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EVENING EDITION. l‘T; ORNING SUN.-ADVERTISE MENTS inserted in the MORNING SUN will also appear in the EVENING EDITION without any EXTRA CHA SUN OFFICE, 112 STRAND. PROSPECTUS OF THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE, for .11-. Forming a BRITISH INDIA SOCIETY, for bet tering the Condition of our Fellow-Subjects —the Natives of British India. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE, With power to add to their number. ADAM, WILLIAM, Esq., Late of Calcutta. ALDAM, WILLIAM, Jun., Esq., L'eds. BACKHOUSE, JONATHAN, Esq., Darlington. BLAIR, W. THOMAS, Esq., Bath. BOWItING, JOHN, Esq., LL.D. BRIGGS, Major-General. BROUGHAM, Lord. BROWN, F. C., Esq, Telli . cherry. CHRISTY, THOMAS, Jun., Esq. CLARKSON, THOMAS, Esq. CRAWFORD, JOHN, Esq. FORTIES, Sir CHARLES, Bart. FOSTER, VESEY LESLIE, Esq. FRANKLAND, THOMAS, Esq., Liverpool. HARDCASTLE, JOSEPH ALFRED, Esq. HARFORD, JAMES, .Esq , Bristol. HOWITT, WILLIAM, Esq. HULL, JOIIN, Esq., of Uxbridge. PEASE, JOSEPH, Sen., Esq., Darlington. SMITH, Sir CULLING EARDLEY, Bart. THOMPSON, GEORGE, Esq. TREASURER--Major-Genera: Briggs, 1 I, York Gate, Regent's Park HONORARY SECRETARY—F. C. Brown, Esq., 22, Hark, street. TRAVELLING SECRETARY- George Thompson, Esq. BANKERS—London and Westminster Bank, 9, Waterloo-place, and Lot.hbury. ASSISTANT SECRETARY—Mr. Edward Baldwin. Temporary Office, Guildhall Coffee-house, King-street, Cheap- London. It is admitted in Great Britain, and known to be but too true by all who have had personal experience of the real state of India, that although a commercial intercourse has existed between the British Isles and India, for more than two hundred years, and the Government of this Empire now rules over a hundred mil lions of the inhabitants of the East, there is, nevertheless, a general want of information upon Indian affairs, and an almost total indifference felt respecting them. It must be obvious to I all who reflect upon those facts, that such a state of things con trasts strangely with the duty we owe to our distant dominions, with the extent, the value, and the importance of our East Indian Possessions, and with the many and vast interests in volved in the question. British India is an Empire as large as Europe (exclusive of Russia), with a population, including tributary States, of more than one hundred and fifty millions. Over this Empire and People, a sway is exercised wholly British ; and consequently, the want of an accurate knowledge of Indian affairs, and the absence of a proper interest in the public at large for the wel fare of the natives, must operate prejudicially upon their minds, since they cannot but feel that their destinies are in fluenced by the disposition manifested towards them in the parent country. From the perusal of a variety of official and other documents of recent dale, it appears that ignorance, poverty, crime, and disaffection, p re v a il t o a distressing and alarming extent throughout the British Indian Territories. It also appears, that during the last twenty years, though a period of profound peace, there has been a succession of famines of the most deso lating description. It has been estimated that the famine of 1M7._33, in the Upper Provinces of Bengal, swept off more than half a million of the inhabitants. Famines are this year ravaging the Northern Provinces of Bombay and Madras. These calamitous events are rendered the more mysterious and affect lug, when viewed in connexion with the statement, that the soil of India is a soil of unequalled fertility, and that a very large Portion of it (by some authorities, computed at one half) lies uncultivated, and covered with jungle, the haunts of wild beasts. Information on these subjects has, within the last few months, been laid before the public in various parts of the Kingdom. Th e result has been, a deep feeling of compassion in the minds of many humane and influential persons, and the formation of ,Associations for promoting the welfare of the natives of India, to Sheffield, Glasgow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Edinburgh, Darlington, &c. A strong feeling has, besides, been expressed for the establishment of a Metropolitan Society for the same obje c t • by whose inquiries and efforts, the friends of India, throughout Great Britain, might be guided and assisted in this new and benevolent undertaking. In consequence of these circumstances, and in accordance also with their own deep feeling of interest in the subject, the individuals whose names are attached to this Prospectus, have, after mature deliberation, resolved themselves into a Prosi sienal Committee, for forming a Society, to be designated th e 4 , BRITISH INDIA SOCIETY, for bettering the condition of our fellow subjects the Natives of British India." In making known this resolution to the public, the Com. mittee consider it their duty to state very briefly, but distinctly, their motives and plans. The Committee has its origin in a regard for the welfare of the natives of India, who, owing allegiance to the Government, .I,se entitled to look for sympathy and succour from the p eo pl e o f England. The Committee desire to found the proposed So tty upon the strict es t p r i nc ipl es of j us ti ce an d humanity— pon a basis which will permanently exclude the adoption of ; 3 7, of sectarian, or me rcenar y v i ews . Th e y con t em pl a t e th e tu ,. those means only which are moral, peaceful and consti of.‘lonal, They would suggest, and labour to secu re, th e d e l a y th e natu re and extent of alleged existing evi e ls, and the n peeces 'it) of remedying them, is entirely removed. the The primary duty of a BRITISH INDIA SOCIETY would therefore be—to obtain from every available source authentic ta." the information respecting the present actual condi ,'" of natives of India and the circumstances of the coun `!7, and to give to the information so obtained the widest pos sible c i rcu l at i on. Th e means o f acco mplishing this necessary Preliminary object appear to be, via. . . To bring together, analyze, condense, and diffuse, the facts already at hand. To adopt the best means of obtaining regular and syste matic information from all parts of India. To begin a collection of the most useful Works on every _ branch of the subject. To . yisue, under proper management, a Periodic a l Publica tion, Containing the most recent, important, and inte _ resting I n di an i n t e lli gence . To reprint, in whole or in part, such Works as may be calculated to elucidate particular portions of the great subject. To employ an active, experienced, and effective Agency, for the organization of Provinc ial Auxiliary Societies. The judicious and zealous prosecution of a course, such as has been now described, would, the Committee feel assured effectually remove the apathy whirl at present exists. Tha apathy, they believe, may with justic be ascribed to the diffi culty which has hitherto attended the serch after correct and comprehensive information, respectmethe condition and cha racter of the natives of India, and the nature and effects of Bri tish rule in the East. The Committee entertain no doubt, that, when the vast im portance of our Possessions is understood—when the claims of one hundred millions of British subjects are