Apart from these considerations, 1 have no 

 objection to any views or opinions embodied in 

 the following remarks being criticised in a proper 

 spirit. Indeed, if I can succeed in inviting discussion, 

 by more experienced and wiser heads, on those topics, 

 which, at the present moment, are all-important for 

 the future progress of India, and intimately bound 

 up with the welfare of England, and with which I have 

 ventured to deal in the third Chapter of this Review, 

 I shall have attained my sole object in transferring 

 this humble effort, from the hands of the Planters of 

 the wild yet beautiful Tea Districts of India, to those 

 of a more discerning and deep-thinking public.* 



CALCUTTA, 

 15th March 1863. 





* At page 32 will be found a note stating that the shares of the Assam 

 Company, in consequence of some irregularities in the Calcutta Board 

 of Management, had declined 25 p. c. Immediately afterwards, they rose 

 still higher than previously, and are now quoted at Rs. 490 to Rs. 500. 

 At page 239, 1 have stated that while Tea Seed in the N. W. Provinces was 

 distributed gratis, the Planters in the Punjab had to pay for it. The 

 Lieutenant-Governor has since cancelled his orders on this subject, and 

 I doubt not that the anticipations expressed in the text will be fully 

 realized. My endeavour in writing this Review, has been to state nothing 

 that I did not believe to be strictly true. If I have erred, it has certainly 

 not been for want of honesty of purpose. 



