The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-17 00:00:00

SOCIETY IN MELBOURNE.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
8111,—The enclosed copy of a letter is from a friend in Cal-
cutta, to whom the letter from Melbourne was written, by a
party who arrived there towards the end of January last, and
flay be worthy of insertion, as corroborating many of the ac-
toeuts received from the land of gold ; if so, it is at your
eervice.--I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Liverpool, May 16th, 1853. ALIQUIS.

" "Calcutta, April 7th, 1833.
I have a letter frem --. to-day. He had only been at
Melbourne some eight or nine days, so could not say much
about business. having been fully occupied fixing his quarters,
-arranging for landing cargo, &c. Of one thing he can write
I)osi'ively, namely, that the scarcest article in the market is
conicopt„„..
civility.
He has part of a small wooden box, called a
-age, rent £260 per annum ; an office, (about the size of
'"r Private one,) rent £156 ; furniture for the same,—one
arnall table, worth here£l. Bs., cost £3. 10s. ; two chairs,
worth about 8 annas each, cost £l. s. He fully confirms the
state of society, and thus sums up
In one word, (or as
Innany as it takes to express it,) the people here are stark star-
tihrn inmad .
"ants are masters, and masters servants. Every
dear, and
g the shape of the necessaries of life are extravagantly
thousands of respectable families are suffering all
sorts of privations, living in tents in Canvastown, (as it is
Called,) Which is computed to contain 20,000 souls. God only
known what will result from all this thirsting after gold.' "