recognized and felt —and when the responsibility and moral obligation of this nation towards them are considered, a great and generous effort will promptly be made, to benefit a country, which contains within itself, the means of returning a hundred-fold into the bosoms of its benefactors, all the blessings they can possibly confer upon it. The Committee prefer to make their appeal to the just prin ciples and Christian feelings of the country. They are not ig norant, however, of the extent to which they might address themselves to the loyalty, the patriotism, and the interests of their fellow-citizens ; but they believe that such an appeal is unnecessary. They feel convinced that no argument is required, to demonstrate the inseparable connexion between the bettering of the social, moral, and intellectual condition, of the countless millions of India, and the accomplishment of those ends which are sought by the promoters arid patrons of legitimate corn tuerce, and the advocates of the honour, the stability, and the Prosperity of tne British empire, at home and abroad. The Committee having stated the objects, principles, and plans, according to which they are about to attempt the formation %f a BRITISH INDIA SOCIETY, look with confidence for the sanction, support, and co-operation of the British public. They sincerely and earnestly solicit advice. They especially desire the aid of gentlemen who have resided in India, and who, after perusing this Prospectus, feel that they can cordially unite in the work proposed. Finally, the Committee respectfully solicit pecuniary assist ance. Subscriptions and donations .vill be gratefully received by the Treasurer, Secretaries, Bankers, and Members of the Committee. May 25, 1839. * 4o' It is the intention of the Provisional Committee to give due notice of the public formation of the proposed Society. and to invite the presence and aid, on the occasion, of those Friends, in different parts of the kingdom, who may have already espoused the cause, or who may be desirous of doing so. . P. S. Since the First Edition of this Prospectus was issued, the Committee have received, from various parts of the country, the most encouraging assurances of sympathy and support. The Committee have been peculiarly gratified by the Resolution passed at the Annual Meeting of the Relief Synod of Scotland, on the 14th inst.—recognising the great importance of the object the Committee have in view, and pledging the co-opera tion of that respectable and influential body. The friends of humanity will rejoice to find that Thomas Clarkson, Esq., the venerable and enlightened friend of African freedom, has heartily united with those who are associated in this effort for the improvement of the condition of their fellow-subjects, the Natives of British India, SUBSCRIPTIONS. Sir Charles Forbes,... ..... £lOO 0 Joseph Pease, Sen., Esq General Briggs Jonathan Backhouse, Esq. F. C. Brown, Esq. William Aldam, Jun., Esq. 25 0 John Harford, Esq Thomas Christy, Jun., Esq Thomas Clarkson, Esq 2O 0 Dr. Bowing 5 5 No. 32, GREAT RUSSELL.STREET, BLOOMSBURY, MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM FOR FILLING DECAYED TEETH, LOOSE TEETH FASTENED, AND LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED. M. M ALLAN and SON, Surgeon Dentists, 32, Great Russeil-s'reet, Bloomsbury, continue to restore DECAYED TEETH with their MI NER AL SUCCEDANEUM (of which they are the Sole INVEN TORS and POSSESSORS), without pain, heat, or pressure, and FASTEN LOOSE TEETH, whether -rising from age, neglect , dis ease of the Gums, the we of Calomel, or any other cause. The have also discovered a NEW COMPOSI TION for ARTIFICIAL , TEETH. A peculiar advantage attending Teeth made from this SUBSTANCE is, that they are totally impervious to acids. ARTIFICIAL TEETH have hitherto been found objectionable by , INVALIDS taking MEDICINES which have a tendency to DISCOLOUR them, and by persons of bilious habits. Ihe Messrs. M. have been successful in obviating these objections by their NEW DISCOVERY, and they can fix the above without extracting the STUMPS, or causing any incumbrance, and even on GUMS of the most tender nature, protecting the adjoining Teeth, however loose. No WIRES or LIGATURES are used, and they MATCH the ORIGINAL TEETH in point of Shape and Colour. GUA RANTEED for MASTICATION and ARTICULATION. In consequence of their improvements in the mechanical department of Dentistry, they are enabled to reduce their charges to the follow ing scale:— - - A single Artificial Tooth ASet ........................................................ . ... ASet of Natural Teeth ... , ............ .... , ..... Is 0 A Set •of Mons. Mallan's Incorrodible 'Teeth, fr y finished in the first style .................... , ...... Filling a Decayed Tooth with M ineral Succedaneum,„, 6 a 32. Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, SIGHT AND HEARING. THE INVISIBLE OPERATIVE VOICE CONDUCTOR, effected by the Messrs. S. and B. soLOMoNs, Opticians and Aurists to the Royal F am ily, 39 , Alb e .. marle-street, Piccadilly, by which thousands of deaf persons have been greatly benefited, is the size of a seven.shilling piece, and when, fixed into the cavity of the ear is soft and easy, and not more percep tible than having a piece of wool in its place, by which the faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard with distinctness. And deft.c tive VISION is brought to nature by the use of newly-invented SPECTACLE LENSES : immediately they arc placed before weak and imperfect eyesight, either by day or candle light, every object becomesclear and distinct, and the most minute particle is seen with great distinctness, by the use of which both the sight and hearing become much improved. The Messrs. SOLOMONS DISCLAIM all connection with persons of the SA ME NAME, and the sale of Amber Spectacles: in doing so they state the HISTORY of AMBER, from the Dictionary of Arts and Sciences" of Andrew Ure, M.D., F.R.S., &c. &c. Amber is an indurated vegetable ju ce, and not produced by the laws of crystallization, but by the same causes which influence the mechanical condition of gum. Insects are often found embedded in it. Amber is most powerfully electrical by friction—very hot, to such an extent as to explode into fragments ; the workmen too, are subject to nervous tremours in their wrists, arms, &c. ; 'they en counter great danger by handling such dreadful excited electrics ; Amber grows, with lime, and is apt to take fire, and is of such a soft nature when exposed to warmth that it swells, bubbles up, and will burn away with flame." The above Dr. Ure's statements are further confirmed by Sir 1) BREWSTER and Pliny, as also by Parks and Heny on Chemistry. Thedestructive effects of such a material for Spectacles, to imperfect vision, are fully and most satisfactorily explained in M essrs. Curtis and Dollond's Second Edition on the Preservation of Sight, and may be ascertained at any respectable Opticians in London. The Messrs Solomons' newly-invented Spectacle Lenses are not constructed of such a material; but which are very superior, and bring back at once dimness of sight and imperfect vision to its original and natural state ; these Spectacles, and very small Voice Conductors for Deaf persons, are only to be had at their Establish