APPENDIX. XXVll 



The cost of re-dressing hemp and Alloa fibre is 4 10s. per ton. 



The following has been the result from the re-dressing of forty-three bales of 

 Bombay native prepared hemp, part sold in Liverpool last November by the 

 owners, Messrs. Stevens, Brothers, Liverpool and Bombay merchants : 

 To 144 cwts. 3 qrs. 21 Ibs. of hemp, at 15s. per cwt. . . 108 14 

 Cost of preparing, baling, and carriage, at 4 Is. 8d. per ton . 29 11 9 



138 5 9 



cwt. qrs. Ibs. 

 By weight, when re-dressed Hem}) 101 3 21 



Ditto Tow 18 2 



Loss or waste ....'.. 24 2 



144 3 21 



By sales in London and Liverpool Hemp, 101 cwf. 3 qrs. 21 Ibs. 



at 35 10s. per ton 180 18 9 



Tow, 18 cwt. 2 qrs., at 18s. per cwt. ..... 16 13 



197 11 9 

 Deduct cost of material and re-dressing. 138 5 9 



Net profit . . . 59 6 



As a set of three breaking-machines at a cost of 1,000, will prepare and 

 make ready for market, from five to six tons of hemp per week, it is evident 

 from the work produced as above, that 3,000 per annum may be obtained by 

 working them on rough hemp alone. 



The " Daily News" of last month quotes the the price of Bombay hemp in 

 India at 9 per ton. The price in Liverpool runs in general from 18 to 20 

 per ton, and a plentiful supply at all times can be had in that market. 



P.S. We have just been informed that Mr. Stevens, of Liverpool, placed 

 the Bombay hemp, after being prepared by the patent machines, before nine 

 extensive rope-makers in Liverpool, and only -one out of that number could 

 guess what it was, so great was the alteration, but all agreed it was worth from 

 36 to 40 per ton. 



CUVERIAN SOCIETY. 



At the first meeting of this society for the sessions 1857-8, which took place 

 at the Royal Cork Institution, on Wednesday, 4th November, 



Mr. H. Biggs produced some very beautiful specimens of Indian grass, 

 prepared by a new patent process, so as fully to warrant the term ot Vegetable 



