§ EARL GRANVILLEwished to correct a misapprehension which had arisen from some remarks which had fallen from him a few days ago when the Government of India Bill was under discussion. He had been understood to express himself adversely to the introduction of free trade into India. Now he believed the principles of free trade to be applicable to every community and every nation, and calculated to confer advantages on every community and nation. All he meant to say was this—that in India certain religious observances and habits had created such a monopoly of labour in certain parts that it had increased the difficulty of the Governors in dealing with the matter, and that even in the introduction of the beneficial principles of free trade, hardships, both to persons and places, had been inflicted, which would not have been the result of its adoption in any other country. So far from expressing any adverse opinion as to the expediency of carrying out the principles of free trade, he was favourable to the extension of those principles.