ment, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. NO TRAVELLERS ARE EMPLOYED. R WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. p n EumAsm RHEUMATIC aid GOUT effectually cured, .a•imple LOTION. M. R. D. M'MANUS, Surgeon, igh Holborn, (af ter many Years' research) has discovered a. on, by which he eff e ct ua il y sures the Rheumatism and the Rhe • is Gout, even in its last and most aggravated forms ; and so crint is he of its success, that tie requires no remun eratien for ' lisulting him unless a cure be ef f ected. . • 0. This Lotion, simple in its .composition, but magical in its effec's, requires to be applied only three or four times, 'when it soothes the sUftering patient, sUbclues inflammation erso!icates every vestige of the complaint, and leaves the patient in a state of happy tranquillity. )N. past three and four i pnied by and their .einingeo• rind fi ur, ingz. Ho" P ag et, ngall, Ho ld Colonel o f Light 1 StAndard Liu Palace• ichold, re- the Royal dancing being 10 during the sia, Prince of March, er Majesty raid Duke Castle on companied s, and at: men of his in Queen's rd of Saze 3, also ar: the rem- The thre e am packet, Ajesty the Ise Censingto loured the my dip -square. s Augusta 'ee o'clock 7 at Win. cl t : rview %vita In Charg e e Foreign Id Ciptair i wmanby at THE ►w. 1.Y.) becoming has caused Ner rather bag* Is. aragiti Celery IS 12s. to er ounce. o 3s. per er dozen. 2s. per lb. :es droop" kb, ss. 4d. D4d. to Is. 6d• Is. 3d. to 11, 2s. 6fL Ds. Ea* s steadY• tit]. p er '' lb. d. per j. to 9,1' ,• 809• to T u rbot 441- fladdoe. - 0 toll •••• ,30 9 ••• 21 0 JO "" 91 9 ••*" I 9 9 ":: 17 6 ::•• ~•• i g 0 441 ag. • 4° ' 40.. a ' 58 4 . ( 4 ,7„ 43; 99 , 90, s t k, 4., 15. (4. 22 , itel 53 (4 41. 961 7L t °. , No. 14.583. CONTRACTS FOR BRUSHES, &c., FOR THE ROYAL MARINES. DEPARTMENT OF THE COMPTROLLER FOR VICTUALLING AND TRANSPORT SER VICES, SOMERSET-PLACE, Msv 11, 1839. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND do hereby give Notice, That on THURSDAY, the 13th June next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and deli vering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, (for Twelve Months certain, and further until the expiration of Three Months warning), the following Articles to be from time to time demanded for the use of the Royal Marines, via.:— SHOE CLOTHES}BRUSHES, BUTTON And BUTTON STICKS. Patterns of the Articles, together with the Conditions of the Contract, may be seen at the said Office. No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the Day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party attends, or an Agent for him duly authorized in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Ad mit alt-,, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for Brushes, &c." and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a Letter signed by a responsible person, en gaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 2001. for the due performance of the Contract. WEST MIDDLESEX WATER WORKS. IRON OR OAK FENCE. About 400 Rods of Iron or Oak Fence, 5 feet 6 inches high, is wanted to be fixed at Barnes, Surrey, abutting on the Towing Path of the River Thames, where the same may be delivered. Tenders, with a sketch and specification, will be received at the office of the Company, New Road, St. Alarylebone, corner of Nottingham-place, on or before Tuesday, the 11th June next. 51st May, 1839. MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY CALL fora NINTH INSTALMENT(); 101. per SHARE. (MAKING 70/. CALLED UP.) Office, High-street, Leicester Ist May, 1839. The DIRECTORS of the MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY having, in pursuance of the pro visions of the Act of Incorporation, passed a resolution, calling for a Ninth Instalment of 101. per Share, to be payable on or before the Bth (lay of June next, the Proprietors are required, in conformity with such resolution, to pay the sum due on their shares to one of the following Bankers . London ... Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. Liverpool The Bank of Lim pool Manchester Birmingham Leicester Nottingham Alossrs. I. and I. C. Wright and Co. Derby Loughborough Messrs. Middletons and Olivers. Should the call remain unpaid after the appointed day, the Bankers have been severally required to demand interest thereon, after the rate of five per cent. per annum, from the Bth day of Juno to the day on which the payment shall be actually made. By order, J. F. BELL, Secretary. TEAM TO ST. PETERSBURGH, 1.0 Calling at Christiansand, Helsenburgh, and Copenhagen. The ST. GEORGE STEAM-PACKET COMPANY'S Steam-Ships Sail regularly from off the London Docks, for the above Ports, as under:— The SIRIUS, Lieut. WATERS, R.N., Commander, on WEDNESDAY morning, the sth of June, at Ten o'clock. The VULTURE, Lieut. WYLDE, R.N., Commander, en SUNDAY morning, the 16th of June, at Eleven o'clock, and will continue to leave London on the Ist and 16th of every mouth during the Season, i eturning from St. Petersburgh on the same days. Further information afforded on application at the Spread Eagle, and 44, Regent's Circus, Piccadilly ; 58, Haymarket ; or at the Company's office, 137, Leadenhall-street. BRITSCHKA to be SOLD, nearly as good as new, having been but little used. It has imperial, cap-case, and all the appendages usually attached to highly finished carriages ; suitable for town or posting. May be seen at 43, Crawford-street, Bryanston-square. TO SPORTSMEN. ANY GENTLEMAN fond of the SPORTS of the FIELD, may have an opportunity of renting a Manor, surrounded by extensive Preserves, in a most beantiful part of the Country, within a few hours' journey of London. Apply (if by letter, post-paid) to Mr. H. H. Baines, No. 12, New Inn, Strand, London. TO BUTCHERS. TO be DISPOSED OF, with Immediate Possession, a SHOP at the West End of the Town, doing a good family connexion and ready money trade.—Apply at 26, Park-terrace, Regent's Park.. EXCISE-OFFICE, OLD BROAD-STREET, MAY 25, 1839. FOR SALE, BY ORDER of the HON. the COMMISSIONERS of Her Majesty's EXCISE REVENUE, in a Spacious Room at the Chief Office, OLD BROAD-STREET, on THURSDAY, the 6th of JUNE, 1839, at One o'clock in the Afternoon precisely, About Sixteen Thousand Gallons of Foreign BRANDY, and Seven Thousand Gallons of GENEVA, which have been regularly condemned and re-distilled. Now in vats at the Excise Distillery, St. Catherine's. Catalogues may be had, and samples seen, at the Excise Warehouse-keeper's Office, Old Broad-street, three days' pre ceding, from Ten till Two o'clock, and on the morning of Sale, from Ten till Twelve o'clock. TO BE PEREMPTORILY SOLD, pur suant to a Deeree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a Cause, BLICK v. BOOTH, with the approbation of Was. Bttouctram, Esquire, one of the Masters of the said Court, at the Three Tuns lan, in Sutton Coldfield, in the County of Warwick, on THURSDAY, the 13th day of June, 1839, at Four o'clock in the Afternoon, by WILLIAM WEBB, who has been duly appointed for that purpose, FREEHOLD and LEASEHOLD PREMISES, for lives, situate in or near Sutton Coldfield aforesaid, late the property of TIMMINS NEVILL,of Sutton Coldfield, Farmer, deceased. Printed Particulars may be had (gratis) at the said Master's Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane; Messrs. Clarke and Medcalf, Solicitors, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; Messrs. Holme, Loftus, and Young, Solicitors, New Inn, London ; Mr. Edward Bennett, Solicitor, Wolverhampton ; Mr. William Steele Perkins, Solicitor, Sutton Coldfield ; and of Messrs Arnold and Haines, of Birmingham,jSolicitors. MASDEU WINE from the Wood, 28s. per Dozen ; Two Years in Bottle, 325. ; Three Years, 365. ; Quarter Casks, 161, 16s. HENEKEY and COMPANY. Gray's Inn Wine Establishment, 23, High Holborn. TO COFFEE-DRINKERS, CHEMISTS, &c.