The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-18 00:00:00

U STATES.

NEWS FOR ENGLAND.

(From the New York Morning Herald,of the Ist inst.)
The noble steam-,Lip, British Queen, L!aves
day for " Mcrrie Eeland." w. two o'c!f.cll, earr:;Eng
with her 130 passengers—a goodly freight, and a smart
sprinkling of specie.
The Britannia takes 100 from Boston to Europe
to-day. _ _ _

Three sailing-packets also leave to-day for Europe,
carrying more than half a hundred passengers. So that
the hardness of the times, and the passage of the Sub-
treasury Bill, has not stopped the propensity to travel.
The news the Queen carries out is rather of an inte-
resting character. In political matters, the Whigs ap-
pear to be triumphant all over the country. The result
of the Louisiana election is a premonitory symptom of
Mr. Van Buren's political death.
This prospect ahead enables the Whigs to keep up
their spirits ; and to indulge in their desire for travel-
ling over the country. All the fashionable watering
places are full of company ; the White Sulphur and
Saratoga Springs, Niagara Falls, New Brighton, Rock-
away, and a dozen other delightful places are alive
with beauty, fashion, and talent. British officers arc
running all over the country after our pretty girls.
So much for politics and fashion. In theatricals, we
arc doing but little. The gardens, the vaudevilles, and
Fanny Elssler have crowds of admirers. The rest
none. In literature, the Harpers, Appleton, and Carey
and Hart, are all doing all that is to be done. In
science, we are excelling Daguerre in the Daguerreotype,
and Jacobi in the Electrotype. In Swartwouting and
defaulting, we are doing a decent business ; and in
petty roguery nothing very extensive.
In commercial matters there is much st,,gnation.
The Pearl-street jobbers are doing nothing. The stock
of cotton is small, under 14,000 bales, and will pro-
bably be reduced to 1,000 bales before the new crop
comes in. Prices are firm, with a slight advance since
the sailing of the Western. It is believed that the
southern planters will be out of debt before the next
cotton crop comes in. The coming crop will be quite
large.
The corn crop will be 10 per cent. larger than last
year, and prices have advanced an average of 35 cents
a barrel in fourteen markets since the Queen arrived.
The supply in the city is small, but there is plenty in
the interior.

In ship building we are going ahead. Two Govern-
ment steam frigates are nearly finished ; two more are
preparing, and one for the Russian Government, all
about the eze of the Great Western. In this city we
have six merchant ships on the stocks, and two small
steamers. We have just launched a merchant ship of

1,300 tons, the largest in the country, and a steamboat
called the Troy, the longest in the world, being 294
feet long, with a promenade of 250 feet. So much for
ship-building, in which we excel the world.
The Armed ship of the Sultan of Muscat has been
refitted at an expense of $20,000, and the people have
footed the bill.

The North East Boundary is about to be surveyed
by competent Americans directly, and Uncle Sam
pays $25,000 to have it done thoroughly. After this
John Bull must do the handsome thing, or take the
consequences.
Canada is tolerably quiescent. Governor Thomsen
gets along pretty well with the disaffected ; but there is
a heavy storm brewing a-head.
In Texas, they are giving themselves up to carous-
ing and feasting ; but they do not, like Belshazzar, see
any hand-writing on the wall.
Mexico is cut and torn to pieces, and the Liberal
party is decidedly in the ascendant ; they are in posses-
sion of the whole province of Yucatan.
The Philadelphians are still talking about a line of
steam-packets to England.
In -this city we are dull and stupid enough at present.
The principal features afloat are mad dogs, dirty streets,
hard cider, and hot nights, and the thermometer at
ninety-two in the shade. Can John Bull beat this?

LOGS OF THE RIVAL STEAMERS.

HOMEWARD LOG OF THE BRITANNIA.
Aug. 4. Left at 5, p.m.
s.—Left at 12 noon ; course, N. 63 E. ; distance,
174 ; lat. 45 46 ; ion. 59 30.
6.—Left at 12 noon ; course, N, 73 E. ; distance,
270 ; lat. 47 5 ; lon. 53 4.
7.—Left at 12 noon ; course, N. 71 E. ; distance,
258 ; lat. 48 28 ; lat. 46 38.
B.—Left at 12 noon ; course, N. 62 E. ; distance,
280 ; lat. 50 39 ; lon. 40.
9.—Left at 12 noon ; course, N. 60 E. ; distance,
264 ; lat. 52 43 ; lon. 33 41.
10.—Left at 12 noon ; course, N. 64 E. ; distance,
271 ; lat. 54 26 ; lon. 28 7.
11.—Left at 12 noon ; course, N. 88 E. ; distance,
258 ; lat. 54 29 ; lon. 23 32.
12.—Left at 12 noon ; course, S. 65 36 E. ; distance,
248 ; lat. 52 45 ; lon. 17 7.
13. Left at 12 noon ; course, S. 71 45 E. ; distance,
231 ; lat. 51 31 ; lon. 11.
14.—Left at 12 noon ; course, —; distance, 270 ;
Holyhead.
The British Queen did not, on the homeward voyage,
allow the Britannia the same advantage she gave her on
the outward. The Britannia, which sailed from Boston
on the Ist, and which had a long passage from that port
to Halifax, where she stopped eight hours, arrived in
the Mersey on the 14th inst., at seven o'clock in the
evening. The British Queen left New York on the Ist
instant and arrived off Southampton on the 15th, at seven
o'clock in the morning. So that, supposing equal dis-
tances to have been run by both vessels the Britannia,
including the time she stopped at Halifax, had the advan-
tage of twenty hours only over the British Queen. The
run of the Britannia from Halifax to Liverpool, which
occupied only ten days, was most extraordinary.
LOG OF THE BRITISH QUEEN.
LIEUT. RICHARD ROBERTS, R.N., FROM NEW YORK TO

