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But to the mass of unskilled labourers that yearly 

 emigrate from England, to become the sinews of the 

 colonies, India can offer no advantages. They could 

 not compete with the teeming native population, for 

 although a native workman cannot be compared with an 

 English one, still the low rate of wages of the former 

 allows an employer to make up by numbers the absence 

 of the individual excellence and physical force so remark- 

 able in the latter. And to any one to whom the bustle 

 of town or the excitement of society, the discussion of 

 politics or the participation in the various common 

 interests of the day, are essential to happiness to such 

 a one, if of an age to prevent him from adapting him- 

 self to a new state of things, the life of an Indian 

 settler might prove irksome, for as a rule there is a 

 great deficiency of a general English public in India. 



Divided into civil and military, each section governing 

 itself, and therefore perfectly friendly with the other, 

 both receiving more or less liberal allowances from a 

 parental Government each naturally considering that 

 so long as its own special department remains intact, 

 enough is guaranteed for the prosperity of India, while 

 to the latter a so-called " Black Act " would create no 

 uneasiness, as it could not any way affect it, so the 

 former would rather patronize a scheme which, not 

 interfering with its own superior importance, might 

 benefit many native officials, whose zeal or plausibility 

 had interested its generosity : these two classes can 

 have but little sympathy with settlers, upon whom 

 alone the above scheme would bear ; for while having no 



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