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World. The land tenure is perhaps of all questions 

 concerning- a county that which is most intimately 

 bound up with its material progress, and the welfare, 

 prosperity, and happiness of its people ; and every 

 chang-e in connection with it, ought, therefore, to be 

 introduced with the utmost caution, and only after 

 the fullest and most careful consideration. It is not 

 my business, as I before said, to review the proceed- 

 ing's of either Her Majesty's or the Indian Govern- 

 ment. At the same time, it would answer no useful 

 purpose to ignore opinions that have been com- 

 mented on by every public Newspaper in England 

 and India. Her Majesty's Government have been 

 freely accused of not only destroying- the prestig-e of 

 the Government of India, but of attempting- by the 

 illegitimate exercise of an autocratic or despotic 

 power, to bring- it into contempt with our Indian 

 subjects. Now I venture to differ from the con- 

 clusions arrived at by both those hig-h g-overning- 

 authorities, and can consequently be accused of no 

 partizanship, yet I have no hesitation in saying* 

 that a perusal of such correspondence as has been 

 made public on the subject, leads me to a conclusion 

 the very opposite of this. No Government could 

 possibly have been placed in a position of greater 

 difficulty than was the Government of Her Britan- 

 nic Majesty in dealing- with this very important 

 question. Their greatest difficulty, moreover, lay in 

 reconciling- their honest convictions of what was 

 best for the welfare of our Indian subjects and the 



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