Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-05-03
ARRIVAL OF THE srrAM SHIPS.

further notice"
ARRIVAL OF THE STTAM SHIPS.
| new era in Atlantic navigation dates
| from this 23d of April, on which day we have
the pleasure of recording the arrival at New
York from England of the British steam pack
cts SIRIUS and GREAT WESTERN, in the extra
ordinary passages of Is and Is days. The
Sirius came up on the morning Of the 2Sd
inst and the Great Western was announced
to be in sight at about IL o'clock the same
| day. We learn from the passengers on
board the Sirius, that her performance as a
sea boat, during very heavy, stormy, and
Ftrying passage, has been most admirable, and
such as fully to equal the highest expecta-
tons Of her owners and commander. She
sailed from Cork on the evening of the 4th
instant, and made the Highlands Of New
York at Is O'Clock, p. M. on the 22d, thus
making the passage in Is days, and having
on board AZ passengers.
The Great Western left Kingroad, Bristol,
2 o'clock, April 7th, and here she was April
2Sd, in only 10 days, thus bringing England
bearer to us than many parts of our own
country. This has been done in season of
the year, mot of summer sunshine, but of
gales, storms, sleet and hail, and thus the
Experiment of Steam Navigation across the
Atlantic is no longer an Experiment, but a
| plain matter of fact.
The steam ships are not the first, however,
which have crossed the Atlantic. American,
as well as British steam ships have before
made the passage, but these ships are Pion-
GERS, in new business, and are the first to
| promise to begin regular trade. Thus they
shorten all our ideas of the great distance
over the Atlantic Ocean, and abridge, as it
were, time and space. What attaches to
these arrivals so much of extraordinary in
| tcrest, is the new era established in steam
navigation, being one of the greatest events
| in the history of human advancement, which
If less remarkable than the discovery Of
America by Columbus, is nevertheless, high
ly important on account of the close connex-
ion it establishes between the Old World and
the New-betwoen the great city of the U.
States and the great cities of Europe.
| BY the arrival of these ships, London pa.
! pcrs to the 9th, Liverpool to the 9th, and
Bristol to the 7th inst. have been received
They contain nothing of importance.
On the day of their arrival these ships
were objects of the most intense curiosity te
gaping thousands. and were constantly
thronged with people anxious to behold thti r
immense proportions. The following de-
scription of The Great Western, which we
find in the New York Times, will give our
| readers pretty good idea, of the monster.
|
Packets, designed to form regular commu-
nication between New York and Bristol, ard
has been built by the Great Western Steam
Ship Company, expressly for that purpose.
She is new and magnificent ship, has been
constructed Of the best materials and in the
most substantial and-scientifIc manner. Her
engines are equal to $50 horse power. She
he's four distinct and independent boilers
constructed on new principle, which econ
| om:ses space, and will, it is expected, lessen
the consumption Of coal. There are pass
| ages reserved between them, so that either or
any Of them may be cooled, examined and
clcanscd, at pleasure, whilst the others arc
kept in use.
1.-The Great Western is the largest ship
propelled by steam, which ever made her
appearance in European waters, her register
| ed admeasurement being l64O tons length
pa feet, and breadth, from out to out Of the
paddle boxes, So feet. She has stowage for
$50 tons of coal, or coal and cargo to-
gether, without encroaching upon her pro-
vision and water room for 300 people. Be-
sides ample space for officers and crew, COM
prisrg sixty persons, there arc state rooms
for 1913 first class passengers there are 10
| secondary births, and one hundred moro
sleeping births might be arranged should it
ever become necessaryto forcgo cargo room.
She is altogether most splendid affair, ana
her arrival in our waters, on the same day
with the Sirius, has contributed to The excite
ment of an event of the utmost importance to
the city of New York"
The Van Buren, presses throughout the State are de-
lighted with Gov Marcy's proposition to re-unite the
Government with the Banks. This shows with " sat
aacrity the party avails itself of opening against
the Mb-Treasury Scheme. Every sentiment uttered,
by Van Buren, press, in favor Of leaning the public
funds the public credit, the Banks is sentiment
of hostility to the Independent Treasury project
All that is said about arming our Banks, though nppa-
Wright, Benton, Kendall and Van Bnren; Our
Banks have but formidable foe. When the Gro.
vernment ceases its war upon the Banks, they VIII
life and energy to business. Only subdue the de-
sructive spirit of Loco Focosm and the country, her
institutions and Interests will right up again, and all
go on prosperousy. The Government, with ts " Ex-
brought, distress, ruin and bankruptcy upon the cou-
try. The People, acting through the BallotboxeE IN
Maine, in Connecticut in Rhode-lsland, and in New
York, have deprived had Government OF the power
to take their feet from necks. We shall now
spring up and press forward in our career OF ndvId-
ual prosperity and national greatness. The People,,
in word, have rghted their own wrongs-Ece. Jour.
Ours is the only Government in the world at war
with its own subjects. The Administration has for
years. xerted its power to impoversh the People Our
Rulers have had the hardihood to avow their nten-
ton to separate themselves from the People When
the measures and policy Of the Government had
impudence to say, in his Message, mat . sOas nol Me
duty of Government to reliece e community from en-.
barrassments occasone by reUusions an commerce and
credit With this Interpretation Of the duties of Go
vernment the people fell back upon their ' reserved
rights" Finding tina, relief to come from the
Administration, they went to work in earnest, through