The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-20 00:00:00

THE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP.

LivErtroot, SUNDAY NIGIIT.—We regret again to be un-
able to give you any satisfactory intelligence of this vessel,
now thirty-eight days at sea. A great. many ships from the
westward have reached our port since the last post for London,
none of which, however, bring any intelligence of the Presi-
dent. Amongst the number is the Maria, Collins, from St.
Michael's, who reports that nothing was known of her at Ter-
ceira on the 27th, at Fayal on the 28th of March, or at St.
Michael's on the 2d inst. The probability, therefore, of her
being at the Western Llands is much diminished by this arrival.

(From the Liverpool Albion of yesterday.)
We lament to say that no intelligence has yet been
received of this unfortunate vessel. The arrival of the
Royal mail steamer Caledonia, on Thursday' morning,.
from Boston and Halifax, dissipated the hopes which
Lad hem previously entertained, that she would bring
news of the missing ship having put in to some Nova
Scotian or United States port. Neither at Halifax on
the 4th instant nor at New York on the 31st ult. had
any tidings been heard of her; and the friends of the
passengers on board were in happy ignorance that
any misfortune had befallen her. From the in-
terval which had elapsed between her sailing from
New York and the date of the advices from that
port by the Caledonia, twenty days, it is evident,
that, if she survived the effects of the storm on
the It.lth and the 13th ult., she must have made
for some southern port. At first, the opinion was, that
she would make for the Western Isles ; but, if she had,
sufficient time has, it is supposed, elapsed for news of
her arrival at Fayal reaching England. The first
she n"
• o
has, therefore, been abandoned for a second, which
l eear she must have sustained),make
epini
gale (and damage of some kind
that she would, after repairing the damdamagedamage .07;
tiatinisedquinitetch
for Bermuda. Now, the latest advices received,
or ra have
et
other sustained
United States, from that island were of the 00th ult. ;
so that a sufficient time had not elapsed then for her
arrival at Bermuda, even should the conjecture turn
out correct, that she made for that port Mier the storm.
Captain
Favrer,commanded the President on
, who
her first voyage, hazards in a letter to a friend in Li-
verpool, dated on the 17th inst., the following conjec-
tures respecting the probable course Captain
in Roberts
wou',d follow under the circumstances supposed tha
letter. The gallant Captain takes, it will be seen, a
consolatory view of a very distressing- occurrence :
"No President )et ! Rather awkward ! If she lost.
her rudder, which I think most probable, on the Bank
of Newfoundland, in lat. 45 N., and long. 50 W., she
would be distant from Bermuda about 1,000 mile,.
Tile gale at N.W. or W. would prevent the possibility of
to New York or Halifax. Bermuda woad
getting either
be the place ; if so, I would give her three days after
the gale to fit a temporary rudder. Having sailed
on the 11th, she would be in the position above in
so that, with the three days fitting
five or six days ;
a rudder, Sc., • she would be on the Bank
still on the eighth day, or the 19th of March.
Then Captain Roberts would run down to the
latitude and the longitude below 50 and 53 W., till in
the parallel of Bermuda, so as to be in the eddy, east
of the Gulf Stream, then hard up west for BermudpNow
as a crippled ship, and, in those latitudes, particularly
a(t-r a gale, calms are common, so give him, from the
19th, fourteen days to get to Bermuda. This would
be the •2.d or 3d of April. Say they get in on
the 3d, I give Lord Lennox and Power two days
to get ready a schooner, five days to Philadelphia,
three days to Halifax ; ten days would make it
the 13th of 14th of April before they could be
heard cf from Bermuda, according to my notion
even if she could be at Bermuda from the Bank in
the time I allow. They may have been seen by
many vessels, but I have had too much es:perience in
the inattention of small craft on the coast 'at America ;
they care for nothing but themselves. I give till the
25th of this month to hear from Bermuda-, unless some
vessel is dispatched by the Government of that island,
as the mail packet calling is very uncerta in.
" I lost my rudder off 'the Cape of G ood Hope, in
the Lady Fora, drawing teet water, in a severe
wn
gale, and fitted one after mIIv o p an, and nmde an ex-
ale, el
. ena. Captain Roberts
c' client passage to
is St
a sharp fellow, and will do much
under any difficulties' he may be pineccl in.
He has his own enginee.r and officers—everything to
give confidence. It is my opinion, strongly so, that the
President will turn up at I lernauda,"

It is understood that .Lord Palmerston hss ap-
pointed to-morrow, at five e'clock, to receive a deputa-
tion from the merchants of London on the subject of Captain
Elliot's negotiations with the Chinese.

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