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 lbs. 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. lbs. 



By weight, when re-dressed — Hemp 101 3 21 



Ditto Tow . . . . 18 2 



Loss or waste 24 2 



144 3 21 



By sales in London and Liverpool — Hemp, 101 cwt. 3 qrs. 21 lbs. 



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 of Vegetable 



