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It is now an admitted truth, which is passing into the stage of a truism, that the most effectual means of “developing the resources of India, augmenting its value as a national possession, and promoting the prosperity of its inhabitants, are to be found in the general establishment of internal communications, and more especially in the construction of railroads. It will therefore be interesting to the members of this Committee to pass in brief review the exertions which have been made in the last ten years to establish a system of railways in India, together with the measures now under discussion to give full efficiency to it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The district of Dharwar, which is likely to become the field of important operations in reference to the supply of superior cotton to England, lies within the presidency of Bombay, and is comprised in the Southern Mahratta couutry; the chief town of the district, which bears the same name, is 288 miles south-east of Bombay. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The subject of the cultivation of tea in Assam was first brought under the notice ofthe Committee of Trade and Agriculture of this Society on the 10th November, 1838, when “An Account of the Manufacture of Black Tea as practised in Upper Assam by the Chinamen sent thither for that purpose,” which had been drawn up by Mr. W. Bruce, the Superintendent of the Tea Culture, on the part of the Indian Government, was presentedby the Secretary of the East India Company. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]