What must have been the amount, paid in premiums and ap^jrentice- 

 fees, by the parents of these 646 artisans ? And what would it cost 

 Government to obtain the services of a like body of mechanics for the 

 purpose of completing a railroad in the Upper- Provinces, with all its 

 various requirements of machinery, carriages, station-telegraph, &c. ? 

 Why should the benefit of these men's early education be lost to the 

 state, as well as to themselves, when we have them on the spot ? How 

 much might have been done by the soldiers themselves, during the last 

 two years, at Lahore, Wuzirabad and Peshawur, towards the comple- 

 tion of their own barracks, with positive advantage to all, not only as 

 regards pecuniary emolument, but the much higher points of health 

 and life ! On board ship, the European private helps to work the 



