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modified his orders, so that regimental officers might 

 be permitted to hold land any where in India, and 

 Civil Officers, and Military Officers holding Civil 

 appointments, to hold it any where out of the 

 presidency or division of the presidency or Lieute- 

 nant Governor-ship in which they were serving/ 

 and so the matter now stands. 



Now had the Government of India been unable to 

 procure a modification of the Secretary of State's, 

 first decision, the fine field for Tea, Chinchona, Silk, 

 Hop cultivation, Iron works, &c. &c. opened up in the 

 Himalayan ranges, must have remained unoccupied 

 for many years ; for, it having been determined that 

 Government will not work these undertakings on its 

 own account to a profitable result, the information 

 required by English capitalists before they will invest 

 their money in speculations in the remote East, 

 could not have been obtained. Natives, except the 

 class before alluded to, do not save ; and besides 

 the savings of the government civil and military 

 Services, there is no Capital in the North Western 

 Provinces of India, available for investment in un- 

 dertakings for the development of the resources 

 of the country. Lord Canning, when he advocated 

 the cause of the independence of the Services in 

 regard to the employment of their private means, 

 was possibly aware of this fact; but in the official 

 documents I have seen on the subject, this point 

 is not dwelt on. Wheu we consider, however 



