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marriage ceremonies, and barbarous festivals. The 

 ryot too must understand, and be placed in a position 

 to prove, that his thews and sinews, are not merely 

 a means of maintaining 1 his existence ; but the means 

 of enabling- him to live in a certain degree of com- 

 fort, and to bring- up his children to industrious and 

 useful callings. Until this happy state of things is 

 brought about, India will be dependent, in a great 

 measure, for her advancement on English capital, 

 for at present, with all her riches with all her 

 productive wealth, India is so poor, that the whole 

 of her accumulated savings, as compared with her 

 population and immense extent of area, is but a 

 drop, as it were, in the Ocean of the Capital of the 

 World. 



Formerly Governments in India were not allowed 

 to invest their savings in land ; but Lord Canning 

 and Sir Bartle Frere obtained a concession in favour 

 of civil officers beyond the limits of their own Presi- 

 dency; in favour of military men all over India. 

 Had the Government of India been unable to procure 

 a modification of the Secretary of State's first deci- 

 sion, the finer field for Tea, Chinchona, Silk, Hop 

 cultivation, Iron works, &c. &c., opened up in the 

 Himaylayan ranges, must have remained unoccupied 

 for many years ; for, it having been determined that 

 Government will not work these undertakings on its 

 own account to a profitable result, the information 

 required by English capitalists before they will in- 

 vest their money in speculations in the remote East, 



