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his thews and sinews, are not merely a means of 

 maintaining his existence ; but the means of en- 

 abling him to live in a certain degree of comfort, 

 and to brinsj up his children to industrious and 

 useful callings. Until this happy state of things is 

 brought about, India will be dependent, in a great 

 measure, for her advancement on English capital, 

 for at present, with all her riches with all her 

 productive wealth, India is so poor, that the whole of 

 her accumulated savings, as compared with her 

 population and immense extent of area, is but a drop, 

 as it were, in the Ocean of the Capital of the 

 World. 



The history of the Tea experiment is curiously 

 illustrative of the want of Capital in India. In th 

 N. W. Provinces, the Government, as already 

 explained, took considerable pains to introduce the 

 cultivation of the plant, and after nearly a quarter 

 of a century of experiments, carried out at great 

 expense, it succeeded. Now the production of tes, 

 necessitates a steady outlay for four years, without 

 any return, and hence it requires the command 

 of considerable Capital. But English capitalists 

 declined to invest their money in speculations s< 

 far removed from the great centres of European 

 commerce. There wns neither capital nor enter- 

 prise among the people themselves, and the Govern- 

 ment, having spent its money for the attainment 

 of an object by which it hoped to confer a nations 



