25 JANUARY 1851, Page 9

The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, which left Liverpool for

New York on the 28th December, has been driven back to Cork harbour.- She met with-uninterrupted gales from the West, but sped her way with power and safety till the 6th instant, when she was equidistant from Cape Clear and New York-1400 miles from each ; on that day her main shaft broke, and her machinery became useless. She was put under canvass, and tried to reach Bermuda ; but the winds continuing adverse, she turned home on the 11th, and arrived perfectly sound in Queenstown Harbour on the 22d. The Liverpool agents of Messrs. Collins, the owners of the "United States mail- steamers, have chartered the British mail-steamer the Cambria to proceed to Cork at the earliest possible moment, and take on board the cargo, and such of the passengers as choose, to carry them to New York. The passengers by the Atlantic, who were fortunately only twenty-eight in number, have_passed resolutions stating that it was their unanimous desire to return to an Eastern port, and expressing their thanks to the Captain and crew for the ability and propriety of their conduct throughout. From the arrangements of the mail service, and the delay that must occur before the Cambria can join the At- lantic and proceed on the voyage from Cork, coupled with the fact that the disabled vessel did not sight a single outward-bound vessel on the whole of her run out and home, the news of her safety will not arrive in America till a month after her expected arrival in New York. Throughout the Union, therefore, there will be almost a certain belief that she has been lost on the voyage.