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in this matter, Capital is as it were, locked up and 

 useless. Now it was known that Capital in India is 

 scarce. Government, therefore, has used its best 

 endeavours to induce Englishmen to bring this desi- 

 deratum into the country, and in the Tea Districts 

 of Lower Bengal its exertions have been attended 

 with considerable success. Regarding population 

 there has been much misconception in England. But 

 it has been shown that, in proportion to the area, it is 

 very much below the average of populous European 

 countries. Capital then being secured, the point 

 it appears to me, to which the most serious 

 attention should have been directed, was the 

 leading of the over -flow of those districts in 

 which population is excessive, into those for the 

 reclamation of which their labor was required. But 

 this point, does not seem to have been considered. 

 Advertisements for years have filled the official 

 Gazettes informing the public that Government 

 was prepared to give away land for nothing, or 

 next to nothing, and some astonishment I believe, 

 has been felt that no one has come forward to 

 take it. As well, in my humble opinion, might a 

 proclamation be issued informing hungry High- 

 landers that breeches were to be had in the Sand- 

 wich Islands for six pence a pair, and that all who 

 chose to go there might buy them and wear them. 

 It is notorious that the peasant-proprietors of Hin- 

 dostan proper are groaning under an iniquitous 