—BEART'S PATENT PNEUMATIC FIL'fE RERS will make Coffee with boiling water in five minutes as clear as crystal, without waste. It will render perfectly fine in the same time Tin turn s, Infusions, Essences, &c., price Bs. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford-street, agents, •f whom may be had netailed catalogues of the prices of Fen ders, Fire Irons, warranted Cutlery, superior Nickel, Silver, &c., which will be found of essential service to purchasers of furnishing Ironmongery, and can be forwarded for a single postage. No. VI, FLEET-STREET. • GOLD. —Messrs. CARTWRIGHT and BROWNE, Surgeon-Dentists, continue to FILL LECAYFD TEETH with their NEW PREPARATION of GOLD, and to SUPPLY DEFICIENCIES of the '1 EE PH, without extracting the stumps or giving any pain, and without Wires or other Ligatures, at the following moderate charges : A single artificial tooth A complete set of ditto • A single natural tooth A set of ditto en fine gold A set of natural or the new mineral teeth on fine gold finished in the best manner lB 18 0 The above will be warranted for mastication and articulation. At tendance from Ten till Si .-2t, Fleet-street E 0 10 0 ... 5 0 0 ... 1 1 0 .... 15 15 0 " Semp is nocuit differre pa.ratis."—Lu CA N. THERE s perhaps no situation in lif e so full of embarrassment as when the over-sensitive feel them selves compelled to reveal their moral indiscretions, or their physical i m perfections, to others. Day after day does the horror of exposure accumulate in the morbid imag:nation while increasing disease aug ments the suffering of the body and the irritability of the mind. Sen sible of the anguish thus protracted, we have adopted a system which long practical experience has proved te be highly successful, and which precludes the absolute necessity of personal communication with those who recoil from such mode of consultation. A full and minute description of the case, written in plain language, will enable us to treat the patient with-delicate secrecy ; and such has been the peen. liar nature of our practice, embracing every variety of difficult cir cumstances that the most timid may feel encouragement in the oppor tunity thus affbrded them. Twenty-five years of practice, exclusively devoted to diseases arising from indiscretion, gaiety, or climate, whereby the constitution may have become enfeebled, enable us to promise a restoration to health, without any interference with the ordinary diet and habits. Messrs. GOSS and Co. are to be consulted, as usual, every day, at their residence; and Patients in the r e motest p arts of the coun try can be treatedsuccessfully on their describing minutely the case, and enclosing a remittance for Advice and Medicine. No difficulty can oocur, as the Medicines will be securely packed, and carefully protected from observ , l;=. GOSS and CO., M.R.C. Surgeons No. 7, Lancaster -place, Strand, London. Lap _ 2 ; 31, * . a: J published oLareaddresse d r.inwm ( c,, T t n a • e t. n y t o y h t i h r d e a E d b i v t o n p )— ise l a s s t es. T_ a he /E 3 ( G I. I H S y e . 1 GEIANA,2d. The SY. t aPopular Treatise on Lues Venerea, elusivelyj ondo nandooftlalelifßemooakleseiSeteras. pllrlia—eyesbse.e.hchrd. L LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1839. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. -GRAND " PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAIII PUBLICATIONS. BRITISH INDIA. MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo. BIRTHS, DEATHS, and MARRIAGES By the Author of " Jack Brag," " M axwell, " " Parson ' s Daughter, &c. " Full of all the striking characteristics of Mr. Hook's wit and irresistible humour. "—Atlas. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. On Saturday afternoon a meeting of the Society of Friends took place in their meeting-house, Devonshire house, Bishopsgate-street, to consider the present state of the Natives of British India. In addition to a nume rous assemblage of that esteemed and influential body from all parts of the United Kingdom (it being the season for holding what is termed their "yearly meeting"), there was a considerable number of highly respectable persons of other denominations, among whom we noticed Sir Augustus D'Este, Bart. ; Sir Culling Eardlcy Smith, Bart. ; Major-General Briggs ; Colonel Nichols, late Governor of Fernando Po ; John Crawford, Esq., late Governor of Sincapore ; F. C. Brown, Esq., of Telli cherry ; John Bowring, Esq., LL.D. ; Vesey Leslie Foster, Esq. ; William Howitt, Esq. ; the Rev. John Arundel, the Rev. Mr. Pine ; J. H. Tredgold, Esq. ; &c. &c. THOMAS FRANKLAND, Esq., of Liverpool, said he bad been requested to explain the objects of the pre sent meeting ; and as they had the company of their well-known friend George Thompson, who was prepared with details fully sufficient to occupy the attention of the meeting, it would be only necessary for him to make a very few observations. The meeting had been called for the purpose of giving the public some information with respect to the formation of a Society for bettering the condition of their fellow subjects, the natives of British India. He believed he might state that the Society had been formed in conse quence of the oppressions and sufferings of their fellow subjects in the East. They were all aware of the ex tent of the British Indian empire —that it contained a population of more than 100 millions—and the Society was prepared with authentic information from various sources to prove that a great proportion of that vast population was labouring under severe sufferings and great oppression. It was well known that a succession of famines had afflicted India for many years, and that the famines of later years were not traceable to war, or any of those causes which would lead them to believe them unavoidable, or as having been inflicted by the Divine hand. On the contrary they had every reason to apprehend that some of the causes of these lamenta ble visitations of famine might be traced to the nature of the government which prevailed in India, and the op pressive system of taxation under which the natives groaned, so that in the midst of fertility and in a land of plenty they were starving. It was a well-attested fact, that in the famine of' 1837-8 not less than 500,000 individuals perished.