Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-05-08

deta i5 furnished by The daily papers sulnce IL ID o'yi-
that MI. Paris has had charge of The decorations. "hicn
are in the style Of Vatican and date Of Louis NV, ano
that 10 pains seem TO have been spared to Guido the LIN
ers, aud ' astonish the natives" on the other SIDE o. the
sea. We should not forget that, affixed 10 me ra"1
work OF the engine is an index, by which tEe huHnorr u
strokes performed by the machinery and tie rae OF l"e'i
performance, is shown with the greatest accuracy ""u
which, il, is stated, without requiring to be aga," WI
up, will mark as many strokes as 'uh!ce az ~ ""'N
voyage to New York
Finally. she mus; doubtless he pronounced as s'arnch
a piece of British naval architecture as eve; hIa'eu' US
we'll as the most elegantly decorated OF all ii'i en-
gines have been provcd-the bna, mas psen, ~ win :, e
thoroughly tiled ,hrougrnut-atN tons o' cary" VIII Of
taken if 1ilrrcd; and 50 The Great Western, hois'ihg, at
length. the lion flag, will commence her 'narch on ."e
mountain. wave, with the motto, victory or aea'h' Shr
;.erpacted To make her passage out, under average CIT
cumslances, in fifteen days, ana the return voyage !"
twelve. Fair luck befall her!
The cabin fare, we may mention, is 80 pu'neas OUT,
and 30 returning, which includes bedding, provisions,
and u;pes This is the same az the fare q! the Liners
mt |, is the same on board the Sirius, we see; but pro-
vision is made, BY that boat, for i second class oil passe"'
seDgers, in an inferior cabin, Of the old 'tgtr'e, al l"e''
~ euiness: and for sieGrage passengers Ike the L'"e'S'
At eight. The SrtHS also expects TO make "' Pa'''se
in fifteen days from Cork.
Blu, We are not yet done with the steamers we pro
, missed TO give a summary OF all that Is propose" ny III
| various parties, and we have not yet named the greatest
of al! The lions by faT-we mean the 'lctoiie' ho" oh
the stocks, at Llmehousc.
This mammoth craft is truly The naval curiosity oil inc
npe her tonnage is stated at over ] >ou0, nearly 3oo
mare than that OF her Bristol rival. Her length on the
wa,er line is $50 feet, the length nj keel exceeding, We
| SUPPOSE, that of any existing man Of W extreme length,
253; 40 feet breadth Of beam, and 81 feet depth nt hold;
whole breadth, including paddle boxes, 69; displacement,
2740 tons; draught, when laden, Id feet; cylinders, 20
| inches diame,eI;' paddle wheels. 30 do with two en-
zines of $50 horse power each. The calculation is. that
las vessel may take 500 passengers, OF various classes;
which is plainly relied on for her chief business and sup
port-together with | 600 tons Of measurement goods,
- 1T l,kn.. cknnnn rOnS ~
that we have twenty five days fuel Oh board This rea'
soning is not DR. Lardnet s, most clearly The Company
adopt it, however, as they have Hal! s cordenseis. ana
the various other very important Improvements winch
the learned Doctor does not notice In his atlanuc caicu,
lation. In his text al large, hr does repeat The reputed
advantages of the cOndemserS-the cleanliness, anu con.
srquent preservation. &c. of the bohers-the lime saved
by cleaning not needed-ihe increased power, from the
same cause, and others, and so on, not oinItlng the eco
Monty in fueL-which, it will be remembered, is the great
sticking poinl-und which he says MIR Hall puts at as
much as onethird of The usual consumption, ~ some
cases. This he confirms, moreover, himself. lie says,
the Government agents, employed Tor The purpose, re-
ported the result such as " to icarc n"hting 10 DC otshcd
for;' and that they especially pointed out the great al
vantage of this same 'sariag G.Ju.L' The TACT Is, The one
party may be n little too ~sanguIne, but the Doctor $ es'
innate is, at all events, rather out of date. lie recGg'
nizes not only no improvement within some years, hut
no possibility of any The performances OF The BeFe'
nice and Ataanta are recent; but he makes no atlnsion
to Towards plan, or any other deviation from iIs cho'
sen data vi course, these actual AHPrlcdn VeSs''S w
the stocks now, or on the sea, with all their modern Ia
ciilies, and most Inanifcent array these acting, accom-.
