The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-06
The Steamship city OF Glasgow.


The Steamship City OF Glasgow.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD.
SR-hany inquiries being made at Office as to any
particulars we can furnish Of the City Of Glasgow steam
arrived at Philadelphia on the Sth April, and some
anxiety being felt for her safety we consider u our
for the benefit Of those whe may have any friends
hoard that vessel The vessel in state Of perfect
efficiency at starting her compasses having been adjusted
The number OF persons on board 373 souls ncud-
ing infants being equal 500 statute adults and "A
officers and crew the vessel being Os7 tons register
The water board was the government allowance for
forty days. besides which there is the power of obtaining
The provisions on board were one pound per head of
fresh and salt meats per day for forty six days for every
person board and of bread four &C., pound for
person each day for fifty four days besides rather
than six tons Of potatoes vegetables and three
and bali tons oil tea coffee, and sugar well other
These provisions with economy calculated to last
sixty seventy days.
The Goals board for passage of twenty five or
twenty six days.
We believe the vessel to detained in the ice on the
banks Of Newfoundland, and unable make her way
Of in confederation of which view the Baltic steamer
was three days Ia it, the Charity steamer nine
days IN IT. and sailing vessel some years ago. in the
same place. thirty days in it without being able to
move.
re steamers Of line having been before tried un-
Der canvass and this steamer having been for several
days under II against adverse winds), capable of
going TO the westward under IT, and the commander is
that is wish that Whenever necessary and
practicable such should be adopted in Of
any arrangement to the machinery, which We do not
anticipate. Sailing vessels which left this port month
before the City OF Glasgow, had only just arrived.
For these reasons ourselves feel anxiety for her
safety We remain sir yours psc rssRseTy
IrvKnrooI, 4th Month, 81, 1854.
Voyage OF the American Steamer Golden
Age.
from the London Times, April 20.]
"Details lately received of the passage of the American
paddle steamer Golden Age from Liverpool to Australia
furnish interesting suggestions regarding the ultimate
prospects of rapid communication, not only with the
gold colonies but the Cape of Good Hope This steamer
which capable of carrying l. 200 persons and had
just made of the best trial trips across
the Atlantic left Liverpool in November last with a
small number of passengers and unremunerative
although considerable cargo, the post Office authorities
having refused te pay her the slightest extra for
and half thus making to that point the shortest pas
sage upon record. Indeed the difference from any pas
sge previously known is alleged to have been much
days. Al the Cape she was detained ten DAYS coal
ing but she nevertheless reached King Georges Sound
SO as to effect the entire passage from Liverpool to
Australia In sixty days, including detentons, and
IN an actual running time of forty days Con-
sderng that in future trips the advantages of experience
would enabe distances to be saved and greater speed to
be attained the possibility Of the communication to Aus
tralia being regularly brought within fifty days by
the Cape route consequently have been demon
srated According to the statements Of the COMMANDER
Captain Porter, he made the whole distance to the Cape
with four furnaces blocked off, and with consumption
OF only thirty tons Of coal per day. five days. consump
ton remaining upon arrival in port By less economy
therefore greater results might have been accomplished
saved by stopping at Goree to coal Taking these things
into account Captain Porter that the Golden
Age could regularly perform the from Liverpool
to the Cape in twenty three days. These points hav-
ing been determined the question arises the pro-
liability Of the benefits vkisA Meg show b within
reach being speedily established If the Post Office
had offered fair remuneration to the Golden Age
for the conveyance OF mail the loss by her expert
mental passage would possibly have bean such as to
deter her owners from continuance Of the undertaking.
but as it Is there is not only little prospect Of its
Triton on her part but also the certainty that the want
other companies, English American from venturng
independently this branch Of enterprise Hence the
PROSPECTS, Of future steam communication between the
colonies and the mother country are discouragng The
Australian Pacific Company and the Royal Austraiasan
Company hive entirely abandoned the Held ana have
either sold their vessels chartered them to the govern
ment while it doubtful if the General Screw Com
pany also, may not eventually find it tepiing to
keep such vessels the Golden Fleece in the
transport service rather than to send them their
original destination. The only hope Of
couragng character appears to lie Ia the opening up
of route from Sydney to Liverpool via Panama. or
ing arrangements to he made Captain Porter considers
that the Golden Age could reach Panama Mica
from Sydney, ia twenty seven days Thence to New
York, by the existing steamers, would occupy eight
days, while from New York to Liverpool the average
time is eleven DAYS The total from Sydney to Liverpool
would thus be forty six days allowing three days for
stoppsges forty nine days. The chief probability of such
route being established consists in the fact of the link
between Sydney and Panama being all that required to
bring it into existence. Whether the New York
psny to whom the Golden Age belongs, intend now to
carry out their original plan of putting 1t into operation
remains to be ascertaned During the present demand
for steamers II ia probe bic that that vessel mmed
aely be sought for other purposes but there strong
to anticipate that or later by the natural
into the most important line Of traffic between the
northern and southern hemispheres.
Interesting Financial Intelligence.
[From the London Chronicle, April %
The following notice was issued late this afternoon =
IaEAsynr cnAsnEns April p. 1854