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Show tiii: oiim muts. A dlpatch on KilJay laitnnnounced the arrival at (Jutenitown, Ireland, from Now York, o' the ('ur.ard com-pauy't com-pauy't now steamer Iho Campania, hnvlug braten tho record for fail-iall. Ingcraltiaitwtrd by more than two hours an I then not coming even near I) tho top of lta capacity. The tlmo rooorded waa five dayi, aoventvou hnura and Drty-two nilnutsi, and there waa nituriilly consider, con-sider, bio ubllatlon over tho victory. Theocca-tou naa a race I etwetn that vessel and tho American lino aleamer Paris. Tho latter aed bandy Hook Ikhtihlpat I0:JS a. in, Haturdty, Moy Olh; the Campania at 11:13. The latter gained steadily on her rival and patted htr 10(1 mllea eait of Handy Hock. 1'rom that lime on tho Camilla did not light tho l'nrli. Tho best prtvl-oul prtvl-oul outward tlmo wil that of thv American liner New Yoiklait Auguit llvodis, nlnetten houia atd flftl-teven flftl-teven mlnutce. Tho record thowa that the tint trip of tho C'unard company'! flrtt bolt, tho Urltanuli, waa niado In lSIJond occulod fourteen daya and eight houia In lta run to llottou. Hho had a capacity for only US cabin paaaengera, while Iho Campania, lta inteit iuc-caiaor, iuc-caiaor, can carry 0W flral-clai,, 400 aocond-claaa and fn m 700 to 1000 third-rlaaa. third-rlaaa. On her trial trip on tho Clyde the attained a speoj ol twenty-three and uuu-half knots, cjual to twenty-teven twenty-teven mtlrtan hour, a record untur-paiied untur-paiied by any tlcamthlp, and on her llritlrlp ahemalo the distance from Queeuitowu to Now York lu alx dayi and four and one-half houra. Tula wai comldcred a remirkablo racird and fully boro out tho ixpectatlona of her bullden and proprietor!. A description of tho Campania la at follow,: Hho liat tmlvo malnbolleit and two auxiliary bo lien. Tho tint named aro itoublo-ended, 18 fret In diameter and IT feet long, etch having hav-ing eight corrugated furnace,, fiurat each end, with a combuitlou chamber In common to oach pair of furnace. Uf the auxiliary bolleri, oua la 18 feet In diameter by II foet long, with four furnace,, aud the other 10 feet 1 diameter by 10 feet long, with two lurnacea. Theio two auxiliary boiler, are Intended primarily tofurulahtttaui to operate varlout oollanotl abjut the ahlp, but they are to arranged at to be utei lu ojuneotlou with the regular battery fir driving the ahlp wheu required. re-quired. Tbo main bolleri aro the "irgett yet mado for the preaiuro required re-quired 105 pound. Tho platca were aupplled by tho bltiel company of ticot laud and aro 1 17-32 Inchejlu thick-neta, thick-neta, aome of them being 20 feet Jong by 7 wide, (Strength and fleetmue seem to havo beeu the mark on which the dtelgner and builder foouied their ellortt and they have beeu ecu llarly luccniful. |