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

The following is an authentic table of the number o

Mass-Houses,-and also
ployed in Great Britain :-
Chapels in England
Chapels in Wales ..

Popish E

ssaries openly em-

Total of Chapels in:England

Chapels in Sotland .
(Besides 20 stations where

Service is

performed.)
1 of (

Grind t

holic Churc

and Chap

in Great Britain
Colleges in England
College in Scotland

Total of Catholic Colleges in Great Britain
Convents in England
Convent in Scotland

Total of Catholic Convents in Great Britain
Missionary Priests in Great Britain
Priests in England

in Wale

Total of Priests in Eng'
Priests in Scotland ...

land and Wales

Grand total of Missionary Priests in Great

Britain

RACES TO COME IN 1841
MARCH.

Pytchley Hunt ~
Hampton Spring

25 I Epsom Spring
30 I Cottisford
APRIL.

Croxton-park 1 Curragb
Huntingdon Spring .. 6or 13 Bath and Bristol Spring

Newmarket

12 Sbifnal
12 I Newmarket

.st Sussex Hunt

Canterbury F.
Catterick-bri

13 i Eglinton-park
14 I Bedford Sping

Abergavenny

Chester

Hippodrom

3 I Beverley
4 I Gorhambury
5 York Spring
11 Epsom
11
JUNE.

PliMouth Spring

Newmarket
Kelso Spring.

2 Newcastle-on-Tyne
2 Bellewston ... .
8 Cheltenham
8 Bibury Club
16 Stockbridge
16 .
JULY.
Newmarket

Manchester

Hippodrome
Ascot

Currag

Newton

Hampton

Worcester 7
Mansfield
Liverpool
Down Royal Corporation l9

County of Gloucester

Lancaster

Goodwood ....
Newport (Salop.

Huntingdon
The Pottery
Brighton
Newcastle (Staffordshire)
otverhaxnpton
Lewes
Ripon

Tunbridge Wells

Egliam.:
Hereford
Stockton

5i
119
16
SEPTE

Stourbridge

Warwick

York
Paisley
MISER.

Curragh

Lincoln
Bedford

Norwich.
Doncaster
Lichfield.
Leicester.
Liverpool

Newarkei

Western (Ayr)

Newmarket •
Curragh
Leek (Staffordshire
Newmarket

Shrewsbury
Oswestry..

OCTOBER.
.11 Caledonian Hunt not fixed
.12 Knutsford not fixed
.18 Kelso not fixed
. 25

THE ATLANTIC STEAMERS

(Abridged from the Journal of Commerce.)

The idea of establishing a regular :team communication
between New York and Liverpool had now come to be
seriously entertained by some of the sagacious and enter-
prising on both sides of the Atlantic. We do not feel called
upon here to discuss the question, whether the " Great
Western Steam Ship Company," or the " British and Ame
rican Steam Navigation Company," are entitled to the
credit—and an honourable distinction it certainly is—of
leading the way in this great enterprise. That is a question
which we take another occasion to examine, when the proper
documents are placed within our reach. The Bristol com-
pany were indeed first upon the line with their noble ship,
the Great Western; but the London and New York Com-
pany were actually first to accomplish the passage through by
steam with the Sirius, chartered for the express purpose.
To the unwearied perseverance of Mr. Junius Smith, an
opulent and distinguished American merchant in London,
more than to any other individual, is the final and successful
accomplishment of this great enterprise doubtless to be at-
tributed. From January, 1833, to the present moment, he
has been enthusiastically devoted to the object. As early as
June, 1835, be published his first prospectus of a line of
steam-packets between England and America. The public
were at first disposed to ridicule the project. Nothing
daunted, he persevered, 4nd in November following issued a
second prospectus, whi4 began to attract the attention of
capitalists. Shares were subscribed, doubt yielding to de-
monstration, the requisite capital was soon provided, and the
" British and American Steam Navigation Company" was
organised on a solid foundation. In October. 1836, they
made their contract for building their first steam-ship; the
keel was laid on the Ist of April, 1837, but owing to the
failure of one of the contractors, and other difficulties, she
was not launched until the 24th of May, 1838, when she re-
ceived the name of the British Queen. She left Ports-
mouth on the 12th July, 1839, on her first trip to New York,
and arrived at New York on the 27th, after a passage of 14
days and 18 hours.
No sooner did the fact of the establishment of the British
and American Company transpire, than the people of Bristol
became aroused to the importance of securing to their ancient
city the advantage of a steam communication with New York.
Mr. Brunel, the celebrated engineer, and other gentlemen
connected with the great western railway, came forward with
liberal subscriptions. A committee was appointed, assisted
by one of the most competent practical ship-builders of the
kingdom, to make the necessary surveys and examination.
Their report was made to the subscribers on the Ist of
January, 1836, and on the 2d of June, 1836, the " Great
Western Steam Ship Company" was established by deed of
settlement. On the 28th of July following, the stern-post
of the Great Western was raised, and on the 19th of July,
1837, she was launched. After testing the work of her ma-
chinery, she departed from Bristol on the Bth of April, 1838,
for New. York; arriving at this port 23d of April, after a
.passage of 14 days 12 hours. She had made 15 trips across
the Atlantic before the British Queen was placed upon the
line. _ _

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
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
directed to the establishment of a line of steamers to ply be-
tween Boston and Liverpool; and in 1839, Mr. Samuel
Cunard, of London, succeeded in effecting a contract with
the British Government, for the transmission of her Majesty's
North American mails, twice a-month from Liverpool, via
Halifax to Quebec. The liberal sum of £60,000 per annum,
for 7 years, is to be paid by the Government for this service.
Four steam-ships are to be placed on this line—two of which,
the Britannia and Acadia, have already made their appear-
ance. The Britannia, the first of the line, arrived at Boston
on the 18th of July, in 14 days from Liverpool ; and the
Acadia, which left Liverpool on the 4th of August, arrived
at Boston on the 17th, making the passage in 12 days, 12
hours—being the shortest ever made from England to Boston.
On the same day the President came up the harbour of New
York. This magnificent steam-ship belongs to the British
and North American Steam Navigation Company. The
President was launched on the Thames, on the 9th of Decem-
ber last, and in model, style of architecture, and beauty of
tinisn, is equal perhaps to any other ship that floats upon the

deep.
The following table we also extract from the Journal (j
Commerce Our readers will perceive that the proportion

_., ...... ........
of tonnage to power is assumed to be perfect in Cimard's
line; and although the Great Western was the first-built
ocean steamer, it will be seen that her power to tonnage
differs but slightly from Cunard's. The Great Western has
not yet been beaten, taking the relative positions of New
York and Boston into account.

Vessels. '7onnage,

Cunard's .... 1200
Gt. Western.. 1340
British Queen 2016
President.... 2366

Horse Tonnage Horse power of en
power for every sines, if Mr. C.'
- one horse proportion ha,
power. been adopted.

engine

440 2 8-11
450 2 4 4-45 491 1-3
500 4 4-125 739 1-5
600 3 283-300 867 8.15

A colony of Socialists in the Manea-fen, Cambridgeshire,
have just shut up shop and decamped.