spirit of enterprise that of old has characterised our commerce. There are forty millions of people waiting to be clothed with British piece-goods, and to be furnished with the handiworks of all the manufactories of England, and ready to give, in return, silk, tea, and the most valuable of the useful and precious metals, from mines that European skill would make many-fold more productive than now. There remain but The barriers imposed by man are removed. those of nature. To the conquest of these, our science and capital, energy and perseverance will march again as they have so often marched before, and again will overcome them; to British commerce will accrue a new nation of buyers of our goods and sellers to our wants; to the cause of progress, a new opening for the living civilization of Europe to compete with the sickly semi-barbarism of Asia; to the cause of religion and humanity, a new field for Christian truth and beneficence to modify, alleviate and displace the cruelties of a fierce fanaticism and the vices of a degraded infidelity. With the opening of this new way to China will be written a fresh page in our already glorious commercial history; will be taken another step in our onward destiny, and will be given yet another proof that Providence sanctions the mission we attribute to our race. Mandelay, April 25th, 1864. Table of the Coins of former Governments more or less current in the Bazars of the Goojrat District in 1859. Communicated by the Punjab Auxiliary Committee of the Asiatic Society. [Received 16th February, 1864.] Ul Khuleef-amir-ool mom- Futtyab Feroze Shah mud- Ul Khuleef-amir-ool mom- Feroze Shah Sooltanee zur- Lailaha ililah Mahomed Jelaloodeen Padshah Gha Zee. 883 Hijree. 11 Mashas, 3 ruttees. 9 Mashas. 9 Mashas. 993 Hijree. This coin passes for 12 annas. As No. 3. The silver of this coin is very pure. It sells for Rs. 1-4 in the Bazar. |