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Rheea recommended to take the place of cotton in Lancashire, just 

 as jute took the place to a great extent of Flax in Dundee, and 

 cloth made from rheea and cotton for trowsers stuff for the 

 Indian army at half the cost not worthy of Mr. Gladstone's 

 notice "Buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market," 

 forgotten by the finance minister 295 296 



The prosperity of Dundee recommended to Galway merchants and 

 farmers, and the labour of a girl of sixteen years of age in Ulster 

 making 20 per annum weaving linen, held up as an example 297 



The sweets of industry by pursuing Swift's policy recommended by 

 the author, and the press that fosters jealousy between England 

 and Ireland condemned, because they do not join or hold up 

 the advice of Sir R. Kane, on cotton imported and manufac- 

 tured in Killaloe to work a social revolution .... 298 300 



A short sketch by a Belfast gentleman on " Our Staple Manufac- 

 ture, Past and Present," is well deserving of space and perusal 301 307 



The author's ideas of the pleasure to work with others that have 

 perseverance, genius, and enterprise to advance arts and manu- 

 factures, in the face of the enemies of progress, over-reaching 

 Jews 308311 



PAET V. 



The late Dr. J. F. Regie's work on the " Fibre Plants of India," 

 their cost of preparing, and produce or profit when sold [in 

 Liverpool, and bank-note paper made from the waste. . . 312 316 



The new and improved machines will have been so constructed that 

 all has been brought into one machine, to break out all the 

 woody parts of the plant. The whole process explained . 317 



The first yarns and cloth made from the patent process from Indian 

 fibres exhibited at the Society of Arts May 9th, 1860, by Mr. 

 Dickson, Thomas Bazley, Esq., M.P., in the chair, during the 

 lecture of Dr. Watson, India Office 318 



The author's and patentee's estimate of the cost of machinery, cost of 

 material, cost of working and profit per week, on rheea fibres, 

 Flax, hemp, or New Zealand Flax, suitable for cotton, silk, 

 worsted or Flax-spinner's purposes 319 322 



Quantity produced in thirty minutes in the presence of Mr. 

 Gardener, of the firm of Messrs. Gardener and Mackintosh, 

 Engineers, New Cross, London ...... 323 



Yarns spun by Yorkshire and Lancashire spinners of Flax, silk, 



worsted and cotton, in all fifteen firms, names and addresses . 324 325 



The noble Earl of Derby's letter on the subject of having the 

 patentee's book containing the material, yarn and cloth, placed 

 before the Executive Relief Committee in Manchester . . 326 



