Upon the whole, this Atlantic steamer is really worthy of the great country from which she has come. If, in shape and general appearance, she is inferior to the old vessels, she is decidedly equal, if not superior, to them in machinery and fittings. Her powers as regards speed have of course yet to be tried. One voyage is no test, nor even a series of voyages during the summer months: she must cross and recross at least for a year before any just comparison can be instituted. The regular postal communication between Liverpool and the United States will speedily be twice every week--the ships of the new line sailing on Wednesday, and the old on Saturday. But other ports besides Liverpool are now dispatching steamers regularly to America. Glasgow sent out a powerful screw steamer--the _City of Glasgow_, 1087 tons--on 16th April, for New York, where she arrived on 3d May; thus making the passage in about seventeen days, in spite of stormy weather and entanglements among ice; the average time taken by the Liverpool steamers during 1849 being fourteen days. Her return voyage, however, made under more favorable circumstances, was within this average, the distance being steamed between the 18th May and the 1st June. A vessel called the _Viceroy_ is about to sail from Galway to New York, and her voyage is looked forward to with considerable interest. The _Washington_ and _Hermann_ sail regularly between Bremen and Southampton and New York, and the _British Queen_ has been put on the passage between Hamburg and New York. All these enterprises seem to indicate that ere long the Atlantic carrying trade will be conducted in steam-ships, and sailing vessels superseded to as great extent as has been the case in the coasting trade. FOOTNOTES: [25] The _Atlantic_ has just made the passage direct in ten days and sixteen hours. [From Sharpe's Magazine] THE LITTLE HERO OF HAARLEM.