LONDON.
Aug. I.—Wind, N.E. ; at 2 p.m. started ; 4h. 30m.
discharged pilot.
2.—Lat. 40 20 ; long. 70 30 ; distance, 164 ; wind,
S.S.E. ; light winds and c-ioudy.
3.—Let. 40 26 ; long. 65 45 ; distance, 220 ; wind
S.S.E. ; moderate and cloudy.
4.—Lat. 40 30 ; long. 60 38 ; distance, 236 , wind
southerly ; moderate and fine.
s.—Lat. 41 18 ; long. 55 38 ; distance 230 ; wind
S.W. ; light winds.
6.—Lat. 42 44 ; long. 50 26;, distance, 250 ; wind
S. W. ; light winds.
7.—Lat. 44 '24 ; long. 44 25 ; distance, '250 ; wind
S S.W. ; moderate and fine.
B.—Lat. 46 6 ; long. 40 10 ; distance, 242 ; wind
S.W. ; moderate and fine.
9.—Lat. 47 38 ; long. 35 20 ; distance, 230 ; wind,
W. ; light Nvinds and clear.
10.—Lat. 49 0 ; long. 29 50 ; distance, 233 ; wind,
W. ; light winds.
11.—Lat. 49 14 ; long. 23 32 ; distance, 248 ; wind,
N.W. ; moderate breezes with a swell from N.W.
12.—Lat. 49 30 ; long. 17 50 ; distance, 220 ; wind,
N.W. ; light winds with a heavy swell.
13.—Cat. 49 34 ; long. 11 50 ; distance, 230 ; wind,
N.N.W. ; light winds with heavy swell.
14.—Distance, 17 ; wind, N.E.E ; lb. 30m. off the
Lizard. Fresh breezes and fine, standing up Channel.
15.—At 6 a. m. anchored.
The following is taken from the Liverpool AlNon :
The steam-ship Britannia, the first of Mr. Cunard's
Royal Mail line between Liverpool, Halifax, and Bos-
ton, left this port on the 4th alt., at two o'clock in the
afternoon. On the 17th, at two o'clock in the morning,
she arrived at Halitax, after a passage of 12i days. She
remained at that port eight hours, and then proceeded
on to Boston, which she reached in a day and a half,
having arrived at the wharf in East Boston on the 18th
ult., at ten o'clock at night. She made the coast of
Nova Scotia in 11 days and 16 hours from Liverpool,
and the whole voyage to Boston in 14 days and 8 hours.
On the Ist instant, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the
Britannia left Boston for Halifax and Liverpool. On
this occasion, the passage between Boston and Halifax,
which occupied only a day and a half, occupied nearly
double that time. A dense fog, to which the coast
of North America is subject, continued for upwards of
twenty-four hours, and rendered it dangerous for the
steamer to run. As soon as it blew off, she made for
Halifax, which she reached at 11 o'clock on the morning
of the 4th. She left that port at six o'clock in the
evening, with the mail and 76 passengers. At noon
on the 14th she was telegraphed off Holyhead,. and
would have anchored in the Mersey before six
co-clock
in the evening, had there been a sufficient depth of
water to allowlrer to enter the Victoria Channel. As
it was, she came to her moorings, at the Sloyne, at
eight, having made the passage from Boston to Liver-
pool in 13, and from Halifax to this port in 10 days,
the quickest passages from those places on record.
Had it not been for the fog, she would have performed
the voyage from Boston to Liverpool in 12 days.
We congratulate Mr. Cunard on the success which
has attended the voyage of the first steamer of his
Royal Mail line. The Britannia has proved herself a
fast as well as a safe sea-boat. The other ships coin-
the line promise to equal, if not to
rers,ingand except, perhaps, in the winter, tosurrel:X;
the communication between Liverpool, Halifax, and
eolidee3 n not
t must., remunerate -rn
having been
Boston, and vice versa, as regular and its certain as the
railrosd. The advantages of this communication to the
British North American Colonies
be incalculableueaeteeii
the
spi-
rited
;
and,
c,
tiot
r, shouldthe G
oro
Government,
instru-
mental in beginning it, cannot, without neglecting the
interests of those colonies, allow it to stop.
We need scarcely state, that the passengers ware
delighted with the performance of the Britannia.
Headed by Francis B. Ogden, Esq., the Consul of the
United States at Liverpool, who was among their num-
ber, they complimented Mr. Cunard and Lieutenant
Woodruff in appropriate letters ; to which Mr. Cunard
and the gallant commander returned suitable replies.
The citizens of Boston were perfectly enthusiastic on
the arrival of the Britannia at the dock which the Cot,
poration of the city had expressly made for her use.