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passengers, who were coming abroad for the first time, when they 

 expressed their surprise at the small space which the affairs of 

 the United States occupied even in English journals. It is a 

 lesson which every traveler has to learn when he is far from home, 

 and seeks in a foreign newspaper to gain some intelligence of his 

 native land. He is soon accustomed to find that day after day 

 even the name of his country is not mentioned. 



The speed of our steamer had been constantly increasing as the 

 weight of coal diminished. The length of the voyage, therefore, 

 to America might be considerably abridged if the quantity of coal 

 were lessened by a day and a half s consumption, the steamer 

 starting from the west of Ireland, to which passengers might be 

 conveyed in a few hours, by steamboat and railway, from Liv 

 erpool. 



June 13, Saturday. Anchored off Liverpool at half-past ten 

 o clock in the evening, having made the passage from Boston in 

 twelve days and a half, it being nine months and nine days since 

 we left that port. 



