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same quality of tea ought to be shipped from India 

 at four or five pence the pound. 



Thus, it appears, from the habits and wants of 

 the two people — Chinese and Hindoo, — from 

 the rate of wages in the two countries, and from 

 actual experiments, — so far as these afford certainty 

 of result in conjunction with concurrent testimony 

 to the success of the cultivation of tea at Java, — 

 that India possesses an undoubted power of com- 

 peting with China in the European and American 

 markets in the cultivation of tea. 



It, therefore, only remains for the enlightened 

 Government of Bengal, now enjoying the fruits of 

 peace, and turning its thoughts once more to the 

 moral and physical improvements of the people, to 

 extend its fostering help and encouragement, as 

 it has hitherto done, until the native population 

 shall have adopted and established the cultivation 

 of the tea-tree as a native product ; nothing doubt- 

 ing, that it will thereby be administering to the 

 comfort, happiness, and sobriety of the people of 

 India ; as well as to the increase of the wealth and 

 commercial prosperity of the mother country and 

 her cherished colony. 



