The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

AUSTRAL/kW-SHIP MOVEMENTS.

On:,Sanday last the iclack Ball royal -Mail ship, James
Baines, Captain 'Maedonnel, belonging to Messrs. James
Baines Co., sailed for Melbourne, witha large.rard valuable
general cargo, and a heavy-mail. She also book old about 460
passengers. The neat Noss f..il despatched by this company will
be the stew Aberdeen built/ clipper ship Schonberg, Captain
J:*.N.Te+es, which will carry out the Mails of the sth Sep-
tember. The Schombcrg isnvow on the.berth.

heifirgt Royal Mail packet to Australia will be the Emma,
Captain °Underwood, bellonemg to Messrs oFilkington and
WilsonZe -celebrated "White Star Line," which sails for
Melbourne on the 21st instant. Her passeggerberths are well
taken np,and judging from tbe large proportion-of her cargo
accommodation which is already bespoke, she will:have a full
and -valuable cargo- to convey out. The • news received in
London • front the Colony new extends to the leth of May,
being fourteen days later than the dates brought. lay the Red
Jaeket, atrthe latter period as well as at the former business
continued to improve. Of Ilk the fares of emigrants to
Australia, have been considerably reduced, and this, coupled
with the improving prospects. of the colony 'wiled to more
animation, in the passengers trade.
The Queen ,e( the East, Captain Bilston, one of the " Fox
Line;" sailed:on Friday for Xelhourne with a good, general
cargo and alarge complement •iscpassengers.
Tice Albatross belonging to the Eagle Line, is on the berth
loading for. Melbourne, and.will bare early despatch ;..and, the
Gipsy Brideis announced fcr departure for the same, port on
the 20th iziAant.
The departures from Liverpool ?for Australia during the
month of July- have been—To sydnty, 2 vessels, of 14E48:tons,
and 21 passengers:; to Melbourne, ,Oships, of 8602
veying 1207 passengers ; to Adelaide, .3 vessels, of 3470 etons
and 382 passengers.; and to Hobart Town, 1 ship, of <ll4i
tons, with .358 passengers : total for Jnly, 1855, 12 vessels, of
14,308 tons, with 1068 passengers, .against the following --in
July, 1854 vessels, of 14,629 tons; with 4304 passengers.
As compared with the month of June, iet, there has been:a
considerable improvement in the number of passengers, which
as the season.advances, and the good news:become better known,
will without doubt be greatly increased.

NEW REEELEG APPARATUS.—We understand that Mr.
William Rowett, the patentee of the newly invented apparatus
*s)r reefing and ha idling ships' sails, willatte,nd at the Sailor's
gome, on Friday. vening next, at the request. of the directors,
in order to exhibit and explain,:iis invention to practical sea-
men. It is said to be a very great improvement ,cu all previous
plans, and only requires to be known in order to ,be generally
adopted.
.Locit AFTER YOITE POCKETS QC THE LA,NDIE,G STAGE.—
Willipan Smith, a well-known, rogue, was sent to gut)]. for two
months, yesterday,C for attempting to pick pockets on the
Landiug-stag,,e. One of the men, belonging to the stage saw
him with<his hand iu a lady's pocket, but she was getting on
to one of ,the boats which left et the moment, and lie was,
therefore, gamble to produce her. ,The prisoner had a con-
venient pocket with a hole 1-ntbe bottom, through which he
-thrust his baud, and picked pockets in 4lqcost perfect security.

Too CLEVEE BY HALF.—Aux Hughes,,c, rather good-loOr-
inz girl, about seventeen, was cbarged at the Police-court ye,s-
terday with obta:ming three new sorts from Mr. David Da-
vies,.outfitter, Prize-street, by false pretence;.. It appeared
that.the prisoner had been recently in the employ of a Mrs.
Kelly,who washed and "got up" the vew shirts inanufactured
at Mr. Davies's establishment. On Tuesday.she ment to Mr.
Davies, and said she had come from Mrs. Kelly,for any shirts
that needed washing, and took away three, ,which she pledged
for 3s. The impostureNas discovered next :time Mrs. Kelly
called at the shop, but fortunately she met the prisoner in
Whitechapel that day, ane took her to Mrs. Davies, where
she was given into custody. ,She was ordered to pay 35., and
a fine of 20s. for legally pledging, or go to prison fora•month.
ComgracrAL TEAVELLEIZS' ORPHAN Scnoo4s.—ln the
year 1847, au asylum was establiehed in a building which was
temporarily hired for the purpose at Wanstead, for the main-
tenance and education of the necessitous orphan children of
commercial travellers. This building has become so crowded
that it has been found necessary to erect a more commodious
one, which has been commenced on a plot of land at Pinner,
near Harrow, purchased from the London and North-western
Railway Company, and Prince Albert has promised to under-
take the ceremony of opening the institution when completed.
In order, however, that sufficient funds may be raised for the
purpose, an appeal is made to the public for assistance, and,
in furtherance of this object, a deputation from the Board of
Management is now in Liverpool. The appeal has been most
liberally and cordially responded to by some of the leading
merchants of the town; and as the benefits of the schools are
not confined to the metropolis, children from this and other
towns being eligible for admission, it is hoped that the depu-
tation will receive that measure of support which the charity
so well deserves.

MARTIN'S Prcruttrs.—There are now on view at the Aca-
demy Exhibition Rooms, Oid Post-office-place, three magnifi-
cent pictures, painted by the late John Martin, K.L. These
pictures are " The Last Judgment," " The Great Day of His
Wrath," and "The Plains of Heaven." Each and all of them
are fully imbued with the mystic spirit and bold imagination
which constitute so striking and peculiar a characteristic of
Martin's style. The most pleasing of the three is the last-
named of them, and it seems founded on the poet's fine descrip-
tion,

For earth
Hath this variety from Heaven
Of pleasure situate in bill,
Green wood or flowery dale.
Its composition is easy and flowing, full of character, and rich
in colour. The other two are possessed of the attributes of
awe, wonder, and material grandeur, and all of them are great
as well as extraordinary works. Zngravings, on a scale of
superior excellence, are about to be mblished of these noble
pictures, which all lovers of Martin's style, and they are
numerous, would dc. WO to avail theulgOlvogi of the opportu-
nity 0' acquiring,