<could save more than half their earnings. But be 

 that as it may, a question so large and so important 

 iu its bearing on the interests of civilization, cannot 

 be narrowed to one simply of the profit of a few 

 individuals. It extends far beyond it." 



"I freely confess that I am not an advocate for 

 the encouragement of emigration in the present 

 circumstances of India; but if it be sound in prin- 

 ciple if it be necessary, desirable, expedient, or 

 politic, that, with infinitely more work in India 

 than the laboring population can do, and higher 

 rates of wages than ever before prevailed, the 

 Government of India should be compelled out of its 

 own scarcity, to supply the wants of foreigners, by 

 all means let it be : provided that the Government of 

 India, at the same time, adopts the course followed by 

 other Governments, and helps its own Country. Let 

 it not look on passively at the property of its own 

 subjects Englishmen, who, at its urgent solicitation, 

 put their capital into the soil perishing, while the 

 labor that could save it, and which they are quite 

 willing to pay for, is streaming out of the country, 

 without stretching out a finger to help them/' 



<f The Planters asked the Government of Bengal, 

 to do nothing for the provinces of Assam and 

 Oachar, that the Governments of France, Denmark, 

 and those of her Majesty's Colonies who import 

 coolies, do not consider it their bounden duty to do 

 for the Colonies for which they require labor. They 



