The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-05
AUSTRALIAN COTTON.

The Sydney Morning Herald has the following ar
tice on the cotton cultivation in Australia: at
common enough for us in Australia to see some
of the material we ship to England come back
to us manufactured articles. In the case of
wool and leather this has long been abundantly
familiar. Our imported woollens and boots have
many of them seen the colony before, and are
no strangers their arrival. They have simply
taken trip round the world, and have come back
in shape This is not the case at present with
cotton imports, though the day will eventually
come when some of the prints well as barcges
that our ladies wear will be manufactured from
the produce of Australian soil. \ little step to-
wards manufacturing Australian cotton has recent
ly been taken. 1t is but little step admit, and
is more Of experiment than mercantile transac-
tion yet it is the forerunner of greater things to
follow, and in this light it is of too much inte-
rest for us to allow to pass unnOtced On the 10Th
of September, 1854, two little bales of Australian
cotton were sold by auction at the rooms of Messrs
Mort and Co. They were the produce of the More
ton Bay district grown, we believe, by Mr.. Ed
ridge. There was a smart competition for them, as
they were somewhat OF a curiosity, but they were
ultimately purchased by Messrs. Ellsworth and Co.
They were exhibited by these gentlemen at the ex-
hibiton held in the museum of articles destined for
the Paris exhibition. They were then shipped to
Europe, and exhibited at Paris among the products
of New South Wales, where manufacturers had an
opportunity of seeing what Australia will be able to
produce in this respect whenever its resources are
called out. After the exhibition was over it was
forwarded, by direction of the Messrs. Ellsworth,
to their London correspondents, Irving, Ebs-
worth and Holmes, with orders to have it man
ufactured and then returned to the colony. There
some delay and difficulty in getting this order
executed. 1t would have been easy enough to have
10000 bales manufactured, but to make a spe-
cial job of two bales was what the majority of the
mills would not stoop to do. Those monster manu-
factories that swallow up bales by the thousand and
clamor ncessantly for more, work on so gigantic a
scale that they could not adapt their machinery to
deal with such little quantity as two bales
An elephant could more easily pick up pin.
At length, however, manufacturing firm was
found (the Messrs. Tysoe and Sons, of Man
chester) who could condescend to take in
hand the modest little Australian consignment.
and put their machinery in gear to work it up sepa
rately. On examining the cotton, it was thought
that its very fine texture made it particularly uta
BILE for being worked up into cotton thread. and
into thread accordingly it was turned. The ouanti
ty was too small to allow of specimens of all the
different varieties of thread being produced but
three qualities of different degrees of neness have
been manufactured. These have Just been returned
to the colony per Electra filling small case about
twelve inches by eighteen square.
we nave been favored by Messrs Ebswo with
an inspection OF this interesting shipment 1t lies
little beyond the range of editorial acquire
ments to pronounce Judgment the quality OF
tins cotton, but so far as able to form an
opinion, it seems to be very superior article.
Those of our readers, however, who consider them
selves judges in this line see sample OF the
cotton at our Office, and form their own opinion.
Two facts particularly evident The one Is that
there is unlimited demand for cotton and the other
that in Australia, there indefinite capabilities