Bombay.] ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



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United Kingdom.... 

 Cape of Good Hope, 

 Mauritius 



B. Rvpt*$. 

 25,3B,395 

 15,018 



3,16,958 

 69,15,803 



8,33,601 

 15,76,044 



1,39,051 



Ceylon 



Malabar and Cunara 

 Goa and the Con can 

 Cutch and Scindy ... 



Persian Gulph 



Arabian Gulph 



Coast of Africa 



B, Rupees. 

 29,042 

 14,63,243 



6,73,673 

 19,51,126 

 33,80,473 

 20,94,613 



3,23,473 



China : 



Penang and the Eastward.... 



Bengal 



Coromandel Coast 



The aggregate amount of the imports from the United Kingdom, in- 

 cluding the Company^ imports, those of their officers, and of private 

 traders, was, in the year 1821-22, 75,02,797 B. Rupees ; and the aggre- 

 gate amount of exports to Great Britain in the same year was 25,83,962 

 B. Ruj>ees. But Mr. Prinsep, by pursuing a more rational method of esti- 

 mating the value, represents the former amount at 1,12,18,852 B. Rupees, 

 and the latter at 29,99,695 B. Rupees. 



The number of vessels which arrived at Bombay during the year 

 1821-22 was 130; of which 118 were English, 4 Portuguese, 1 French, 2 

 Turkish, and 5 Arab. The aggregate tonnage was 60,863 tons. 



The number of vessels which sailed from Bombay, during the same 

 year, was 141 ; of which 129 were English, 4 Portuguese, 2 Turkish, and 

 6 Arab. The aggregate tonnage was 67,645 tons. 



As a matter of curiosity, perhaps of utility, it may be stated, that the 

 average length of the voyage of a fleet from England to Bombay, taken for 

 13 years, was 121 days nearly ; the longest voyage was 142 days, and the 

 shortest 103. 



REMARKS ON THE COMMERCE WITH CHINA. 



This is the most valuable branch of the commerce of Bombay. The 

 staple article is cotton wool ; the remainder consists of sandal wood, sharks 1 

 fins, and a few other articles, the produce of Malabar, and the western side 

 of India. The merchants at Bengal and Madras have become competitors 

 in the China market in the article of cotton, which, from its being of a 

 superior quality, or rather from its being cleaner, has fetched higher prices 

 at Canton than that from Bombay. This competition therefore threatens 

 to affect the trade of Bombay in a very material degree, unless the same 

 precautions are taken in cleaning the cotton produced on this side of India, 

 as have been practised at Bengal and Madras. 



The East India Company have become participators in the trade from 

 Bombay to China, since which period the article of cotton- wool has nearly 

 doubled in price. They reserve to themselves two-thirds of the chartered 



