One of the newest suggestions that has just reached us from. Simla is the sanction by the S-retary of State to form a Bureau of Commerce, witha Director General and two Assistantsat its head; its object being to gather and publish all information regarding export duties and also as regards all matters relating to the trans-frontier trade and to Indian staples with foreign produce for the development of existing markets and for the discovery of new ones. This should be of the utmost value t" the merchant, and especially to the nos impoverished European planter, for it is certain that unless before very new opening i found for the sale of Indian tea and coffee, alarge percentage of our planters will Jet their estates go out of cultivation.
The Sugar Bounties, The duty imposed on sugar has mide the prices rise considerably, but even now the sugar grower is not able to compete with the foreign manufae: ured article unless he can enjoy better protection for some time to come.
The Condition of India. the President of the Provineiul Gants, 2 A very interesting speech was ann
on the condition of India; in which criticised the remarks made Ly Huh George Hamilton regarding the' send famine, and the condition of the [nf trot, whom he considered—overtentf We'have heard so much on this lately from the mouths and from the joe of travelling M. P.'s who, after sojourning some few weeks or months in Indi, west their way homewards to write and course on India from experience but ai old, The President of the meeting ye gentleman of some note, consider that she not is by no means overtly the British Raj, for, snys he, were this case and if it Were true hat Tand asst ment were 0 is it probable that thf sowew would advance large suns money on land which was va'ucless oni to overtaxation The evil of the 14 falling into debt from which he ewmnt tricate himself lies entirely with the soveag who, as [have before pointed out, mat him pay an enormous interest and the forces the ryot to sell him his rain on th oer of the granary, whereas he se'lsir the open market. "The only remedy ig growing evil lies in the established cultural Banks, where the ryot from the Government without ty intervention of any unserapulous soe But the truth of the matter is that all energetic M.P.'s, and all the radical formers with their pes spovelsaul distorted statistics, will not improve tif ryot's condition, until he awakens to a fact that the solution of the problem roof with himself. As I have frequently pain out, in the majority of cases the real erg of the soil is not the person who tills His proprietorship has passed, or is ally passing away into the hands of nuoney lender and the large proprietor, a the worst of it is that he is emten wi his subordinate condition, As lung as gets his full square meal of rice to-day 4 ares little about what. will happen morrow. When he has yot_ anous! in pocket (o maintain himself in idleness erally prefers to be idle, and noth will induce him to forego his traditival Jholidays and festivals. The reduc of the land. tax. will not help. the hundred mil of the lowest class those who gain their livelihood from culture, for the ax does not come of their pocket side help improve their condition until Ciey. the selves endeavour to improve it. "tis undoubted fact that where Ube rynt de pay the land tax it is frequently that the higher the rate the better ull hei In order to pry the increased rate hes pelled to put in more work, and the quence is that his holding is more pret live, When a mere scratching of the soil ris scanty crop which is suflicivut to pay easy Settlement and leave him a sup! he contents himself with scratehins lets the land loo after itself. There et, signs of improvement, ing pressure of the popalatio "li course of time teach him the less Owners is a subject that has long given the P's vineial Government rood deal anxiety. The Mad: is introducing an Act, the object of which to protect' the Nemindars or nobility against themselves, I: is the Impartible Estates Act, and under certain estates are declared to be imp ible, and owners cannot alienate or portions. If they do, such alienations hold good as against the holder for time being and not against his success
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