The following report by Consul-General Denny, of Shanghai, dated March 18, 1881, appears in "Commercial Relations of the United States; No. 8, June 1881."
Heretofore some of our cotton goods arriving by way of London and Suez came in a damaged condition, which is alleged to be due to defective packing. There is, however, good reason to doubt this, and to attribute the damage to rough handling and improper stowage of the bales, On the 22d of October Inst the first in voice of cottons arrived in Shanghai from New York via Panama, San Francisco, and Yokohama. Since that time more of these goods have arrived by this route than via Suez, and in perfect condition, the bales looking comparatively clean, while most of those shipped by the other route looked og though they had been stowed in the coal bunkers, black and dirty in appearance.
The shipments of piece goods by the way of Panama and San Francisco up to the first of this month are as follows 4238
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.