130 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [4TH SEASON. 



june'1848 1 "then extreme range of London prices for 

 Pari.'Retum Tinnevelly Cotton at 3d. to 4d. per lb., and 

 (1857), p. 296. assuming that a parcel of uniform good 

 quality would realize 3^d. per lb., the Chamber con- 

 sidered that a parcel equal to Mr. Finnie's sample, 

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

 might fetch ^d. per lb. more. 



02 Manchester Commercial Association pass a similar 



judgment upon the Cotton.-— Mr. Finnie's 

 §om the famous sample of Tinnevelly Cotton equal 



re°ctors° f i8th ^° ^ mer ^ can ' was °^ course sent home to 

 July, 1849. the Court of Directors, and by them trans- 

 Ss^iS! mitted to Mr - Aspniall Turner, the Presi- 

 dent of the Commercial Association of Man- 

 chester. The result fully confirmed 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 : — 



" 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 Lancashire 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 (Corrie and Co.) 

 states that it has been destroyed in cleaning ; but I 

 doubt if it ever had much staple. The samples of 

 A merican seed Cotton are very different, and are valued 

 by the Brokers at 18 per cent, more than the others." 

 Such was the brilliant achievement that closed the 

 third season of Mr. Finnie's career. 



03 Fourth season, 1848-49 : proposed extension of plant- 

 Mr. Finnie's operations. — The fourth season of Mr. 

 letter, 3ist Finnie's operations at Tinnevelly opened 

 ParL Return with a bold representation, and two equally 

 (1857), p. 292. "bold propositions. He represented that 



