The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

APRIL 5, 1853.

MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE AT SEA :
A VESSEL RUN DOWN.

The steamer Minerva left Liverpool on Tuesday after-
noon, and had proceeded on her voyage to Belfast to
about midway between the Calf of Man and the South
Rock Lighthouse, when a vessel was observed right under
her bows, and so close that to escape collision seemed im-
possible. The hour was about ten o'clock, the weather
had been very hazy, and the ill-fated vessel had, it is
stated, shown no light till the steamer's bowsprit was
almost over her bulwarks. Then a lantern was raised up
from her deck ; but, previous to that, the helm of the
Minerva was put hard-a-port, the engines were reversed, ,
and every effort made to avoid the collision, but without
avail. They came in contact, and in the space of a second
the ill-fated vessel and her crew were engulphed. No
trace of either could be seen, notwithstanding the most
diligent search. The chances that one out of all on board
escaped to tell the tale are slight indeed. The name of
the vessel is unknown. Captain Lyall, of the Minerva,
in his statement, said : All I could observe was that she
had two masts, and that no light was shown until imme-
diately before the accident took place. As soon as the r,
light was observed the helm was put hard-a-port, and the
engines stopped and backed, but not with the desired
effect. One of our boats was, as soon as practicable,
lowered, and every effort made, but no vestiges were to
be found. The Minerva has not sustained the slightest
damage. Arrived in Belfast at 450 a.m., on Wednesday.
At the Belfast police-court, next morning, Capt. Duncan
said : Your worship, I was on my passage from Liverpool
to this port, last night, on board the steamer Minerva,
and when about fifteen miles northward of the Isle of
Man, the steamer came into collision with a schooner.
A few minutes before the collision, I was standing at the
forward part of the steamer, and saw a vessel coming
from the northward. We were then nearing the South
Light. Shortly afterwards the collision took place, and
no effort was made by those in charge of the steamer to
save those in the schooner. The Minerva was in charge
of the mate at the time ; and I called, before the collision,
to two of the hands standing on the bridge, " For God's
sake shift your helm," but no change was made in the
steamer's course. I just then heard a voice from the
schooner cry out, " Oh ! this is murder," and she then
went down. (Sensation.)—Mr. Verner : Where was the
captain of the Minerva at this period ?—Capt. Duncan :
The captain was below, and the steamer was in charge of
the mate. I could not say whether the mate was on deck
at the time of the disaster or not; but I saw the captain
on deck afterwards. There were no exertions made at
the time of the occurrence to save the people in the
schooner. The steamer was going at the rate of about
twelve knots an hour ; she, at any rate, ran at about that
rate from the time she left Liverpool until she arrived
at the scene of the disaster.—Mr. Verner: Could the
schooner have been seen at a distance from the steamer ?
Captain Duncan : She could have been seen visible at a
distance of two miles. It was about a quarter to eleven
o'clock when the collision took place. The Minerva had
lights up, but the schooner was so close when I observed
her, that I could not see whether she had any lights up
or not. I may now state it as my opinion to your wor-
ship, that, had those on board the steamer been doing
their duty, the disaster would not have taken place.
(Sensation). There was a man at the helm at the time,
but it was not shifted when I gave the alarm. The
Minerva was obliged to stop after the collision, and a
boat was lowered from the steamer after the collision,
merely to see if she was injured. The schooner and all
on board of her had disappeared some time before this.
(Sensation). A few minutes after the collision, I saw
two men swimming near one of the paddles of the steamer,
but they were not saved. I myself belong to Belfast,
and am of the seafaring profession.—Mr. Verner : About
what size was the schooner I—Captain Duncan : About
140 tons burthen, your worship.—Mr. Verner : Did you
see any name on her, or do you know to whom she be-
: longed ?—Captain Duncan : I have no idea of either.—
Mr. Verner : For the present, Captain Duncan, your
statement will suffice. Were there any persons near you
at the time of the disaster I—Captain Duncan : There
was another man, a passenger, who, I know, belongs to