—(Hear.) He thought there were strong grounds why the Society had claims upon the religious community to which he belonged. They had long been engaged in endeavouring to put an end to slavery in the British Colonies, and through the blessing of Providence that object had been to a con siderable degree attained. He well remembered some years ago, that their friend James Cropper, one of the warmest friends of the cause, strongly impressed upon them the necessity of exerting themselves to bet ter the condition of the natives of India, and enabling them to supply England with the produce of that coun try. That position all of them must be convinced was correct, and if they only exerted themselves so as to procure the articles they required, whether of luxury or necessity, from the produce of free, instead of slave la bour, the object would be attained. - In America there was little hope that the system of slave labour would be put an end to, while, on the other hand, India was pre pared to supply them, under a better system of manage ment, with all that America at present furnished them. He had great pleasure in stating, that the objects of the Society were intended to be conducted by moral and religious means alone—that those who had formed themselves into a Provisional Committee were earnestly desirous this should be the case, and their Prospectus stated that the Committee prefer to make their appeal to to the " just principles and Christian feelings of the coun try." There could, therefore, be no objection to any part of the plan, or to their uniting with the Society. He would not detain the meeting longer. He believed the evi dence to be brought forward was such as might be relied upon, and they had a strong proof of that fact in the presence at their meeting, of Major-General Briggs, who had for many years been Governor of a large dis trict of that country, who had resided in India thirty two years, and who was the author of a very able work on the land-tax of India. However little they might unite with him in that which was one of the objects of his life and profession, they would all rejoice that he had a heart to feel for the sufferings of that people, and that he could enter into plans for their amelioration pro moted by moral and religious means. They had also present Francis Browne,..a native of India, who b a d made ca a voyage to this coun t ry , to call "the attention of the people of England to the momentous subject. He was a landed proprietor and magistrate of that country. They had also Dr. Bowring, who was well known to them. He would now call upon his friend George Thompson to address the meeting. Mr. G. THOMPSON then came forward and addressed the meeting as follows :—After what had been kindly and ably stated in the way of introductory matter by the Gentl e m an w h o h as j ust resumed his seat, I feel confident there can he no doubt on the mind of any individual present respecting the importance of the subject we are met to consider. I believe, too, that no question will be raised touching our right to converse, inquire, and communicate, on matters respecting the welfare of a hundred millions of the human race, who have been brought into political affinity with us. The doubt which I anticipate concerns the means we pos sess of turning our discussions and inquiries to profitable account—a doubt respecting our ability to do good— not the necessity or duty to perform the act, if it can be shown to be possible. There may be yet another question, viz.—ls not the discussion of the present topic calculated to lessen the effect of our efforts in a cause to which we stand religiously pledged, and would it not be unwise to divide those energies which are found quite small enough, when united, to effect any considerable good ? These impressions, should they prevail to any extent, I hope to remove by a plain statement of incontrovertible facts, and to produce the conviction, and to fortify that conviction by evidence, that the causes are one, and that the surest, simplest, and safest way of advancing that object to which you are already, and have been so lung devoted, is to espouse and support the object I am permitted to lay before you.—(Hear, hear.) I appear in your midst to-day as the representative of a Committee, who seek no higher title, by their association, than the title of—The friends of man. The good of man is their object, " good will to man" the bond which unites them, and truth and reason are the only weap ons w i t h wh i ch they carry on their warfare. "Those whose welfare the Committee immediately seeks, are British subjects—they are a hundred million in number—they are Hindoos, Mahommedans, Pagans, and some, at least, of them, Christians i • resident in a far dist an t l an d, w hi c h for half a century has been subject to our sway, and whose destinies depend, under Providence, upon the laws, institutions, and measures conferred or inflicted upon them by this country. They are at present governed by a Company with certain specified, limited, chartered rights ; they are neverthe less within the reach of popular sympathy and popular legislation ; inasmuch as there is in the Parliament of this country a constantly existing right and power to make laws for that people and country, as though no Act had ever been passed. The people I refer to, are the long neglected Natives of British India. I said the welfare of the Natives of India was the im mediate object of the Committee I represent ; but you will rejoice to learn, that that object is intimately and in separably united with another, dear to us all, I mean the .good of the injured sons and daughters of Africa ; who, either in their parent soil, or in strange lands, are made, by hundreds of thousands, and millions, the vic tims of " the oppressor's wrong ," an d a ll t h e ills which the Slave trade, and its parent Slavery, engender and perpetuate. How stands the question ? There are in North and South America, and on the Islands of the Gulph of Mexico and the Caribean Sea, from five to six millions of slaves.—(Hear.) To supply the States where the foreign slave-trade has not been abolished, a traffic between them and the shores of Africa is carried on, which occasions a loss to that country, by sickness, hunger, madness, despair, butchery, and slavery, of from 300,000 to 400,000 per annum. It is put beyond doubt by the calculations in Mr. Buxton's book, that during every revolution of this earth upon its axis, a thousand human b e i ngs are offered in sacrifice, living or aead, upon the reeking shrine of the insatiate Moloch of modern slavery. To what fate are those who are wretched enough to sur vive the village war, the desert march, th e middle pas sage, and the period of seasoning, , consign e d ? T o t h e drudgery of the rice plains of the Carolinas, to the wasting toil of the sugar plantati ons o f Cuba, and Louisiana, and the Brazils ; to the " never en di ng, still beginning" labour of the cotton fields of Alabama, and Mississipi, and the,Texas ; or to the milder, but still forced and uncompensated service of the tobacco planter and slave-breeder of Virginia and Maryland. To what markets are the fruits of the earth, thus watered with the tears and fanned with the sighs of the captive carried ? Ask the merchant of Liverpool. Ask the manufacturer of Manchester. Ask the thoughtless civilized smoker of the pleasant cigar. Ask the fair wearer of the fine -spun cottons of our country. Ask the frugal housewife, who prepares the dish of rice for her household, or her guests. These are the buyers, the rewarders, the upholders of slavery. Nay, more, many of those whom I first named, are at this moment the reluctant tributaries and impatient vassals PETRES ! !! 