Is it not also more than absurd, nay a very shame to those interested in our industry, that while we have a better article than China Tea, we allow, by our supineness and lack of enterprise, more than three million pounds of an inferior article to be sold in the birth place of the better? And why? simply because we _will_ not supply it in the form the teeming crowd of natives willing, nay anxious, to buy can avail themselves of it! Since I advocated in your paper the formation of a company to sell Tea to natives in small packets, and showed, I thought conclusively: 1--That the capital required was not large (say one and a-half lakhs). 2--That the shareholders might expect very fair dividends. 3--That there was no assignable limit to the trade which might be developed. 4--That if such a company was started and worked well, all fear for the future of Indian Tea would be at an end. 5--That every Tea owner, who became a shareholder, would advance his own interests by many times more than the dividends he would receive--since then I have obtained from England estimates of all the machinery required to bulk and pack the Teas, advice from the best firms as to _the mode_ so successful in England, and I am more than ever convinced that the company would be a money-making one, and that, in two words, we shall sadly neglect our own interests if we do not accomplish it. Again, since my former articles I have spoken to dozens of Tea planters and Tea owners on the subject, and all of them think highly of the scheme, while many only wait for the company to be launched to take shares. I could name more than one influential native also who is willing to join, and this is a good sign, for, in my opinion, a moiety of the directors should be natives. I will myself become a large shareholder, though I cannot offer my services on the board, for it must be in Calcutta, and I do not reside there. I am convinced, if the company is launched, the shares will be taken up in a week. But if no one in Calcutta is public-spirited enough to launch such a company, why should not an association of a few individuals try to carry out the scheme. I quite believe Tea proprietors would help them, at starting, by supplying, on reasonable credit, the coarse Teas suitable. Were this done, the thin edge of the wedge would be driven in, and, if the association succeeded, they might later transfer the business at a fair profit to a company. I had written so far when I saw your remarks on the same subject in your last issue. I cannot agree with you in thinking an association would be _better_ than a company, but I say, failing the last let us have the first--in fact, let us make a beginning. I give here below, to save the trouble of reference, the last part of my former article:--