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whatever should have been made to take advantage 

 of the opportunity to put them into practice. 



But it would answer no useful purpose to pursue 

 inquiries after the day for them has gone by. The 

 Planters have suffered ; the coolies have died ; a 

 dynasty has passed away ; another has succeeded. 



There is yet, however, a phase of this case, which 

 viewed from an Imperial point, is perhaps of greater 

 importance than that yet noticed. I have already 

 explained the condition of India to be that of a 

 mighty peninsula, larger than England, France 

 Spain, and Germany put together, having a mode- 

 rate population, but so unequally distributed as to 

 be congested in some places, while others are waste 

 and unoccupied. The Indian question which has 

 occupied the greatest attention in England for the 

 last few years, has been the reclamation of these 

 wastes, and the Indian Government and Her 

 Majesty's Ministers have declared themselves to be 

 so deeply interested in the result, as to be prepared 

 to make great sacrifices to accomplish it. Now for 

 the attainment of this much desired end, two things 

 are vitally necessary. Population and Capital ; but 

 primarily population. In these two then consists 

 the real wealth of India ; and of the two population 

 is the most valuable, for without labour, in this mat- 

 ter, Capital is as it were locked up and useless. 

 Now it was known that Capital in India is scarce. 

 Government, therefore, has used its best endeavours 

 to induce Englishmen to bring this desideratum into 



