Home Governments to our requirements : Lord Ellenborough has lately appropriated the sum of £40,000 in aid of a monthly communication from Calcutta and Madras, direct to Suez. Seeing that there is already a monthly mail via Bombay, this grant has been cavilled at we think unjustly.
This circumstance and the high intelligence of the Governor General lead us to hope that he will not fail to perceive the vast advantages, national and social, which must inevitably accrue from a regular and speedy communication with China.
At present China takes from India, of its products fully £5,000,000 Sterling, annually, for a large portion of which she remits bullion. With the new commercial treaty a great expansion of our Indian and English trade cannot but take place.
It is unnecessary to point out the magnitude of the manufacturing interests at home, which are now or...
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