CHARGES AGAINST THE HEAD-CONSTABLE.
To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,--i read in your paper of the 10th instant an article
en-
titled <,
Charges against the Head-Constable," in which you
endeavour to weaken Counsellor Bigham's statements respect-
:l'g Captain Greig's unjust treatment of a police-officer. As I
-In the Persecuted party, and your remarks are calculated to
/indicate the Head-Constable's conduct and condemn mine, I
facts.Yft ' as a matter of justice, to give publicity to the following
0n the llth February, I found an inspector intoxicated. Su-
Derintendent Ride, having just passed, met this inspector and
8,,!°1(e With him, after which the inspector came to me and told
that he had seen Superintendent Ride, and it would be all
right Understanding from this that Superintendent Ride did
not intend to report him, but that he would use that partiality
ton,,him bY Which myself and other officers had frequently been
a -oyed, I determined to report Superintendent Ride for
• rss neglect of duty and partiality, and Inspector White for
...e.ing drunk on duty. Under the impression that Councillor
tisigharri
o„ was one of the Watch Committee, I reported the case
tw_o...dma.ysanild,
examining
gntly the. Watch Committee met and spent
the evidence brought forward to sustain
On
tchhiasrges, which resulted in the dismissal of the inspector.
through t °Ceaaloll I was censured for not bringing these charge. s
Gre•he Head-Constable. My answer was, that Captain
ig
harinl; told us in the station-house that all charges and
dg'rii e.vances were to be brought by police-officers through their
wills,i°nal superintendents, and my complaint being one in
it
u``'n° my divisional superintendent was involved, I considered
ferreAreaso.nable and useless to put into his hand a charge pre-
y. 'i against himself, knowing well what the result would be.
there charPPosing that I am blameable for not bringing
ben .es through a certain channel, nevertheless I did not
. " false witness against my neighbour, but produced evi-
nence sufficient to condemn both the superindent and the in-
epeet°r ; and I wish to ask, why Superintendent Ride endea-
"enred to screen this man? Kindness and indulgence is not
Ishown by 11Ir. Ride to the officers generally ; for instance, on
Th1:..1.2th of August, when the Orangemen were prevented walk-
toei:n Procession, four officers and myself were sent on duty
Ycroft's Wheat Sheaf, Scotland Road. One of these four,
itobertho Car:on, No. 32, having been on duty for seven hours
t°ut food, became quite exhausted, and said, " I'll venture
_ get a glass of ale:" he went into the Wheat Sheaf, and was
getting the ale when Superintendent Ride came up ; and seeing
bini, took him by the collar and pulled him into the street,
telling him, in a violent passion, that he would have him dis-
Missed the force on thein.; following day, which was done accord-
,, y. Whereas, at this very time, an inspector named
Hayden stood before Mr. Ritie giving unquestionable evidence
that he was drunk and unfit to discharge his dut • but Mr.
Ride did not report Ins conduct, though he didynot spare
Robert Carson, a sober and worthy man, who had served for
thirteen years and sustained a good character. I called the
attention of the Watch Committee to this fact, accusing Super-
intendent Ride of partiality and unjust treatment;
inflicted
though
these
ur. h
esefacts are undeniable, .
yet nopunishmentaccused
w me of great
Ride; but Mr. Tobin, "while
exaggeration, asserted that no blame whatever attached to the
%11Perintendent. I appeal to the public whether this superin-
tendent is justified in accusing one man for taking a glass f
ale' and excusing"us another for being intoxicated? Inspectors
w"hite and Hay den might pet drunk, and Superintendent Ride
..°ltld not report them. Certain officers may run riot, and lie
'Will connive at their faults ; but upon others he will fall furi-
°llBlY, like a bird of prey, seeking their destruction.
__ It'8 for exposing such conduct that I am persecuted ; and such
n
'raa the storm that gathered around, that I could not remain
°II tithe
; but for the last week of my month's notice of resig-
niilti°ll I was ill, having been hunted by my superior officers
a Partridge on the mountains. Having left the force, I
apPlied 0
Captain Greig for a character, who replied—" I will
!tive You one from the conduct-book ;" that is, he would give
thalli a matter of fact, and not as a matter of opinion. With
constr,ePTY I Was satisfied; but when I received the character it
tottamed an
taar7,.ex.pres.seedntry of all the book contains against me, but
tlie,„‘ng in my favour. I shewed it to my friends, and all of
e called 'surprise and dissatisfaction, and one gentle-
;,.
Tuietermined to remonstrate with Captain Greig concerning
