AND THEIR PROBABLE RESULTS, WITH MAPS AND An Appendix, CONTAINING STATISTICS OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL COMMERCE OF INDIA, BY AN OLD INDIAN POSTMASTER. THIRD EDITION. "It is to India, that the chief enterprise of British commerce and elvilisation LONDON: T. C. NEWBY; P. RICHARDSON, CORNHILL; 1848. Looking to our Indian empire, we cannot but be struck with the singular facilities which-in climate, soil, and population-it presents to the commerce of Great Britain."-Economist. "The actual expense incurred in the transit of the cotton (of Central India to the Coast) can hardly be less on the average of the year than 1d. per lb. upon an article of which the first cost in the market did not probably exceed 1 per lb."-Report of Government Commission on the Cultivation of Cotton in India. "The duty which Government owes to the millions of its subjects who would experience from the completion of these projects (railways) an increase of happiness almost beyond the conception of Englishmen, is not only gladdened by the prospect of simultaneous profit, but is lightened by the extraordinary facilities awaiting its performance." "The guarantee of a MINIMUM dividend is nothing, in fact, but raising a loan at a given rate of interest for the purpose of some beneficial and lucrative undertaking, and amongst the many millions which we have raised, it would be very difficult to find one of which the purpose was so promising as this."-Leading Article "TIMES." TO THE HONOURABLE THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, As the guardians of the British Empire in the East, this brochure on the political, military, and commercial importance of railway communication, as affecting the present position, and future prospects of that Empire, is appropriately and with much deference dedicated, By their most obedient, humble servant, January, 1848. THE AUTHOR. |