The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-23 00:00:00

DEPARTURE OF THE LIVERPOOL FOR

*NEW YORK.

On Saturday, according to announcement, the steam-snip
Liverpool started on her first voyage across the Atlantic.
From the time of her arrival from her successful trial trip to
Dublin, the greatest curiosity was excited to view the splen-
did cabins, engines &c. of this floating world of timber and
metal, and thousands visited her in steam-boats while she lay,
during the week, in the Sloyne, completing her equipments
and taking in goods, passengers, and a plentiful supply of
provisions, including live-stock and even growing vegetables.
The visitors were admitted by ticket, but they became,. to-
wards the end of the week, so numerous that tile workmen
on board were interrupted by their crewdieg the decks, and
it was found necessary reluctantly to hurry some of them from
the ship, and to refuse admission to many boat-loads of ladies
and gentlemen. Several handsome entertainments were
given on board, in the course of the week, by the Company,
Captain Fayrer; and it is scarcely
and by the commander,
necessary to add, that ail were highly gratified by the beauty
of the vessel and the hospitality with which they were re-
ceived.
The intended hour of departure was mid-day, but the quan-
tity of goods, luggage, and stores that came at "the eleventh
hour" was so great that about an hour's delay was occasioned.
The curiosity excited to witness her starting was greater than
that of any former occasion of the sailing of a ship front the
waters of the Mersey. The whole line of quays, from the
Queen's to the Clarence Docks, a distance of about two miles,
was filled up by a continuous crowd of human beings of all
classes, who, in their generally dark apparel, formed, as seen
from the river, a long black streak on the tops of the marine
walls that skirt the town. Many steam-boats on the rivers
were also crowded with parties anxious to obtain a nearer
view; and such was the hurrying down to the quays. from
every street, that the town was, for some time, in a complete
bustle. Yachts, boats, and other vessels were also moving;
rapidly to and fro, and, the day being particularly fine and
sunny, the scene was highly animated and interesting.
The Liverpool, shortly before noon, steamed down from
the Sloyne, whe she had been anchored, to nearly opposite
Wallasey Pool, on the Cheshire shore, where she received,
from successive steam-boats, those of her passengers who had
not before gone on board, and a quantity of stores, spare
spars. provisions, &c. She was made fast to the Shamrock,
one of the City of Dublin Company's t iver boats, and the tide
had began to ebb before in the unavoidable hurry, ail was to
readiness.
The letters sent out by her loaded a cart, and were con-
tained in immense canvas bags, some of them so heavy that
one man could with difficulty carry them. The packages of
newspapers anti parcels were also numerous.
There were fifty-one passengers (exclusive of servants and
children.) Amongst them were the following:—J. Van
Buren, Esq.. son of the Presidentof the United States; Rev.
F. Machin and family; Messrs. It. Jones, W. Barber, jun.,
H. A. Vandamme, W. Day, Smith, and servant, J. Mur-
doch, W. J. Smith, and servant, o;ford, Jennings, Isaac
Gage, Brown, H. Norris, W. Marie, Hoppe, John Henry,
Lamb, Williams, Richard Charles, Crowder, Atkinson, A.
H. Behan and family, illontgomerv, Falguerittos, Dr. Mor-
rison, Mr and Mrs. Kerr, J. H. Davies, Mackintosh, Gor-
don, Thatcher, A. Lang, Rion, F. Homer, and Dawson.
The ship had on board about 150 tons of dry goods, for
which the sum of £5 5s per ton was paid, 469 tons of coal,
and 9-I tons of Mr. Williams's turf stone, or compressed fuel.
Her consumption of coal is estimated at 26 cwt. for every ten
miles ; and, calculating upon a fair average passage, she will
have a surplus of 147 tons of coal on reaching New York.
Precisely at one o'clock the Liverpool was put in motion,
her head being then to the south. -She was steered round at
moderate speed, several vessels being in the way, all those
gentlemen who are not to proceed with her to America (in-
cluding Mr. Shaw) having just left her, with three times
three hearty cheers. From the crowded decks of the other
steamers near her, the seine compliment was heartily paid,
and a gam was discharged at intervals from the Shamrock.
The crowd was dense on George's Pier, and the Prince's
Dock sea-wall held its thousands. The vessel being kept,
however, nearly in midehannei, the distance from her ()tithe
spectators was too great to admit of a cheer, which, we doubt
not, would, under other circumstan.ces, have been most
heartily given. Her speed, for some time, was not unusual,
as she did not, at first, gather way. She was gazed upon by
many thousands as she passed down the river, gradually in-
creasing in speed until her hull began to lessen to the eve.
One steamer, loaded with passengers, proceeded out with her,
or rather behind her; to the Lightship; another, equally
crowded, to the Rock Lighthouse.

