The republic., 1852-06-28

tive perversion of writer's meaning in the
harmless category of accidental errors?"
Don't holloa till you're out of the wood"
There seems at last not unreasonable prospect
that we poor British fellows, who have been taunt-
ed with the triumpbs Of the Collins steamers,
may have chance after all of regaining the lost
laurels, and in a wny not much expected. The
Great Britain, screw steamship, under the com
mand of the experienced Capt. Mathews, has be
come all at the centre Of much speculation
and interest She sailed hence at noon Satur-
day, the 9th of June and at 10 a. M on the folio
ing Saturday was seen by the Franklin, which ves-
sci was then two days and eighteen hours out from
Southampton There ia need to go through the
cacu lations in order to draw the inference; it is
only requisite to remind the reader that the Great
Britain must have been light compared with the
Franklin; that she bowling along at u spank
Ing rate with every inch of canvas set on her four
masts; and that Liverpool was some hours nearer
than Southampton. What sensation there will
be, if il turns out that the battered old hulk which
lay ashore nearly twelve months in Dundrum Bay +,
has crossed the Atlantic from New York to Liver
pool in the brefest period record We shall
know the fact by the Aaantic, steamer of the 10 Ia
Instant due here to- day or tomorrow.
These columns bear witness that ---e 81 'i'',es
ridiculed the notion Of the supremacy Of the seas,
and all that sort Of thing being involved in the re
suit Of yacht or a steamship race. We never
dreamed that the course of exchange or the com
mercal policy Of the two countries would be affect
ed, when the America took the shine out of the
pleasure boats at Cowes, when the passag ge Of the
big pond was at length reduced below ten days
However Congress may have been induced to view
1t national question, never could zee the
propriety Of 80 doing. And thus, in the present
instance the really valuable point s the light thus
thrown upon the screw principle, and the change
which may thus be induced in steam navigation
If our countrymen really prove to be winners, we
have enough Of the patriotic and the sporting i'm
pulse to induce us TO throw up cap and wish
them Joy I, but we can't gravely get up serious
international article on the subject.
IN'D York Albion.
We do not learn from the Liverpool papers
of the 10th that the Great Britain had ariv.
ed before the departure of the Atlantic. So
the superiority is still with the Collins line
Our English brethren of the Albion lave
always "ridiculed the notionn that there was
any thing Of interest or Importance 10 the fact
that the American steamers have not only
made fair run with the British, but have
actually beaten them. A week or two since,
under the dictation Of their natural English
impulses, they threw out the "noton" that
Parliament would not increase the compensa-
tion of the Cunard line TO enable it to compete
with the Collins steamers-inferentially ad-
vising Congress to let the latter go by the
board. Americans ab road do not look upon
this question precisely in the same light
as Englishmen in this country. Our Paris
correspondent, in another column, alludes TO
the interest that was excited among the Ameri-
can residents in the French capital by the
news that the Senate had favorably entertain
ed the proposition for granting further aid to
the American line.
We apprehend that the boast of our London
friends, that if the collins steamers run faster
the Cunarders will run longer" is not to be
realized. If the supremacy of the seas" is a
"ridiculous notion" we have no doubt it will
be thought well to keep the laugh on the right
side.