Of all the instruction which the servants of the Honourable East India Company have ever brought with them from their parent land to India, that which they derived from the lectures of that truly amiable man Dr Malthus, on Political Economy, has been, perhaps, the most substantially useful to the country. Of the Civil Servants scarcely one can have discharged his duties for many years in any part of India without having often found the welfare and happiness of thousands placed in dependence upon his knowledge of the great principles of this science, and upon that feeling of assurance in the truth of its conclusions which will make him risk his reputation, and all that he holds most dear, in the enforcement of the measures which these conclusions prescribe.