Belfast.—Mr. Verner ; Then, Captain Duncti, we 'Shall

proceed to investigate the entire transaction in this court,
to-morrow, at one oclock, when we shall receive this and

any further statement you may have to make ; and we
shall also be prepared to take up the evidence of such
other persons who were on board the steamer at the time
as may be able to throw light on the transaction.
The inquiry into the circumstances was resumed at
Belfist on Thursday, and the result was that the captain
was required to give bail to appear when called, himself in
£lOO, and two sureties in £5O each ; the mate to give bail,
himself in £5O, and two sureties in £25 each ; and the
two lookout men, themselves in £2O each, and two sure-
ties in £lO each.

STUMP ORATORY OF THE POPE'S BRI-
GADE IN LIVERPOOL.

The columns of a contemporary of Friday are flooded
with the eloquence of the Liverpool Romantsts, elicited, in
the first place, at the annual dinner of the falsely-called
" Irish Catholic Club," yesterday week ; secondly, at
the laying of the foundation stone of a Romanist Institute.
James Levingstone, Esq., who was the chairman at the
Popish banquet, in proposing the first toast, the health
of Pius IX., commenced with a very capital joke. " Ca-
tholics, and Catholic countries," he said, " particularly
that sunny country over which our beloved spiritual head
reigns as a temporal prince, have been maligned, tra-
duced, and grossly misrepresented. They have been
falsely charged as enemies to progress, suppressors of
learning, and opposed to the spread of science, the fine
, arts, and literature. We, as Catholics, know how foul
and false such charges are !" With increasing temerity
Mr. Levingston proceeded to say :—" In literature, who
have been ever foremost ? The popes, the cardinals,
and the sanctified bishops of the propaganda." The final
burst of the chairman being, " On the throne of our
hearts, as the supreme head of our holy faith, he shall
always sit enthroned there until our pulse shall cease to
throb in the glorious religion in which wo were born, in
which we were educated, and in which we shall breathe
our last sigh, with a sure hope of the promise made by
our Divine Master to Peter, and his worthy successor
Pius the Ninth. Gentlemen, I give you ' The health of
our Holy and Spiritual Father, Pius the Ninth.' "—(Drunk
with laud cheers.) Then followed the health of the Popish
bishop in Liverpool, whose reply to the compliment was
remarkable only as a somewhat leaden attempt to be witty.
" Your chairman," said the Brummagem bishop, " has
been far too complimentary, and, with your permission, I
will bring against him a heavy charge for a high crime
and misdemeanour. (Laughter.) What I mean by this
is, that he has put me in the stooks ; and I ask you whe-
ther that is not a crime which should be visited with con-
dign punishment. (Laughter.) However, as I have had
little experience in criminal matters—(remember, here is
a Romish priest disowning " experience in criminal
matters ")-1 beg leave to hand the case over to my
friend Mr. Aspinall—(renewed laughter and cheers)—and
feel surethat he, by his legal skill and eloquence, will make
far the best of the cause." In proposing " The Illustrious
Hierarchy of Ireland," Mr. J. B. Aspinall drew a fancy
picture of Romanist unity. Forgetting the cry of the
Yankee Archbishop Hughes, who said, " For God's sake
keep the Irishathome, or they will all become Protestants,"
and oblivious of a sham Irish bishop in Wicklow, who has
recently advocated the necessity of emigration as the only
means of keeping Protestantism from becoming universal
in that unhappy country, Mr. Aspinall exclaimed, in the
excitement of his after-dinner enthusiasm :—" From the
highest to the lowest of the Irish hierarchy the flocks
were found following them with the same love and affec-
tion, and treating them with the same respect ; and even
when the Irish people left their own country, and were
separated by distance and time, they became, if anything,
more united in love and respect for their clergy than when
living at home." —The Rev. Mr. Hickey acknowledged
the toast, and expressed a hope that they would all endea-
vour to preserve in its purity that faith given first to St.
Peter, and subsequently propounded by St. Patrick. If
Ireland was not what one of the greatest of men had said,
" First flower of the earth,
First gem of the sea,"
in a political sense, at least her bishops had done all in
their power to make her the first flower in the garden of
God's Church—the brightest gem in the crown of Catho-
licity. (Applause.)— The Rev. Mr. Brown congratulated
the Club on its success. " Great good had already been
accomplished in a religious point of view, and as regarded
their political influence, he need not remind them of the
last great struggle in this town. (Hear, hear.) He hoped
that on the next occasion which occurred they would be
found at their posts, and make their power felt more than
ever it had been before. No one could doubt the truth of
what had been frequently stated, that they would be res-
pected and cared about in this country only so much as
they were feared: "(Applause.) That was, after all. the
great secret of O'Connell's power, and would be found to
be the great secret oftheir own."—Mr. Doran said, as the
Club had acknowledged the principle of encouraging edu-
cation, it might be well to state that there were in Liver-
pool about 60,000 little children without the means of
education. A vast proportion of these belonged to the
Catholic part of the community."—Mr. Aspinall, once
more upon his legs, asserted that " in a political point of
view, the Club had conferred upon them a benefit of
which they availed themselves at the last election. It had
shown those with whom they generally acted that, as sure
as they are alive, if they thought they could bring for-
ward any one with a chance of carrying him without the
consent of the Catholics, they would find out their mis-
take." (Applause,l The Chairman coincided with the
modest declaration. " They had now acquired a position
in this town, politically speaking; and he believed if Sir
Thomas Birch were to come down to-morrow, and appear
before the electors, unless he expressed his sorrow for the
vote he gave on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, he would he
rejected." (Cheers.)—Towards the close of the night,
Mr. John Yates. jun., proposed the toast of " Civil and
religious liberty," which was received with loud applause.
" Notwithstanding all that had been said, the principle of
civil and religious liberty was near and dear to the Catholic
heart, and he should be ashamed if he thought there was
anything in their creed to prevent him entertaining such
an opinion."—The band in attendance having played "The
last rose of summer," Mr. William M'Courtaett said
" they were sometimes designated as sectarian bigots, and
it was said they would not allow persons who differed
from them in religion to attend their late soiree ; but they
were well aware that such was not the case. He spoke
the feelings of his own mind, and said the happiest hours
of his life were spent amongst those who differed from him
in creed and country ; and it was a pity there was nota
more general assimilation of all sects, thereby to frustrate
the hood-winking bigotry of journeymen soul-savers,. who
wish to keep creeds in ignorance of each other." (AP-
plause.)

