have returned to India from Trinidad, who transmitted 

 earnings through the Colonial treasury amounting to 

 34,855.' Both statements no doubt are quite true. 

 But, without at all denying that those coolies who do 

 return to India, come back in better circumstances than 

 they went, the amount stated by Dr. Mitchell only shows 

 an average of 20 per family saved in nine years of exile, 

 and such instances as that cited by Mr. Eden, are cer- 

 tainly isolated, and furnish no argument whatever against 

 the principle I uphold, or prove that the same persons 

 would not have made quite as much money in their own 

 country. The late Moti Lai Seal commenced life in Cal- 

 cutta by selling empty bottles, and died worth a quarter of 

 a million sterling. A door-keeper I dismissed a short 

 time ago, had lent Us. 500 of his savings to the other ser- 

 vants. I offered a return labourer from Assam last week, 

 3 a month wages, to take service on a tea plantation in 

 the Hills, and he refused it. I have no doubt whatever, 

 that on plantations in Assam where a fair system of task 

 work is in force, the labourers could save more than half 

 their earnings. But be that as it may, a question so large 

 and so important in its bearing on the interests of civiliza- 

 tion, cannot be narrowed to one simply of the profit of a 

 few individuals. It extends far beyond it. 



" I freely confess that I am not an advocate for the 

 encouragement of emigration in the present circumstances 

 of India ; but if it be sound in principle if it be neces- 

 sary, desirable, expedient, or politic, that, with infinitely 

 more work in India than the labouring population can do, 

 and higher rates of wages than ever before prevailed, the 

 Government of India should be compelled out of its own 

 scarcity, to supply the wants of foreigners, by all means 

 let it be : provided that the Government of India, at the 

 same time, adopts the course followed by other Govern- 

 ments, and helps its own Country. Let it not look on 

 passively at the property of its own subjects Englishmen, 



