gradually placed within the reach of every Indian farmer. The greatest obstacle to progress arises from the indolence and aversion to change of the people themselves; but in many parts of India a feeling is springing up among the higher class of native agriculturists, that the only way to avert famine and insure plenty is to adopt the improvements advocated by their English rulers and tested by experience. The increased export of tea and wheat are the two most important facts in connexion with the external trade of India, and it seems safe to predict a steady annual increase for both these products under normal circumstances.

Lord Brabazon, in a letter to the Tines, April 11, 1884, reminds Lord Derby that if the rate of emigration in 1883 was 320,000 persons of British and Irish origin, the annual increase of population during the last ten years was 340,000, and he contends that voluntary emigration will be unable to cope with the annual addition to the population of the country. As Chairman of the "National Association for Promoting State-directed Emigration and Colonization," he informs us, the object of this society "is to urge the British Government to confer with the authorities of the different colonies with a view to the establishment of some mutual arrangement by which the colonies and the mother country can divide the expense of sending out selected men and women desirous of emigrating, but incapable of finding the necessary funds. In all cases, the agent of the colony interested should have the right of veto, and the less the Poor Law authorities are permitted to have to say to the matter the better. Several of the