The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-29 00:00:00

TIIE SUN,

LONDON, THURSDAY

MAY 29, lB5l.

THE Filar STEAM- SHIP that CROSSED
THE ATLANTIC.
TO THE EDITOR or THE TIMES.
Sir,—ln your potential journal of the 22d inst., the
following statement occurs in an article descriptive of
machinery in the Great Exhibition :—" About 1836.7
the project of crossing the Atlantic was started ; the
Sirius was, we believe, the first steam-vessel which per-
formed this feat."
On referring to the Times of June 21, 1819, you will
find the following paragraph, credited to Marwade's
Commercial Report for that week :—" Among the ar-
rivals yesterday at this port we were particularly gra-
tified and astonished by the novel sight of a line steam-
ship, which came round at 7i P.m., without the assist-
ance of a single sheet, in a style which displayed the
power and advantage of the application of steam to ves-
sels of the largest sir), being 350 tons burden. She is
called the Savannah, Captain Rogers, and sailed from
Savannah (Georgia, United States) the 26th of May, and
arrived in the Channel five days since. During her
passage she worked the engine eighteen days. Her
model is beantittil, and the accommodations f,r pa,sen-
gers elegant and complete. This is the first ship on this
construction that has undertaken a voyage across the
Atlantic."

The Times of June 30, 1819, says—" The Savannah
steaei-vessel, recently arrived at Liverpool from America
—the first vessel of the kind that ever crossed the At-
lantic—was chaled a whole day off the coast of Ire-
land by the Ktie revenue cruiser, on the Cork station,
which mistook her for a ship on fire."
Lloyd's list reports the arrival of the Savannah at
Liverpool, on the 20th of June, 1819, bound to St. Peters-
burgh; and in "Gore's Annals of Liverpool" you will
find this American steamer's arrival recorded among re-
markable events.
The steam-chip Savannah was an American ship—
built, owned, and navigated by Americans. Francis
Ficket, of New York, built her for Daniel Dodd; and
the engines were made by Stephen Vail, of ilorristown.
She was commanded by Captain Moses Rogers, and
navigated by Siephen Rogers, of New London, Con-
necticut, who is still living to see the same voyage per-
formed in less than half the time by a line of :.truerican
steamers, the chief engineer of one of which (the Atlan-
tic, Captain West) is his nephew, J. W. Rogers. It is
not inappropriate to mention that, ut the present writing,
the quickest trip across the ocean has been made by the
Pacific, one of the Collins line of American steamers, in
less than ten days—so that we are not only the first but
the fastest.
In England, Copenhagee, Stockholm, Si. Peterahurgb,
and Constantiitople, the arrival of the steamer Savannah
excited great curiosity, and attracted thousands of vi-
sitors. The King of Sweden presented Ceram Rogers
with a " stone and matte, ;" and the Emperor of Russia
present, d a "silver teakettle es a token of his gratifica-
tion at the first atteinp, to cross the Atlantic by steam."
Lord Lynedoch, of England, who went passenger in
this ship to St. Yetersburgh, presented Stephen Rogers
with a "superb gold scuff-b.tx." All these testimonials
are now in the p ssu,siou of the family. The leg-book,
containing an official account of the voyage, is io the
National Institute at Washington city, and may be seen
at any time.—Very respectfully, Sir, your obedient
servant,

'JOHN S. CUNNINGHAM, of N.rfolk, Virginia,

SEAI3 0 tiNE MAILS.
[:7 signifies that the mails are sent front the General Post-otrel
by the night—and id by the morning—dispatch.]

