The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1856-01-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AUSTRALIA.  ARRIVAL OF THE CHAMPION OF THE SEAS. Br the "Black Ball" royal mail ship Champion of the Seas, Captain WKirdy, which arrived on Friday, we have intelligence from Melbourne to the 28th October ; Sydney to the 24th ; Adelaide, 21st ; Hobart Town, 20th ' • Launceston, 23rd ; and New Zealand, 12th. She had 25 first cabin, 38 in second cabin, and 118 third cabin passengers. There was one birth on board on the sth of December, and on the 24th of the same month, one of the passengers, John Colquhoun, committed suicide by cutting his throat. The Champion of the Seas had on board 124,000 oz. of gold, value about £496,000, 1185 bales of wool, 13 bales of sheepskins, 40 casks of tallow, 382 bags tin ore, 3120 bags copper ore, 3 barrels of oil from New Zealand, and 202 packages of sundries.  The'James Baines, M•Donnell, hence, arrived at Melbourne on the 23rd October, 78 days from Liverpool. In one day she logged the extraordinary distance of 543 miles. On her passage home, the Champion of the Seas spoke the following vessels :—Nov. 7th, the Mercedes, from Sydney to Valparaiso; 29th, Anglo Saxon, from Liverpool; Dec. 16th, Woodbrilge, from London to Akyab ; 17th, Electra, from Liverpool to Melbourne; 19th, Ellen Radford, Liverpool to Valparaiso ; 20th, Anglo Saxon, from New York to San Frwcisco; 22nd, Arequipa, steering north; and 26th, Medora, steering north. The following vessels had also arrived out :—Oct. 17th, the James Paton, from Glasgow; 18th, Statesman, from London ; 23rd, Cromwell, from Plymouth ; the Vriendtrow and the Bucephalus, from Liverpool, at Adelaide. The Shalimar was to sail for Liverpool, Nov. 10, and the James Baines, Nov. 25. The reports from the gold fields were most promising, and the produce of the mines greatly on the increase. Another finding had taken place, in the shape of a nugget weighing 730 ounces, at a working situate between Old Daisy Hill and Back Creek.  The quantity of gold exported from Melbourne in 1855 (exclusive of the amount shipped per Champion of the Seas) amounted to 83 tons 9 cwts. 2 qrs. 5 lb. 8 oz., in all above 2,000,000 ounces, of the wine of £8,013,872. The gold escort for the week was considerably under au average oue, which may be accounted for from the number of rushes that have occurred for the last two or three weeks. When the diggers get settled down to work again we may look for better returns. The most important of the new fields is that of Fiery Creek, at which .a population of 30,000 to 40,000 is congregated. _  The-sale of Cr"own lands in the neighbourhood of Melbourne .continue,s,(sais the Argus) to tahibitazarked change in the  pipit of the people. The competition during the Octobi_r, ssales has been by no means active, and large quantities we" withdrawn for want of purchasers. —Tte The Melbourne Argus, of the 25th October, says: spring trade for the supply of inland demands has ralr'' ne t in, but many circumstances have prevented that improveoe4 in trade which has been generally looked for. The prices "te breadstuffs have ruled high, and the uncertainty of adecil!'./d supplies of this staple article of consumption has an unfavourable influence on the markets. The unfortunate state state of commercial affairs in Sydney, where a sort of cr_i!,• little inferior, apparently, in intensity, to that which r. bourne has just passed through, checks speculation. !,", crisis, like that of Melbourne, having arisen from over-traol4 and over-importation, it is certain that a great portion of wo surplus, in the shape of bankrupt stock, will be forced this market; and, in this way, the material revival in ne and confidence, which was anticipated, will, it is fear retarded. The general prosperity of the population oil gold-fields, which is evidenced by increasing consumptiont.P.:, by the presence of buyers in the town markets to meet trise; present wants, has added to the firmness in prices. W,Te4eit, remark that sales of merchandise have, within the last "oula been at an advance of 10 per cent. on the prices that wA. have been gladly taken at the commencement of the gion"'-of The conduct of Sir Henry Young, the Lieut.-Governor 1. Tasmania, has caused the utmost indignation in that 64.,,,°1ink The consequence was, that on the 15th of October a w,he exeret:te numerously-attended and influental meeting was held at"„ 4 Criterion Hotel, Melbourne. and the following resolut were adopted :—" That the arbitrary conduct of Sir geliro. Fox Young, the Governor of Tasmania, in suddenly P. rouging the Council for the purpose of forcibly suPPressli?c't inquiry into the conduct of certain officers of the C°llcl3l. Department of the colony, charged with the grossest ii!,A version of their respective offices, and the unprecedeutTe mode of prorogation adopted by him, in going int° te, Council at a late hour of the night, in the midst of a debu without the usual formal notice, is an abuse of the pc'u're; confided to him by Her Most Gracious Majesty, which t calculated to bring her name and authority into conteuir and which would, if successful, be utterly destructive of te. independence of the Legislature. That this meeting their pathises with the Legislative Council of Tasmania, it td conflict with an arbitrary, and irresponsible Executive, an tenders to the said Council the assurance of its cordial l,eo port in maintaining inviolate their right to inquire into On affecting the welfare of the colony, and thereby maintain, the rights and liberties of the people whom they represent: