The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-01

engineers have shown their metal or rather the explosion
has blown their metal to pieces now if the managing
directors have any mcte Of another public and
the shareholders would like To am not very forci.
bly, impressed with the good qualities Of the direction Of
this company but they may after long chapter Of acci
dents, develope the property and make paying con-
cern The trial trip has utterly broken down. That was
70 have been ready TO start tomorrow, and tickets had
been taken all over England Passengers to have
been on board oday; but up to this single
word in the shape Of advertisement their customers
has the company put forth that the trip will be
postponed his however notorious that the ship will
not be ready for for MONTH Mr. Scott Russell has
contracted 10 complete the repairs by the explo
sion in three weeks that is, provided the boiler in
jured The company receiving six or eight hundred
pounds day, in half crowns, from five six thousand
daily visiters that flock to the unucky Who
tell what shall be done with the monster shps It's as
easy as lying.
What wants the Great Eastern pevfsctum It pulchrum
Without elbow upn DER the ocean TO heaye herr
hersen ne great weight aud the seaboard her facrum
lis PLAIN as pike STAN she just wants-a Lever!
The only way the directors can ever face their share
holders and make 81 excuse for not charterng the ship
70 Mr. Ier, will be to postpone the trip and the
vessels bow towards the East the original and natural
destination for her services How those services are TO
be paid for remain be But the ancient Cathay
the farthest Ind, the diamond region Of Goconda the
spice islands, the gold of Ophr-he region that enriched
Marco Poo-the largest, most populous most wealthy
and most ancient quarter Of the gobehe land Of Spices
drugs teas and precious gemshe region most renowned
in Scripture fable, mythology, poetry and songthe land
that excited the cupidy Of the Greeks, and then over
threw them by the corruption engendercd by the wealth
it furnished them-thc land that by its has
built up all the nations Of Western Eastern and Southern
Europe and overturned many Of them by the richness Of
the spoil they procured-he land that has fed the corsars
Of the Cycades and the land pirates of Tararyths gor
geous and magnificent region must, say the modern
Tmons furnish business and cargo for ship the like of
which has been since Jasons expedition for
the Golden Fleece.
The career Of this ship SO far is an eptome Of the DO.
lca life of John Bull He orgets what Saint Paul said
about fables and endless gsnealoges They very apt
to believe that clever, ought to be, because
his father before him. George Stephenson was
man of great ability and a great engineer. His
Robert has made himself name by species of tact in
appropriaDg the talents and labors Of shrewder
than himself but men that born without title po
siton, and without silver spoon in their mouths. Bru
mel the elder who built the Thames tunnel vision
ary schemer but engineer Of great ability. The pre-
sent Brunei the Of his faher-but like his
father than to Hercules-he who undoubtedly orgi
mated the idea and plan Of the Great Eastern has spent his
life in carrying series Of gigantic blunders that would
have banupted and ruined people possessing than
the resources Of the United Kingdom provided he had the
power and position He commenced with the Great
Yves Railway and the broad gauge principle Of that
road has cost the stockholders many millions that they
would not have lost but for this wild experiment. He
built the Great Eastern and then, with all his ingenuity,
could not get the Thames without series Of
qualities and blunders, involving loss Of several lives
and an expenditure Of ESQ O00 than fourth the
the ship ought 10 have COST and more than would
have cost to construct dock TO build her out Of which
she could have foated He then planned those circular
chests round the smoke ppes against the advice
and remonstrance Of every sensible person connected
Of Of the a' chest chest that was turned 70 full stop:
| and then he made a safety valve ut the other
end that his subs could not or would He then
made donkey engine that 30 imperfect it could not
be usedhs probably sheer Jealousy for he doubt
less wanted 10 be the only perfect donkey with
the ship Having got the mine loaded and the ship fairly
under way with large number Of guests on board, his
assistants in celebrating and carrying out his plan,
built an enormous fire at the bottom and, matter of
course blew hole in the ship big as melting house
There was not one single link wanting in tae chain Of
and concentration of circumstances from the first
project steam chests to the grand Climax the expo
sonequal to that Of two tons Of gunpowder encased In
the vessel The only good fortune-I may say the
only mracle-was that produced by the Intervention Of
good angel who stepped in and dispersed the pas
sengers keeping every of the main cabin at the
time of the dre catastrophe Had the inventor been in
physical condition that would have permitted him 70 be
sitting top Of the smoke pipe, looking down into the
fires that roared beneath, contemplating his grand ex
pertinent that eliminated in the blowing mp OF the largest
ship in the world. cannot say whether your cores
pondcnt will venture to go on the trial trip when the
believing you will be unwilling to pay the premium that
would be required to get his life insured for reasonable
sum- he has faint hopes Of being able to entsrtan your
readers with an account of the voyage.
In your files you will obtain account of the dsas
trous renewal Of the in China 1t does not look ex
acy like money making out of the East India, under
the old piratca rule of the East India Company got up
successful rebellion that seemed to thwart the best
efforts OF the Companys officers Then Queen Victoria
and her Parliament quietly stepped in and took the whole
country with it's $50 900 Of people, into the keeping Of
the British nation The indian treasury is bankrupt; the
hostile to the British rule; the climate Of the commercial
portion deadly European constitutions; and the only
sae Of Which is prohibited By law and sn on the
entire frontier of the Chinese empire. On the heels
| Of all this we have the new and successful ~
rebellion Peho The British officers complain badly
Of reachery the part of the Chinese in the they
took repuse their enemy All the treachery can
is the refusal TO carry out the treaty The defeat was
merely piece of military strategy, wherein the Chinese
too strong for the English; and, in the expressive
language Of of the few survivors lieutenant Purvs
the latter s'potted like crows clicked, smashed
and tchawed up'
Other news from China comes via St. Petersburg and
corroboraes the bad accounts lately received from Pen
send you portions Of letter extracted and translated
from Russian paper, showing that the Russians them
AmUaSSduOr
ways the sweetest possible times. Though Russian
bassador has been tolerated at Pekn for few months
old Chinese law had been revived, in accordance with
which all other Russians tespassng upon the frontiers Of
the Celestial Empire are to be put to death at once.
Now look the present state of the commercial world
Brazil has got to be almost first class Power among
the nations Of the earth, with steamship communication
direct indirect with the West Indies, United States,
Great Britain, France, Spain aud Portugal France has
colonial possessions in the East and West Indies, North
and South America, Madagascar and North Africa The
United States has vigorous and growing empire the
Of wit
sion among the barbarans Of Western and Central Asia.
Russia occupies almost complete belt nearly around the
world north of latitude As degrees, beginning at the Cuff
of Bothnia extending the continents Of Europe
and Asia and into the heart Of North America Besides,
superior and surrounding all these, the victorious flag
England wreahed in the appropriate coors of red and
gold and carried with stalwart hand encirces the