New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-31
NewTlork Dailr Gribn,re
MARINE AFFAIRS.


Tie new steamer for III. Is. Cromwell s Co : Swan
nah line wen: around TO her pier yesterday to take
her place in he Inc. While psssirg down the E,s'
River The Catherine street ferry boa Louise in Try ng
TO cross the bows Of re steamer was bsy cu, down
the later received svIne ing dsmsge 10 her cut
water.
REDUCED Yak TO EURoPE.
TIE steamship anderbilt vii. SSH from Nev.York
tor Southampton ard Havre or April 10. We observe
tie f4Ie Is reduced to $50 10 frs: cabin an 80 n
second cabin. see advertisement.
MISSING vE.>EL.
The schooner Aex-udris, Capt Ssmue. \. Miller,
of Gloucester, sailed Feb. from Rose Blanche y.
F. bound for NewTork, since which time nothing has
been heard OF her. The consisted OF Samuel \.
Miller, master; Samuel $ Taylor, ms,e; William G.
Taylor, his son. and William Z. Stevens, seamen, all
If Gloucester; Joseph Stevens of Rockport, and
ZcDas Doare o. Orleans, Mas. TIE & was 2o yesrs
old, Of los tuns burden, owned by Messrs Deliver Is
Stacy, and valued al $1,000. The cargo was owned
by Mr.. George Garland, and worth between 200
and 5000 There WAS no insurance on vessel or
cargo. II is presumed she got among the ice and
foundered at sea as the vessels that have made the
passage this Winter have encountered ice to con-
siderable extent.
SALE oF SCHOONER.
Mess:s Gre noueh. Burde.t & Co., sold at auction
Yesterday at the Merchants Exchange the schooner
Helen lOl tuns register. She built at Norhport,
L. L. in 1896, for $4,000.
The Richmond Enquirer mentions that a boatoai
of csnnon for the use OF the Navy, manufactured at
the Bellona Arsenal about 10 leave that city for
delivery according 10 contrsct. They are nue-uch,
and the most perfect specimens of casting that The
Enquirer he's ever seen.
From ne London Sun
TIE ATLANTIC sTEAN-PACKErs.
TIE announcement of the Postmaster General a day
or two since tina. the United States packets collins
Incl had ceased running event IN the history OF
steam navigation. For ten years the American mails
were carried by British steamers (Cunard.s.) The
Americans then thought they could build mail packets
as well ss Englshmen; they accordingly started
Sands lice between NewYork and Southampton
These vessels surpassed IN speed aud tile
by new ships built by Cunard. la 1850 )lins started
his lire between New. York and Liverpool, in direct
oppt sitiop to Cunard. He has built in the whole five
ships at an expense Of ESOOOOO; two OF these, VIZ,
the Arctic and Pacific, worth tDO,OOo, were lost.
Soon after 1850 Living started another American
Ire between New.York and Southampton. His tirst
two ships the Humboldt and Franklin, were lost.
Cunsrd established weekly mail commut ica'l)n,
thus making the arrival and departure OF mai be-
tween England end America sein'-weekly. Saud :,
Col ms, and Lvingstone's packets were heavily
subsidized By the American Government. Collins
reduced the passage between New-fork ana LIVER
pool 10 less than ten days. Cunard has punt eght
shrs since 1850 only OIe'Of which, the Persia has |
beaten those of his great rivals IN speed aud t1ls
superiority i only the eastern passage Horses, Il
il said run faster reforming to lan going from tnelr
stable aud something Ike this would appear to be the
Gaze with steamships, The English mail packets run
fastest from NewYork TO Liverpool, and tae Yankee
steamers beat the Britisher from Liverpool to New
York. Sands line ran ten years, aud last year the
sut sdy was withdrawn; the ships were found TO De
worn out for oce steamng and they ceased running
They earned five rcen dividend during the last
three years Of their career, but nothing previously
Coins's line has paid simple interest to the
stockholders. The only line now properly subsidized by
The Amerca Government is Livingstone and the sub
sidy to this will shortly be discontinued When il was
first started it paid per cent divld nd but tins was
soor reduced to Nil. The ships by this line only 1rm
monthly communication with England Nanderbilts
ships carry the American mails for portion OF the
postage the letters which such mails contain The
failure of the American lines is attributed to various
causes. The steam machinery Of American steam
era is inferior to that of English vessels, ~ The
hulls not strongly built. Hence the former
ships break down OteDcr than the latter, and this
eausos Irregularities in the mail service Again. Amet-
lean Lines work with fewer steamers than Engh.h
lines; when there il break down, therefore, with the
form cr the mail service must BE- interrupted because
chips not at hand to be substituted Tor the dsa
bled ones. There is less certainty, ALSO about the
continuance Of the American subsdies than about the
Ergli-h ones, and there is consequently difficulty
in raising sufficient capital 10 provide an adequate
fee, for the American lines
mai contracts if taey ran at q moderate speed A.
il was the pace which used to kill hor;es ia mail
coaches, il is the pace which wears ou' steamers
ard ruins the owners. When line Of packets OBJ
taiIs mail D.ra:t the packets are tasked at bgh
speed. This Of course secures the most Profitable
trsc and the subsidized lines on the same route,
If they do hot fast, ruined. Ine wide dd-
nee in cost OF working at high and ow
tpeed Is easily proved. Coi1s's ships obliged
to Jun II niles hour by cOutract but II 40 tai,
each sip burned Is tuns Of coal daily. Now, thai
same a. ip could run T. miles oil hour aud only con-
sumo 50 turs Of coal daily; and bl tuns day only
would actually drive her II miles an hour. Thus 1t |
tjck m,ie than double the quantity CT fuel to ~ |
crease the speed by three miles an hour The truth
il ihtt tie power OF coal necessary 10 pr
dute speed inu.t be increased in tue ratio OF |
tie cube Of the velocity. Bat not only ls !
the cost OF fuel in fast steamers bu, the
wesr and tear OF such ships must be very grea,' |
they NUT ir't be built with great strength,
az an extra expense Of course. After running |
.x ycars Col,s chip cOst in repalre more man the
oriI al outlay in building them, and yet, notWth'
standing those repairs the ships would not last ABOVE
twelve Years. Every trlp OF one OF ColLhs 80" aun
ers 20 EneaLd and back again clst over tiO W.. |
Every FIX years q boilers have TO be renewed AZ an
rxpei,e II ..92,0O0 Collnss last ship, the A1tlac
co't in building I5O0OO. Her 'Peed mas not YET |
been properly tested Next to the Leyiathan she - |
tie finest .lp in tie world. Manufacturing that al
Co.r,s steamers were really very as; aud endld
ore. they never Implanted Cunsrds in public favor,
not even with the Americans themselves: Oolias isa
trus ps,li,t He has spent immense fortune TO- es-
,absh reputation Tor his countryn men lor sknl 10
ocesp s'eam navigation. Some OF his family perShed
IN The great ca aIf: which have 0yeraken hii own
.hipe, and lie has experienced the 3!lsfv" vV,i9uy
and ,pp0.ition in his country wble Undertaking
benefit Gre of the most spirited enterprises ever
sustained by d sng.e INDIVIDUAL
WIatyii the British Government do nov the tCr'
u ,le iva. 10 Cunarts chips lave D'sn 'd.,3
I,iven "a the Liverpool aud Nsw-ioik me, ana
America Las aCkuOw leiged the supremacy OF leg ana
IN team 1ayieaton For some years there mas Deeh