NEW CLYDE SHIP FOR THE LIVERPOOL AND CON.
ETANTINOPLE TRADE.—We learn from the Glasgow
Citizen of Saturday, that a fine vessel was launched from
the building yard of Mr. Alex. Denny, at Dumbarton,
yesterday week. She was named the Melita, and is in.
tended, we believe, for the Liverpool and Constantinople
trade, on which she is expected to enter in about three
weeks. Her dimensions are :—Length between perpen.
diculars. 230 feet; breadth of beam 80 feet ; depth of
hold, 19 feet. She is barque rigged, and has a full poop
and forecastle, the former being 90 feet in length, which
gives very extensive saloon accommodation. She is to be
fitted with a pair of oscillating engines (geared) of 1130
139:10-Power, by :lleliri UtiOntib and Clark of Greenock.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Two o'clock, a.m.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

FRANCE.—PARIS, MONDAY.—There is no news of
importance. Exchange dull. Three's closed at 761.
Four-and. Halves closed at 103 20.
TRIESTE, MARCH 30.—Lord Stratford de Redcliffe
had left for Constantinople in the steamer Fury.
IAIILAN, MARCH 30.—News bad reached from Vienna
of the proposition for the substitution of the civil for
military power in Lombardy.
The Archduke William, the Emperor's brother, is to
replace Marshal Radetzky.
GENOA, MARCH 30.—Lord Erskine and the Hon.
Mr. Scarlett, secretary to the British Legation at Florence,
had passed through Genoa on their way to England.
It was thought that diplomatic relations with Tuscany
had been suspended, in consequence of the indignities
offered to Mr. Craufurd.

