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point now aimed at. The N. Y. Journal ofCom- 

 merce gives an abstract Crom and makes some 

 remarks upon the report made to llie East India 

 Company on tliis subject, from which we extract 

 the ibllowing, and leave this branch ol" the sub- 

 ject :— 



"The special report of the directors of the Chamber 

 goes on to state that " it appears to be a very judicious 

 arrangement which the Hon. East India Company 

 has adopted, viz : to send over to India, with the ma- 

 chines, several talented and experienced gentlemen, 

 natives of the United States of America, and brought 

 up as cotton planters, who will be able to give a new 

 impulse to the growth of cotton in India, and to devise 

 and carry into effect the best methods of driving the 

 saw-gin, and applying that machine to the very impor- 

 tant purpose of cleaning the cotton so produced." 



"The vital importance of the American saw-gins 

 will be seen at once when you remember that with one 

 of these machines 1100 lbs. to 1200 lbs. weight of 

 clean cotton can be produced per day, wliilst the ma- 

 chine used in India, the Chinka, can only prepare 

 from 38 lbs. to 40 lbs. per day. The machine, also, 

 that has been invented by Messrs. Favvcett &, Co. is 

 stated to be even a decided improvement upon the 

 American saw-gin, so that every opportunity is now 

 given to the growers of cotton in India, fo compete 

 with the American market. The planters who have 

 been engaged from the^United States are so engaged 

 for five years, and their experiments are to be carried 

 out on a most extensive scale. There can be no doubt 

 that with such a wealthy body as the Lords of Lead- 

 enhall street — the East India Company — to back and 

 support them through all their endeavors, something 

 will now be done." 



3Jly. — The influence and zeal which the aboli- 

 tionists of Enaiaiui have evinced, are too well 

 known — the British West India colonies are a 

 proof helbre our eyes of the liict — and it is equally 

 well understood, (lor llieir movements have been 

 open and above board) that they are deiermined 

 to lake the pecuhar interests ofour southern stales 

 into their especial care and keepinij, We will 

 not at this time e.xtend our remarks upon this 

 branch of the subji'ct, I'aither than to introduce 

 some from the journal above quoted, which com- 

 prises the piih and marrow of ail tiial is necessary 

 to be said thereon, and which we especially com- 

 mend to our southern friends : — 



" Bearing upon this subject, though partially, is the 

 meeting held on the 27th at Manchester for establish- 

 ing '-The Northern Central British India Society." 

 The celebrated Mr. George Tiiompson has been in- 

 strumental in getting up the steam on this occasion, 

 and " Charles Lennox Redmond, a gentleman oi 

 color. Anti-slavery debater from Pennsylvania," was 

 paraded upon the platform. The chairman declared 

 that the object of the meeting was to aim a deadly 

 blow at slavery, and to transfer our market from the 

 slave grower of cotton in America, to the free grower 

 of British India. The principal speakers were Mr. 

 Thompson and Mr. O'Connell, and the latter came 

 from Ireland expressly to attend the meeting. Mr. 

 Thompson declared tiiat there was no measure so cal- 

 culated to effect the downfjil of slavery in the United 

 States, as by encouraging the growth of cotton by free 

 labor. He instanced the superior cheapness of free 

 labor over slave labor by the cultivation of indigo. 

 Fifty years ago it was wholly supplied by slave labor, 

 but now the slave grown indigo of the Carolinas and 

 South America, has been superseded, and the three 

 millions of it which they imported into Europe has 

 dwindled beneath an ounce. 



In allusion to the part taken by the East India Com- 

 pany, which I have above described, Mr T, declared 



that it was an event in history that could not be match-> 

 ed lor 200 years. Mr. O'Connell's speech was particu- 

 larly remarkable, for it did not contain one single 

 sentence of abuse against tiie south. It was confined 

 entirely to a description of the atrocious tyranny' ex- 

 ercised over India by tlie Company, and demonstrating 

 the miseries, privations, famines, and death, which have 

 been the melancholy consequences of their iron rule." 



COMPETITION OF EAST INDIA COTTON WITH 

 AMERICAN COTTON. 



[From the Boston Dally Advertiser. 



The increasinfr magnitude of the trade between 

 India and Great Britain, and its importance 1o the 

 latter country as a great and growing market Ibr 

 her manulactures, is a subject of discussion which 

 has become very interesting to the British nation, 

 as it also should be to us, Ibr its bearing on the 

 luture demand and value lor our great staple — 

 cotton. The ground taken by many intelligent 

 persons in Icdia and in England, who have taken 

 great pains to become acquainted with all the 

 lacts in the case, is that the natural capabilities of 

 British India fur the production of raw cotton will 

 enable her planters and merchants to supply the 

 consumption of England lower than the produce of 

 any other country. 



In accordance with this view of the matter, ex- 

 ertions have been made to extend the cultivation 

 and improve the qualities of the India product by- 

 cotton importations of seed from this country and all 

 01 her growing countrie.?, and by inducing planters 

 of experience and skill in the management of its 

 cultivation, to go from this country to various parts 

 of India, where some of them have arrived, and are 

 now engaged in that object. 



To aid in these designs — of (he Indian Govern- 

 ment and Indian planters — the merchants and 

 manufacturers in Great Britain have held various 

 meetings and formed associations, and the reports 

 of iheir proceedings have been published in the 

 leading journals of England with great commeii- 

 daiion of the zeal and enterprise of those concern- 

 ed in this important undertaking, and (or the most 

 part participating in the sanguine expectations of 

 the East Indians, in the opinion set forth by ihem 

 of their ability to "render it" — louse their own 

 terms — "unnecessary for England to have recourse 

 to j^mcrica or to any other foreign market,for the 

 supply of cotton which she ??eeds." 



If England expects to receive her whole supply 

 of cotton from India there must he a rapid and 

 ijrreat extension of its cultivation in that quarter. 

 The import of cotton into Great Britain lor several 

 years is as follows : 



From U. 8. From E. Indies. From all parts. 

 POUNDS. POUNDS. POUNDS. 



1835 283,000,000 44,000,000 369.000,000 

 1835 281,000,000 79,500,000 404,000,000 



1837 314,000.000 52,000,000 403,000,000 



1838 417,000,000 38,000,000 497,000,000 



1839 304,500,000 47,000,000 3S8,000,000 

 The export ofcotton of ihis year's crop to Great 



Britain, amounts to 1,209,000 bales and before the 

 season closes it may reach 1,240,000 bales, ol" 375 

 lbs., equal to 465,000,000 lbs. 



The imports of Indian cotton into England will 

 be larger than last year, owing principally to the 

 interruption of the cotton trade between that coun- 



