The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-07-17 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTERN

AT NEW YORK.

(From the New York Berald.)
After hopes deferred, and delays almost innumerable,
the Great 'Eastern is at last upon us. While we write
her gigantic shadow is quivering in the waters a the
North river, and before another sun has net our Oriental
friends will be almost forgotten in the contemplation of
this new sensation. Public interest has so often been
aroused in connexion with this huge triumph of art, and
so often disappointed, that the various announcements
of her trial tripe and departure have heretofore bad little
more effect than to excite the disparaging criticisms of
the multitude, who, with Yankee pride, are loth to
believe in the promptness of English enterprise. Now
that the leviathan is fairly here, however, no one can be
found who will gaze upon the magnificent proportions of
this n ighty ship, and cast a slur upon an experiment
which, if successful, is destined to revolutionize, in •
measure, the maritime intercourse of the world.
The first announcement of the arrival of the Great
Eastern at this port was received by telegraph from
Sandy Hook in the following despatch :
SANDY HOOK, June 28. 10.30 a.m..

The steamship Great Eastern came in to the Lightship
at half-past 7 o'clock this morning.
She left the Needles at 10 a.m. on the 17th.
With the exception of two days, she has experienced
fine weather.
She has 42 passengers.
She steamed the entire passage, ranging from 254 to
333 miles per 24 hours.
The engines were not stopped until she was off George's
Shoal, for soundings.
She came in a route south-east, direct to the Light-
ship, where she was hoarded by our ship news collector
and Mr. John Van Dusen, of pilot-host Washington,
No. 4, a business partner of Admiral Murphy, who went
out to Southampton for the ship.
She was received, on reaching the Lightship, by
Captain Cosgrove, with • salute and the dipping of
colours, and as the mist blew • away all the vessels in
sight set their bunting and cheered her.
She icdravring 27 feet water aft, and will be trimmed
to an even keel before crossing.
The following is the number of miles made per day :
Date. Miles. Date. Miles.
June 17 255 June .•• ... 302
„ 18 296
„ 20 276
„21 ... :104
„ 22 283
From one of the passengers we obtain the following
information :
There are 38 passengers and eight guests, all in the
best of health, and have been so during the entire
voyage, which has been a particular fine one and full of
interest.
It has demonstrated the Great FAstern's superiority
as • seagoing vessel, and the excellence and reliability of
her machinery.
The highest speed attained WAS 144 knots. The ship's
bottom is very foul, and an allowance of at least two
hots an hour should be made on that account.
The distance from Southampton, as usually steamed,
is 3,190 miles, but to avoid the ice she went further
south.
The Great Eastern is now at anchor between the bar
and the lightship. She will cross the bar at three
o'clock—the top of high water—and arrive at the city
at about 5 o'clock.
The ship's log, after giving the details of the voyage,
says :—" Thouglr the passage was, all things considered,
decidedly fine, it was still sufficiently checkered to
settle the important point of the Great Eastern being
the most comfortable passenger ship in the world. Her
movements in • seaway are an long, sliest, and easy
that no inconvenience is produced. Sea sickness way
be considered as annihilated, and all the attendant dis-
comforts of a sea passage reduced to a miai,emsm. The
powers of the vessel have been but very imperfectly
developed as yet. She may be considered as inaugurating
a new era in steam navigation, fraught with the most
beneficial consequences to civilization and commercial
progress."

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Among the ploperties sold lately in the Landed
Estates Court was one situated in the North Riding of
Tipperary which forcibly illustrates the improvement
that has taken place within a few year. in that once ill-
famed county. In 1831 this same property was 'old for
£5,600, last Friday it realised £.13,016.