' When made up In! From
When
PLACES. GeneralPost-ofilcel port dis-
what
London. patched. due.
---
America (by Brit. pkt.)N May 30 .. JLiverpool .• June America (by U.S. pkt.) N,June 17 .. .. Liverpool
America (by U.S. pkt.) MlJune 4 .. ..,Southampt. May 29
Africa (West coita)— N 14th of the month ,'Plymouth June 3
Alexandria* •• —• • N 19th & 30th of mo.jDover .. June 111
Belgium .. .. •• N Daily .. .• .. I Dover .. Daily
J Brazil .. • • .. Ml9th of the month Southampt. June 12
Buenos Ayres .. Ml9th of the month ISouthampt. !June 12
California(viaChagres) MI 17th of month jSouthampt. !June 5
Cape of Good Hope Nll4th of month jPlymouth • • !June 3
Constantinople* .. • • Nr7th 17th 27th of mo 'Dover ..IM May
30
Central America •• M,2d & 17th of mon. ,Southampt. June 5
C
Chan • nel Liles ••• NIMon., Wed., &Fri.Southampt. Tn. Th•Sa
hili —•• •• lif 17th of the month ISouthampt. June 5
France •. •.M & N Twice daily .. .. Dover • • Twicedaily
Greeoe* • • • • • • N, 7th 17th 27th ef mo (Dover • • May 30
Hamburgh .. ..NiTuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat.
Mondurolland .. •• ••
IM
MlWednes. & batur'lLonden .. MTkri
Has .. .. . N 17th of the mouthSouthampt. June 20
Ireland .. .. M& N Twice daily ..
.. Holyhead .. I wicedally
India (via Southamp.) M; 20th of the month,Southanipt. Juno 23
India (ciaMarsellles) N 7thbt 24th ofmonth 1 Dover • • June 2
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) •• M 20th of the month Southampt. June 23
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) .. .. Nl7th&24tk ofmonth Dover •• June 2 Mexico .. •• .. M2d of the month.. Southampt. June b
Madeira .. •• .. M'9tti of the month Southampt. June 12
N h 17th 19tk 27th
Malta* .. •. •
1, 1 30th :,f month j Dover May 30
Not/Anse
Papal States* .. .. N 511115th 25th ofmo Dover .. !June 2
Peninsular.. .. .. Ml7th 17th 27th of mo,Southampt.lJuse 4
Peru .. .. • • • • Mll7th of the month lbouthamot. ,June 5
Tuscany* .. .. Nlsth 15th 25th of morDover •• June 2
West Indies .. .. 3117th of the month Southampt. ;June 20
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) Jlild of the month .. Southawipt. (June 5
* The mails to those countries thus marked (*) are conveyed by
French packet v 1 Marseilles
CALIFORNIA.—MaiIs to and from California, via the United State
are now despatched and due by every American packet.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY._Return
Traffic for the week ending May 25:
Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £32,471 15 6
Merchandise ... ... 16,793 15 10
Cattle 935 7 2

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Total £50,203 18 6
Corresponding week last year 47,017 9 4
Note.—The returns as published are exclusive of
traffic of the Huddersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, Norththe Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, Manchester and
Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor-
tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North
Staffordshire Company.
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (SO miles
open.) —Traffic for week ending May 2 i...£15,217 7 9
Corresponding week in last year, (227*
miles open) .. 19,127 17 7
LONDON AND SOOT/I-WESTERN RAILWAY.—AIROUTIt Of
Traffic for the week ending May 25:
Passengers ...
... £ 0,5}9 19 7i
Goods ...
... 2,121 0 0

Total ••• £12,723 19 71
Corresponding week last year... 11,774 16 3
Noarn STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. - (Miles open,ll2.)
Return of traffic for the week ending May 18
Railway and canal £3,036 0 0
Corresponding week last year ... 4,923 0 0
Note. The above is exclusive of the receipts available
under the agreement with the London and North-Western
Railway Company.
SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAY.--(Open '29 miles.) —Traffic
for the week ending May *45 :
Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £353 19
Goods and live stock .. ... 239 5 2

Mr. ELLTOTT said be should remand the prisoner
until Saturday.

Total £598 5 If
Corresponding week last year ... 466 12 6
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY...araffie for the
week ending May 25:—.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, May 27.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Liaitnghall-street.
J. B. Warcup, Broadway, Deptford, ironmonger, Juno
10, et twelve—J. Putham, Brosbourne, Herttordshire,
plasterer, June 14, at eleven—H. C. Knell, Belvedere-
road, Lambeth, timber merchant, June 14, at eleven—
J. K. Watts, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, scrivener, June
14, at half-past eleven.
In the Country.
R. D'Oyloy, Moreton, Gloucestershire, scrivener, June
23, at halt past eleven, at the Court, Bristol—R. Boyle,
jun., Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant, June 25 at halt-
past twelve, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.

)(AIX LINZ.

Passengers ... ...
Parcels, H. C. and D.
Goods, cattle, &c.
Mails

... £1,210 5 i
- 49 4 7

... ... 424 b 2.
••• ••• 575 0 0

~. £2,258 15 2

Passengers ... ...
Parcels, H. C. and D. ... ..,
Goods, cattle, &c.

... £34 12 5
2 0 8
74 5 2

Total

••• ••• ••• XllO 18 3
STEAM-BOATS.

H. Southgate and %V. M. Robertson, 11;et-street, City,
auctioneers, Is., on Thursday next, or three following
Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Graham, Coleman-street.

Passengers ••• •••
Parcels, H. C. and D. ... ...

