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

THE SEAS. BY the "Black Ball" royal mail Flip Champion of the Seas, Captain Al`Kirdy, wlii4.ll arrived 611 Friday, we have intelligence from Melbourne 1,, t;,,: i h October; Sydney to the 24th ; Adelaide, 21st ; Tt 'Ali, 20th ; Launceston, 23rd; and New Zealand, I.'2th. She had 25 first cabin, 38 in second cabin, and .1 I third. ealliri. passengers. There was one birth on board cat ii :;th of December, and on the 24th of the same month, UIW the passengers, John Colquhoun, committed suicide by eitt Ting. hi, tlaoat.  The Champion o: t 1 sea:, board 124,000 oz. of gold, value about :as of wool, 13 bales of sheepskins, 40 cask, T.l I ,•". • 'fins tin ore, 3120 bags copper ore, 3 barrcl ..?' Yew Zealand, and 202 packages of sundries. The James Baine:.>, Le, arrived at Melbourne on the 23rd October. 7, Liverpool. In one day she logged the extraordbiary t :',13 miles.  On her passage home, ti. '1,:;-iipion of the Seas spoke the following vessels :—Nov. ;tit 11, nercedes, from Sydney to Valparaiso; 29th, Anglo o.;;), from Liverpool; Dec. 15th, Woodbrilge, from London 1,, Akyab; 17th, Electra, from Liverpool to Melbourne ; 19t11, :1::!len Radford, Liverpool to Valparaiso; 20th, Anglo on, from New York to San Francisco; 22nd, Arequipa, tocring Lorth; and 25th, Medora, steering north. The following vessels 1.:al :dso arrived out :—Oct. 17th, the James Paton, from Clo,go,v : 1 It 1!. Statesman, from London; 23rd, Cromwell, from l'lyin,•,ml: : the Vriendtrow and the Bucephalus, from Li veil. .1. :i: The Shalimar was to s:411 f,,:: I.ivi:rpool, Nov. 10, and the James Baines, Nov. .2.1. The reports from the s-,-re most promising, and the produce of the Mill., !s the increase. Another finding had taken place. i u t of a nugget weighing 730 ounces, at a workiii• ;;;•: •.; sen Old Daisy Hill and Back Creek.  The quantity of gold exoortc-.1 Melbourne in 1855 (exclusive of the amount shipped per Champion of the Seas) amounted to 83 tons 9 ewt,. "t lb. 8 oz., in all above 2,000,000 ounces, of tl .of I  The gold escort fm• ihe we,l, a :L3 considerably under an average one, which may 01 for from the number of rushes that have oceuri.,4l Inst two or three weeks. When the diggers get t, to work again we may look for better returns. The most important of the new fields is that of Fiery Creek, at ,tail, • rfpulatiOn of 30,000 to 40,000 is congregated. The sale of Crown laud: i,, at, ueighbourhood of Melbourne continues (says the ;I. 4141 ;1 1; At marked change in the  rJANUARY 29, 1856•  pirit of the people. The competition during the Octisobc,l ssales has been by no means active, and large quantities withdrawn for want of purchasers. The Melbourne Argus, of the 25th October, saYs: spring trade for the supply of inland demands has fairly in, but many circumstances have prevented that improver:ea!, in trade which has been generally looked for.. The pric; breadstuffs have ruled high, and the uncertainty of adelol , supplies of this staple article of consumption has exeL- it an unfavourable influence on the markets. The unfortq.3i,s, state of commercial affairs in Sydney, where a sort of ei7ei. little inferior, apparently, in intensity, to that which bourne has just passed through, checks speculation. 6-ir, crisis, like that of Melbourne, having arisen from over-tta,u,bo and over-importation, it is certain that a great portion surplus, in the shape of bankrupt stock, will be forced o this market; and, in this way, the material revival ieffbe and confidence, which was anticipated, it is fear'''the retarded. The general prosperity of the population ea gold-fields, which is evidenced by increasing consumPtianior by the presence of buyers in the town markets to meet 03), present wants, has added to the firmness in prices. We eel:f A; remark that sales of merchandise have, within the last ic.,131 been at an advance of 10 per cent. on the prices that 17, , have been gladly taken at the commencement of the 11100.. The conduct of Sir Henry Young, the Lieut.-Governe,'d, Tasmania, has caused the utmost indignation in that Woo tl The consequence was, that on the 15th of October ti numerously-attended and influental meeting was held a:iool Criterion Hotel, Melbourne. and the following resol* were adopted :—" That the arbitrary conduct of Sir P`,ror Fox Young, the Governor of Tasmania, in suddenly g• rouging the Council for the purpose of forcibly suPP,-,res.lict inquiry into the conduct of certain officers of the ti?" 101, Department of the colony, charged with the grosseallitd version of their respective offices, and the unPrecer„the mode of prorogation adopted by him,, in going inriste, Council at a late hour of the night, in the midst of a L'e without the usual formal notice, is an abuse of the Pap it confided to him by Her Most Gracious Majesty, wbie calculated to bring her name and authority into Conte the and which would, if successful, be utterly destructive aviaindependence of the Legislature. That this meetiair jUeir pathises -with the Legislative Council of Tasmania, ,1 , conflict with an arbitrary and irresponsible Exeoutiv" tenders to the said Council the assurance of its cord" 10 port in maintaining inviolate their right to inquire./11t°4;54 affecting the welfare of the colony, and thereby reeln"-t,' the rights and liberties of the people whom they reproea