Letters from India, received yesterday via Bourdeaux, contain al very
remarkable invitation, in the shape of a circular from the Go-t vernor-General, for "suggestions tending to promote any branch of national industry ; to improve the commercial intercourse by land and water ; to amend any defects in the existino. establishments ; to en- courage the diffusion of education and usefurknowledge ; and to ad- vance the geiteral prosperity and happiness of the British Empire in : India." This invitation is " addressed to all native gentlemen, land- holders, merchants, and others, to all Europeans both in and out of the ; service, including that usefgl and respectable body of men the indigo planters ;" and it may not improperly be looked on as the commence- ment of a system of more liberal government, of which the permission to Europeans to lease lands was the forerunner.
