182 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [1849. 



CHAP. er. By so doing all these disadvantages might be avoided ; 



the excellent and thoroughly acclimated stock of seed would 



be preserved ; and some arrangements might be made for 



others, such as the Manchester Association, to continue the 



Minutes of experiment on their own account. The Governor in Council 



tion, 29th however decided that the Cotton Farm should be at once 



June 1849. 



ufrn' (185?) transferred to the Collector, who would carry out all that 

 p- 218 - was necessary in consequence of the engagements which Dr. 

 Wight had made. 



237 Departure of Mr. Finnie from the Madras Pre- 

 sidency. Such was the sweeping measure carried out by 

 Sir Henry Pottinger's Government in June 1849. We shall 

 presently see that as far as Dr. Wight was concerned, the 

 measure was reversed by the Court of Directors ; but the 

 proceedings as regarded Mr. Finnie were fully confirmed. 

 The latter gentleman left the Presidency in the following 

 October, but before his departure from Tinnevelly, he ad- 

 dressed a letter to Mr. Elton the Collector of the District, 

 respecting the directions which he had received from Go- 

 vernment to instruct the East Indian lads in the working of 



Para 233. the gins, and concluding with a general review or estimate of 

 his own labours. 



238 Mr, Finnie's last letter, July 1849 :-"The gins will 

 always remain idle after Government ceases to use 



Mr* !r in- 



nth 5 ^"fJ them*" Mr. Finnie reported that he should be happy to 

 Re 4 t 9 um Parl> instruct Dr. Wight's East Indian lads in the working of the 

 304? 7 ) p> gins, during the fifteen or twenty days that were required to 

 clean the seed Cotton on hand ; but that after that period 

 the gins would never be at work, as the Natives would 

 never use them after Government had retired from the ex- 

 periment. So long, he said, as the merchants continued to 

 buy dirty Cotton, so long we must despair of all improve- 



