold on freight, 450 bales- wool, and
120 tons smelted copper.
The Royal Mail ship 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 14s. ; 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. IV. A. Eyre, who formerly held a commission in the
British army, had committed suicide by cutting his throat.
He has a wife and large family in England. On the voyage
to-had been drinking to excess.
At Geelong a numerously attended meeting of Scotehmen
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 00 miles by railway, the
consideration for which has to be paid by the producer of the
wool, and the consumer (notwithstanding the extra cost) is
at a greater disadvantage.
This will be obviated as soon as sales are properly com-
menced 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 Scotch banker, "five bales out of every hundred" are
taken for freight from Sydney to London more- than from
Melbourne to Liverpool. If the clip of Port Philip is esti-
mated at £1,000,0004 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 established in 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 the last 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, £37 to
£4O. Hides, salted, each, lls-. to 12s. ad. Sheepskins
(country), 2s. to 2s. 6d. Heights to Liverpool, 40s. Freights
on wool to Liverpool, id. to London,

ITARRATITTE OF THE FRENZY OF
JOHN R I all. T.
(AF TEA POPS.),

(From tJe Frets.)

TAnt.things, Christian reader, were communicated to me,
being at Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, on affairs, by
one Obadiah Fleshpots, a friend of the unhappy person whose
malady is- hereinafter depicted. They are set down, not for the
mortification of this man, or this,. while malicious interpreta-
tion may be put upon my narration by the malignant, but for
a threefolil!end—viz., imprimis, that we may note to what
lying and forgery unrighteous men will descend when egged
on by the• Tempter ; secundo, that the rottenness of such
mendacious- practiccs may be fully exposed and laid bare; and
tertio, that all••of humane disposition may lend their pity and
commiseration,,and,as the heathen poe.:Aaith, misero succurere
diactinte,

Coming into -my bed-room at the Grub Inn, Shoddy-lane,
where I was -nlaidng up- my accounts, as-a commercial agent
hs, bound to do, atrnig.htfall, the said Obadiah; of whom I had
'knowledge, for Wt•ivere sure fellow shop:nen, did-approach my
table something hastily, aad with no by: your leave did drink
up certain runt: at td water-._ Then,.sitting.down upon my bed,
odaccinuaotinedt);
ar.
and saluting me•brthe- familiar title of CM Cock4(my name is
athat(being John E
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Filter rtruggett),. instigated me to order two more sixes, hot.
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was •sttangely troarbitid.in; mind.

Oliadiali fleshpots enlarged, to rue, after; -how that the said
Bright had until within the last fortnight been a shrewd and
keen, man of business, loud and self-complacent, but not AD-
kindly disposed towardir thAnn, who submitted to him. But
that something while! .he- bad read in a diurnal, called the
Timsgilad utterly orerturned and routed him;- To my demand
what was this writing -which had been so hurtful,.obadiah
replied, that, he had not seen it,. bat that he had heard, it was
a declaration that three .-men had sworn an eternal friendship
and brotherhood, and that they- would overthrow-the Queen's
Majesty's -Ckwernmerrt, enter together into office, and. make
peace rrith the Czar of' Russia- That these three-men were
declared, by the said ?'lines to. the said Beig„hti the-Right
Hon. Borjarain Disraeßrand, the Eight Hon- William Ewart
Gladstone:.

Hereatiq shouted, with some• contumely, the falsehoods and
impossitilitY of such a union, being apparent to any rational
man. But, Fleshpots shook his head, and declared. it wafi, no
jesting matter. Compteing myself, therefer3, _l.!heard as
follows

That enthe said Bright- reading the statement. in o,nestiou
he dance& round the roona eight theses, to the confusion:of his
family, who, with himself, belong to a religious. society to
whom all dancing is abhorrent.
That, ;receeding from tad to worse (for nestio,repente fit
turpissimms); he cried with a loud voice that he would, be
blowed if he: wouldn't be Premier by First llionth:. Swearing
being still'inore contradictory to his tenets than-dancing,. his
family were inexpiessibly shocked, rushed frem his presence,
and sent forseireral noted members of his sect, to whom he
behaved "*.iiia mest unbecoraing.manner, offerlng..lo bet them
nen broadbrims that he was made a Lord by Third:Month, ii
the new year, and proposing-,to fight them, for farthitgs,.
Having tins, in one brief ham.; committed dancing, swearing,
gambling,:and fighting, he became calmer, and kickcA them
all out of Outhouse.

