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Mr. Glyn on the various Classes of Population in Bareilly. 



be so much impeded, not only by the fetters of caste and custom, but by 

 want of capital ; and will be inclined to wonder how, under the government 

 of a nation so eminently civilized and skilled in arts and manufactures as 

 Great Britain, the manufactures of India should still continue to be carried 

 on in the rudest and most unproductive style of process. 



On the other hand, he cannot fail to anticipate a great increase of the 

 comforts and conveniences of life in India, and a most material improve- 

 ment in the state of society, from the application of the arts and skill of 

 Europe to the very imperfect manufactures of Hindusthan. Tlie facility of 

 such improvements will more particularly strike liim with relation to those 

 articles which may be considered the staple productions of this part of India, 

 and which are the chief subjects of its manufacturing industry in this town, 

 such as cotton, sugar, leather, wood, stick-lac, glass, earthen-ware, &c. 

 When will their rude wooden sugar-presses, their awkward, ill-fashioned tools 

 and instruments, and their earthern pots and earthen furnaces, be exchanged 

 for some portiofi of the machinery of Europe ? It is needless to observe 

 how much even the smallest improvement in their rude machinery must 

 assist labour and facilitate production. 