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Office, 337, Strand, London. It has been said of the Duke of W e lli ngton that, during the Congres s at Vienna, he completely misled the most subtle diplomatists , by 111 Ways stating exactly what he thought. //___ - - 4 7 - , , . ... ....." t...E ., -.., _, 4 0, . WO ' i ** sA.-1---% • 0 1 1 1: , 4-I, ' - "- - ' - ' --,--- , k -'''"-.. —,, . 1 / 4 ,.......... %., _," -' s , ... ...........7......... ~..,,,, un it io lllllfr4 t ~...,' - -')I , b 'o r '... f,),1•1 , ‘, 0%-,i4,4tiort, u.u ,to ...,,yIiiiNLTS 0/ T: ~ ' .I - - c-• • 50,,,, `. PRICE sd. 4/0 EVENING .k.: D 11 11?.N. T ;"' - the East, and after establishing themselvei ;:t ..- Mad r as; 4,.... . t , - end multiplying th e i r f ac t or i es i n other parts o(itur ' -...— they proceeded to the acquisition of territory, cilrfF4.l P•kg continued to increase, by craft and con qu est, until ii tev rine, jr from merchants and shipowners into the directorsof armies and the sovereigns of a vast empire. It is not my in tention to trace the growth of British power. I shall quit that topic, and claim your attention to the capacity and products of the soil of India. The penin sula of India possesses extraordinary fertility, yielding is many parts, not one crop only per year, but two, three, and even four. Little pains is needed to produce a harvest. Amongst the almost innumerable articles which can be grown, I way name, cotton-wool, sugar, rice, gums, indigo, spices, ebony and other woods, oils, cinnamon, musk, muslins, bandannas, ginger, senna, cochineal, tea, linseed, pimento-, aloes, coeculus in dicus for the brewers--(a laugh)-e--steel, gold, pearls and diamonds. I shall say one word respect ing the skill of its inhabitants. Before our trade with India began the workmanship of the natives in steel and ivory, and gold and musline, were the glory and boast of the Oriental world. What, in modern times, can compare with the muslins of Dacca, spun by the fingers of the llindoo females and woven in their own looms ? They could also point to their chemists, their architects, and their astronomers. In a word, it will be found that we have not to deal with un taught barbarians, but with a people, to a great extent, polished and prepared. Why, then, do we neglect India ? We have an uninterrupted lUghway upon the ocean; we have vesssels, and mariners, and Captains; we have often weathered the Capes for two hundred and fifty years. We knew how to coerce and conquer, and spoil the people of India. How is it we have not yet dis covered the way of turning the immense resources of India to their proper use ? 'Why do we not make India the means of enriching this country, a n d saving the western world from the curse and dishonour of slavery ?—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") I might speak of the admirable institutions of India. We hear much in the present day of Municipal reforms at home, and of giving English institutions to India ; but I believe it will be found, that before we knew any thing of corporations in this country, India had corpo porations as enlightened and liberal, and far more eco nomical, than we have ever had, reformed or unreformed . The institutions are so perfect, that whatever you want to do in the way of revenue, manufa9tures, or agricul ture, or whatever you may want to do in the way of education, you may do through their native institutions, their native wisdom, their native teachers, and their native language. To attempt to Anglicise India, to attempt to colonize India, or to destroy her institutions, and to give them that which is of mushroom growth in Europe, for that which is older than cur history in India, is to attempt to carry light to the sun, to perfume tee rose, or to bleach the lily.—(Cheers.) They had them long--they have them still ; but broken down and de lapidated by the hand of the modern Gotta ; and if y ou will let them raise them up again, you may bestow on them the greatest blessing, without endeavouring to _ palm upon them institutions which are scarcely ripe in this country. You have not to civilize them-- they are ready to your hand—they are ready to argue metaphysics and philosophy with you, and if you would give them the argument of a paternal government, of a pure, consistent, and holy life, you would first find the way to their hearts, and through that inlet you might win their understanding, till— " Brahmab, from his guilty greatness hurled, " With Mecca's Lord—Messiah ruled the world."— (Cheers.) If you want to see what the civilization of India is or has been, I would direct your attention to the delightful work of Bishop Heber, who has beautifully described the state of shings he saw. I come now to speak more particularly of the system planted in India by this country. When the English got there, there went out a decree, not from Cease?. Augustus, but from another monarch, that all India should be taxed. The llindoos knew how to tax, and took a sixth —the Mahommedans knew better, and took a fourth—the English knew best and took all, and would have taken more than all,but they knew not how--(A laugh.) That is to say, they demanded more than the land would yield, more than the grain, put into Sicca rupees, would pay ; and the consequence has been, that individuals, and villages, and districts, have been getting deeper and deeper into debt. They are now the victims of the collector, and they may be put into the stocks, or driven from the soil, as unworthy tenants of the land in which they were born. In 1793 an alteration was made in of the slaveholder—dragged at the wheels of the mon ster's car—a monster they have fed, and harnessed, and employed. But, is it necessary that every vein of Africa should bleed that America and Europe may cultivate and consume the articles I have named ? Will the cotton-tree flourish only where republican tyrants have carried it, and compelled the negro in chains to plant and rear it ? Must the sugar cane cease to grow, or its crushed sweets be procured at the ex pense of the crushed hearts of those who send it to our tables ? Friends of humanity ! lovers of jus tice! patrons of peaceful, bloodless, and anti-slavery commerce ! look to the home of the cotton-tree, to the birth-place of the sugar-cane ! Turn your eyes away from the desolated shores of Africa, and " the habitations of cruelty" in the West, from which the hopeless slave looks out upon the billows of the Atlantic, and fix them upon the broad plains of India, whose fertile soil and willing sons wait to give you, in more than abundance, the luscious juices and nutri- Cous grains, and fragrant berries, which, for now two centuries and more, have been reared amidst the thunders of a violated law, and stained with the blood of the helpless and the innocent. Do justice to India, and banish the demon of intestine war from Africa! Do justice to India, and drive the miscreant man-thief from the banks of the Niger and the Gambia! Do justice to India, and see the fetter fall from the limbs of the slave. Do justice to India, and see your wharves covered, and your warehouses filled, and your looms made busy, and your population clothed with the produce of the East, with the fruits of the industry of the conquered and countless millions, who cry from the banks of the Ganges, and the Brahmapootra, and the Indus—" If you would redeem Africa, you must rege generate India." Let it