The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-25 00:00:00

SORE TV STEAM-SHIPS.

The arrival of the Glasgow screw steam-ship at
Greenock, in twelve days five hours from New York,
with a large cargo and forty-six passengers, has
again called public attention to this class of vessels,
and the advantages they possess over paddle-wheel
steamers ; the more so as the Glasgow has only been
twenty-eight hours longer on the voyage than the
powerful Cunard steamer the Atlantic, which left
New York on the same day. The comparatively
cheap manner in which screw ships are worked, and
their great capacity for the conveyance of both cargo
and passengers, enables them to compete successfully
with the more expensive steam-ships for passengers,
and with sailing vessels for goods. The success
which seems to attend almost every vessel
fitted with the screw-propeller, whether on long
or short voyages affords great encouragement to all
those companies and individuals who are now intending
to place ships of this description in the Indian, Aus.
tralian, Brazilian, and American trades. Of their
ultimate success, the testimony of so many eminent
and practical men in their favour, before the House
of Commons and i❑ other places, can leave but little
doubt, the more so when it is considered that the
change only involves the application of steam as an
auxiliary power to sailing vessels built upon the most
approved models—vessels capable of competing with
any of their class, and possessing the advantage of
steam in enabling them to overcome the diffi-
culties opposed to their progress by calms
and unfavourable winds. Beyond this, they
will be enabled, from their capacity for
stowage, and the small amount of room occupied by
machinery and fuel, to carry cargoes far exceeding
anything that could be stowed by steam-ships of the
ordinary construction, and very little, if any, short of
that carried by first-class sailing vessels. Such are
the advantages pointed out by men of experience as
possessed by screw steam-ships. It requires, there-
fore, but little inquiry to convince the most scep-
tical that, for the purpose of emigration and the
conveyance of merchandise, they will be found su-
perior to any other class of vessels, and that their
success is a matter of great and serious importance
to our colonies, especially those now suffering from
the want of a more rapid intercourse with the mother
country.

....
SERIOUS FIRE IR ALANCHESTER.--/k. fire was dis-
covered yesterday morning about half-past eight o'clock in
the warehouse of Mr. George Hodgkinson, quilting and
counterpane manufacturer, in Market-street, Manchester.
Mr. Hodgkinson occupies part of a block of buildings, which
were burnt down about four years ago and some 25,0001.
damage done. All around are warehouses filled with costly
goods, and the danger at one time was imminent that these
would ignite and spread the conflagration. The alarm was,
however, given at the police yard, and fire engines
being got
to the spot, after great exertions the firemen
succeeded in
overcoming the devastating element
and
preventing its
about 2,0001.,
spread. '1 he loss of property will amount
the larger portion of it on Mr.
.Hodgkins to pre
abo
on's premises, co-
vered by insurance.
—Mr. G. T.
v MOTITEL
REPRESENTATION OF n-
PLY
Braine, deputy-chairman
of
the Plymouth Great Western
Company, and directorthe Eastern Steam Navigation
ofss to the electors of this borough,
Docks, has issued an a
vt its c
tion an representation.
advocate lioef
educationbny matters of general policy, his views are
offeringstetes tha
free trade,taatendfocroni
whileitih those of the Liberal party ; that he is
in accordance w
tbhe
himselfis as
d to the Church of England, and opposed to
warmly attache • •
a dedaraedi
any concession of spiritual or temporal power to the Church
of Rome.

According to an advertisement in the New York
papers the firm of Hamden and Co., who suspended on the
25th of November at Liverpool, and subsequently at Boston,
have made arrangements for the payment of their sight
draughts which had been issued to Immigrants and others
desirous of sending small remittances to their relatives at
home. These draughts amounted to an aggregate of
12,0001., and much distress will therefore now be averted.
The firm also are making efforts to resume their general
business, which, it is thought, may prove successful.
The whole of the share and produce markets will
main c 1940 in Liyerpoci until Monday next.