Captain Greig's attention to his statement,
whitthe
eih asserts that the following are the onlyentries concerning
iminn the conduct-book : namely—Jan. 15, 1849 cautioned for
a.
and PasiPing. Dec. 18, 1851 : not laying an information.
rilat,Prtain Greig refused to answer any questions, and informed
remark lend that his conduct was before the public. Now this
is 4, , written by the head constable on my first character,
the 'together untrue ; for instead of the above entries being
Lav'eplY ones contained in the conduct book concerning me, I
Grei:l My possession another character, endorsed by Captain
lAA° last Thursday, no doubt in consequence of Councillor
entities inquiries. In this character there are above twelve
thii'Lt s in
„., 11,Y favour. Well might Councillor Picton observe,
ernb' k-alatain Greig was allowed to give me a character, which
Illy f'aave_ed everything in the books against me, but nothing in
general",r, that if the rewards given to me over and above my
tklark conduct as an officer were kept back, while the slightest
nly
~,s of disapproval of my conduct are given against me,.
havi!dateroteitnar would entirely fail. This is just what Captain
; he suppressed all the entries in my favour, and
0,,, "g entered the two against me, he wrote that these were the
;4 elltr,ies l Now, Mr. Editor, looking at these facts, can
trityNnlnilicate the conduct of Captain Greig? It is no light or
1;-.,,g thing to give a false character to a deserving officer.
Mir -aPtain Greig made a mistake, and did not do this
..tha,rnaaleti3tra atintdneinaliciously, why did he refuse to alter the first
that character When requested in a respectful manner to do so, and
when such a character as I deserve might have
vreacrured for me an excellent situation? Again, if the first
endorsereacte was a just one, how could Captain Greig so readily
v 0..., a second differing so materially from the first, and
tti‘Ltraatoclicting his own statement ? It is evident that Councillors
th.,..i: and Piston were the cause of this strange conduct, and
only„,..4l:4_(:e.pulteaftoritthi.eizilsionterfernce, I might have been ruined in
, , t b on by the prejudice and obstinacy of the Head-
cable hostility worthy of notice, as proving the impla-
tain Greig against me, that even the last
character, thoi°igh 7
no means a just chareartetrains many entries in my favour, is by
captaineoer
recorded Greig having
i
two of the most important
chaerxaarnination to
book in my favour. I challenbet
mils still ldlceoo,mnwaiitui tecentd:
even this last
co n
nettaebri with the conduct-book,
by comparing
my
re
utaetiis tampering with the
it will be seen how the Head_
Watch Committee and with
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" to
'Rate- P.C.
triith and justice.—l am, Sir, Yours, gz, , ' ) nothing 0f.460.
JOHN J. coNN
01,LEy, 1
G, Banderson-street, Everton, -tray 13, 1853.
URESHIRE AND IVALEs-----. -
weeREsTER AND HOLYHEAD !lAILWAY.--Traffie for the
k_k ended May 8, 1353:—.Ra Passengers,,s.od. Parcels,
,e,,,., 2,503 15s. 31 ; good`, £1,095
1,:7 10s. Bd. Total, l- I Steamboats
.£3,3B6ncrease as cora_
Pared with the corresponding week last year, £759 Os. Gd.
ba:‘-')ItICING MEN'S CHURCH ASSOCIATION.—A public
itl-eting in aid of the Working Men's Chur9l As?ioecidattopli
1)e e,annection with Sr. John's district, B k !I a
qraueld on Friday next, in St. John'sirScehool-roowmi ,
hiv.tige-lane. The Rev. C. J. Hamilton will take the
ti,enr, and the Rev. Dr. Baylee will explain the objects of
as
„Atty._
\hi ~,NHEAD CHURCH OF ENGLAND INST!TUTE.7
0 iiursday, at the large room of the institute,
the
44°k-street, a lecture on " India" vvas delivered by
r
day ti!). Percival, late missionary, from India. On .e
series
01 le te Rev. Dr. Baylee delivered the fifth of his seri
,re ures on the Philosophy of the Bible.
Nep BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—The adjourned
In
ear theng of this body was held on Tuesday, Mr. Greene
t‘vc, Bair- A revocation was made of the licences of
Ills i belonging gto John Burke in quence of
eadrroPer conduct.—The township, accounts were next
tm Y the clerk of the committees. i..; expenditure for the The total income
year endin Apri was
barii 8„.19s- 3d., including a balance of .£4,l 318 28,
in the
tlarto::air- Bailiff then stated that, after considering the
arid ,(:?f the resolution respecting the township rates,
deter Ting that it would be illegal, he had come to the
iatin of abandoning it.—A letter on behalf of
placen th tdaw of Mr. Forrest, who had placed the statuary
to
AlPark, was read, requesting the trustees to
purchase
tetl , as she was not left well off.—A long conversation
It
en
on the notice which had been ,
u,ltinZ Mr. Laird from draining into the Greatserved Float.
aPPear deed from the chairman's statement that the