About 16i minutes past one (the hour of starting) she
passed the Rock on her westward course. Her speed had
then, evidently, much increased, perhaps to about tw&ve
knots an hour; and, in a few moments more, just as the pas-
sengers in the steamer in which we had left her side landed
at the Egremont slip, she became lost to view behind the
sand-hills, not to be again seen by Liverpool eyes until her
return from her transatlantic voyage. She is expected to
reach New York about the 5i h of next month. ii)he carries
with her the best wishes of the town from which she derives
her name, a town which owes its rise to sailing navigation,
and to which increasing prosperity and wealth will, doubt-
less, arise from ocean navigation by steam.
The Liverpool may be expected back from New York
about the end of November; aim it is arranged that she shall
depart on her tettind voyageto that city on the first of Janu-
try, 1839.

atm Vessels spu-
I. I Wind. Lat Lon Dis. iteuldrks'
O 1 ken with.
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1° '1 ° ' Mls.l
1
5 WSW—W 40! 22170 14 17i! 3 Freishhreezes' Clear P.M.
\
1 1 e , ori erate ar. d hazy.
61 W—S 140 43'165 31 206 'Cairn. Moderate and tine.
1 Mod. & fine. A ship from
i
„I
i S ' 41 43160 27 237 Newcastle, supposed
the Bolivar. •
8 S—SE 142 4751 55 250 Moderate and hazy.
9 SE - 44 1451) 18 224 Fresh breezes and hazy.
10 SE 45 49 45 3 2391M0r1.& hazy. A head sea.,
11 SE i 47 21 39 48 239 'Light breezes and fine.
12 Variable (48 27 34 34 231 f 5 Lt. breezes & hazy. Fre.
i ( bark, Croix do Sad.
13 N\V ; ( Mod.&cloudy. 12th.brig
IS 58;28 10 2551 -Z Funchal. of CZ:giro:v. fr.

13 NW
14, NNW
WNW in 40i21 34
„1, 5 WNW 1 I
"It NW 5 '5O 1214 59
; 7'y Ws 50 50N Sb
118 22

3 Mod.BZeloudv. 12th. brig
Funchal, of-Glasgow, fr.
St. John's to Oporto.
5 Showers. Fresh breezes
& cloudy.
5 Nly. swell. Squally, rain
0 at times.

Nly. swell. Sr,. Fresh
gales and rain.

. _
On her outward voyage, the Great Western left Bristol on
the evening of the Bch ult. arriving at New York on the
evening of the 24th, having► experienced very rough and had
weather, with head winds for thirteen days out of the sixteen.
An American paper states that she took out 13-1 passengers,
and that berths for 30 or4o more were applied fur, but neces-
sarily refused.

Ai an instance of the superiority of steaming over sailing,
we may mention that the Great Western, leaving New York
on the afternoon of the 4th inst. arrived at Bristol on ,the
morning of the 17th; while the Sheridan liner, which sailled
from New York o❑ the 25th ult., after a favourable voyage.
with westerly winds, arrived at Liverpool yesterday, the 19th.
The steamer leaves the same port nine days after the liner,
and brings the news so much later, and yet arrives in Eng-
land full two days before her less rapid competitor.