COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [3RD. SEASON. 



CHAP. Cotton seems to have been fully endorsed by the Madras 



'. Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber found the sample to 



Mr. ouch- ^ e very clean and of good colour, but of short staple. 

 }efter, y alth Taking the then extreme range of London prices for Tin- 

 Pa?i e . Re- nevelly Cotton at 3d. to 4d. per lb., and assuming that a 

 p. 296. parcel of uniform good quality would realize 3Jd. per lb., the 

 Chamber considered that a parcel equal to Mr. Finnie's sam- 

 ple, would realize that price, viz. 3Jd. per lb. and possibly 

 might fetch Jd. per lb. more. 



202 Manchester Commercial Association pass a simi- 

 *&* judgment upon the Cotton. Mr. Finnie's famous 

 court * of sample of Tinnevelly Cotton equal to American, was of course 

 istiT ji y sent home to the Court of Directors, and by them trans- 



1849 Par! 



Return * niitted to Mr. Aspinall Turner, the President of the Com- 



(1857) p. 



195 - mercial Association of Manchester. The result fully con- 

 firmed what had been already stated by Dr. Wight and the 

 Madras Chamber. In a letter from Mr. Turner to Dr. Royle 

 the following judgment was passed : 



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" I may say, generally that the Cotton sent by Mr. Finnie, 

 " grown from Native seed, is very much the same as we 

 " have been in the habit of receiving for years past from 

 " Madras. You are aware that it has not entered largely 

 " into consumption in this country ; and I can only repeat 

 " emphatically, what I have often asserted before, that it is 

 <' a perfect delusion in Mr. Finnie or any one else supposing, 

 " that such Cotton will ever pass off to the spinners of Lan- 

 " cashire as a substitute for American Cotton. It has 

 " nothing to recommend it, except being of a bright clear 

 colour ; the staple is miserably short. The Brokers' report 

 " (Come and Co.,) states that it has been destroyed in 

 " cleaning; but I doubt if it ever had much staple. The 

 " samples of American seed Cotton are very different, and 

 " are valued by the Brokers at 18 per cent, more than the 



