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of fifteen or twenty millions sterling per annum, 

 bnt has not the means of doing it, then is it her 

 business, and nobody else's business, to satisfy capita- 

 lists on all those points regarding which cautious 

 persons require information, before they will invest 

 their money in undertaki ngs of this kind. 



But in any case, where it is proposed that thou- 

 sands of square miles of any country should be 

 placed at the disposal of foreign markets, and 

 millions of people employed in cultivating it, it 

 will be for that country carefully to consider, 

 whether the distribution of profits will be such as 

 fully to compensate her for the consequences 

 resulting from the displacement of produce, now 

 for the most part grown for home consumption. 



la regard to lands now lying waste, the case is 

 different. The results of placing them under culti- 

 vation with cotton, or with any other staple most 

 remunerative to the cultivator, provided the labor 

 market will bear the strain, caa bring nothing 

 but unmixed good to all parties concerned. But 

 the point in regard to the development of Indian 

 sources of wealth, that must be considered before 

 any other, is good management. It is quite super- 

 fluous to add that without this nothing can succeed ; 

 and unless a Minister of State or call him what 

 you will be appointed in India, whose special 

 duty it shall be to look after this department, there 

 nil be, not simply a want of good management, 