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. - FEARFUL
STORM, AND GREAT DESTRUCTION
OF SHIPPING.

INDlA.—lntelligence has been received by overland
mail from Bombay to the 14th ultimo. The latest news
from Burmah extends to the 23rd March. A combined
attack was made for the third time on the stronghold of
the robber chief Myah Thoon, by 1500 troops under Sir
J. Cheape—the boats of the Queen's and Company's
men-of-war, under Captain Tarlton, and a body of Ka-
rians under Captain Fytche. The attack was made on
the 19th of March by Sir John Cheape's force, which had
to cut a road through a dense jungle in order to approach
the Burmese position, the outlets of which were guarded
by Captain Tarlton and Captain Fytche, to prevent the
enemy's escape. After four hours' hard fighting, and
after sustaining a loss of 102 rank and file killed and
wounded, (including 13 officers,) Sir J. Cheape succeeded
in carrying the enemy's position, and bayoneting its de-
fenders. Myah Thoon escaped for the time with 100 or
200 followers, but Captain Fytche and his Karians went
off immediately in pursuit, and were thought certain of
catching him. Great mortality, from cholera and dysen-
tery, had prevailed among both troops and camp followers
during the expedition. The camp followers had also
suffered much from smallpox.
Much uncertainty prevails regarding the actual state of
affairs at Ava. The late king's brother-in-law is now
believed to be fully established in power, but it is said that
he will not hear of any cession of territory ; that, true to
the traditional policy of the Burmese, he is endeavouring
to gain time ' at any expense of truth and promises ;' and
that, flushed with his recent success over his own sove-
reign, be manifests no anxiety regarding our threatened
advance on his capital. Mr. Luard, of the civil service,
had been suspended for having offered, if a public inquiry
were allowed him, to prove certain judges guilty of infa-
mous conduct in the discharge of their judicial functions.
A public investigation as to the truth of Mr. Luard's chal-
lenge was unanimously desired by the Indian press.
Great indignation prevailed throughout India in conse-
quence of the report that the Home Government intended
to renew the Indian charter for ten years, without waiting
for an inquiry.
The Madras shores have been visited by a storm, un-
usual in the time of its appearance, and terribly destruc-
tive in the nature of its ravages. The British ship
Devonshire succeeded in getting away, but shortly after-
wards ran ashore to the northward of the fort, and soon
after found fifteen inches in the well, and continued
making about one foot of water an hour ever since. The
sloop Muddut Mowlah, Bazerdeen Nacoda, had made sail,
and was trying to get out to sea. All that seamanship
could do was, however, tried in vain. The current drove
her towards the shore with resistless force, and the crew,
finding that there was no help for it, turned the head of
the vessel to the sands, and let her drive bodily on to the
beach. She came onwards with incredible swiftness, but
had no sooner got within the line of surf, which extended
far out to sea, than she capsised on her beam-ends. Ano-
ther moment and she rose from the trough of waters, as
if trying to regain her natural position, when a sea struck
her amidships, and cut her completely in two, one half
drifting down towards the fort, and the other being as in-
stantly swallowed up on the spot. A few of the crew got
on shore, but the far greater number met a fate as in-
stantaneous as that of the vessel, which a few short
minutes had sufficed to destroy. The Aboukir, a barque
of 800 tons, Captain Carvell, parted her cable, and was
seen drifting towards the North Beach. She came foul
of the Serampore, Captain Hope Smith, a fine ship of
1000 tons, on her voyage out. The Serampore had up to
this moment rode in safety, but the shock of the
collision was so great, that she too dragged her anchors
and came in, but she bad hardly got within the surf when
she filled and went down in a moment. The catastrophe
was so sudden that the people on board had no opportu-
nity to provide for their safety, and eighteen of the Euro-
pean crew went down with the vessel. After getting clear
of the Serampore the Aboukir continued her headlong
course, and was soon in the midst of the roaring whirl-
pool. The moment she touched the ground her decks
parted, and a couple of the crew fell into the gulf, when
the two parts of the ship came as instantaneously together,
and crushed the poor fellows completely flat. The crew
were paralysed with terror, and made but little effort to
save themselves ; but three reached the shore in safety.
The Lutchmi, a barque of 700 tons, Captain Le Bceuf,
was wrecked between six and seven o'clock, but her masts
remained standing, and the crew took refuge in the mizen
rigging. A hawser was conveyed to the vessel, and soon
after midnight one of the poor wretches, more venture-
some than the rest, crept along it and got safe to land.
He was directed to shout, that his voice might reassure
his shipmates, and a second essaying the same feat
with like results, blue lights were burned to show their
figures to the crew, who thereupon took heart of grace,
and were successively transferred from the ship to the
beach without loss. A Portuguese brig, the Senhora de
Monte, Capt. J. N. Fernandes, capsised while endeavour-
ing to get an offing, but 17 of the crew were saved.
Nothing could be more complete than the destruction
of the various wrecks, whi 71 were literally broken into
splinters. The shore was covered with fragments of spars,
beams, naval chests, drowned seamen, and the miscel-
laneous cargoes of the various ships, all of which were
nearly, if not quite full.
Information has been received from Cuddalore of the
gale that occurred along that part of the coast on the 27th
and 28th of March. As far as they are yet known, the
following are the details of the wrecks :
French ship Rama, of Nantes, about 500 tons burden,
unladen ; dismasted and cast on the beach about ten miles
south of Cuddalore—eight lives lost.
French ship La Semillante, of Nantes, laden with
rice ; cast on shore near the Rama, and broke up—two
lives lost.

