The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-27
THE VISITERS.
Weymouth Correspondence Of the London Daily News,


vssers aocking to Weymouth from all parts, par
ucuarly from the west Of England in such numbers TO
test in the severest the capabilities Of the town to
accommodate e and altogether 70 preclude the posi-
Dty Of their making any heightened stay. Already the
vessel has been visited by thousands since she
has been and although large leave the quay
nj Weymouth every half hour for the great ship
lying in Portland bay, each boat is crowded by
passengers who constantly arriving in excur-
sion trains In order TO prevent Inconvenience
from the overcrowdng Of the vessel the directors have
issued notice urgently requesting sha the visitors
or this regulation which cannot be enforced,
but the wish Of the directors has been pretty generally
aeceded TO- That portion Of tho ship in which the explo
sion took place has been boarded round by three feet
boarding. to prevent any access TO IT. and the
boilers are tested by the engineers, which to be done
to-day active steps viii be taken repair damage and
Teconsucs the grand saloon which was blown to pieces
by the force OF the explosion Az preliminary step 70
proceeding with the repairs, the company engaged
all the carpenters and joiners they could lay their hands
on in Weymouth and have also sent to London for expe
renced hands to direct the operations The work of
lifting the saloon and replacing the funnel will be pro-
ceeded with simultaneously and is expected that in the
tion 70 proceed upon her trial trip.
THE GREAT EASTERN AND HER PROSPECTS.
From the London Chronicle, Sept IL
We thought il would be unnecessary after observa
tons this question the 18th Of August again to refer
10 II, but finding Holyhead and Portland are named
Though not defnively) by the directors, must ask
why9 contemporary stated that there pers
twenty -four hours in the Channel than in double as many
days in the Atlantic In this and all the press
agree the facts have proved too true by the losses Of
thousands Of lives in steamers and sailing ships
Now this is one reason why she should start from
Cork, within one hour OF the Atlantic, instead of
Hoyhead, with $50 miles of coastng dangers.
The directors may say Hoyhead is nearer Liverpool,
the emporium Of Great Britain true but on the other
hand lines of steamers running not only from Liver
pool but from London, BRISTOL Milford, Glasgow, and
other ports, to Cork So that not only Liverpool but
Scotch and English goods could be shipped cheaper
there than by rail to Hoyhead, while the chief emga
ton is Irish
Let look to the continental trade and the more
favorable position Of Cork to intercept it, Ii the Great
Eastern made her port lines Of steamers would be
started TO Bordeaux Nantes and Havre Thus the wines
brandes, fruit, silks OF Lyons and Paris, coons and
wooi'eas OF France, Germany ana Belgium ewery
come TO it as q general rendezvous. Leghorn and
Genoa by rail- through France, would be within four
days Of Cork and ten Of America. This is vast trade
with the United States, competing with British and in
the finer articles outdong Cork has offered to the
great ship freedom from harbor dues while she obtains
those facilities with Great Britain and Europe with
out any outlay trouble on the part Of her directors
Again. he snip s uninsured MN sa Ought they not then to sail
snd-what is Of far greater consequenceto the thou
sands OF lives boardY These arguments in favor Of
Cork unanswerabie.
Let us now look othc why Quebec, not Port
land ought to be the transatlantic port Quebec by the
ST. Lawrence, has an inland navigation for ships and
steamers to Chicago and Superior $50 miles distant the
St Lawrence and lakes having coast line Of over 5000
some hundred miles distant by rail, and more than
LOCO by the ocean. The Canadian railways in which
SO much British capital is invested nave direct m
ports steamers and sailing vessels could go alongside the
Great Eastern in the St. Lawrence The London directors
Of the Great Western the Northern, Weland, Southern
nd lines should to the property Of their
stituens, while the gentlemen who have lately advanced
the money for tina north shore line from Quebec to Mon
treal Oowa fought also TO know that from Portland
they would derive benefit The Grand Trunk should
be much Interested in the st. Lawrence route as any
Of the other companies, though why they wish trans
ferred foreign city Of Portland is strange by the
erection Of wharf Point de Loup they could command
the chief traffic. especially IN passengers Their drec
tors may rest assured than If changed from Quebec
TO Portland II will be only the precursor of another
change 10 Norfolk, from 200 TO 800 miles the
great West by rail than Portland, and much nearer
10 the great cities Of Philadelphia Baltimore and
Washington with the grain tobacco and cotton trades Of
The Central, Southern and Western States Quebec is
also $50 miles than Portland, while the river De
Leup, to which the railway is extended, is 400
From these facts the directors should select Quebec, by
which they would obtain the American passenger and
goods traffic. formerly carried by the liners and steamers
10 New York (which has sufficient water but which
they would not get at Portland.
AS Indian trade for the Great Eastern, and her
ii would pay. There Is ne emigration, pro-
perly SO called. India Chinese goods would
not be shipped from Bombay Madras, Singapore
Canton Shanghai, thousands of miles out Of
not twentieth those Of New York. great those
Of Montreal Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore q New Or
leans. The Australian emigration has ceased while there
s little to come back, most OF the ships going 70 load
the packet ships and liners and atterly by them and
steamers between New York and Liverpool which from
want of sufficient depth Of water has TO be trans
ferred TO CorKa and Quebec
We look the question with local sectional views
hut in broad and national spirit, deciding in favor of
Cork and Quebec for the have gwen which
the secretary directors and propetos Of
the mammoth Ship with the best wishes for her success
novelty in shpbulding, as well as In commercial
point