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The money price of diamonds, the greatest of all superfluities,

would be somewhat lower, and that of food, the first of all

necessaries, a great deal lower in the one country than in the

other. But the real price of labour, the real quantity of the

necessaries of life which is given to the labourer, it has

already been observed, is lower both in China and Indostan, the

two great markets of India, than it is through the greater part

of Europe. The wages of the labourer will there purchase a

smaller quantity of food: and as the money price of food is much

lower in India than in Europe, the money price of labour is there

lower upon a double account; upon account both of the small

quantity of food which it will purchase, and of the low price of

that food.