The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

AUSTRALIAN SIIIP MOVEMENTS.

DURING the past week several ships sailed from Liverpool
for Melbourne and other Australian ports, taking with them
large and valuable cargoes, and, considering the season of the
year, a fair number of emigrants. The Royal Mail packet
Ben Nevis, Captain Hern, belonging to Messrs. Pilkington
and Wilson's celebrated " White Star Line," sailed on Wed-
nesday afternoon at two o'clock, with .250 passengers, of whom
about 40 were first-class. She took also a large and valuable
cargo, and a Mail which amounted to about twenty-five tons.
The late Mail bags were slung onboard as she proceeded down
the river, so that no delay took place 'in the time fixed for her
sailing. Mr. Wilson and several of his assistants were on
board superintending the arrangements for the comfort and
convenience of the passengers, and on his leaving the ship he
was saluted by hearty cheers from the passengers and crew.
The day was clear and the weather fine, and all on board
seemed joyous as they joined in dancing -to the strains of the
ship's band. On Thursday, the €hackamaxon, belonging to
Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s favourite " Eagle Line,"
sailed for Melbourne with a valuable cargo and about 200
passengers, twenty of them being of the saloon-classi and the
same day the Defence, belonging to Mr. H. Fox's famous
"Fox Line," also-took her departure with a large cargo and a
fair•complementof passengers.
The next Royal Mail packet for Australia will he the
Champion -of the Seas, belonging to Messrs. James Baines
and Co.'s renowned " Black Ball Line," which is now on the
berth taking in-cargo and passengers, and.will have despatch
on the 6th of next month. The Shalimar, belonging to -the
" White Star Line," will be the following Mail, and will sail
on .the -20th proximo. The splendid-clipper-ship Constance,
2,000 tons burthen, 'belonging to the " Red Cross Line," is
now on the berth loading for her third voyage to Melbourne,
and as-she is well taken 'up she will be ready for sea in a few
days. Her passenger accommodation is of the first order, and
the scale of dietary allowed is liberal in amount and of excel-
lent quality. The Star of the East, belonging to the " Black
Star Line,' is on the berth loading and receiving passengers,
and will be despatched on the 15th of next month, to be fol-
lowed on the 16th of August by 'the Balmoral, belonging to
the same line. The Albatross, Captain Geves, of the
"Eagle Line," is loading, and will take her departure about
the middle of next month.; ,and the David G. Fleming, of the
" White Star Line," .and the Biobio, of the " Black Ball
Line," are also waiting for despatch, as extra vessels-of their
respective lines.
All the vessels named are of a high, and several of-them of
the very first class, as passenger -ships. They have all per-
formed successful voyages and areunder the command.of able
and experienced captains. To parties intending to emigrate,
-they offer every accommodation, and, consequent on the
emulous competition for .eminence which distinguishes 'the
various Liverpool firma, it is scarcely ,to be wondered at that
this port should have obtained so wide a celebrity as an emi-
gration port. Ships are, at all seasons, on the berth, and
departures are almost weekly.; while several of the leading
,firms have made arrangements for the regular periodical
despatch of vessels, and these arrangements are adhered to
with the most scrupulous -fidelity. Intending passengers are
thus spatted the inconvenience and expense attendant on a
protracted stay in a strange place. They can ascertain the
day of sailing to within a few hours, and make their ar-
rangements accordingly.

Sr. MA.Res NEW ScHooLs.—On Sunday lastAermons were
preached by the Lord Bishop of Clester andthe Rev. William
Pollock, in behalf of the Building Fund. In the morning the
Major attended in state, and several members of the Corpora-
tion were present with an overflowing congregation. The
collections, including some donations since privately ferwarded,
amounted to the munificent sum of £1.24
DESERVING} or SYMPATHY.—Consequent on the.distressed
condition of the widow and family of the late Mr. William
Holdsworth, who was accidentally drowned while bathing last
week, the public sympathy is loudly called for. For the long
period of tAventy-one years the deceased occupied a responsible
position in the Post-offiee, in this town, in connection with
which situation he was well-known for his obliging and polite
manner. Like many others holding subordinate, though
highly-responsible situations under government, virtue was
with him so far left to be its own reward, that he was unable
from his scanty salary, during all those years of labour and
anxiety, to make provision for his family, and now that they
have been unfortunately deprived of his aid, his ailing wife
and family, five young girls, have been suddenly reduced to
misery. Under these painful circumstances, a subscription has
been set on foot by several gentlemen of eminence and re-
spectability, and books for receiving the names of subscribers
lie at the banks and principal newspaper offices in town. Con-
sidering the urgency of the case, it is to be hoped the appeal
will be liberally responded to.
THE STEAM-SHIP AHApIA.—The Arabia steam transport,
No. 95, Captain Stone, arrived at Spithead at sunset on Sun-
day, from the East. She left Kamiesch June 5 ; Constanti-
nople, June 11; Malta, June 16. She brought home Com-
mander Little, R.N., and servant ; Lieutenant-Colonel For-
dyce, of the 47th Regiment ; Captain Rotton, of the Royal
Artillery; Captain Lawrence, of the transport Orient; Cap-
tain Porter, of the Royal Engineers ; Captain Denny, of the
28th Regiment ; Captain Ball, of the 34th (in charge) ; Lieu-
tenant Howard, of the Royal Artillery; Ensign Penne-
father, of the 55th ; Surgeon Scott, of the 79th ; Sur-
geon Dod, of the 71st; Paymaster Halley, of the 11th; H.
P. Ward, R.N. ; five men of the Royal Artillery, one officer,
one officer's servant, five men from Her Majesty's ship Albion,
and nineteen invalid soldiers, from various regiments, in charge
of Dr. Newell, of the Arabia. The following were landed at
Malta :—One man of the 49th regiment, one of the 47th, one
from Her Majesty's ship Albion, Captain Millar, Royal Artil-
lery; and nine men of the Royal Artillery. On the 17th of
June, the Arabia spoke, in lat. 37 38, long. 9 52 E., the Bri-
tish Queen, screw-steamer, with shaft broken ; on the same
day the bark Duke; on the 18th, in lat. 37 26, long. 3 43, the
American ship Cowper ; on the 19th, in lat. 36 40, long. 2 9
west, the screw steamer Karnac, outward bound,