This superb Steamship, of 2,000 tons, the first of the United States mail Line to England and Germany, made her trial trip on the 23rd of May in 1847; and, though she was once brought to anchor to afford opportunity for screwing up a bolt which had worked loose, and was deterred from going out to sea by the thick mist prevailing through the day, yet she furnished abundant evidence of her rapidity and ease of motion, and of her admirable adaptation to the career for which she is intended. Although at no time carrying her full head of steam, while the friction of her machinery must be greatly diminished by a few days steady working, yet she made 15½ miles in an hour, against the tide, while a passenger in her main cabin could scarcely perceive that she was moving at all. She left for Cowes and Bremen on the 1st of June, under the command of Capt. Hewitt of the Uttica, for eighteen years one of the most successful and popular Captains of the Liverpool packets. She had 156 passengers engaged for her first voyage.