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benefit on the country, was about to lose it, at the very 

 moment it looked for the fulfilment of its expecta- 

 tions. Fortunately the cultivation of Tea is a garden 

 operation, an agreeable, gentlemanly, and profita- 

 ble occupation. A fe\v Civil and Military officers, 

 therefore, who had retired and settled in the Hills, 

 at once commenced to make plantations. Others, 

 still in the service, wished to invest their savings in 

 like speculations; but the rules of the Indian 

 Services, did not permit Government servants to hold 

 land. Tiie question was referred to the Secretary 

 of State, Lord Canning suggesting that the rules 

 should be relaxed. The Secretary of State disap- 

 proved, on the ground that public officers' whole 

 time and attention should be given up to their 

 public duties. Lord Canning and his Council re- 

 monstrated against this decision, zealously advo- 

 cating the independence of the Services. The Secre- 

 tary of State gave way in rcgari to Military Officers; 

 but not in the case of 



O.ficers in the dLsoaarge of Civil duties, 

 did L f >rd Canning, the real and steadfast friend 

 of India and the Services, urge, that Government 

 had full knowledge of the character and conduct 

 of all its servants, and that iti dealing with honor- 

 able men, full reliance 0:1 their integrity, with re- 

 wards and punishments, were a better preventive 

 of the abiue of privileges, than disabilities and pro- 

 >ry euuctmeats. Finally the Secretary of State 



Civil servants, or Military 



Again 