... £l9O 111 11
13 2 4

_._
W. M. Robertson, Fleet-street, City, auctioneer,
I Is. 2d., on Thursday next, or three following Thurs-
days, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Gra-
ham, Coleman. street.
H. Southgate, Fleet-street, City, auctioneer, 7s. 4d.,
on Thursday next, or three following Thursdays. be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham,
Coleman-street.
T. Sneeirum. Rupert-street, Coventry-street, builder,
ld., on Thursday next, and three following Thursdays,
between eleven and twb,. at. the office of Mr. Graham, 1
Coleman-street.
W. Orchard, West Smithfield, rick and tent manufse.
hirer, Bd., on Thursday next, and Or• e follow leg
Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Graham, Coleman-street.
A. Moore, South-wharf, South-wharf.ro,d, stone
merchant, 3.. 4d., on Thursday next, and three follow;
Thursdays b between eleven and two, at the uffi -ng
bcueildinfrigsr,
Stansfeld, asin- street.
J. B. Pdlis and G. A.
Pink', Featherstone
Holborn, sword cutlers, Is., on Thursday n
following Thursdays, b+tween eleven ext. and three
office of Mr. Stansteld, Basinghall-street.
end two, at the
R. Godsmark, , Crosoy„ro eet.
next, and three following
grocer, 9id.. on Thursday w. Walworth-road,
Thursdays, between eleven auti
Sianareld, Basinghall..trceti tVr°, at the office of Mr. 1
J. B. R Durant, Stegursey,
Soar rest, grocer, 4.., on ++l
new proofs, on
once
and Fru:flys, between eleven 1
and two, at the or it
Exeter. air. He/llama, Qum street,

£204 2 3
CALIDONIAN RAILWAY. (160 miles opened.)—Return o.
traffic for the week ending May 18 :
Passengers, &c.
Goods, &c.

... £2,444 4 24
... 8,949 7 4

Totals
..
... £6,393 11 6i
Corresponding week last year ... 6,330 6 8i
1 Including Wishaw and Co4ness, now in charge of a
factor.

SCOTTISH CENTRAL lisnwAy.--Traffic for the Week
ending May 25, 1851 :
Passengers (9,971), parcels, horses,
and carriages ... £1,049 7 2
Goods, cattle, &c.
... 833 12 9

...~......., ../.••••••
Total ... .. .1..
1,882 19 11
Corresponding week in last year... 1,441 12 5

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS
BRISTOL, MAY 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —Tho market was rather better to-
day, with more inquiry. The transactions were as fol-
low Great Western, 8134—Taff Vale, 170—Ditto, 5 per
cent, Stock, 1 p.
LIVERPOOL, MAT 28
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The ma ket opened in as gloomy
a state as yesterday, but afterwards rallied, and closed
firmly. The transactions were as follow : - East Lancashire,
15%—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 56 London and North-
Western, 122 —Ditto, New Quarters, 3t4 p. Ditto, Fifths,
3% p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 2{4—
Midland. 531.• - South-Eastern and Dover, 23k—North
Union (A), guaranteed by London and North-Western and
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 240—York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick, 201,1, York and North Nlidland, 22%.
MANCHESTER, MAT 28
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market has been better
to-day in respect to prices. The transactions were as follow:
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc•ion, 1l die.-..
Bolton, Blackburn, Clirheroe, and West Yorkshire (A), 4.. c.
—Caledonian, 13 Ditto, Pref• rence, f•%—Eastern Counties,
6 9.16 East. Lancashire, Quarters. 15—Great Northern (ti),
guaranteed 6 per cent. 12'4 —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6
—London and North-Western, 2—Ditto, Manchester and I
_l6 dis. —Manchester, h
Sheffit4n
Birmingham, Quarters (C ), `l2.2—Ditto,
.—Manchester, Bux
167 Sout
Matlock, and Midland. 3 1
.Eteeildn,
and Lincolnshire, '2 9 —North Union (B),
and Dover, 23%. - - - -
BIRMINGHAM. MAT 28.
grocz EXCHANGE. There was no business
notice transacted in the share market to-day, The
worthy of
y The fallof
prices which took place in London yesterd4 •
j produced an •
jurion.S4Nt ; rws b 34 Otimary ifnot
&Y* dmprarl

