Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-09 00:00:00

SUCCESS OF TSE LIVERPOOL ANb&P.6Ra4I

LINE OF STELMERS:

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The Circassian sailed from this pert for Liverpool April
17, calling at Halifax and St. John's. and run from the latter
port to Holyhead in 7 days and 21 hours, reaching Liver-
pool Sunday, May, 3rd. She sailed on her return trip at
7 p m., Wednesday, May 61-,'l, and ran to St. John's in 8i
days. Some details of her trip are found in another
column. After discharging and receiving passengers and
freight at Ss: John's and ?Centex, she reached Portland at
7 p.m. on Monday, May 20th, with over 400 passengers
and much freight; From her short stop at Liverpool, she
was compelled to refuse freight which was on the
wharf for her. Her list of passengers will be found
in another 'column. The passengers for this line
are bey-mid the capacity of -the "Company's boats.
One of the melt interesting facts in -connection with
European emigration is the arrival, by this trip of the Cir-
cassian, of a Welch colony, a company of 200 persons in
families, bound for Esitern Tennessee, where they have
purchased lands and provided themselves with houses.
The Rev. Mr. Roberts, their pastor, and at the head of
their party, is a fine specimen of a Christian gentleman
We were charmed and delighted with his narration of the
objects, plans, aud prospects of hie little flock, who, from
among the mountain , recesses of Montgomeryshire, in
central Wales, have cast their fortunes.in one of the b qtu-
tiful vellees of Eastern Tennessee, near the head waters of
the Cumbetrand river. Attracted to the spot by the fertility
and cheapnes of the soil, the mildness of the climate, and
its charming mountain scenery, they hope to find, even in
that slave state, a home for free labour and 'free men.
Lands of unequalled richness east of Knoxville, Tennessee,
have been purchased by Ahem at fifty Cents an acre. These
statements of the Rev. Mr. Roberts were drawn from him
in reply to a co seplimentary sentiment froth' Capt. Powell,
as the steamer lay off in the channel last evening. The
cabin passengers had a meeting in the saloon of the ship,
and invited Captain Powell to a complimentary supper on
hoard. John Rhynas, Esq., and George 11. Starr,
Esq., the Poitland agents of the line, J. S. Miller, Esc} ,
agent of the Grand Trunk Railway, and one or two
others, were invited to join it. A most delightful evenin7,
WAS thus passed by a most joyous cothpany, where,
speeches, songs, and other good cheer, held the party to a
late hour, the ladies enjoying it Equally with the men.
The expressions of good will toward Captian Powell,
(" the father of this great family," as one of the passengers
called him), were enthusiastic and universal. It was interet-
ing in the extreme, to listen to menof different origin and
different pursuits, with their peculiar allusions and varied
expressions. Men of business and pleasure tourists, some
Enlishmen, some Scotchmen, and others Irishmen and
Provincials, each in their own way, said and sung of the
fatherland or of the new, as taste or feeling, or fancy
dictated. Captain Powell himself is a trump in that way.
The Rev. Mr. Roberts, apologised for his want o,f famili-
arity, or rather his lack of practice in the use of the
English tongue, though no one would have suspected but
for this remark that his life had been spent in the high-
lands of Wales, where the language spoken is precisely
that of the Druids, as early as the times of the
Saviour. The airection which these emigcants for
Tennessee and the Western States have taken, is a
striking comment on the adVantages of this route.
The matter was arranged by intelligent parties with
a view to economy of time and expense, and of the com-
forts of travel, and it turns out that Portland is the pOint
of all others for emigrants to make, who are seeking homes
in the went and south-west.

The Circassian has now made up for the tithe Ist by the
disasters of the first voyage, and will sail hereafter pre-
cisely as alvertLed. Her cabins, and those of the Kher-
sonese, are all engaged for .their next trip to this port, from
Liverpool. We hope the good people of our city will by
this time re,lise the vast importance of this enterprise to
Portland.—State of Maine, P,ortl,nd, Nay 21.