British brig Buccaneer—native commander and crew
—cast high and dry near the above two ships ; no lives lost.
Ship Marius, of Pondicherry ; ship La Hercule, of Mar-
seilles ; brig La Hortense, of Bordeaux ; ship Florine, in
ballast ; and La Cleanthe—the whole of these vessels are
wrecked near Porto Novo, but particulars have not yet
been received.
Two other English brigs also appear to have been cast
on shore.

CHINA.—Our accounts from China extend to the 11th
of March. The insurgents were steadily advancing
towards Peking, and the Emperor has apparently no
troops capable of arresting their progress. Private letters
state that at Canton it was generally believed that
Nanking had fallen. The rumour was possibly premature,
but the place was known to be besieged, and there seems
little chance of even an effort being made to relieve it.
Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, Sir George Bonham,
left Hong Kong for Shanghai, on the 13th of March, in
her Majesty's steamer Hermes, then under orders to
proceed to the Straits, but detained for this special
service. It appears that application had been made by
the Viceroy of Soochau to the English Consul at Shanghai
to co-operate against the rebel force for the protection of
Nanking. The rapid advance of the .rebels had spread
consternation and alarm through that capital and other
wealthy cities, and the Imperial officials seemed entirely
paralysed and powerless. Our latest aevices, of the 20th,
.r9pi Shanghai, report the rebel force investing Nanking,
merchanat:
which it was expected would fall, and it is further stated
to trade.
that delegates had been sent from Soochau to the rebel
leaders, offering a large sum to secure that wealthy city
had to be
molestation Money
and plunder.
from At sh
property t 0 arranged e consul.
pal there was a general panic ; bankers and
houses were shut up, and an entire stoppage
the frontier br9
ney was so scarce that the duties of exports
atFranged by giving security in bills and other
lities with thelllrug f
CAPE
the course of the
OOD HOPE.—The latest accounts from
all details of the termination of hosti-
nications with that°re Powerful Gaika chief, Sandilli. In
ng?ciations with Kreili, if the commu-
messengers from
Maclean, commissioner
Sandilli
can be so called, two special
with a petition from the to
himself waited on Colonel
British Caffraria, charged
from the
praying 'for peace,
and desiring to know the English commander to
what district he and his
ittroliTee4hould retire. The petition
contained an ackovvled
,tl,3.at "he had no more
hadthat he had been driven
~.....inobeved the Governor's
strength to fight the English
of Umhala, a chief
from his country, and that he
" word" by crossing the Kei
abandoned the struggle. In consequshort, that he d
of this intimays
during the whole of the illoasstiT.
na-
tion General Cathcart sent Mr. Charleesnietavircilee to meet
Sandilli and the secondary chiefs of the aitlribe at a
mplaaicneewditahtinpetlaiceetewrirtihtoru
ties. On Mr. Brownlee's arrival Sandilli was sent for,l-
- appeared before the Governor's envoy on the morn-
ing of Sunday, the 27th of February. The draught of
the conditions General Cathcart was ready to grant was
then read to Sandilli and the rest of the chiefs, and finally
agreed to.—The steamers Queen of the South, Her-
binger, and Adelaide, had arrived at the Cape

Tuesday, May 10, 1853.

William Alfred Sparrow, Liverpool, metal broker, May 23,
June 13, at 11 o'clock, at the Liverpool District Court Bank-
ruptcy: solicitor, Mr. Tyndall, Liverpool; official assignee,
Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool.
Joshua Taylor, Manchester, power-loom manufacturer, May
23, June 13, at 12 o'clock, at the Manchester District Court of
Bankruptcy ; solicitor, Mr. Heath, Manchester; official as-
signee, Mr. Pott, Manchester.
Richard Penistan, Staverton-row, Walworth, draper.
Edward Theohald Blakely, Norwich, shawl manufacturer.

