engthen the plant, but it causes it to produce later
the season.
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Mr Findlay, ofthe Gloucester Mills, reports on The 31st of July, as follows, on a specimen of cotton grown from foreign used on the coast of Tonasse-: md sise on some Sen. Island cotton grown by Sauger Island, on the Delm of the r Kyd, on Denges.
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I consider the Pernambuco cotton (raised Tercy, on the coast of Tenasserim) to be a most cellent specimen of that description. It is both wrong and long, and pretty equal in staple, and would say, would readily fech 74d at home (in and). Plis would be a most desirable quality cation for the Gloucester mills!
endly, Respecting Mr Kyd's Sanger Sea-Is- kai collon I must say that it far excels any speci. en of the kind which I have seen in the country It has all the strength of staple necessary for length and fineness, and is very equal; and I Broad say, ft for fine spinning: it is worth140 per
pound at least,"
(Signed)
"JOSEPH FINDLAY.'
In the rear 1837, the Uplands and New Orleans varied 9, and the Surats from 3fd to bid Mr Hole's of prices for 1832, the same rear, gives--Pernambuco, 101d; Sea Island, 9 to 18
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
We understand that most of the cotton used for making thread in those midis is the produce of India, which the manufacturers there find answer better than what they used to get at first from America.
introduction to Mr Pakenham. She food the British Ambasador civil, and he made an offer of his services. But I was in high hands, and required them mit. The President himself, the Secretary of Sime, and every American took care We will now direct our attention to the Madras of me. Besides all the society to which Mrs experiments. With the exception of one, ander the Maury was introduced or introduced herself the mare of Mr Josiah Marshall Heath, one of their constantly visited the ladies gallery to hear the civil servants, employed by the East India Company debates, she attended the courts of justice she as Commercial Resident at Salem, all the attempts had a public dinner gives her by the ladies of Lontoduce the western cottons fullest. The late Washington; she even tackled Congress itselT. form was established in 1840. While two private Haring suffered from the want of medical attend. speculators, Mr Hughes and subsequently Mr Fissance in her voyage
BF out, I'mile an attempt cher, liave succeeded in producing excellent cotton, she says, " to pass a hill through Congress to cord it is true but not always at a remunerating price. pel passenger vessels to carry surgeons," and she From Tinnevelly. -
alell apon the Committee of the House in propna persone, though without success, The bill was frostrated by the blind aud ignorant selfishness of the shipowners, who were represented by a Wiig Member of Congress (
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Mr Hughes writes, in February, 1818 that he found the Bouchon plant extremely hardy, but it did not rield more than 50 to 100 lb per acre of clean cotton annually. He observes, that the plant must be grown on a soil fertile only in a small de gree, composed of siliceous and calcarious particles and that the black loam, denominated the cotton soil of India, should be particularly avoided. Hedeems proximity to the sea advantageous, if not essential, and states that a dry soil and atmosphere ato re
with what koomeuge, the render
he is told that Mrs Mas have cost England millon Spakorn slavery is adword 3052) with on imputate which
planter would aceronis be equal to dungnal. The blowing passage is ezen kinguar.
The connecting of share hoidng th pre-eminence in mathematics and the power of analysis do not see; but we do see that the serious saplication of rotem passages of Bonip
tore to a planter ordering about his Negroes and their obedience to him, to a piece of ireverence in the very worst taste,
The private position of it Calbonn is as remarkable as his public stoti An hereditary share owner, he was born asi educated a rer be aways his people was just es and asercy,
the habitual possession of power hus revealed to him the secrets of the art of government
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cous, princely nature, accasumed in green mand without eyes, is epily sezusteeded to receive rabaison without leave beste hij
gothness, hente bl Lidilgence: LANDS be coun pasoj no velger opstart day of authority in traced in his intercourse with live who own bim com, and he cometh, ced to another, en ond he gooth and he is served with the perfect lose that
Mr Leyburae writes from Shahabad on the 7th quisite during the gathering months of March and Hughes, the flamanist Bishop, she afterwards for their Lard L. 1h The He math to me MIN,
Jaly, 1837, sending a small packet of cotton raised Ezyptian send which was highly approved of He remarks: One important fexture in the pro. e compared with the cotton groin near here is, that the Egyptian yields one half cotton, and the aber half seed; whereas the country coltoa has Rea paris seed and only one of cotton, set aside the perior staple of the former.
Mr Hurris, of Kishnagaur, also serde on the 1th of July, 1837, samples of cotton raised there from Egyptian seed, and another parcel of brown Nankio cotson raised at Barielly; also some Per- sambuco."
SINGAPORE COTTON,
The specimen of Sea Island' cotton grown at Singapore, from American seed and presented by Mr Crane, is, according to my opinion, superior to ather of the other samples before me.
stapfo, with a strong and It is silky long esen fire. We cannot, however, form a correct existe of the average quality of the cotton from this plantation, as it appears by Mr Crane's letter, that he has sent us only a few of the first pods, which have, no doubt, been carefully picked.
