The Friend of India and Statesman Friday January 18th 1878

Mies we compare the conditious as to health under which the work-people in the Initial factories carry on their operations with the conditions that exist in the great factories at home the climate is at once seen to be the great cause of the difference in favor of the former. [...] Bright's memory is his own magnificent oration of 1858 in the House of Commons when the transfer of the Government of India from the Company to the Crown was the subject of debate. [...] Bright was one of the leading minds engaged in the study of its effai& We tried personally in 1865 to interest him in the great quotation of the Permanent Settlement of the land and remember ✓ividly the reply he made to us. [...] From the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 down to the refocus of the Irish LendLaw and the Disestablilment of the IrishChurch the annals of Parliament are almost a blank or perhaps we should rather say a:steady placid stream of mild reforms that surprised nobody and that the Tories themselves thought it hardly worth while to oppose. [...] to this du' the harvests rotin the sheaf or the stack or in the field because of the apathy of the State ; and Mr.