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to be only fair. A very great outcry was raised 

 against what was called the double income Tax on 

 Indian Government security. Yet nothing, in my 

 judgment, could be more equitable; for, if an 

 Absentee tax is good for Ireland, I cannot see why 

 some such provision should not be good for India 

 also. Very larg*e fortunes are being made by persons / 

 engaged in tea cultivation in India ; and I should 

 be very glad to make one of these fortunes myself. 

 Now if I make this fortune, and spend it in India, 

 I benefit India I help to enrich her, Jirst by my 

 outlay, and second by the expenditure of my profits. 

 But if it is]my pleasure to enrich some other country 

 with the fortune which 1 derive from India, I do 

 not see why I, or why any other man similarly 

 situated, should not be made to pay something for the 

 luxury of living abroad. 



With the exception of an inappreciable quantity, 

 the entire of the teas grown in India, are shipped 

 for the London market ; and as the duty on every 

 Ib. of tea sold there is Is 5d, the gain to the revenues 

 of England next year, from Indian teas, will exceed 

 200,000. But tea in India, as mentioned, is yet 

 in its infancy. A very few thousands, only, out of 

 the millions of acres that will grow tea, are. now 

 under plant. The cultivation will certainly extend 

 rapidly. Every year will add enormously to the 

 quantity of seed available for new plantations, and 

 the application of machinery to many of the opera- 

 tions of manufacture, will aid in supplementing the 