The soil, however, saply and near the sen, appears to be well adapted for this variety, and if the whole crop will bear any comparison with the Espoon produced, this experiment at Singapore May I think he considered as very successful
The Upland Georgia cotton does not seem to leo well after ed to the soilsend climate, being woly, and the seed separable with difficulty; but the staple food,
KOULMEIN COTTON
The quality of the cotton presented by E AR arly No. 4) is so superior, that I much regret the quaothy produced did not e Mr B. expectations. Or perusal of his Better, I was induced to make inquiry of Messrs Gilmore and Co., regarding 800 hs which Mr Blundenwarded to these rentiomen and through the kincse of 3 Crawford. I am embled to an pend the following memorama, and to present in shade to the Socisty specimens of the cotton in Its several stages of modficlure; viz,--rovo, cope ted thrail
"It will require about Xo 60—is very fine, and Gf good slape, lust much 1235 in proportion than the country cotton, and is from 18 to 20 rupees.
(about 56 sporly ry Balietta.) The remuning Engin that
eto prich but an spinion.
"Colon Col neighbourhood of Society, dated 1 experiment of code
Sternens are so inferior to the fin leaving my colleagues, who alified them myself, to append
cle, the towin
ettes from seed
d) C HUPPNAGLU."
hose plantations were in the Chi in a paper read before the May, 1816, observes The
has commenced on a large altogether amounting to 150 Sterly sent by the Society!"
He had only beer ble to secure the upland Georgia
well while the seed of the Sea.
April, and again in July and August. The plant lasted with him many years by heading in offer each crop to within two feet both in height and width. "The report of Messrs Fairlie, Bonham, and Co., dated London, 22d April, 1817, shows that this article was favourably received in the English market:-
"We enclose the price current of cotton-wool at the
sale at the fudin House; amongs which present it gives us much pleasure to point out your five, bales by the Grant, which sold from 28 1 to 2: 1d per lb."
On reference to the Liverpool price current of the same year, I find that good Upland Georgia cotton sold at from 201 to 231d sterking, and New Orleans at from 201 to 2514, while the best Suraty brought only 17 to 201. The superiority of Mr Hughes cotton stems, therefore, according to the letter above alluded to, to trave been valuable chiefly in account of the care taken in separating the wool from the seeds.
"Mr Heath's experiment of the Bourbon cotton was made in the districts of Coimbatore and Salern, He grew the removed 100 miles from the sea. plants on a light soil, composed chiefly of decomposed granitic rocks; and having caused Mr Hughes's paper to be translated into the native language, and by a good deal of personal trouble, be succeeded, in 1823 24. m procuring from the district of Co imbatore 500 bales of clean Bourbon cotton, of 300 lbs each; and the natives were by thru tine so well satisfied of its superiority, that hid encouragement been continued to them, he is of opinion that the description of indigenous colton sov in the Cim batore district would have been autrely superseded. On the situation of Company's Commercial Agent being abolishel, the supervision of Mr Heath ceas- ed; no merchants were on the spot ready to take the produce; the poor cultivators had not the means, for want of ronde and capital, of conveying the cotton to a markety and the cultivation his now given way, as Mr Heath observes, to the edible grains of the country.
The above extracts, deduced from the best au- thorities, though long, will be to projectors of cot- ton plantations highly valuable, and they seem to as to establish the fact, that as good coolton has been grown in India as was ever imported from America; and on that score, therefore, we need apprehend m failure either from climate or soil.
General Biggs think it is established that, while the indigenous plant loves the black soil, thre debris of the great trap formation of the Deccan and Central India, the western plant prefers the light soils, formed out of the primary and tertiary formations; and has added to the pamphlet a co- loured rap, which exhibis the different spots on which successful experiments of the western cot- tons have been i made.
They are as follows:-- "Upland, Georgia, and New Orleans, - Dolli Allahabad, Calcutta-
Egyptin Sassaram, Burdwan "
"Sea Island. - Sriderbrues, Visage patam, Sin ^gapore,"
Past, which the kised did not neue well, and the plants were cut up by the frost in December.
At the ordinal monthly meeting of the Society, in Eebruary 1837, Colonel Colvio presented arge bag, conting upwards of eighty pounds Upland Georg cotton, which he had brought with him from the villages along the Dehle canal, Be reproduction of several successive crops derived from the seed before alluded to. As many as 100 vil ges along the line of the canals, had been induced adopt the cultivation of the superior colton,***** "The formal report on the quality of this collon made by two practised members of this socioly Messrs Spiers and Willis), mentions the greatest Per to be of comaderably longer staple than our best
e cotton; and eque to the American in length ad in fincaes, but lessened & little in strength,
The attempts hitherto rande under the Bengal Presidency have been confined almost entirely to vete individuals, uninfluenced by any protive of pecuniary reward; still, enough bras been done to Now that there are sound grounds for believing that Upland Georgia and New Orleans cottons will site in almost all parts north of Calcutta
Tevasserim."
Pernambuco-Kattack, Moulinein, Tavoy Bourbon-Madras, Bangalore, Sales, Trit- chinopoly, Coimbatore, Madura, Tinnivells, Kat- tack, Ahmedabad in Guzerat.
