New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-24
The Supremacy of the sscas-Coliins and Gu
nard.
From The Daily News, Oct.


nard.
From the Daily News Oct II.
RACING is the great passion OF the En9llshman
Horse racing, boat racing, ootraclng, donkey-ra
cing--no kind Of racing comes amlss to him.
Wherever the Englishman goes he must have his
races There are regular boat-races at the Cooks
strait settlements in n Zealand, and there is a
race course at Sierra Lone.
A race is even now coming off" which
England has stake Of terrible magnitude. We
allude to that race Of an indefinite number OF
heats now running on the Atlantic, by CUNARD 5
and COILINs's ocean steamers. The stake is nell
Their more nor less than the asccndency on the
seas. We use the word not IN a silly and obso-
ete sense OF those who used to dream OF any one
nation asserting by force OF arms, mastery in mar
time affairs over all other nations. Hencetorth
there can be no sovereign nation the great com
munitv of nations is and must continue repUb-
lie But even in republics there are individuals
who possess more wealth, more power than 9th
crs England is still the first citizen OF the com
munity of nations the flag OF England Is still the
! foremost on the ocean Ii England loses tho Gu
a " or her maritime he aa event OF bad
peonts at Cherbourg, Russian demonstrations
fhe b attic can only alarm old women III and out
Of petticoats Prominence at sea must belong
90 the nation which possesses the most numerous
md best appointed mercantile marine, and the
most important branch OF the country mercantile
marine WILL ere long be its ocean steamers. Ii be
true that an American steamer has beaten our
fastest and finest vessels on an Atlantic voyage
It is high time that We had Gsmore searching iii
iuiry into the state OF our ocean steam commune
cation than was youChsacd by Mr.. Heney's Com
ihutee
According to the New York accounts the Amer
lean ocean steamer Pacific made her last voyage
from Liverpool 10 New York i'll 10 days II hours
from wharf TO wharf " c suspect the time was
a little longer a writer i'll Yesterdays Times
statcs that the Pacific left Liverpool at I. NJ. on
HE llih of September. Tho NewIorll papers
state that it reached that city at 5h 45n. 7 NJ. on
the DIST ult Add iii 45in. for the difference OF
the time occas0ned by difference OF longitude aud
ave have % days hours for the length OF the
passage.
The English ocean steamer Asiuis said to have
made her last homeward voyage in 10 days Z
hours Allowance must however, be made for
the greater speed with which, owing 10 the set Of
the currents, the voyage from America to England
is accomplished, than the voyage from England to
America The ASIA outward voyage TO New
York was accomplished IN 10 days l. hours 80
minutes, mean ste0mine time. From this, We
are told must be deducted hours for the detoun
by Halifax But this allowance is in excess the
increased distance is not the only clement to be
considered; the less resistance from oceanic cur
rents on the Halifax route ought also 10 DC taken
into account.
On the whole we arc dsposedto admit that the
Pacific not the Asia, has made the quickest pas
sage yet mGde between Liverpool and New ork
1t IS however Il neck and neck affair In July
last the American ocean steamer Atlantic made
the VOYAGE from New York to Liverpool III ten
DAYS eight hours, twenty minutes, only one hour
twenty minutes in excess OF the time taken by
the Asia
w e are anxious to state the facts correctly, for
there is an evident and not unnatural stralning on
the part both of English and Americans, to make
out the best for their respective steamers
Even on the assumption that the victory is still
doubtful, the result cannot be very gratifying to
our national pride. CuNARD Company have had
ten years practice; the first experiment in At
lantic steam navigation, on the part OF the Aneri
cans was made last year by the NewYork and
Bremen steamers. The Pacific and Atlantic are
the irst steamers launched by the COLLINS Com
pany, Vet one of these trial ships if it have not
beaten, has equaled the matured production of
CUNARp'S Company Is there any thing in the
history OF our ocean steam avlGation that can
account for this
Some ten years back government, unable or un.
willing 10 carry the mails across the Atlantic
granted contract to Mr.. Samuel Cunard, which
that fortunate gentleman is understood 70 have
sold ut great premium to Glasgow company
for the conveyance by steam.veSsels OF her Males
tvs mails between Liverpool Halifax and Boston.
In 1876 tins contract renewed for ten wears
from the ST OF January, 1878; and III expectation
OF the American competition which has since
arisen, leave was given to omit Halifax and make
the VOYAGE direct from Liverpool to New-Y ork-
given without any competition The owners OF
the Great Western and other stearn-vessels who
had risked their money in establishing the practi-
cabihty OF making the Atlantic voyage, were I'M
tremendously brushed aside and the contractor
has had virtual monopoly Of the steam commu-
nioation between the United States aud this coun
Try for the last ten years. For this service the
| country pays 100000 per annum.
Following the example OF the English govern
ment, the United States granted in IS4s to a New
York Company contract for carrying the mails to
| Liverpool; and their two first vessels, the Allan
tc and Pacific, made their appearance this year
to be followed next spring by the Arctic aud the
Baltic. The CrSARD Company, thus put on their
mettle, constructed the Asia and the Africa, which
were also placed on the station this year. There
suit of the contest, as far it has been carried,
is stated above.
1--WE are ten years before you in shp-buildins
said Yankee skipper, the other day and ten
years behind you in machinery in Ave years more
we will be ahead OF you in both" To prove jon,
ATTAIN wrong we shall have to get up some com.
petition at home, and not wait to be taught the old
lesson that there is no such thing in nature as an