We copy the following from the Friend of China and Hong Kong Gazette, August 17th.
“Fast Sailing.—The beautiful American ship Montauk, Commanded by Capt. William Mac Michael, arrived from New York, on the evening of the 8th instant, having made the unprecedentedly short passage of 87 days.
This is the shortest run on record to China, from England or America, and taking into consideration the comparative distance from those countries, the Montauk has surpassed, by about seven days, the passage of H. M. S. Vindictive, whose arrival in 89 sailing days from England, was, at the time, thought to be without parallel.
The average run of the Montauk has been a fraction over 177 miles per day, since leaving the U. States.
We learn that she has not had a fair everage chance for a passage, particularly in the trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and that she also met with light and unfavorage winds in the China Sea."
Capt. Payne, of the U. S. Brig of war Perry, now in this port, was a passenger on board the Montauk. The Perry arrived on the 10th inst. from Mazatlan. It appears therefore that Capt. Payne has been less than seven months from the U. States to these Islands, by the way of China and Mexico. He remained in China 21 days, and on the coast of Mexico 15 days. Making only 176 days that he has been at sea on the passage from New York to China, from China to Mazatlan and from Mazatlan to the Sandwich Islands. Distances logged, 26.984 miles, averaging 153 1-4 miles per day.
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