Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-28
AGAINST 7O4.446 last year., increasing

against 7O4,446 last year, increasing
the excess to Dos, 997 bales.o
We have already noticed the erri-
val at Liverpool of the steamship Bra
/ lillian, from Bombay via Suez CanaTN
with a remarkably large cargo, vari-
ously stated at 1900 and 10000 bales
/ We now learn from WhitWOrth d
Bros list of cotton ships at sea that
! the actual amount was ll,3S4 bales.
l This vessel sailed from Bombay on
the 3fst of January, arrived at SueZ
on the 18th of February, and has since
/ reached LIVERPOOL. We have not the
/ precise day of her arrival at the latter
port, but it may be vaguely said that
! She made the entire voyage in about
six weeks, instead of as many months
by the Cape route. Not the least
among the results of the success of the
canal will be the Cutting of the Liv-
erp0Ol market with India cOttOns at
an early period in competition with
the poorer qualities of American. The
canal may be seriously detrimental to
the Pacific Railroad, in diveFting
from it the Chinese trade, to which its
advocates have looked as an Orient
source of wealth. When we reflect
that it is 24O0 miles more from China
TO New York by the S~uezrOute than by
San Francisco and the road, and that
the longer route is entirely by water,
at a freight of not more than SI7 per
ton Of fifty cubic feet, while the gain
ing of about three weeks time by the
shorter route is at an additional eX-
pense of $50 a ton, we cannot escape
the conclusion that the cheaper, al
though longer, route will be preferred,
and the entire China trade with New
York be carried on by the SueZ Canal.
The success of the canal is in
Dictated by the rapidly increasing
number of steamships engaged in the
trade. Thus far, the most OF the fleet
have been outward bound, but of
course may be expected back by the
same route, and make it probable that
a much larger proportion of the Indian
crop will come through the canal than
has been hitherto expected. Although
in the shoaiest part recent reports
give only nineteen feet, yet it is said
that, under the flow from the Medi-
teFFane2n into the lakes, the depth is
constantly increasing and from twenty
to twenty-five feet may be expected
WHITE nUN LuCIC u OnlF nAhCbCCA W
twenty. While the Brazilian came
through with a cargo of Il,3S4 bales
cotton, another steamer passed on its
outward voyage with twenty-five
hundred tons of coal. A feet of from
eighty to a hundred steamships are re-
ported as snder charter for the trade
with India and China by the canal,
and shippers are said to almost uni
formIy prefer Il to the Cape route.
Thus far the shipment OF the Indian
crop has proceeded slowly; the amount
afOat from India on the lst instant,
including Bombay shipments to the
18th ult., being only 16e, 000~bales,
against 296, 000 in 1869. Whitworth &
Bros Liverpool list of the I'd instant
puts down the sailings from Bombay
for Liverpool up to the Sd ult., at
ships, with 63,757 bales, and
from Madras, Calcutta and other ports, |
at eleven ships with Il, lSG bales total
for Liverpool and London at u5,aSz
bales, against I73,032 last year. The
same circular reports sixteen vessels
at Bombay and Madras for
and London including only
TOUR steamships for the Suez route.