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

AUSTRALIAN SHIP 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 Hem, 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 .on board 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,eheers 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 Shackamaxon, belonging to
Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s favourite " Eagle Line,"
sailed for Melbourne with .a valuable cargo and about '2OO
passengers, twenty of them being of the saloon-class ; 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 complement of passengers.
The .nezt Royal Mail packet for Australia will be 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 sth 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 'lsth of next month, to be fol-
lowed-on the 15th 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 are under 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 firms, 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 spared 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.

*Sir. MARK'S NEWS:_THOOLS.—On Sundaylast, sermons were
preached by the Lord Bishop of Chester andthe
Pollock, in behalf of the Building Fund. In the morning the
Mayor attended in state, and several members of the Corpora-
tion were present with an overflowing congregation. The
collections, including some.donations since privately forwarded,
amounted to the munificent .sum of £124 9s.

DBSEBNING or Sympearmr.—Consequent on die distressed
condition of the widow and family of the late Mr. William
Holdsworth, who was accidentally drowned while bathing last
week, the publie sympathy is loudly called for. For the long
period of twenty-one years the deceased occupied a responsible
position in the Post-office 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 ease, it is to be hoped the appeal
will be liberally responded to.

LIE STEAM-SHIP ABABIA.—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, onefrom 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. ?
west, the screw steamer Karnacc outward bound.