For instance, in late January 1840, the "Patrick Henry" arrived ahead of schedule and beat the competition to deliver the news from the continent for eager American readers. "The Morning Herald (New York)", February 1, on the front page, reported: “The foreign news given today is highly important. Yesterday afternoon, about half past three, we received it at this office being a full hour before any of the Wall street papers had their’s—and by five oclock we issued an Extra, to gratify the immense crowd that surrounded our office. One of our clippers left town at 10 o’clock, and boarded the PH outside the bar at about one o’clock.” The news was advertised as “Ten Days Later From England—-Highly Important” and included articles about war preparations by Russia, Queen Victoria’s marriage that month, meeting of Parliament and the French Chamber, and the French King's speech.