LONDON STOCK & SHARE MARKET.—THrs DAY.

NOON QUOTATIONS.

THE FUNDS.—Consols for Account, 100; Ditto for
Money, 991 100 ; Mexicans, 271 I 8.
RAILWAY SHARES.—Eastern Counties, 131 ; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 75 ; London, Brighton, and South
Coast, 1036; Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
301 ; Midland Stock, 73+ ; North British, 35 ; North
Staffordshire, 134; South Eastern and Dover, 75 ; 1 ork,
Newcastle, and Berwick, 81; York and North Midland,
58.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tars DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.

Edinburgh and Glasgow, 37; Lancashire and York-
shire, 75 ; Ditto Fifths, 4 15-16 dis. ; Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire, 304 ; Ditto Preference, 11 ; South
Eastern and Dover, 22j.

LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tats DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 75 ; Midland, 73 3-16 ;
North Western, 8 1-16 £8 Os. 9d.; South Eastern and
Dover, 22 9-16.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.
Traffic returns, £8,951 10s. 6id. ; corresponding week
last year, £8,129 2s. 3d.
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Phoenix, from Liverpool at Antwerp 3d inst. ; Maria,
from Liverpool at Dunkirk Ist inst.

Swift, from Port Philip; Colonist, from Calcutta;
Jenny Lind, from St. Michael's ; Fanny, from St.
Michael's ; Lochnazar, from Melbourne ; Joseph Hume,
from St. John's, N.B. ; Crimea, from Buenos Ayres;
British Merchant, from America : Reefer, from Berbice ;
Tuscan, from Demerara; Heroine, from Cape of Good
Hope ; John Wickliffe and Rajah, from Bombay ; Lady
Valiant, from the Mauritius ; Newport, from Cape Coast
Castle; Camillus, from Demerara; Index, from St. Kitt's
—all at Gravesend 4th inst.
Marmion, from Ceylon ; British Empire, from Sierra
Leone ; Lord Hardinge, from Valparaiso—all at Deal 4th
instant.
Kate and Madonne Debon Conseil sailed from Mar-
seilles for Liverpool on the 29th March.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.--THIS DAY

We continue to receive very little produce either coast.
wise or from Ireland, except Oatmeal ; and even that,
since Tuesday last, is less than usual : with a powerful
wind from west, however, we have to announce a con-
siderable increase of arrivals from abroad since Friday,
consisting principally of a moderate quantity of Wheat,
and a large import of Indian Corn and Flour, from the
United States, the latter amounting to 36,491 barrels ;
with 15,448 sacks from France, Spain, and Constantino-
ple, besides other arrivals of minor importance.
The market this morning opened exceedingly dull for
Wheat, and with evident symptoms of a decline ; but
upon holders submitting to a reduction► of 2d. per 70 lbs.
from the currency of this day week, a tolerably fair busi-
ness, chiefly with millers from the country, resulted. The
same remark as to change applies to all other descriptions.
Flour remains as dull as before, and a depression of Is.
per barrel does not influence extended transactions, many
holders being disposed to realize on account of the higher
temperature which prevails.

DEATH OF LORD SKELMERSDALE.—The Right Hon.
Lord Skelmersclale died on Saturday afternoon, at Lathom
House, Ormskirk, at the venerable age of 82 years. At
the celebration of his birth-day, on the 7th ult., he
appeared in good health, but has since gradually declined.
He is succeeded by his grandson, Edward Bootle Wilbra-
ham, who is fifteen years old, the son of the late Hon.
Richard Bootle Wilbraham, M.P., by the third daughter
of Sir Richard Brooke, Bart.

