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the country, and in the Tea Districts of Lower 

 Bengal, its exertions have been attended with con- 

 siderable success. Regarding population there has 

 been much misconception in England. But it has 

 been shown that, in proportion to the area, it is very 

 much below the average of populous European 

 countries. Capital then being* secured, the point it 

 appears to me, to which the most serious attention 

 should have been directed, was the leading of the 

 overflow of those districts in which population is 

 excessive, into those for the reclamation of which 

 their labour was required. But this point does not 

 seem to have been considered. Advertisements for 

 years have filled the official Gazettes informing the 

 public that Government was prepared to give away 

 land for nothing, or next to nothing; and some 

 astonishment, I believe, has been felt that no one 

 has come forward to take it. As well, in my humble 

 opinion, might a proclamation be issued informing 

 hungry Highlanders that breeches were to be had in 

 the Sandwich Islands for sixpence a pair, and that 

 all who chose to go there might buy them and wear 

 them. It is notorious that the peasant-proprietors 

 of Hindostan proper are groaning under an iniqui- 

 tous system of advances, because they have not the 

 means of cultivating the little holdings around their 

 \ own homesteads, and to expect those who are poorer 

 still to find means to migrate, and then funds for 

 a year's support to enable them to settle, does not 

 appear much wiser. But it is argued that no such 



