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done all that lies in its power to neutralize evils, which 

 I fear must be inherent in every system of emigration 

 where the emigrants are not sufficiently enlighten- 

 ed and intelligent to understand, thoroughly, the 

 engagements entered into on their behalf. It will 

 remain for her Majesty's Government to decide 

 the points which seem to be disputed in India viz. 

 whether the direction of future legislation in regard 

 to the population of India, is to be for the benefit 

 of India herself, or for the benefit of British and 

 foreign Colonies and whether the existing anomaly 

 shall continue, of the Indian laborer being pro- 

 hibited by law from the freedom of carrying his 

 labor where he pleases, and foreign agents being 

 permitted to come and lure him to a distant land 

 beyond Seas, when he might obtain all that he 

 requires in his own country, within reasonable 

 distance of his home, and under the protective laws 

 of his own Government. If still anxious to reclaim 

 the great wastes of India, it will be for bo;h 

 Governments, in concert, to consider, what arrange- 

 ments, if any, can be made that will facilitate 

 the removal of a laboring population from over- 

 crowded districts to those where European Capita- 

 lists are ready to employ it. And when we reflect 

 that it has been satisfactorily established, that some 

 of those districts which are no\v unpopulated, are 

 admirably adapted for the growth of the best des- 

 criptions of that commodity, ths want of which has 



