The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-03

made board, and tue electro light win flicker like g.
Eipos Bre at pgbt from her &iashead she Will spread
yards OF and her speed Is computed at fifteen
exDots or eighteen mile IN houra rate which will per-
orn the voyage to india by the Cape and to Australia In
little more than month Who would not wish 70 be the
scaptain OF this gallant ship
With these principal figures, then, gone through let
Jus imagine the Great Eastern anost and her road 70
Iplemeu, q passengers board The first idea
(which strikes US In the multitude Of faces on board.
moe than town WSSS pooSaon 0i Ssosuse win
oe floating town OF four thousand grown up persons at
1least with comparatively few exceptions each of them
joeing what's called an individuality which mean
lnuman being Of size TO command notice, and having to
appearance At least mind and will Of his own together
with formed air. tone and manner peculiar 70 himself
i'm this sease even young ladies individuals All this
icrowd OF ind;vdualites will be collected within the d.
DIMENSIONS Of hundred feet by sixty. What
class passengers by themselves and what does even
ths number afford for the formation Of all kinds Of differ
tent Circles and SETS which will know nothing OF eacn
Other one man only just knowing another by sight, and
hardy that How many immeasurabe social chasm'
Will be collected within few hundred feet How many
INT Smiths will there be who will not speak 70 Mr. Jones
during the whole voyage he is not in the same
Che same cont Between how many 'nice'' ysung
aides aud proper gentlemen Win the eSes
are not desirable persons, but mere }penniless
,opedSl What firations will there not De nehlno
ooas; what rivalrics; and, if many Americans voyag
10Y the Great Eastern what duellings may we not ex
pec on that o.,na dock In what epitOme
bcrra Of the world will the Great Eastern pre-
sent n Will he worth any spring noyeuist's while to
cake h berth 10 Australia or India and back again smpy
Tor he great OF having so much human ma
rre brought before him in 40 small cou,pass n will be
che ronian brought TO Mahomet the world condens,no
itself before his ewes for the sake of being observed and
examined The rand sccessioo of faces will bewiIder
him al FIRST but Individuality will come out in time though
he must he sbarp about his work otherwise the Creai
rstrrn Will have stoned her screw and naddes before
ne has got sny rcsll If his material Is enlarged his
tmr Is much curiid ON Ire new system Farcwe,l 10
Dug cage Win their a,,,ropriae Guarre and matches
tuey j;,nes Recommendations and irrevoca
tle u,,ops. ,Cvaec III, has entered on another nhasa
For what IL month lit is gone before we begin ~ thnk
about H. gono How will the old vovagers Iook hacr 70
the romantic DAYS when room M Of persons we're their
own com,nny for four months gradually forming enmi
ties or frerdships when attachment, rose I'M among
Young peoplen Internationally and the more massive in
,iuence OF the scenei we are GROWING buser nation
every wear and cannot afford time for more than one
cbaraey of This sea romance
B we mus NOT lot the anneaI IN imagination supersede
the real practical result of the Grand Experiment Of the
;rea Fstarn The noet as no surveyed tbs vast subln
narv como of Industry and adyenture was strc
,v no,hnc % much "a the r,mnh of man over the sea
Vie eyn,eses himself as more than strucEas shocked
Keourouam Deus abseidt