The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-14 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC STEAM SHIP.

We have announced elsewhere the arrival of this im-
mense steam ship, the appearance of which was looked for
with much anxiety for several days last week. She sailed
from New York on the 27th April, having been tried on.
the Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, outside the Hook,
when she made as much as 171- miles per hour. She left
the wharf shortly after twelve at noon, and passed Sydney
Hook at five, p.m., with a strong head wind and sea,
which continued for seven days. On the 4th instant,
when five days out, some of the paddle floats gave way,
and while laying to on the sth, to repair them, some
of the steam became condensed in the air pump, causing
some of the gearing to give way. For some time she was
Propelled by her starboard engine only ; eventually, how.
ever, the larboard engine was disconnected from the con-
densing apparatus and worked on the high-pressure prin-
ciple. She was laid to for 32 hours, so, with other mat- I
ters, the stoppage may be called about two days. At the
onset she made about fourteen knots, and ran in one day,
with head wind and sea, 298 miles ; but latterly, from the
accident, did not average more than nine to ten. She
was off Holyhead at 11.30 ; off the Great Ormshead at
4, p.m. ; off the port at 5.45: and rounded the rock,
after a detention for water on the bar of about one hour,
at 7.30. We have not yet been able to inspect her inter-
nal accommodations, which we learn are not yet quite
complete, and can therefore only give to-day her external
appearance, from a hasty glance, and we supply other
particulars from our New Yoik contemporaries:—
"' The Atlantic,' has no grand or striking ornaments about
her, either in painting or in carving. She has no projecting
figure-head, and her stern semicircular and plain. She has
no bowsprit, but merely a figure in bronze on the top of the
stem, of as we thought Neptune, blowing his horn. With the
exception of a streak of red, about level with the upper or spar
deck, and another streak of a stone colour below, she is all
plain black—including the funnel, which is of small elevation.
When, however, we got near to her, we found she was by no
means the " monster of the deep" we bad taken her to be at a
distance. Her water-line is-beautiful, and her outward wood-
work finished to a high degree of nicety. It was blowing fresh,
and she had to make a turn to reach her moorings. She
seemed to steer with great ease, and to go well a head when
steam was put on. She is rigged very sparingly as a three-
masted schooner. We can now but add that her hulk above
water, and her deck houses.rising over her gunwales, give her,
in the light in which n e saw her, a rather unwieldy appearance,
and suggest the probability of great displacement, in air, being
required. But on the other hand, we have seen her now only
' flying light, and an accession of cargo may make all the dif-
ference in appearance. That she will under any circumstances
be a dry and comfortable vessel for passengers we can entertain
no doubt."

In order effectually to repair her machinery she will not
sail again until "Wednesday, the 29th inst. The run
accomplished by the Atlantic cannot be compared in point
of swiftness e•ith_those neenmplichatl by rho fino °tram.
ships of the Halifax mail squadron; although, under all
the disadvantages encountered, it was highly creditable to
the constructive skill of her architect and builders, and
the management of her commander, officers, and crew. It
is not, indeed, fair and just to compare her passage, under
the peculiar circumstances of the case, with such astonish-
ing runs as those made, from New York in eleven days
two hours, and from Boston in ten days by the steam-ship
Canada, &c. We, therefore, await the future career of
the Atlantic, before pronouncing any opinion upon her
as an ocean mail steamer.

She was visited by thousands prior to her departure from
New York, and had there a trial trip with the •` South-
erner," a crack steamer sailing between New York and
Charleston, and which it is said has never been beaten by
anything in the shape of a sea craft." The Atlantic is
stated to have shot ahead of her like an arrow. "With
twenty pounds of steam to the square inch, her engine
revolved seventeen times per minute, and she accom-
plished in coming up the bay, the almost incredible rate
of between seventeen and eighteen miles per hour, with
the throttle valve one-third closed at that. At sea she
made fourteen and a half and fifteen miles per hour. She
seemed indeed, as if no limit could be put to her speed.
Her beauthully formed bows offered little or no resistance
to the crater, and she hardly created a ruffle on the surface.
In fact, at a distance of a hundred yards astern no one
would suppose, it he had not ki:own it, that she had passed
at all." With her regular cargo she will draw nineteen
and a half feet. -

(From the New York Herald.) •
" The carpets are of the richest description ; the panels of the
state-room doors are of satin wood, of the finest finish, moulded
with bronze and rosewood, and each having the coat of arms of
out, of the States of the Union tastefully painted in the centre,
w th the motto at the foot.

"The cabin windows in the stern are of stained glass, having
representations of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia cut on
each. The pier glasses in carved rosewood frames, attracted
much attention, and many a pretty face admired its reflected
image during the day. The ladies seemed to be in raptures
with these glasses. The beautiful Italian marble tat les, called
Brocatelli, were admired by all. Then the stained glass venti-
lators let down into the saloon from the deck, in form of chim-
neys, and-protected by a lattice work of brass, had hosts of ad-
mirers exclaiming " how beautiful." These ventilators are so
constructed that they serve the double purpose of admitting the
light and the air. lhev are covered on top with crowns of clear
transparent glass, to let down the light and keep out the rain;
whileimmediately underneath, there are all around apertures
which can be opened or closed at pleasure, to admit the air;
when they are illuminated at night with lamps, suspended in-
side, the effect is very brilliant indeed. At the base of the ven-
tilators there are elegant marble slabs, of the kind to which we
have already adverted. Around the saloon are heaters for the
purpose of heating the room with steam, but which are covered
with marble slabs, presenting the appearance of handsome
tables. The mechanical lamps, which were supplied by Dar-
denville, of Broadway, are 'very pretty. The state-rooms on
either side of the saloon are really superb. They are furnished
in the richest manner, each has an elegant sofa, two glasses—
one so constructed on a pivot that it can be turned in any
direction. ri here are two wa hhand basins and stands, of the
most costly description, with every convenience to be found in
the best bed-rooms in a first-rate hotel, or in the palaces of
merchant princes.' The berths are of satin wood, and the
curtains of the richest damask. Everything else is in keeping.
Visiters were not admitted into the grand (lining mum- 55 cost
by 41—on this floor, because its arrangements are not yet fully
complettd. Inds cc:, the ttii out; ui vlbliura was au great and so
unceasing, that the women who were sewing carpets could do
little or nothing.
" Under this floor are ranges of bedrooms, not quite equal in
size, or in the quantity of light, to those above, but scarcely, if
at all inferior to them in any other respect. They are furnished
in the same elegant and costly manner. Altogether the style
of the arrangements in the interior of this noble fabric, is as
much superior to that of any other steamship we have ever yet
seen, as her hull will soon prove itself to be over every other
model that has yet crossed the ocean. The visiters, very many
of them of the highest respectability, expressed their unbounded
admiration and delight at all they saw. In fact, they felt and
expressed a lofty pride at what American enterprise and skill
can accomplish."