The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-23 00:00:00

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(Abridged iron
The idea of establishing a regular team communication
between New York and Liverpool had now come to be

the Jourz

of Commerce.)

seriously entertained by some of the sagacious and, enter-
prising on both sides of the Atlantic. We do not feel called

upon I

Western S

Ship Company," or
avigation Company,

British and Am(
e entitled to a
it certainly i
That is a quest

eatn
and an

ading the way in this great enterpris
hich we t

i to examine, when the proper
locuments are placed within our reach. The Bristol com-
rany were indeed first upon the line with their noble ship,
Western; but the London and New York Corn-
ctually first to accomplish the passage through by
chartered for the express purpose.
:verance of Mr. Junius Smith, an
ied American merchant in London,
1, is the final and successful
doubtless to be at-

more than to any other individ

plishment of ti
.d. From Jan

1833, to the present moment, hi
devoted to the object. As early a

published his first prospectus of a line of

betwee

gland and America

d to ridicul

rsevered, and in November following

Nothing
issued a

,ttention

Shares were subscribed, doubt yielding to de-
li), the requisite capital was soon provided, and the
nd American Steam Navigation Company" was
41 a solid foundation. In October. 1836, they
r contract for hulloing their first steam-ship; the
on the Ist of April, 1837, but owing to the
of one of the contractors, and other difficulties, she
—,ched until the 24th of May, 1838, when she re-
of the British Queen. She left Ports-
,utti on the 12th July, 1839, on her first trip to New York,
arrived at New York on the 27th, after a passage of 14
ays and 18 hours.

sect on

ceived t

No sooner did the fact of the establishment of the British
1 American Company transpire, than the people of Bristol
ousad to the importance of securing to their ancient
earn communication with New York.

.. Brunel, the -.ed engineer, and other gentlemen
connected with the great western railway, came forward with

beral subscriptions. A committee wa!
y one of the most competent practical

1, to make the nec

appointed, assisted
hip-builders of the

ary surveys and c

urination

ide to the subscribers on the Ist of
ni the 2d of Jut

pany" was established by d

ne stern-pc

y, she departed from Bristol on the Bth of April, 1838,
ew York, arriving at this port 23d of April, after a
eof 14 days 12 hours. She had made 15 trips across
fore the British queen was placed upon the

he Atlantic

The "Trans-Atlantic Steam Ship Company," formed in
Liverpool, in the summer of 1838, put two steamers on the
route between that port and New York. The Royal William
_ .

sailed on the sth Of July, and arrived the 24th, making a
passage of 18 days 12 hours. The Liverpool sailed on the
6th of November, and arrived the 23d, making a passage in

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16 days 12 hours. The Royal William was withdrawn from
the route in the winter of 1838, and the Liverpool in 1839.
Public attention in London and in New England was soon
cted to the establishment of a line of steamers to ply be-
Boston and Liverpool and in 1839, Mr. Samuel
icceeded in effecting a contract with
ransmission of her Majesty's

mails, twice a-month from Liverpool, via
.c. The liberal sum of £60,000 per annum,

:o be paid by the Government for this service