Hetien set to work ta cpwlify himself foria,wtghiiht,nehagsn
which he-supposed was to take place, and began by reading
one of 2/1;:r .Gladstone's speechesl. which occupied . hire. seven i
hours. At the end of that time he obtained a Latin grammar
belonging: to a young member of his family, and,deelaring
that he, also must make ca-ssice.l ,speeches,. committed. to his
memory (which is excellent; when be likes): coveral, gerunds
and supines, and the three concords, which he asserted. would
come in. well in a peace speicl2,, Be also learned the prepriii
qua maribus. tribuuntur- MS servant-maid.then.ooming in
to demand. what he wouht. like for dinner—for, the. Friends,
or Qom :Lars,. do understand good living---he. said. that he
should like: three courses tobebefore him. Furtherimitating
Mr. Gaadstone, he said that. the servant-reaid'sdemand was
inexact, for that there Wa.VA difference• between what a person
liked and, what he would have, but that it he conceded to her
that shh was prepared to place upon the; table that which
he should select, he w . next prompted. to ask:himself what
was in,season, and a reply to this entailed the. necessity of
possessing certain information which he made it an instruc-
tion- tober to obtain from the, tradesmen, who supplied the
mansion. with edibles. The servant, unaccustomed to be BO-
addressed, immediately. gave warning.
the said
the: whole of Mr.
persuasion,
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Disraeli's works. Tits tradesman, being.alse of the Quaker
tinontbr gave- the messenger in charge. of the Manchester
remained. In the meantime the saidßright, declared that he
too would write scale novels and roroances, which should take
the shine, as he phrased it, out of,' everybody, and he sat up.
until the middle of the night, writing, a political tale, in which.
the heroine, being, the wife of a dandy i11,..P., who got tipsy on
the night of an itnportant debateolressed herself in her hue..
band's clothes, -Ant-en a mou.stsche,.and, easily passing for her,.
effeminate lord., took ber seat in,the- Hulse, but, being worked
upon by the impassioned oratory.; of a, celebrated Quaker mem,.
her (very carefully and favorabls described), threw herself lute
his arms, sobbing and crying,_ to the great scandal of the
Speaker and. the. Sergeant-at-4.rms.
On the proximate day thesaid Bright's bewilderment at the,
unexpected,tidings took another turn, and he insisted, upon
holding a levee, at which all; the magnates of Manchester.wexe.
summoned to attend and hiss his hand ; whereto some of them
demurring, he went round to their houses and punched their
heads, severally and,respectively, he being, as is well kPowna,.
of pugiliitic tendencies.. coalki:ntafdi,ncioensom:n.inile..l. 1

Then he wrote letters.to the said Gladstone and, Disraeli, ba
their utter mystification, promising to stand by them, like. a
good. one, and asking how they thought the great oillees of
State should be distributed, adding that " something_ must be
done. for, poor dear Cobby"—by which he was. supposed to
mean Mr. Cobden, M.P., one of his depeDdents.. `fie said
Gladstone and Disraeli each returned him a soothing answer,
,ind, wrote privately to his friends advising a. straight waist-
coat.

His last freak was writing to Sir Charles Barry, architect of
the Houses. of Parliament, 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 debalt.

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 juke 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 og
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.

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week ended October 14th, 1855, was as follows:—Passengers,
parcels, &c., £3,214 Bs. 4d.; steam-boats, £520145. 2d; goods,
£2,376 7s. 3d. ; total, including Carnarvon traffic, £6,111
9s. 91 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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