COTTON, GEORGE E. L. 



'1 he exports of cotton from Great Britain are 

 about 850,000 cwts. in excess of last year, all 

 importing ooontriei having taken an increased 

 The total for the ten mouths ia 3,- 



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032,450 cwts. against 2,186.456 cwts. in 1865, 

 and 1,876,040 m 1864. These amounts are 

 thus distributed : 



Tho American consnl at Alexandria reports 

 the advance in quantity and value of the cot- 

 ton exported from the valley of the Nile as 

 follows : 



1861 60,000,000 Ibs. 11863 129,000,000 Ibs. 



82,000,000 " | 1804. .... 174,000,000 " 



The increased value of the staple, as ex- 

 hibited by the custom-house returns of Egypt, 

 was in dollars as follows : 



1861 $7,154,400 I 1808 $46,782,450 



1862 24,603,800 | 1864 74,213,500 



The Chamber of Commerce of New York, in 

 a memorial to Congress relative to the tax on 

 n, urged the following facts relative to its 

 cultivation in other countries : 



1. That the cotton interests in India, Brazil, and 

 Egrpt, have accumulated large capitals from the high 

 prices of the last three years, while our plantations, 

 as a rule, hare lost all theirs. 



2. That nothing has yet occurred to arrest the ex- 

 tension of cotton production in those countries, and 

 nothing will arrest it short of material and permanent 

 decline in prices hereafter. 



3. That in the last fire years railroads have been 

 opening to traffic in India, and other means of trans- 

 portation have been improved; and as the Indian 

 Government guarantees an annual dividend of not 

 less than five per cent, to railway stockholders' we 

 must suppose branch railroads will be made wher- 

 ever they are likely to pay. 



4. That during the four years' famine of United 

 States cotton in Europe, great improvements have 

 been made in the manufacture of yarns and fabrics 

 from India cotton, so that eminent manufacturers, 

 who thought formerly that they could only use 

 American m making their standard fabrics, have 

 found that a mixture of four-fifths India and one- 

 fifth American, or over nine-tenths India and one- 

 tenth American, produced the requisite quality ; at 

 least, so it is stated on authority which your com- 

 mittee are forced to respect, without being competent 

 to indorse it. 



5. That the expenses in the United States of pro- 

 ducing, transporting, and selling at the ports, exclu- 

 sive of tax, must be estimated this year at not less 

 than thirteen cents per pound in case of a yield of 

 2,500,000 bales, and about two cents more if the yield 

 is less. 



COTTON, Right Rev. GEOEGE EDWARD 

 LYNCH, Lord Bishop of Calcutta, and Metropol- 

 itan of India and Ceylon, born at Chester, Eng- 

 land, October 29, 1832, was accidentally drowii- 

 ed in the Ganges, while disembarking from a 

 steamer, October 6, 1866. "When a little more 

 than eleven years of age he entered West- 



minster School, and in 1882, Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, as a " Westminster scholar," taking 

 with him a high character for scholarship. 

 Here he studied hard, and was always found in 

 the first class in the examinations, bearing away 

 several prizes. Having taken his degree of 

 A. B. in 1836, he was appointed to a master- 

 ship in Rugby School, where he had charge of a 

 boarding-house and a form of fifty boys. Shortly 

 after he was elected to a fellowship at Trinity 

 College, but he did not allow his university 

 life to tear him away from his work at Rugby. 

 About 1841 he succeeded to the mastership of 

 the fifth form, the highest but one. He sympa- 

 thized with his pupils in not only all their 

 studies, but also in their sports and pleasures, so 

 that the bond of affection between master and 

 pupil was strong and enduring. In 1852 Mr. 

 Cotton was elected head-master of Marlborough 

 College, which was then at a very low ebb, 

 financially and otherwise, but which, under his 

 management, soon rose to a high position 

 among leading public schools. In 1856 he 

 preached the consecration sermon of the pres- 

 ent Bishop of London at Whitehall, and in 1858 

 was nominated to the Metropolitan See of Cal- 

 cutta, where his high personal character and 

 powers, his strength of mind, and tolerant 

 views, rendered him widely and extensively be- 

 loved. 



CRAIK, GEOBGE LILLIE, LL. D., a Scottish 

 author and belles-lettres writer, born in Fife- 

 shire, in 1798; died in Belfast, Ireland, June 25, 

 1866. In his fifteenth year he entered the Uni- 

 versity of St. Andrew's, and passed through 

 the divinity course, though he never applied for 

 a license as a preacher. In 1816 he began the 

 world for himself as a tutor, and was not long 

 after editor of a local paper. From that time 

 his intellectual labors were unceasing. En- 

 dowed with a powerful memory, his capacity 

 for work was only equalled by his avidity and 

 delight in its exercise. In 1826 he went to 

 London, delivering on his way a series of lec- 

 tures on poetry at Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast, and 

 Liverpool. Arriving m London he early be- 

 came associated with Charles Knight, the pub- 

 lisher, and was a prominent contributor to 

 many of his literary undertakings, especially 

 the " Library of Entertaining Knowledge," be- 

 gan in 1830 by the Society for the Diffusion of 