British felons is annually nonred into Van Diemen's POLICE INTELLTGENCE.
Land, there must be an efflux of expirees au.i ernan-
An elderly culain,()ul .(LnS (111 AP;td4C descria d as
cipists to make room for then; and Victoria
s
offers so many allurements, independent of vici-
nity, that she will necessarily attract numbers
murderous ausntirlfdsrl" ta-isurel vuil
ad uweli3huic'pihroansr'grelgidisnb'ewl firreei, whir:.'4aA6h taridirols(ll:sw:Edti
to her shores. Let us then heartily co-operate with our
Tasmanian fellow-colonists is their efferts to stem the
such serious injuries that her life was placed in danger.
torrent of pollution; and we doubt not that ere another
Police-constable Cotton, 60, stated that while on duty in Whitechapel, about one o'clock that
rning, his
anniversary of the foundation of our Australian Settle-
returns, our moral as well as civil liberty will be
mo achieved in the discentinuance of transportation for ever.
attention was attracted by the violent
curt,
and onscreams of a
—From the Melhourne .Iforcing Herald f Jenuary 27 woman, proceeding from en adjoining court,
reaching the spot be found the prisoner's wife stretched
up in the paveuaent, wilh nothing on but her night-dress,
struggling to relea,e herself from the grasp of her hus-
band, who was holding her down by the hair of the
bead, and beating her unmercifully about the head acd
face. He succeeded with some difficulty in forcing him
from the woman, who was in such a state of exhaustion
and suffering that she was unable for some time to
answer his inquiries; but on partially recovering
herself she informed him that the prisoner had
dragged her out of bed, and after kicking her about
the body till she wes a complete mass of bruises, and
biting her severely on different parts of her person, he
ultimately flung her into the street, and was in the
net of renewing his attack upon her when witness
fortunately came up and rescued her from fur-
ther ill-treatment The poor woman directed his at•
tention to her shoulders, both or which were much
lacerated, and bore the distinct marks of teeth; and she
was then assisted into the house of one of her neigh-
bours, where she was attended by a surgeon, who di-
rected her immediate removal to the hospital. On hear-
ing his wife's statement, the prisoner made no attempt
to deny any portion of it, but uttered the moat violent
invectives against her, and threatened that if she yen
tured to give him into custody it ahculd be the last
charge she would ever be able to bring forward. The
officer added, that he had seen the injured woman that
morning, who appeared to be in a very precarious
state, and was wholly unable to attend to give evidence
in support of the charge.
The prisoner, who declined offering any defence, was
ordered to be remanded for a week, to afford time for
ascertaining the result of the injuries his wife had sue.
tabled.