A FINE RIDING MARE, the property of the late Ed-
ward Boyd, Esq., Merton Hall, Newton-Stewart, died a
few days ago at the great age of 43 years.

MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL.—The Government bill Co
amend various laws relating to merchant shipping has just
been printed. It extends to 63 clauses on several
matters connected with the merchant service. There is
an analysis to the bill, showing that it has reference to
light and other dues on shipping, to the formation of
" the Mercantile Marine Fund," to manning and vo-
lunteering into the navy, desertion, &c. There is a
clause by which it is declared expedient to give facilities
for obtaining seamen in the Australian colonies. It is
proposed to enact that contracts may be made with natives
in India, under certain conditions, binding them to go to
Australia, and thence to serve in other ships in the united
kingdom. The new law is to be called " The Merchant
Shipping Law Amendment Act, 1853." It is proposed
that it shall take effect on the Ist of August next.
A MAN WITH MORE THAN FIVE WIVES !—An Irish
paper gives a sketch of one Robert John Hawthorn Coch-
rane, alias Harbison, who pleaded guilty to the charge of
bigamy and perjury at the last Armagh assizes :—" He
was married about eight years since to his first wife, Alice
Whitten, with whom he remained about two years. He
then married a girl named Moore, with whom he lived
for a short time, leaving her minus any valuables she
possessed ; and, a short time after, formed another ma-
trimonial alliance with a girl in Ayr. His first wife went
to Ayr and gave information, when he was indicted for
bigamy at the next assizes of Ayr, to which he pleaded
guilty, and got twelve months' imprisonment. The next
marriage of his known of was with a very respectable girl
in the neighbourhood of Ratlifriland, to whom he was
married in the registrar's office, Banbridge, in July last.
He then got hold of about £2O, with which he decamped,
taking with him a very young and decent farmer's
daughter in that neighbourhood. He was pursued by her
friends, and overtaken iu Liverpool, when she was rescued
from him, and sent off to America. He again returned
to Ireland, to pursue his old trade, and his next exploit
was that he courted a girl in Markethill, young and re.
spectable, and was married to her in December last, in
Armagh church. He was then indicted for bigamy and
perjury, to both of which indictments he pleaded guilty,
and got the severe (?) sentence of fifteen months' im-
prisonment, not with hard labour, for both crimes.
A POSTAL DELUGE.—ApsIey-house was closed on
Saturday week, to the further admission of visitors, who
have for so long a time been admitted to view the old
dispatch-box, on which the records of so many battles
had been written, and the unostentatious bed on which
the great Duke so long took his nightly rest. More than
150,000 persons, of widely varying social ranks, have
passed through the rooms without confusion, and without
a shadow of crowding. Much of this satisfactory result is
owing to Mr. Mitchell's admirable arrangements. Tile
first announcement of the public opening of Ansley.
house, with the direction to apply to Mr. Mitchell,
brought down a perfect avalanche of letters upon 33, Old
Bond-street. The postman came staggering beneath the
burden, and the officials sent in all haste to ascertain
what extraordinary correspondence Mr. Mitchell had
entered into. Due explanations having been given, an
extra postman was at once put on between St. Martin's-
le-Grand and Bond-street, and so vigorously did he per-
form his duties, that, in the course of a week, he poured
in upwards of 50,000 enveloped applications. An office
directly devoted to the Apsley-house business was at
once opened, and a staff of clerks forthwith set to work.
In a day or two, however, it became evident that a great
proportion_ of the applicants could not be attended to.
Their letters were, nevertheless, received, duly opened,
folded, neatly docketed with name and date, and tied up
in closely squeezed bundles of five hundred each—
bundles which, it is needless to say, accumulated in a far
greater proportion than the daily batches of tickets issued
could clear away. The simple principle observed in dis-
tributing the orders was that of first come first served,
and the plan of dispersing the periods of admission by
half-hours over the day was at once novel, ingenious,
and useful.
A SIGNIFICANT FACT.—One of the most important'
facts connected with the present age is the unparalleled
increase of the Anglo-Saxon race in numbers, wealth,
and influence, within the last 200 years. In the early
part of the 17th century, England, Wales, and Scotland
numbered only about 6,000,000, and as a nation was
classed amongst the second-rate powers of Europe.-
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severe scrutiny which public opinion exercises as its right, in
proving whether they are worthy of its regard. A case
in point is that of the Gienfield Patent Starch, an article
of domestic utility now enjoying the universal favour of
the people. When the inventor first introduced it to the
public notice, it was maligned and run down by interested
parties to a very great extent, as unworthy of the public
patronage ; but the manufacturer, being aware of the fact
that its qualities excelled those of any other Starch in the
market, and unheeding the rude outcry raised against it,
persevered in laying its merits before the ladies of Britain,
and now, after a few years industrious exertion, he is re-
warded by seeing it nearly universally used by the public
throughout the kingdom, and large shipments of it almost
daily exported to our colonies, and other countries ,where
the English language has extended. A trial froth those
who have not had the pleasure of testing its qualities is
enough to ensure its constant use in their laundries,.while
no trouble will be felt in procuring it, as almost all the
grocers, druggists, &c., in this, as well as in all other
towns in the kingdom, keep it constantly on Wei g 0
great is the increasing demand for it.

