.The Liverpool steam-ship has made an experimental trip to Cork,
with the following satisfactory results- st aled with 7,3 to .s of fuel en beard ; anl in tw zikoeete tioars e• ,h I -5 miles, with a strong wind b .th befioe and al aft t:.e Vat sei was int,: trem,-ruloils, frequently topping the funnel. Her consumption or fuel ■IU! 't ox■• 4,1 25 1:u,.(1tweight per heur, and she hit comeg Icatly on board fur tic,nty•six 0.:vs' voyage."
After tide, the Liverpoel sailed without h, sitation, from Cove, Tuesday, fur fur New Yoek, with forty of her orieinal passeng.irs.
The Royal William's passage from Liverpool to New York acre- pied twenty days; during nearly the whole of which the weather was. tempestuous and the winds adverse. On the morning of the day err which she entered New York, weed was burned to keep up the steam ; the coal having been exhausted, owing to the passage having been too days longer than had been ca-peeled. In other respects, the trip was meet satisfactory, the vessel having proved herself an admirable sea-boa ad an excellent steamer. It is worthy of remark, that the packet-ease) Orpheus, a feet sailor, which sailed front Liverpool thirteen days before the Royal William, namely, on the 7th of September, had not reaclee New York on the 13th of October; a proof of the adverse gales whizie. prevailed in the Atlantic, and which the steamer had to encounter-- Lever/Joel Athion. [This is a close calculation of fuel.]
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