The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-11-11
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY Y, NOVEMBER II

We learn by the late mail that the Pacific
Mail Company has closed its contracts for build
ing in New York, the four new steamships for
its China line. They are to be side-wheel boats,
as at first proposed, and will probably be ready
for service before October. 1866.
On the Atlantic route the new steamers Henry
ChaRCey and Montana are 10 be placed. These
are large vessels of nearly 1000 tons capacity,
and are to run in connection with the fine steam
ship Ne,o York. Hereafter the steamers will
leave New York and San Francisco three tunes a
mOntk,-on the LIST, 10th and Goth of each
month, and freight rates are 10 be largely re-
duced, which will tend to increase shipments Of
merchandise via Panama. We notice that the
last steamer that left San Francisco for Panama
took over 500 bales of wool for New York.
After January next, it is probable that the
steamer will leave each end of the route four
times q month, which will give 4 considerable
impetus to travel and trade over the route.
We notice in the New York Herald of Sept.
Sth, an interesting article on this new China
line, and its probably effect on Asiatic trade
and travel, fro.- which we extract a few para
graphs. 1t shows the superiority of the new
route over the old Red sea and Bombay route
The new line from China and Japan via San
Francisco 10 England and other European coun-
tries. will be from twenty 10 twcnty-SiN days quicker
than via Peninsular and Oriental Mail Line by the
shortest cut. The new line will be bound to pro
duce IN entire revolution in the Eastern World ana
Europe in the saving distance and time. The dis
t0ncc between Shanghai aud Southampton via Pc
niIsuldr and Oriental Line, IL eleven thousand one
hundred and seventy-tiyc miles length OF passage
homeVards. ~siyty-hye days cost. seven hundred
ana cighty-fyc dollars.
III April. 1861, the American ship htHInSher left
the port of kanagawa ,Japan) for San Francisco,
where she arrived IN nineteen dayS-siN day quick
cT than eyer made before or SInce-dlStanCr run,
four thousand four hundred and tWenty-ninc miles.
Important dispatches were sent by this ship, which,
on the morning of the twentieth dav from Kama
gawa, lett San Francisco by pony express. and III
ten days arrived AT Lcavenw orth city in three
days more We're published in New \ Ork and on the
way TO Liverpool. and in less than eleven days
were published in the London Times. being forty
two days from Japan. 1t takes ~SiXtyliVe days to
90 to southampton by the PcninSular and Oriental
Line, being twenty-four days longer than by the
former, through New York city.
The London Times, in publishing the news from
japan, devoted half n column in urging the import
ancc Of making the California route the great mail
route between China, Japan and England. instead
of the roundabout way at present. Ordinary
passage between China. Japan and San Francisco,
by steam, stopping ut the Sandwich Islands, would
not ordinarily occupy more than twenty-five days.
The splendid results achieved by the California
route. in which the Times acknowledged the PENN
sular and Oriental Line shamefully beaten more
than three weeks. We're strongly urged as a reason
for establishing such a line. Victoria, Nancouver's
Island. a port in British possessions. some two or
three days sail from San Francisco, was named as
the headquarters of the line.
The Times said the British Government would
reap IL golden harvest from our Pacific trade by
extending the line TO Panama to connect at Aspin-
wall with the royal mail steamers all this could be
maintained with territory independent of the Amer
lean Government.
The Importance of establishing a line of steamers
between San Francisco and the East, with q view
of providing some means of protection to American
ships in the China and Japan seas, If We expect to
compete successfully with other nations, cannot be
overestiInated. That the line would prove an i'm
mcnse success there can be no reasonable doubt {;
that passenger travel alone, besides the valuable
packages of freight, letter mail, etc. which would
be drawn from the Peninsular and Oriental Line,
would be very great. Europeans themselves would
prefer this route OF travel.
What Englishman. instead of sweltering in the
torrid heats OF the Red Sea and Indian Ocean thirty
or forty days, where the thermometer runs higher
than in any other portion of the known world.
would not prefer going by a shorter, quicker and
pleasantcr route for half the expense-a route,
every mile of which from Shanghai TO Liverpool.
is in the delightful, cool region OF the north tenn
perate zone.