We have answered the first question by showing that India can grow the quality of cotton required for the manufactories of England.
We shall treat of the other two questions in a future number.
MRS MAURY'S STATESMEN OF AMERICA
she saw at Washington. She volunteered a wait The President, Minister, and practising orators
to Mr Van Buren at his country house, and found him a delightful person. Sije went to Mr Clay, the foremost man of all the [this world." Dr at New York; and then found that the Bishop is the greatest temporal printe in Amerion, sad he is the greatest spiritos prince in the world
Berepe, apart, and passionless and bigh, and pare, and holy from him Mre Maury "learned to believe that other Catholics were good and irae;" which, comulering that she introduced herself to De Hughes as a personal friend of Dr. Lingard, does not seem a high compliment to the historian; hut rhetoriciens, ever regarding empty words be fore the solid truth, are ever putting their foot in it" The Hon- C. J. Ingersoll, the Chairman and witty, and charming at sixty-three, seems of Foreign relations, amiable, sensible, brillant,
almost to top the preceding statesmen;" for he is without a fault are one-be has an uncontrolla. bis impulse to inter at once, regardless of times and
pects
words..
We trust that the Chieman has not been
castelh out fear,
#And to this education in the art of goretager, Be saveholdere at hoore and from their birds, it is mainly owing that the extemen of the scabern to their discharge of the stices of the Reputies. sections diaplay such rare, wichy excaling wisdora,
Of deres Pressdiqle, three only have been from other porticus of the Bossa-two from Masscha. sets, and one from Net York Toam Nothern End Eastern States may be awarded Baby aici. bates essential to the property of scary H the increase of wealth ; but from the South here sprong the helmemes that baye steered the md of the Republic. Theer munds are more universa), DA well as more concentrating, more dehumusalive, an place, the thing he feels, or knows, or even 03-
well sa more dering; and to these latter is sho ilustrating at Ars Mary's expense, the maxin of accorded the pre-eminencen in the study of mathe- the great diplomatis, that speech wis girantomatics and the power of andis DoubleR CEN men to conceal his thoughts." Mr Calhoun -
gin, citrate, and constitution nontripove cover. but Mrs Miury must tell of him in her own proper fully to organize the faculties of mac; but i senge
the system of slavery as one of the most that belle "Calhoon is ory states.
ences la forming that capacity for rele se charac Through good
serialic of the southern rece" port and through evil report, in all his dic trinas, whether upon xvery, free-tradie, nallifen. tion, treasury, and currency systems, active zonexx tion or masterly inactivity, I hold myself his avowed and admiring disciple. If this distinguished states. man could be prevailed upon to visit England, either in a public or a private capacity, he would command more ndiniration and attract more inte rest than any other man of Europe or of Americs. The very agomsly of be position, the curious coincidences by which he becomes the representa- tive of interests which, nomially at least, are ic contra position to each other, and the skill and determined fidelity with which he unites and guards each several one of these interests, preserv ing entire the integrity of all; these attributes gether compose a character so unique, an anti- ude so extraordinary, as to be paralleled the in his own or in any other country of the world.”
1o this rapid muster-roll of the various foremost men of this world, we are almost put the ancies before the heutenant ; but here is the latter with the tank and file. Howbag and servíity are bad at all times, but they are more in place from the low to the high then from the high towards the Jow. President Pulk, however, did the humbug
well.
THE FIRSIDENT'S LEYRE.
The first time is the President was on the 1st of January, 1845, the morning after the arrival of myself and my son (the Doctor) at Washington. On New Year's Day it is the privilege of every Americs and bis family to pay their respects to the Chief Magistrate of the country at the White House. Wishing to see this Republican ceremo by, so unlike suy custom of Europe, we repaire to the residence of the President about one o'clock and bot having had time to deliver sny of o Telters of introduction, we went abne. The crowd was immenss, but perfectly well conducted; no pushing
hiny forward, co murmazing, no joying y each was solickous to avoid, if possible, annoying his or bar neighbour, and auxiously apologized an accident bappened; all were nestig many of the female portion with much elegance. and the men carried their hats high up above their heads to keep them our of the way. I bure been io all
crowds, in England and France, a theatres, operas, churches, bells, routs, elections, and ceremonies of various kinds, both public eni private but I have never seen any assemblage of persons so onterly, respectial, patiens, End well. mannered as the American peocre on that day. The Dochoy behaved Lia a lady
dent stood in the receptio
one into and
the Spectator.) Politics in petticoats! Democracy en chenne! the public morals of Jacobinism without their pre- tences of philosophy and philanthropy, or their excose of revolt against fyrranny, done ato English the politians of America painted in as rood & rose-colour as Mrs Maury eso make up,
grea without any aunt in quantity: the
ocratic Republic, and by, discussed those the
América, in its there are toany "elezno ex
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Mr Patrick, the proprietor of the Fort Gloster foton rolls, near Calcutta, used some Bourbon decisi
grown bar that place, and writes of it as
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