This beautiful vessel, one of Messrs. Miller and Thompson's Golden Line of packets for Australia, took her departure from the Mersey, on Thursday, for Melbourne, with a very valuable cargo, and a full complement of first and second cabin passengers, in all 250 souls on board. The Catherine Mitchell is a thirteen years' Clyde-built clipper ship, launched about two months ago, and she has been put together in the most costly and substantial manner, all the modern improvements in marine architecture having been applied to make her in every respect a superior ship. She is registered at 850 tons, and commanded by Captain James Baikie, a careful and experienced seaman and a thorough gentleman. This vessel was fitted in a style surpassing, in real comfort and convenience, anything that has preceded her, and every provision for the wants of passengers on such a lengthy voyage has been supplied in her case. Well arranged washhouses (separate ones of course for each sex) are on the lower deck, and baths and water-closets on the upper or promenade deck. Fresh provisions, in unlimited quantity, were served out to all the passengers during her three days' detention in the river, and the emigrants, who were all of a very respectable class, expressed themselves highly satisfied with the vessel and her accommodations. Passengers' cooks, and stewards for the second cabin were, provided by the charterers, and the care and attention bestowed on these matters in this instance is an example worthy of being imitated by brokers generally. -Liverpool Mail. October 2.

SG & SGTL

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