WHITE STAR" LINE OF PACKETS FOR AUSTRALIA

FOR MELBOURNE. To sail
LOCHIEL... l5OO tons.. Capt. THOMAS ROGERS.. 20th April,
FITZJAMES 2000 tons.. Capt. - 20th May.
lOWA 1500 tons.. Capt. REED To follow

The splendid Clipper Ship
LOCHIEL,
Ziteelt ;\\‘," THOMAS ROGERS, Commander,
(Now in Salthouse Dock,)
Will be despatched as above.
This fine vessel is fitted up, in every respect, with a view to
secure the comfort of passengers, who are respectfully re-
quested to inspect her accommodations. Lighting and venti-
lation have been especially attended to ; and as she carries a
limited number of passengers on one deck only, the Lochiel
cannot fail to give entire satisfaction and confidence. She car-
ries an experienced Surgenn.—Apply to ALFRED HILL and Co.,
Bank-chambers, Cook-street

PI LKINGTON and WILSON,
3, Commercial-buildings, Water-street,

Loading in Salthouse Dock.
Will receive goods to the 10th instant, but not later.
For MELBOURNE, PORT PHILIP,
The new Clipper Ship LOCHIEL,
AtrAi 863 tons register,
THOMAS ROGERS, Commander,
(Who is well acquainted with the Eastern trade.)
A limited quantity of freight will be taken by this vessel, and
early application should be made to secure room. She is now
on her first voyage, and will be found a most desirable
conveyance in every respect.—Apply to ALFRED HILL and Co.,
Bank-chambers, Cook street, or to
PILKINGTON and WILSON,
3, Commercial-buildings, Water-street.

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"STANDARD" LINE OF PACKETS,

LIVERPOOL TO

AUSTRALIA.

To sail about the 20th April instant,
The beautiful new clipper Ship
ALABAMA,
900 Tons Burthen,
AI`DowELL, Comm— ler

_sander.
This splendid Vessel has excellent accommodations, and is
well ventilated. She is a Single-decked Ship, (a fact Emigrants
should not overlook,) and carries a oualified and experienced
Surgeon. The Provisioning is of the best qualified, and is sup-
plied under the inspection of the Government Agents.
Apply to ROBSON and DOKE, 20, Water-street.

LINE OF PACKETS FOR AUSTRALIA.
To deliver the whole of her cargo at the Wharf.
For MELBOURNE,
The remarkably fine fast-sailing A 1 Ship MARIE,
C. LANCELOT, Commander ;
290 tons per register.