not be inferred from these re marks that I underrate either the duty or the import ance of employing those means by which we bring a purely moral influence to bear upon the slaveholding and slave-trading nations of the world. Did I entertain a senti ment unfavourable to these, it would belie all that I have said and done during the last. eight years of my life—sayings and doings which are known to you all. But, in proportion as I insist upon the right and duty of a moral interference with the slave systems of the world, I am bound to recommend and pursue those measures which are strictly national and soundly politic, and easy and inexpensive in operation, which have a direct and certain tendency to effect the object to which those other means refer. We have a vine yard of our own, fertile beyond description. In that vineyard are thousands and tens of thousands, " standing all the day idle, because no man hath hired them." I believe the annals of the world furnish not an instance of greater folly and infatuation than that which this country has for a century presented in this matter. The East:has been neglected. The splendid and fertile regions from which sugar, and rice, and cotton might have been obtained to clothe and feed, not the inhabitants of this country merely, but of the globe, has been shunned ; the bright chambers of the East have been forsaken for the slave-cursed territory of the 'West. The land where the luxuries we sought are indigenous, and often grow wild, has been suffered to remain an uncultivated jungle. Our own fair and bountiful vineyard, has, I say, been forgotten by some, despised by others, and mismanaged by all—yet it still possesses exhaustless capacity —it may become like a watered garden. Its " old waste places" may be re built—" the foundations of many generations maybe raised up," and it may prove not only a source of riches to its occupiers, proprietors, and cultivators, but its produce may be made to supersede and displace whatever is now produced by the labour of the unpaid slave. While we preach freedom to other nations—while we sign treaties with Portugal, send envoys to America, and ambassa dors to France—shall we be justified in neglecting this region ? Shall we be free from the charge of inconsist ency, if we prove ourselves indifferent to one of the most legitimate and potential means of ridding the world of slavery, arid one which cannot fail to suggest itself to every one who takes a careful and comprehensive view of the subject ? But, I return to speak of the imme diate object of the British India Committee. That object is the ',cue) ing of the condition of our fellow-subjects—the natives of British India.—( Hear.) ' I speak liable to correction. 1 am happy, for your sakes and my own to know that there are here present men who are thoroughly conversant with Indian affairs —men to whom the Oriental world is known—men whose best years have been spent in India—who have trodden its plains—have lived in its villages—have mingled with its sons—have carefully studied its insti tutions—have surveyed its stupendous and unrivalled monuments of industry and genius. Men who have lived in India, not to oppress its natives and purloin its riches, but to diffuse justice, to restore peace, to pro pagate the maxims of truth and wisdom ; who, after they have served India, in India, hare returned to their na tive land with a zeal unabated, to advance the welfare of India, by arousing the attention of their fellow-citi zens to a sense of their responsibility—to devote their political and m oral energies to the good of that great empire. These gentlemen will be able to correct my errors, should I fall into any. I am their hum ble and unlettered mouthpiece, and I ask them to watch my statements, and not only confirm what is true, but contradict what is inaccurate. India is an unknown country. Long as we have traded with that country—many as have been the wars we have waged, and the victories we have won upon its soil—vast as has been the wealth we have derived from it—and numerous as have been the sons of Britain, who from year to year have gone forth and returned from it, it is to this hour, to the mass of the people of Great Britain, a sealed, an unknown country. I speak of the genius of its inhabitants. I speak of its institutions. I speak of its resources, its wants, and its claims. I speak of its learning and its literature. I speak of it as a field for agricultural and commercial enterprise—l speak of it as a region for the exercise of Christian benevolence—l speak of it as a resting place for the lever by which modern Asia is to be raised to more than ancient majesty and glory. Considered in all these aspects, I hesitate not to repeat the words I have already uttered—" India is an unknown country." Now, the British India Committee deem their first. duty to be that of diffusing information respecting this country—its people, its government, its laws, its insti tutions, its necessities ; ever bearing in mind the great end for which this information is sought, obtained, and diffused—the good of the natives of British India. They will seek to draw the veil that has been suffered hitherto to shroud the mingled misery and splendour of this land of wonders. They fear not the result. While sere will be scenes of inconceivable wretchedness to the revenue system of Bengal by the Marquis Corn wallis, who, with the best intentions, gave to the lower provinces a permanent settlement, or fixed in per petuity the amount of tax the land should pay— annihilated the ancient proprietors of the soil, and conferred the right on a class of men called Zemindars. They became answerable to the Government for the payment annually of a certain amount—th. 7 kaew what they had to pay, and that all they could obtain beyond it was their own ; and while a limit was put to the claims of the Government on the Zemindars, no limit was put to their claims upon those beneath them. With all these faults the system has worked beneficially It did injustice to the ancient proprietors—it over• looked and trampled on the institutions of the country —yet, still with all its faults, and they were many and great, it has done good, and Bengal is now the most fruitful, happy, and contented portion of British India. In another part of British India another system was adopted —a system of annual surveys and set! tements in money. All the landowners wera swept off, and the Government determined to be the sole lac !- lord. Let Inc now refer to the subject of famines. Famines have, from age to age, prevailed in India ; under the Mahomedans more than under the Hindoo Governments, because the former took a larger portion of the produce ; but th.. British have claimed still more, and the consequences, therefore, have been still more dreadful. Their legislation has been by no means so benign, their practical morality not so strict, as that of the Mahomedans, they have taken seven eighths, nine -tenths, or all, and famines have become general. Of course the original cause of famine is drought, and then, through the poverty of the people-.