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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Home Governments to our
requirements : Pord Ellenborough has lately appropriated the
sum of £40,10m in aid of a monthly
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mail via
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accrue from a regular team.
Communication with China.
At present China takes from India, of its products full £5,000,000 Sterling,
erling Anerally,
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.
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mecessary
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point out the magnitude
of the manu
ufacturing interests
at home, which are now or
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