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left for the Legislature of India to pass, that would 

 tend more to the advancement of the interests of 

 both England and this Country, than Acts to legalize 

 the abstraction of India's laboring population. Nor 

 in holding this opinion am I altogether singular. 

 Within the last few months a proposition has come 

 up from the Chief Commissioner of British Burmah to 

 sanction an expenditure of some 10,000, or 12,000 

 for the purpose of inaugurating a system of immigra- 

 tion from China. But it has not, I am sorry to say, 

 met with the approval of the Supreme Government. 

 It must be borne in mind, however, that the great 

 question of the development of India's wealth, has not 

 hitherto been fairly looked at from all points. The 

 actual relationship between the great elements of 

 prosperity Land, Labor, and Capital has not been 

 accurately apprehended. Regarding land there could 

 be no mistake. Vast tracts were there. Capita), 

 people were not quite so certain about. It might be 

 there; but if so, it was locked up hoarded. In 

 the matter of population, however, there were no 

 doubts whatever. Every body firmly believed it to be 

 excessive. But it appears that on the attempt being 

 made to reclaim one, out of the many provinces of 

 this great peninsula in which large tracts are waste, 

 the failure was not in that element regarding 

 which people had fears capital; but in that in 

 which people least expected it population. This now 

 is kuovr and admitted ; and it may be hoped that 



