38 THE NATURE AND CULTIVATION OP COFFEE, 



for legal reform and redress is met with the hack- 

 neyed old conventionality respecting class legis- 

 lation, etc. The state of the roads, police, and magis- 

 terial jurisdiction in most of the districts, settled by 

 Europeans, are by no means creditable to the executive 

 administration of the country ; and until the European 

 is accorded in India that justice and protection he 

 meets in other colonies, they form a serious drawback 

 to the advantages presented in other respects by cheap 

 and abundant labour, and the lower price of land. 