For SYDNEY.
The very fine fast-sailing Barque ZEEMANSHOOP,
D. DKENKER, Commander ;
433 tons per register.
The above vessels are in every respect first-rate conveyances
for goods and passengers.—Apply to
BRICE, FRIEND, and CO., 4, Goree-piazzas.

" ST. GEORGE" LINE OF PACKETS.

LIVERPOOL TO AUSTRALIA.

Ship. Tons register. Tons burthen
CARNTYNE, new 99t
TASMANIA, new 1204
AVM. SKINNER, new.. 920

To sail.
.. Early in April.
.. Now in port.
.. To follow.

Now on view in the Canning Dock.
The magnificent new British Clipper Ship
CARNTYNE,
drY 'a4*n JAMES CARLYLE, Commander ;
- --A 1 ; 991 tons register. This splendid ship will be
found on inspection equal if not superior to any vessel yet
fitted for an Australian voyage, having a most comfortable
poop and deckhouse, and very roomy decks for the passengers
to exercise on. The dietary is most liberal, and the general
arrangements will be found most complete. This vessel car-
ries a surgeon, and is fitted with a fire-engine.—For further
particulars apply to
M'TEAR, SON, and Co., 5, Goree Piazzas.

"BLACK BALL" LINE OF AUSTRALIAN PACKETS.

The advantages offered by this line are—that, being the ma-
naging owners of the ships, the undersigned are in a position
to offer greater attention and comfort to passengers than can
possibly be given by any line whose ships are simply chartered
for the single passage out. --

FOR PASSENGERS, PARCELS, AND SPECIE ONLY.
Now ready for inspection, and lying West side Canning Dock.
To sail this month.
For MELBOURNE, PORT PHILIP,
The magnificent new clipper-built Ship
ta.; INDIAN QUEEN,
(Sister ship to the Marco Polo,)
CHRISTOPHER MILLS, Commander;
1,041 tons register. 1,800 tons burden ; and on her first voyage.
This vessel has been built and fitted for the Australian trade
alone; carries an experienced surgeon ; and the dietary scale
for second and third cabin passengers is on the same liberal
scale as the Marco Polo.—For further particulars apply to
JAMES BAINES and CO., 6, Cook-street, Liverpool.

SUCCEEDING PACKETS NOW IN PORT.
Ships. Tons. Commanders. To sail.
GOLDEN AGE (new) 2000.. A. NEWLANDS.... 25th April
DAVID MACIVER 1800.. R. BAILLIE To follow.
There are VACANCIES for a few CADETS.

STEAM FROM LIVERPOOL TO AUSTRALIA.
Contracts have been entered into with the Government for the
conveyance of the Mails, to be despatched punctually on the
7th instant.

For PORT PHILIP and SYDNEY,
re,.,, (Calling at the Coaling Stations,)
, •ft
• attl Ri The splendid first-class Screw Steamer
OSMANLI,
Ivieser2tar,
GEORGE H. CORBETT, Commander,
(Who has had great experience in screw-steamers, as well as
being well acquainted with the Australian Trade.)
The OSMANLI stands A I at Lloyd's, and is expected to
make the passage to Port Philip within sixty days, which is
fully justified from her previous performances, and the well-
known experience of her owners in screw-steamers.

Goods Will be received at the Wellington DOci up till To
MORROW (Wednesday).

She only takes about Fifty Passengers in all, and carrie
an experienced Surgeon.

For. Freight and other particulars apply to Messrs. VIANNA,
JONES, and CHAPPLE. or
HENRY FOX, 2, King-street, Liverpool.

THE " FOX"
LINE OF PACKETS.

ESTABLISHED a QUARTER of a CENTURY
The following splendid Ships are Now Loading :
For MELBOURNE.
Tons. To sail.
800 7th April.
500 12th April.:
1500 20th April.
2000 To follow.
For SYDNEY.

OSMANLI, (Steamer),
HEART OF OAK
ANN DASHWOOD ,
GOLDFINDER