-- the absence of roads, thus cutting off communication between one district and another—and the allowing to go out of repair the artificial means of irrigation — there is a dearth ; the people have not the means to buy rice for a month, although they can live on three farthings a day, and they die of starva tion ! In 1764-1766 famine raged on the coast of Coromandel. In 1770-1771 a famine raged in the provinces of Bengal, which swept off, under the ad ministration of Lord Clive, 3,000,000 of the inhabitants! And it has been put on record by a writer, now among us, that at that time there was no deficiency of grain ; the Bengal Store-houses were full to repletion ; but the cause of the calamity was, the poverty of the people, and the avarice of the holders of the grain. In 1782-3 another famine raged on the Coroman , lel coast. In 1792-a another famine raged there. In 1803-4 a famine raged in Bombay and the Deccan. Now I grant that, during these famines, wars were prevalent, and wars Lave always more or less disturbed, suspended, ,or de stroyed the agricultural pursuits of the conntry in which they prevailed, but since 1818 there has been no war in any part of British India—there has been general, undisturbed, and perfect peace ; but have laminta bean averted ? No. lu 1820-21 there was a famine in the southern part of the Deccan—in 1823-'4 famine raged in the asccan from Kandiesh to Mysore—in 183?-33 in Bombay and the Deccan—in 1833-34 tr ere was fa mine in the Madras territory —in 1835-36 there was famine in Orissa and on the Coromandel coast—in 1837-38 there was famine in the Agra Presidency, a very brief and imperfect account of which you will find in the papers that have been distributed. Last year the national sympathy was roused and properly directed ; and we succeeded in obtaining, if not front the Imperial Legislature of this land, at least from the fears of the Colonial Assemblies, the eman cipation of the negro ; but while we were strug gling for their emancipation, almost as many human beings as there were apprentices in the British colonic* died of hunger—they died in the garden and the granary of the world, under the sway of Queen Vic toria, on British territory, where a man can be sustained for thirty days for two shillings! They died its a land which yielded not a had or niggard crop, or scantily, as in the glens and an the hills of Scotland, where the people, however, die not of famine, bus *icy died i in a land where, although the earth is furrowed with a wooden plough, and the seed scattered with a careless hand, yet yields not one, but two or three crops a year, 500,000 of them died in the neighbourhood of Agra. How many died in the distant jungle, no one can tell ! Mothers deserted their child; en, leaving them on the highways, or throwing them at night into the Jumna—the vulture and the jackal fast ened on the fainting prostrate wretch before life was gone ; the courses of small rivers were impeded by the masses of bodies thrown into their channels by those employed to clear the highways, and European residents were compelled to abandon their evening drive, from the impossibility of encountering the efiluvia arising from the putrid corpses around. The total number of those who died no tongue can tell, unless it were possible to count their skeletons, or gather up their dust. But this we do know, that 500,000 died in the vicinity o f the Agra Presidency. Should not this one solitary fact taken out of the catalogue of calamities now before me, awaken your sympathy. If the slavery of thousands called forth your noblest energies, ought not the d eat h of 500,000, in a few months, of disease, and cholera, and hydrophobia, produced by famine, to beget a lively and active compassion and a determination to look into the causes of these limed events, and if it be possible to apply a remedy. There is a famine still raging in India, During the latter end of last year, d B d uo r n i i n b g ay tl i te ,re p s r i e d s e e n n c t y y a ea n r d , famineson nthe have app eare d i n the Corom a ndel Coast. 1 think I may say that, except the settled provinces of Bengal, famines are now prevalent all over Bri tish India ; and bear in mind the character of the country—the few and simple wants of the people—the cheapness of provisions —and that it is British India! British India, that has poured into the lap of England a thousand millions of pounds st+:ll:tig ! British India—" the brightest grni"—ils an orator once called it—" in the Crown of attract the pitiful compassion of the philanthropist, there will be enough to fan the patriotism and kindle the zeal of the lover of his country, and the friend of commerce. Nor will the scholar and the Christian lack incentives to effort and research. The former, if he has ever che rished a .‘ feeling of contempt for the fancied bombast and nothingness of Eastern lore," will find that feelinggive place to wonderatits unadorned simplicity,and ponderous substantiality. lie will find that he who treads the soil of India, approaches the birthplace of all that has embel lished the western world in science and philosophy. The Christian will find spread out before him, in immea surable amplitude, a field for pious and powerful exer tion—" a field dis!inguished by features peculiar to it self ; at once claiming his profoundest sympathy for the millions of his race, who are sunk in the grossest igno rance and superstition, and exciting his astonishment at the ruins of wealth and intellectual grandeur that even.- where present themselves." With these before him, while lie is melted to sorrow by the proofs of a wide-spread apostacy and spiritual rebellion, he will be animated by the hope and faith of the Gospel, which teach him to look for a day when, under judicious culture, seeds of truth shall spring up, and cause the moral waste to bloom and blossom as the rose. Rut let me hasten to furnish some facts illustrative of the truth of what I hare already said. Ido not venture to hope that I can make use of a tithe of the proofs with which I have prepared myself for this discussion. I do hope, however, to be able to lead your minds to inquiry, and if I succeed—if I beget a desire to learn the history and real state of India—l shall be richly rewarded. You will soon find that you have en tered upon a subject replete with all that can expand the imagination and affect the hearts, or call forth the efforts of the philanthropist and the Christian. Take a glance at your Eastern empire. You are masters of a country stretching from the base of the Himalaya mountains to Cape Comorin, and from the sacred waters of the Ganges to the banks of the Indus You are rulers of no fewer than one hundred millions of the human race, besides having fifty millions more your tributaries. An empire as large as Europe. Be hold its diversity. It is divided into almost innumer able States. It embraces various climates, languages, religions, and distinct tribes. And here let me say that nothing is more necessary than to discriminate between one portion of India and another—between one Presidency and another, and between one State and another—else the most gross and serious errors may be committed. That which is true of Bengal, is inapplicable to Madras, and vice verse. It ' is impossible, however, in an address lik e th e present, to go into all the distinguishing peculiariti es ; t h e most that can be done, is to state distinctly to what p a rt o f the country that which is said applies. 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