, 1865-07-17
Cotton In EKypt-E6, 900. 600 List in
tho 1ecltnt OF Prices.

Correspondence Pail Mall Gaz 9tte, sS;h ult1
| I have Just returned from ten days' tour
IN ne villages, and send .Tou the result Of
Of the cotton intcrests In Egypt, as atrected
by the late reduction Of the price in that
srat1e-that is to Eay, By the prospective
ehcapcnfng Of calico Dy I'd. or Sd. yard to
the customers. and the loss to the producers
and collectors cf the 1aw staple III bulk. /
hDd the portion Of the cop OF 1915 vet in
one-si1th to ouc-third Of tile whole, though
ail eeem TO think that there cannot be less in
the Vllt ge un2innfd than kantaEs. (of Qttb.
English welght,) 400, Geo; supposed to be
held at Alexandra, SOC, 600; assumed to BE-
bsd LID in England, for Egyptian account so0,-
fall, Of about Is per kantar-wh!ch will re-
present less. on the value Of one million
affairs, Of e, ,000, coo. Add to this the cor
relative loss to third parties Of dishopored
bills, etc, at least FL .000, GOO. Total antici.
Pated loss on Egyptian account, 50, ,OO0, coo.
Afq hase met more than cne person Of ex-
per:ence who judges this 10 be an under esti-
Ilate- No one Who has not visited the ID
terror Of the Delta can have any alequate
I'd. Ct the new Kind Of industry whInl1 the
late high price for cotton haae developed.
The cotton Is now all cleaned By gins, which,
pounds Of cotton In twenty, four hours. In
Practice. great attention Is required at The
gins, for the machinery Is not nearly 80 sim
pie as enc might suppose. The feltah Girls
faVe, however, shown such aptitude tor the
work, that they hardly come behind
cur os . 9Tn factory girl3. was surprised to
thing. went wrong with the gig; and what
astonlshed me stlll more was the iealonsy
manifested when one hind turned ont q
larger quantity than the rest. IN such Eases,
these who were II arrears would often cry
With vexation. The prize Of silk kerehlef,
Or teme other article, bestowed weekly on
the best worker, is the secret OF this emula-
tiGn, Moreover, the wages raid are good.
At one establishment Thers remained sew
eral days, the gisls ret fourteen Plastres per
day, and the night GIRLS sixteen pfastres (172
years old, working as braye.y as English boys,
arc getting from ten to twelve piastsesn da7.
st work dependent on 3 steam engine. and
as work must 70 on to keep pace with
the engine, the boys wont allow their
companions to step: heard one lad, who |
Weighing lustlly against the latter In the trne
Oriental style There you are again. No
lanmsd, beaindband, Us usuai-curse Won D.
Another remars sahly Intelligent boy. who had
been put TO tend an engine, had taken 90
E1nd'J 10 the task that he generally address-
60 tae machine as If it had been q faVorite |
donkey. Grown up men were receIyins, from |
sixteen to thirtg-four ptasrres day. accori- |
tng. to their skill aud Kind Of work. Not
Tlthstaudfpg these high wages, and the enor- |
nous charges By railway for coal and lie
transport Of produce to Alexandria, the well
managed factories are paying well hut /. Is
q race in which inet8clea t manarem enti Is sure
to be- attended with loss. as many an unfor-
tunate man, Who imagined that he had uo.h-
Ing to do but to buy an engine and some
gins, and Get an engineer has found to
ots cost. The system OF advances to the I
fellahs bps become very general, and It Is
estimated that ,he.e Is not less thaa three
millions sterling cut in the villages, some,
however, on loan only at high interest. The
stoppase IN the demand for cotton has pro-
duced no little alarm among the creditors for
these advances. Behind all this Industry
and development there 1utks, unfortunately,
an unworthy Jealousy on the part OF the
Government which extracts 1abor bY force
without duly paying for it and many are the
tepobfe tricks resotted to by officers for get
ting clever msu here and there ont Of the