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daily learning some new phase of native character, 

 some, to me, novel features in their various systems 

 of Economy, social, religious, and political. There 

 is unfortunately a wide gulf between the Hindoo 

 and the Englishman, which nothing hut time and 

 education will suffice to bridge. It is perfectly 

 intelligible, then, that Europeans in India should 

 not have minute and accurate information on all 

 points relating to the social philosophy of the people, 

 and but an imperfect acquaintance with the prin- 

 ciples on which they transact their business ; but 

 it is inconceivable to me how any one who has 

 resided in the interior of the country, even for a 

 short time, and who has had opportunities of obtain- 

 ing the smallest insight into the existing state of 

 the country, could have supposed, for an instant, 

 that a people so proverbially alive to their own 

 interests so quick, in general, at making a bargain, 

 should all at once become so intensely stupid, as to be 

 willing to pay nearly three times its actual value for 

 anything, much less for a thing of which they are in 

 actual possession, and already enjoying the fruits. 



Since the accession of our beloved Queen to the 

 Sovereignty of this great Empire, a great change 

 has taken place in the future prospects of India. 

 Thousands of miles of electric wires now traverse 

 the length and breadth of the country, bringing 

 the most distant points of this vast peninsula, points 

 which but a few short years back were a three 



