 | 1840 - 700 pages
...says, ' that the British government would confer a blessing on the Assamese, and the new Bottlers, if immediate and active measures were taken to put...not done, and done quickly too, the thousands that arc about to emigrate Irom the plains into Assam will soon be injected with the opium mania — that... | |
 | 1840 - 906 pages
...described by CA Bruce, Esq., the intelligent superintendent of the company's tea plantation in Assam. ' I might here observe, that the British government...on the Assamese and the New Settlers, if immediate nd active measures were taken to put down the cultivation of opium in Assam, and afterwards to stop... | |
 | Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India - 1840 - 436 pages
...of their families. If this should be the case, the Assamese language will in a few years be extinct. I might here observe, that the British Government...confer a lasting blessing on the Assamese and the VOL. VII. F new settlers, if immediate and active measures were taken to put down the cultivation of... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1847 - 558 pages
...service of the East India Company, and now superintendent of tea culture in Assam, it is stated, " I might here observe, that the British government...in Assam, and afterwards to stop its importation. If something of this kind is not done, and done quickly too, the thousands that are about to emigrate... | |
 | Nathan Allen - Commerce - 1850 - 78 pages
...Assam, in his report presented a few years since to the East India Company, remarked as follows: — "I might here observe, that the British government...Opium in Assam and afterwards to stop its importation. If something of this kind is not done and done quickly too, the thousands that are about to emigrate... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1858 - 652 pages
...philanthropists. Mr. Bruce says — " The British government would confer a lasting blessing ou the Assamese anil the new settlers if immediate and active measures...the cultivation of opium in Assam, and afterwards to atop its importation by levying high duties on the opium land. If something of this sort is not done,... | |
 | Julius Jeffreys - British - 1858 - 434 pages
...of their tea plantations, addressing the government, gives the following frightful picture : — " I might here observe, that the British Government would confer a lasting blessing on the Assamese find the New Settlers, if immediate and active measures were taken to put down the cultivation of opium... | |
 | J. Spencer Hill - Opium trade - 1884 - 114 pages
...plantations in Assam (quoted in Fry, 'Facts and Evidences,' p. 33), is equally emphatic. He says: — 'I might here observe that the British ' Government...its importation by levying high duties on 'opium. If something of this kind is not done, and done ' quickly too, the thousands that are about to emigrate... | |
 | J. Spencer Hill - Opium trade - 1884 - 112 pages
...plantations in Assam (quoted in Fry, ' Facts and Evidences,' p. 33), is equally emphatic. He says: — 'I might here observe that the British ' Government would confer a lasting- blessing on trie Assamese ' and the new settlers, if immediate and active measures were ' taken to put down the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1840 - 628 pages
...tea plantations : — ' I might here observe,' he says, ' that the British government would confer a blessing on the Assamese, and the new settlers, if...levying high duties on opium land. If something of this land is not done, and done quicklj too, the thousands that are about to emigrate from the plaius into... | |
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I might here observe that the British ' Government would confer a lasting blessing on the Assamese ' and the new settlers, if immediate and active measures were ' taken to put down the cultivation of opium in Assam, and ' afterwards to stop its importation... 