SOUTH IVARK.
Francis Bemarsh, a punter and gleaier, was placed
at the bar before Mr. Elliott, charged with violating Eli
zabeth Sweeny, fifteen years of age, the daughter of a
leether-dresser, residing at No. 4, Canterbury-place, Old
Kent-rood.
Mr. Binns attended to conduct the prosecution.
Mary Sweeny stated that she is the mother of the
complainant, whom she sent to the baker's shop at the
corner of the place where they lived, on Tuesday even
ing, the 20th instant, about eight o'clock. That the girl
did not return, and was assent during the night, and
that she (witness) and her husbend had look.-d about
and made inquiries everywhere, but heard no tidings of
her until the previous evening, when her father found
her sitting on the steps of a door near their house, and
brought her home.
Mr. ELLIOTT, observing that the girl's face, particu-
larly about the eyes, was black end swollen, asked the
cause of the marks?—Her mother replied that her hus-
band was so exasperated at the conduct of his daughter
in staying away from home such a length of time, that
in the height of passion be cha•tised her, and occasioned
the marks in her face.
El.zkbeth Sween), the girl herself, was then call d
forward, and, on bt•ing sworn, stated that she knew the
prisoner, who lived next door to her father in Ginter-
bury-place. That on Tuesday, the 20th instant, when
her mother sent her on an errand to the baker's shop,
she saw the prisoner standing at the corner, and became
up and asked her to take a walk with him. She refused,
telling him that she was sent on an errand Sum home.
He said, Never mind, come with me;" and putting
one of his hands round her waist, hurried her along.
They walked on until they came to a public-
house which had a garden at the rear, and they wen:
into it, and the prisoner left her for a moment and re-
turned with a small glass of dark-looking liquor, which
he desired her to take. She was induced to drink the
contents of the glass, soon after which she felt stupi-
fled, and they then quitted the place, and he led her
to a house at some dietance off, at the door of which
he knocked, and they were admitted by a man, and
they (the prisoner and herself') went up stairs into a
room, the door of which be locked inside, and then
he threw her upon the bed. [the here described the
particulars respecting the prisoner's conduct towards
her, by which it appeared a capital offence had been
perpetrated.]
In reply to Mr. ELLIOTT, as to whether she made an
alarm and called fur a,sistance, she said that the pri-
soner prevented her by placing one hand on her mouth,
ea and that she was rendered incapable of doing so; that
she did not know the neighbourhood where it occurred,
and could not point out the house.
at. The complainant, in continuation of her statement.
S
rkr, said that they remained in the house about ten or twelve
I
to minutes, and the prisoner got up from the bed, un-
locked the door, and that the moment it was opened
she ran down stairs, got out of the house, but was
afraid to go home, and went to her aunt's, where
she remained that night, but did not mention to her
then the manner in which she had been treated by
the prisoner, but afterwards described all that had hap•
petted to her.
Mr. ELLIOTT—DO you still mean to swear that the
prisoner is the man by whom you were treated in the
way you have described? Complainant, replied in the
affirmative, saying that she knew hiss from the circutn-
stances of his living next door to her father'. house.
The complainant further stated that she lent her aunt's
house the morning following that on which she slept
there, with the intention of going home, hut sbe was stilt
afraid, knowing her father was a passionate man, ant;
that be would beat her. She, therefere, w .nderetl about
the town, and had thoughts of making away wi.h het-
self, but was anxious to see her parents; and although
she want to the neighbourhood where they lived, site was
still fearful of the consequences if she went into the
house, and instead of doing so sho sat down on the step,
of a door near their house, where her father touud her
and took ber home.
The complainant's aunt was examined, and she stated
that her neice described the circutniatices ot ttte allege d
offence to her precisely as she had done before the ma
giscrate, and declared the prisoner was the man,
A police . onstsble -'a ed that upon reareiveig infer-
mation of the alleged offence, when he went to take the
prisoner into custody atter h wing described to him th..
nature of the accusation agaiest him, the prisoner
seemed to be very much astunisned, and declare d tote
there was not any foundation for such a charge as re-
garded himself.
When the prisoner was asked by the magistrate whe-
ther he wished to make any statement, after heating tut
evidence given against hint, a ter lb usual he
asserted he had not seen :he girl during the its) men-
tioned; that at the iitn- she al eged he had taken her 14,
a house and perpetrated the offence he was at home at
work; and that he never to .4 her to arty public house
nor ever had walked a yard with her; that, in fact,
everything she had said agamst him was take.
Mr. ELLIOTT asked him it he had any person in court
to prove that he was elsewhere at the time ot toe alleged
offence? The prisoner replied that the charge came so
dn I he was taken into custody ali in
a moment,
chhal
that he an
had net time to procure the attend-
Ets lau C Od O. nf
uponthe
necessary witnesses to establish his inn°,
cence.

NOTIcIES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Conti, Basingh,,il stre.-t.
W. M`Do.,sll, Lit,43 (2.leen- trail, Lincoln's Inn-
fields, printer, June 19, at half peat eleven—R. Gades-
den,
at 1-I..line.co:tage, Upper Tooting, W
Brompton-square, Mitiolesex Ba'tvis, and Lla. ed), 'web
Cartnar,h,tia.,
twelv..-.R. ire. coal merchant, June 19, at half-pavt On the 25th inst .
i!ged 5, Etieticzer Fos er, Esq., of
B. 'raining, Esq., of the Strand, London, aged 30.
B Coltman, I{e4ent-street, court =Dint',
June 14 at twelve—W. It 114.whry, Woolwich, grocer, On the.
-ball,
rincst..
Anitey-ha..
tntea ambtidge.
On the 16 1 inst, Thomas Dribble, Esq., of Stockwell,
June 16 at twelve—J. T. Astle, G Astle, and C. Astlo, i
Cu'enlarl-qice(, Clll n., kiwi-. ,a. June 16, at one. , Surrey,otlt,t aged t
161
9inst.. at Carshalton Afro. Mary Charrin t n
.
In the Country.
widow of the ;ate W. Charring .on,'E -of 8..1ha Surrey.g'
J. Prl•Lean, Liver uoi, c uptaston mercbant at the
On the 19th inst., at Blackwater, asgqed' 51, Mary, the wife
m, .
Court, Liverpool, June 19 at .eleven—W. Walker, Salt-
of W. Wfeon.
marsh() Grange and Ea..trington, Yorkshire, saekit.g
caktuuf,cturer, at the T,,,,,-hail. Kingston-urn-Hu 1, On the 21st inst., at the Rectory, Moneymor
._,e Ireland,
July 2, at halt past twelve—T. wil,.on. Madras, Mau- James Hewitt, Esq., eldest sou of the Hon. and Rev. John
chemar, and Preston, merchant, at the Court, Mat,ches- Y. Hewitt.
ter, June 19, at eleven- J. Fleteber, Haslitlgdop, Lan- ---
cashire hardware dealer, at tn. Court,
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