and is prepared after a fashion of their own.  “And yet” (continues the colonel—­and we fear there is too much truth in his remarks) “the existence of the tea-plant is but a recent discovery!  Any other nation would have established a tea-manufactory at Tipperah, immediately after the first settlement, and the Yankees would have ‘progressed’ railroads and steam-boats for its success.  India is at this moment a mine of unexplored wealth.  No sooner had steam-boats appeared than coal has been discovered in every direction!” The manufacture of native iron in Bengal, which had been pressed upon Lord Hastings, as the colonel seems to imply, by himself, and at first warmly adopted by him, was objected to in the council, and ultimately abandoned, “on the grounds that it would militate against the commercial interests of Great Britain—­that is, against the profits of those India stockholders, possessing votes, who followed the trade of ironmongers!” There is many a true word spoken in jest; and this and other side-cuts of the colonel at the shortsighted proceedings of the Bahadurs at Calcutta, though sometimes queerly worded, contain now and then some unpalatable facts.  The administration of the present Governor-General has shown at least some promise of a better state of things—­and if the impulse now given to the development of the resources of India be steadily followed up, this reproach will erelong be taken away.  The receipt of his final orders, however, which pointed out China as his destination, put an end to the colonel’s speculations; and re-embarking on the stream of the Booree Gunga, he passed, with little incident worth noticing, through the numerous branches of the river, and the picturesque jungles of the Soonderbunds, and arrived safely, after an absence of twenty-one years, at the city of palaces—­and there we leave him.

    [10] May 1841.

The subject of the manufactures and products of India, is not, however, the only point connected with the internal administration, respecting which some inconvenient facts find their way to light in the colonel’s pages—­and with one or two of these revelations, we shall conclude our extracts.  The majority of those Anglo-Indian employes, who have favoured the world with “Reminiscences” and “Narratives,” are singularly free from the charge of what is familiarly termed “telling tales out of school.”  According to their account, nowhere is justice so efficiently administered, or its functionaries so accessible, as in our Indian empire; but here, whether from the native frankness of the colonel’s disposition, or from his having nothing more to hope or fear from the old Begum in Leadenhall Street, we find this important subject placed, on several occasions, in rather a different light from that in which it is usually represented.  It is well known that Sir David Ochterlony, a short time before his death, discovered by mere accident that he was enrolled as a pensioner to a large amount