The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-12

larger ones, because the irsnwork necessary for
their construction Is % weghsy that il counteraots
all their advantages
II has been dssidsrstum with the West India
tween Southampton and St. Thomas at the same
ratio OF speed as Cunsrds ships run bstween Liver
pool and New York To do this the ST. Thomas
passage should be done in twelve days. for tho dis
lance 10 nearly three thousand seven hundred miles
The Orinoco, Magdalena, and Parana, have been
built for this purpose; but although these ships
magnificent specimens Of naval architecture, and
afford most luxurious accommodation to passengers,
they failed to come up to the required epsed, and
their consumption of coal-nearly one hundred
tons day-was enormous A. length the above
named company started the La Plata, 3 monster
ship, differently constructed from the Others, and
wealth could command. The company staked
everything on this ship The whole community
crested in steam shippog anticipated her perform
ance with tho greatest anxiety, and II she had
failed, human ingenuity would have been bsfled.
There is now not tho slightest doubt but wtat q
steamer is afloat that will run four thousand miles
in fortnight; without stopping, and that that
steamer il the La Plata This is most interesting
faot-not less SO than the discovery which was made
years ago, that steamer would cross the Atlantic,
because some clue can now be obtained as to the
means by which great ocean Stages be traversed
at high speed Of twelve or thirteen miles hour
continuously
Ats 30 p. M, on the 18th Of August last tho
La Plata cast of from the buoy opposite Netley
y
tons Of coal board besides cargo passengers, and
mails. She had an ebb tide, ana in twenty minutes
afterwards che was abreast If Ca.shot Castle. At
$50 T. M. she passed the Needles rocks As the
night set In fog came on, which detained her two
hours The first clear days run, after leaving
southampton, she accomplished PAS miles, and con-
tinued to increase in speed as she consumed her
Goals On the 2lst, ut 3 So T. M, while she was
going at full speed. with MI sail set. there was cry
Of man overheard The massive engines were
stopped, the sails backed, two boats lowered, and
in less than seven minutes tho man was taken of
life buoy. (which had been thro wn to him, and, in
twenty minutes from the time Of the cry the boats
up, the sails set. and the engnes ut full speed
sgain. On the 22d, ut sunset. the La Plata
passed the Azores, and ut noon on the 2ith, half
the voyage was accomplished. Her speed Was now
increased to 500 miles day, which speed was kept
up with very little variation to the end Of the
voyage. The wind and weather were propitious,
but there were the usual draw backs experienced
the first voyage Of a new ship-the engines be-
came heated, the packing of the cylinders became
loose. and steam escaped, and the floats became
screwed or detached These dra~backs and other
ring the voyage, The La Plata entered st Tho
mas at 645 P. NJ, the Both ut., and considering
the difference Of time at Southampton and St.
Thomas, and the accidental delay Of the voyage the
whole distance traversed in little than IL
days Captain Allan, the commander Of the La
Plata, fully expects to reach Southampton on the
evening Of the 2Sth or morning of the 29Sh of this
month, with the West India and Mexican mails
and to perform the distance from st Thomas to
Southampton in less than II days. The La Plata
consumed 1874 tons Of coal on her out ward VOYAGE
and had. therefore, about 200 tons left whom she
reached ST. Thomas. The prevailing winds she
experienced on that voyage we're easterly, aud of
favorable, but the sails Of the La Plata
scarcely ever Of any avail, as she outstripped the
wind, or steamed at an equal rate with it.
Another Virginia Mining Company.
From the London Times September I'll
Another Virginia gold mining scheme has been
ed n ha fnr1
ming Company of Virginia, the proposed capital be-
ing ESQ 600. in 81 shares The puolio osn judge
for themselves the PROBABLE value Of which
the acute people of the popu)ous State of Virginia,
at time Of great financial ease, allow to upon
tho London market when only E30, 900 is required
fully to deveope its Every extensive veins OF gold
quartz - and hence no general remarks upon it
necessary. But there Is paragraph IN tae pros
pectus, regarding the labor by which the mine is
be worked, that calls for notice "A particular fea
tuIe in the economy of this undertaking., it is said,
consists in the fact, that the general mining Ope-
rations, and the reduction aud amagsmating pro-
ceases, are in the State of Virginia under superin-
tendence, performed by laborcrs whose paw re-
markably small, the cost and maintenance Of each
man, by contract for given periods, not exceeding
G20, per apium :" 1t being well known that the
cost OF labor in the United States is the great diff
Guilty that attends all undertakings, this announce
ment appears singular. Virginia Is q slave State,
but Of course English conpsny cannot consem-
plate the hiring Of slaves and If free negroes of in
dustI0us habits to be obtained at total cost Of
G20 per fnnum, it is fact which, judging from all
the accounts that reach us, has not yet been dis
covered by the Virg inians themselves
The Duke OF WclIlngton's Offices.
WAR OFFICE. Sept %, 1852.
Observation-Disclosures General Viscount Hardinge
G. & b to have the rank OF General Sc long as he
il in command of her Majesty's army.
let or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards -
Field Marshal his Royal Higbness Prince Albert,
X. g., from the Scots Fus Ter Guards to be Colo
nell vice Field Marshal his Grace the Duke of Vel.
ingt0n, X. G deceased
Scots' fusilier Guards sior- General his Royal
Highness the Duke o. Cambridge, X. G., from the
18th Light Dragons C4snoers), 10 he Colensl Woe
his Royal ighness Prince Albert, X. g , appointed
to the Grenadier Guards
nth Light Dragons Qancsrs) Major General
Thomas William Taylor. g. B., to be Colonel, vice
his Royal Highness the Duke Of Ca lnbridge, X. G.,
appointed to the Sco.s Fasilier Guards
Rifle Brigade. Field Marshal his Royal High
ness Prince Albert, X G to be- COlonel-in. Chief,
vice Field Marshal his Grace the DUKE Of Yelling
ton. h. e., deceased
Goth Foot -General visoount Bercford, G. G. B.,
to be Coonel-in Chief. vice his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, X. g., appointed to the RIDE Bri-
gade.
Horse GUARDS, Sept 90 1852
The General Commanding ia Chief has been
pleased to appoint Colonel Richard Airy TO be his
Military Secretary.
The Exodus from Ireland.
The Limerick Eramsne thus reports progress -
bout for Liverpool route TO nerca Their luggage
despatched after them tho evening by cars to
kilaoe They were TO meet The Lady Bufgoyps
Yesterday morning. to convey them to Athlons, aud
thence by railroad to Dublin Many CT the emlyran
young strong well looking girls and all seemed
be In what are called rather comfortable
in the country Their destination is New York Where
will the emigration end
The Waterford Chronicle remarks that emigration
has now assumed 30 regular q course, tn 1t its in
crease is looked to as rather inevitable result
than otherwise, and proceeds to say
We weekly record the numbers that leave by our
sssmers for Liverpool aud tho'e who 60 direct fcom
port But that enables US to form only comparative
estimate 81 what we may anticipate for the future II
10 admitted on all hands that the tide Of emigration has
set in for Australia with but utho OF extsnt to
which 1t will before long attain In our own city vs
have, on all sides the note OF preparation We
many OF our most indus rous citizens making their ar
rsBGements. and know that vast proportion OF the
af