Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-04-24

sss may consider ,Aem-ia old Bristol herself is the
sound OF busy and emuous preparation for anew CO.
test OF enterprise science. skill. and the
seas. heard upon many wharf and shore" Jwssf
spss-ths work goes bravely The siriss is sbso-
iutey getting under weigh while write this para
graph. for Amcries, New York, MIA Cork! The buzz
OF excitement yesterday, reached even the secluded
walls OF CUR own study. We rushed down to Black
wall, pel NELL in omnibus like all the rest, to see,
not the Sirius but the Great WesteH which the papers
have told much about for a month past With a
hundred workmeR on board. engaged in finishing her
work. and her bsrths merely they have had
complete levee Strangers II seems, for some weeks
past Our who had good reason to remember
we'll rated the number the day before at thousand.
Groups of the nobility and geairy, with his Grace of
Wellington their head, figured in the cabin album
and met, we came back, the Lord Mayer, with
his carriage and four lootmen rolling in gold dash
ing down to Blackwell TO get last GLIMPSE: all i'll pur-
suit in word, of the great animals of the day-the
steamers now starting for the other side of the AT.
antic.
There is no mistake them repeat as to the trial
this experiment They liz blood steept in far
that is, in salt water and Observation-Disclosures they
coad sou:.a retreat if they would; and il they
could they would not it is clear enough. 1t would be
only yielding gratuousl ywhat they have labored hard
achieve-that possession Of the field and the start
which is, by the proverb, mine points of the law"
The Sirius for example, being already built, tried,
aad known boat, has succeeded in stealing march on
all her long announced competitors but il is only
OF ep days which in for the first time the
Atlantic much unlike horse Goodwood) is a
trle after all She left this port Wednesday of the
current week. and now the Great Western is reused
length One may see her excited almost like living
thing. She keaves her huge whale like sides with i'm
patience Her paddles nstnctively dash into The
horse, when he hears a trumpet paws the
ground And see, how the fierce breath of giant de-
hance pours out of her eager nostrs! Look II,
STias
The Sirius then, which, though about the last intro
duced of the candidates for the approaching contest
the first get off, is boat belonging believe
the St George Sean-P acket Company, and has here
oiore rua with good reputation between London and
Cork Though by no means an old vessel, perhaps on
y old enough to have been thoroughly ired-she Is of
course expressly built for the Atlantic route being
of the elder and European her tonnage about
700, with engines of 800 horse power. Her agent,
notice, is an old acquaintance of the public Mr. Mae
gregor Laird commander OF the first iron boat exped
ton which fitted explore the interior Of the
the African continent. Perhaps the auspce is happy
one in some respects There is not experiment
laughed disbelieved in than that was This con
sderaton may help keep up the spirits of the FAINT
hearted in the scheme, If any there be
The cabin fare, may meation, is IS guneas out
and 80 returning which includes bedding, provisions
and Wines This is the same the fare Of the Liners
sa. II is the same on board the Sirius, bat
provision is made by that boat, for second class of
passengers IN an inferior cabin of the old regime at
twenty guneas; and for passengers, like the
Liners, at eight. The Sirius also expects make her
passage in fifteen days, from Cork. OF course
very soon know the result of the predictions of all par
ties and the general prsctcabiy of the scheme will
test its policy permanency, and especially its de-
srableness a mere mercantile speculation, (which
must become its principal point of INTEREST," is wholly
another affair, and which admits of leisurely dis
custom Mare Of this when we take up, on another
casion, the Liners.
The distance from London New York is about
900 nautical $500 English niles and the speed of
IL, sL>pF he
Perth ships Dublin and Liverpool post office packets
Clyde snd Liverpool vessels, and Mediterranean pack
ets their averages giving mean speed Of ten statute
niles per hoar in all aeahers AT this rate the aver
,ge passage will be from fourteen 10 fifteen days
New York and. allowing for prevailing eastward and
current winds, about eleven twelve days home The
uel is taken at the of Obs per horsepowe the
hour The quantity each vessel is supposed to take is
FOR twenty days consumption, or about 500 tons.
DEPARTURE THE SIRIUS STEAMSHIP FOR NEW
YoRK.-The experiment OF a steam voyage frsm Eng
land to America has commenced. Wednesday after
noon, the ST George Steam Packet Company power
full steamship SIRIUS. Lieutenant Roberts k. N,
mander. sailed from of Eastane stairs for New York,
proceeding in the first instance for Cork, from whence
she will for her final destination Monday next.
The Sirius vessel Of zoe TONS with engines of 800
horse power and has been fitted up in a most splen.
did manner. 1t is expected that she will complete
the voyage in Is days. and SO confident are her own
ers OF this, that they have already announced her
setting out from New York for the return voyage on
passengers, but this number will be consderaby aug
mented at Cork. She does not take out any goods
being intended for passenger ship only. Or GO
ing down the river, the Sirius came up with the
Great Western, with respectable pleasure party on
board, and q trial Of speed was the Consequence
When the SIRIUS had got abreast of Gravescnd, she
" as upwards OF mile ahead of her arrival The ST.
rus made the distance from Greenwich TO Grave
send, against strong tide, in hour and So min
utes. The banks of the river were thronged with
spectators, and both ships hal their colors hos,ed-
Soon after the departure Of the Sirius the American
line Of packet ship Quebec Captain Herbert, forNew
York. came down the river in tow Of n steam packet.
She carries out no fewer than LII emigrants, viz
cabin IL, between decks 81, and steerage 122. The
latter were chiefly agricultural laborers with their
families Some parties were bold enough to lay even
wagers that the Quebec will arrive before the Sirius
AT New York
LONDON, April l-THE FuSDs.-The English Stock
market has been rather fat, owing to rumors of
rous defacailon in the revenue, without hope Of
reaction in the next Elk months ION account Of the
fearful monetary crisis which has occurred in the
United States and will prolong the suspension of
commercial intercourse,) ana also owing to unwel-
come tidings that the renewed conferences for the
settlement Of the partition Of the Netherlands have
been brought 10 close by declaration on the part
Of the Dutch King that he will not take part in the
negotiation unless all the points 10 dispute reo
pened. A statement that a warfare Of mannuvrisg
has been commenced between the United States
Bank and the Bank Of England has also made an ina
pression Is apprehended that the Americans