180 



COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter to readilv produce sixpence three-farthings to se- 



Aug. 183 ven-pence per pound." 



18. This opinion is very satisfactory, so far as 

 respects the value of such cotton in the home 

 market, compared with the current prices of other 

 kinds of Indian cotton, as stated in the margin :* 

 but the cotton purchased of Mr. Fischer is not of 

 the same quality as the cotton of the Mauritius, 

 known in the London market under the name of 

 " Bourbon," and is inferior to the parcels raised 

 from Bourbon seed which have formerly been im- 

 ported from India. It is not, therefore, to be 

 viewed as coming within the description of cotton 

 spoken of by Mr. Ryder in his evidence, but is 

 rather to be considered as a very favourable sample 

 of Indian cotton ; and we have reason to believe 

 that consignments of such cotton, if offered at a 

 moderate price, would at all times be marketable 

 in England, where the annual consumption exceeds 

 two hundred million of pounds,f but of which 



the 



* Current Prices, lid June 1830: 

 d. d. 



Bengal Cotton 

 Surat 



Madras . . 

 New Orleans 

 Georgia 



3I to 4I per lb. 



3i — 5$ — 

 \ — b\ — 

 6 ~ 7^ - 



5j - 6i - 



f The quantity of Cotton consumed in Great Britain, on 

 an average of three years ending 5th January 1830, was 

 2i8,484,094lbs.-— Par/mmew^an/ Paj)ers of i-^ih June 1830. 