plishing, annihiia,ing arguments themselves, do moi
luake him bate zone jol ot doubt aud lear, alas.-not
shope The cost of the Victoria, by the way. is rated
al GlOO. 600. which alone indicates sufficiently the power
put into her. Her sailing apparatus Is as unprecedented
~ her steam and her size; but all this Is nothing, SO long
as Victoria sits al The gates Of Limehousc, and the ex'
pertinent remains uulred. We'll, We must wait. his
ship will be aauat, we hear, in n few weeks. and ready
.r a in tho rr,I, go of The summer Her Mace 81 unaI
departure is fixed at Liverpool. And tins, by The way
10 In" best OF our knowledge, will he the only part which,
a, present. the port Just named IS 10 take in the play
This, known as the character OF that place is, may he
unaccountnh!e 10 some persons. vino are accustomed to
think of her as he leader OF the commercial cities.
There have been, and are still, many rurnors OF what
is doing there. or was 1" be done. What The sprcula.
lions of some ind v!duas may have been, We cannot say;
possibly a third CON peutor. : yer than even the Sirius, is
vet TO GU, into h. race One Isl ihr boats talked OF as meant
for American Commerce. is an iron one. launched l"iely
at Blrkenh, nd 2l3 feet long, and divided below into six
compartments, on the new plan Another is the Liver
pool, buii, Tor Sir john Tobin, Of $40 tons measure.
irent, with engines Of 400 horse power, rated 10 cost
ciS, O00-rivaIlIng the Bristol boat in some respects,
aud in her length. which is 2iO feet, coming between
heLand the Victoria. Ne should here name also the
Columbus. n small experimental boat, on the quicksilver
plan, propelled by Towards patent vaPnuT engines, and
announced to carry fifty days full at the same INNER
sion as a common steam vessel, Of equal power and Ton.
mage, can carry twelve days fuel. This modest can
didale for tn conies; has bern fitted up in this port
making certainly very little noise ab1ut it-amd has al.
ready gone round. by stages. 10 Liverpool, trying her
self on the way. With the view, il is now said, Of going
directly OIL, t. New York. The papers state. that she
will attend one Of the regular Liners. We cannot con.
slider this Movement any more than an effort 10 expert.
ment on th- quicksilver prlucipie on a larger scale than
they have done before. We put forth no opinions on
its merils-it has its record among the curious doings of
the day.
Thus far England! But if we wonder what Liver.
poul is doing, we may well ask the same question as re-
CARDS America, and especially n. York That country
is the paradise OF steamboats,, every body knows. There
are nearly 400 on The Miss ssippi alone, and about oO on
Lake Erie. Heretofore, these vessels have been much
the swiflest. They are still, saving the mere painting OF
the Great Westerns saloon, vastly superior to all others
in the amplitude, comfort, and completeness of their
accommodations for passengers. This same sslOun, for
example, seems but a lobby, a pantry, after viewing the
Massachusetts or Narragansett, where The promenade,
ventilation, and ornament, extend, uninterrupted and
uniform, from end To end OF n vessel some 220 feet in
length Neither is one jammed into a berth, or deposited
on 4 shelf, as if laid oct, under The mistaken title Of n
berth; nor has h. 10 climb up and down stairways nearly
perpendicular. like those of d Newcastle steerag", or TO
hit his head, if he be one Of your hapless tall fellows,
three or four lim~s an hnur al the tops Of doorways or
passage Al New York, things seem to have gone on
as at Liverpool We arc permitted, active as Jonathan
usually is. To establish The steam navigation III we can
as we did that Of the sailing packets and The reason
in the two places, we take it, is much the same.
Meanwhile. rnmnrs ahnuud. as about Liverpool, for
people expect these places to move in all such matters
Tina, ths Americans. unlike us, universally and Implicit
ly believe in the practicahility. I'VE do not say the policy
or present coniinunncr) Of this scirme-;hai the take
the arrival Of the Sirius and her train. rs n mere matter
of course nobody, who knows anything of their habits
and notions on such subjects, can for a moment doubt.
Nearly half a century ago, and 20 years before Fulton
manufactured his frs, boats. Fitch. of Philadelphia. who,
BY the way. preceded him in onr sense, and who then
made a boat that ran 8 miles an hnnr on the Delaware
Fitch. in 1881. boldly predicted the future and early ma
vigstion of the Atlantic by steam This prophecy WIS in
a well known letter addressed - the astronomer Rittrn.
house. He was called crazy, to be sure; but that also was
a matter of course. The idea, still. was forced on The ma
tional mind, and doing and seeing what they have since,
they could moi hut adopt il as they do. Among the rest. let
US not forget il, in our willingness to meet the opponents
Of the theory of this project On their own ground - they
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