COTTON- WOOL. 



107 



Good Bengal 6^d. per lb. Letter 



Lady Hastings' cotton Sd. to S^d, s Oct. 1823. 



31. We learn from the Memorandum of Mr. 

 Udny, dated 11th November 1822, that the plant 

 from \^hich the Barbadoes cotton has been pro- 

 duced is perennial : whether the Brazil cotton, 

 of which no sample was sent to England, is also 

 perennial, does not appear. We request to be 

 informed on this point. 



No. 51. 



Extract Letter from the Cornet of Directors to the 

 Govej^nor in Council at Bombay, dated the 1th 

 January 1824. 



Par. 14. On receipt of the specimens of cotton Letter 

 raised from Bourbon seed in the Kaira districts v^jan.^isTi 

 and in the Southern Concan, of the shipment of 

 which on the Hannah we were advised in a letter 

 from Mr. Parish, your Secretary in the Territorial 

 Department, of the 31st May 1823, we ordered 

 them to be submitted to the examination of intel- 

 ligent brokers. For the result of the examination 

 and the opinion of the brokers as to the quality 

 and comparative value of the cotton in the London 

 market, we refer you to a report of our Ware- 

 house-keeper, a copy of which is transmitted in a 

 number in the packet, from the ])erusal of v/hich 

 you will learn that this cotton, although tolerably 



good. 