Thomas Matthew Bowden, Old Breriford, basket maker.
William Colrnan, Chesterford, horse dealer.
Isaac Barnett, late of Glocester-terrace, Hoxton Old Town,
Watchmaker.
George Hunter, Leeds, manufacturing chymist.
Benjamin Lamplough, Doncaster, woollendraper.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.—W. F. Ellis and J. Clare,
Liverpool, joiners—Garratt and Lilley, Maley, Cheshire,
brewers—W. and W. Duckworth, Liverpool, architects—R.
Lewis and J. Dickin, Chester, timber merchants, and Lewis
and Dickin, Wrexham, brewers—J. Clegg and Co., Crompton,
Lancashire, coal proprietors—Glasgow and Liverpool shipping
Company, Glasgow and Liverpool.
DIVIDEND.—June 3, G. Townson, Whalley, Lancashire,
plumber.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.—I. Orrell, Radcliffe, Lancashire,
cotton manufacturer—first div. of 35. 10d.—A. Chadwick, Roch-
dale, and Fair View, cotton spinner—second div. of 7 1-16d.,
on any Tuesday, at Mr. Lee's, Manchester.
CERTIFICATES.—June 2, W. Royston, Manchester, builder
—June 3, N. Crook, Preston, tailor.

Friday, May 13, 1853.

Benjamin Davies, Holywell, Flintsbire, draper, May 20, June
16, at 11 o'clock, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy :
solicitors, Messrs. Evans and Sons, Liverpool; and Messrs.
Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester ; official as-
signee, Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
Henry Foulkes, Manchester, grocer, May 23, June 15, at 12
o'clock, at the Manchester District Court of Bankruptcy : soli-
citors, Messrs. Ashurst and Son,Pld Jewry ; and Messrs. Sale,
Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester; official assignee, Mr.
Fraser, Manchester.
Andrew Charles Larkan, Greenwich, coffee-house keeper.
Robert Homer, late of Pall Mall, licensed victualler.
Robert Sanderson, Oxford-street, tailor.
George Godsell, Wotton-under-Edge, tailor.
Samuel Barrington Watts, Exeter, hatter.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.—Ford and Birch, Stalybridge,
Lancashire, and elsewhere, cotton doublers—J. Percival and
H. Worrall, Manchester, plumbers—J. Farrar and Brothers,
Chapelfield-within Pilkington, and Manchester, linen manu-
facturers. as far as regards J. Farrar—J. C. and A. W. Falcon,
Toxteth-park, near Liverpool, linendrapers.
DIVIDENDS.—June 6, W. W. King, Liverpool, chymist—
June 9, H., R., and W. Kay, Heywood, Lancashire, cotton
spinners—June 10, N. Crook, Preston, Lancashire. tailor.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.—J. and J. Burt and W. T. Nat.
son, Manchester, commission agents—third div. of nd.—C.
Ed mondstone, Over Darwen, Lancashire, paper manufacturer
—third div. of Mt. (on debts proved since Feb. 16, 1848),—on
Tuesday. May 24, or any subsequent Tuesday, at Mr. Fraser's,
Manchester—R. Pritchard, Bangor, ale dealer—first div. of
2s. 6id.,—any Monday, at Mr. Bird's, Liverpool.

May MEETINGS IN BANKRUPTCY. Hour.
17, William Woodyatt (Ist)
17, Robert P. Stephens (audit)
18, Robert P. Stephens (proof and div.) Ditto, 11
19, Henry Cole (proof and div.)
19, William Russell (audit)
19, Joseph C. Nicholson (audit)
19, Hugh Jones (audit)
20, William Russell (proof and div.) ...... - • Ditto, It
20, John Leake (proof and div.)
20, Henry M'Grotty (audit)
20, Benjamin Davies (Ist)
23, Thomas. William !Aker (audit) ~. .....