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lately been deterred from embarking in tea specula- 

 tions, will immensely increase the flow of wealth 

 into the province. But Mr. Beadon did not rest 

 satisfied witli talking good Government. While in 

 Assam, the Eules for the sale of waste lands were 

 published, and in framing them every possible 

 endeavour was made to make them as liberal as 

 the terms of the Secretary of State's despatch 

 would admit of. Bengal before last, was now first 

 in the field of progress. Other Presidencies and 

 Provinces of India followed ; but it is certainly in a 

 great measure to the liberal views of the present 

 Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, English capitalists 

 owe that this measure, as sanctioned by the Home 

 Government, was put in a shape to be practically 

 worked. He projected a main road from one end 

 of Assam to the other, and bursting the chains of 

 ideal principles which had so long fettered Bengal, 

 he boldly announced that if the labor of the province 

 was unequal to the strain, the Government itself mnst 

 import. Further he extended the Presidency town's 

 Act for breach of labor contracts to Assam and 

 Cachar; and finally, having matured his knowledge, 

 he caused to be introduced into his Council, a bill to 

 regulate the immigration of Coolies to the tea dis- 

 tricts of the Lower Provinces. That this measure 

 will satisfy the planters, as long as foreign emigra- 

 tion is carried on under less stringent regulations, is 

 doubtful ; but that it will be sufficiently powerful 



