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be successfully introduced into India and that the 

 indigenous plants can be improved ; and the next 

 question that naturally arises, and that which 

 seems a mystery and a puzzle to every body, is 

 how are these happy results to be brought about ? 



I venture to answer. By Government Intervention 

 Alone, a reply which brings me again, to the turning 

 point in the discussions now taking place on this great 

 question, and to my own subject 'the essential 

 points to be considered in all agricultural operations 

 of an experimental nature undertaken in India, with 

 the view of increasing the commercial Wealth of the 

 Nation/ 



The Free-Traders of Manchester have been liber- 

 ally accused of abandoning the principles of sound 

 political economy, and plentifully sneered at 

 for proposing to the Government of India to turn 

 c Cotton Merchant.'* The Manchester Chamber of 

 Commerce in reply (16th July 1862.) 



RESOLVED. " That any direct interference with the regular 

 course of production and trade, either by the Go\ernment of this coun- 

 try, or by any private association, by undertaking 1 to purchase, or 

 giving- a guarantee, of a remunerative price, for all the cotton that 

 mig'ht be produced, would be contrary to sound principles of trade, 

 and being- only temporary, and precarious in its nature, would 

 not be likely to provide for the permanent success of its cultivation." 



But I see no occasion for the sneers on the one 

 hand, nor the resolution on the other. The Govern- 



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See. The Times of 3rd July 1862, letters signed an 

 ian, uud many others 



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