The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-10-18 00:00:00

CHINA.

We have news from rhina to the 10th ef Anginit. The
Peilio awl the Grand Canal had been blockaded by the
British and French ships of war. Admiral Hope wee in
a prewiriowi state, and would oertainly have to be in-
valided. The American Minister was still negociating
about proceeding to Pekin. rhing-King-Kang, the
leader of the rebels, had been killwl by his own people.

INDIA.
The overland mail liaa arrived with Calcutta advises
to August 30, and Bombay to Septetubcr 10.
Captain ltichanis haa succeeded in expelling froru the
district north of Eaugor some rebels who had been crea-
ting disturbances. The rebels on the ICepitul frontier
were still troublesome.
Some of the discharged Europeans had already sail,o
from Calcutta. The behaviour of all, except the :ith
Itegiment (still at lkaliampere), has been go-al.
A report that Lord toning haa been iehoved of his
duties, and that Lord Clarendon was to take them up, is
contradicted. _ _ _

Tlw Calcutta correspondent f the natal says :—" Mr.
George Campbell has just published a pamphlet, with
his signature, on Indian finance. The iesult is briefly
this present deficit is a million and a quarter •
nionth. After th 2 war expenditure has ceased, and
thirty thousand Europeans—the difference between the
existing number awl tho committee's ree 1111 l immolation—
have been rent home, and the native army has been re-
duced ta the official lev I, there will remain a erinanent
deficit of 04,11011.1,1110 a year. Thie is at least t 1,000,0110
meter the truth in India ; and it omits an additional ex-
penditure at home of at least 1,1,04i,01.19 moro for new
tramp-eta, new reliefs, new *artillery storm, and new
payments for the reserve deptits. There is nothing to
set against this sum of elef,ollo,lloo sterling except the
prodect of new taxes. The native army costs as much
as ever it did, and the military police much more. The
civil reductions are consumed by the increase of depart-
nolits demanded by civilisation. The eirifdeakel estates
have been given away, and, indeed, will involve • slight
lons. A remarkable scene has occurred in the Isagisla-
ties! Council, proving that. the best.informeil officials are
at last fairly frightened. Mr. Harrington, in °ins
the scene' reading of his Licensing Bill. quietly said lie
had altered the schedule. Ile had, it proved, increased
the maximum tax froin itir. to on all classes of
trailers, thus, in fact, multiplying the duty tenfold.
Moreover, he explained that the schedules would he so
worked as to be equivalent to an income tax of 7d. in
the pound. Ile hail gone too far, end the Council
mutinied. Mr. 'sconce, i weber for Bengal, declared
that, though • Government servant, lie must stand
between Government and the people. Ile demanded
Nene explanation of the reasons fir this 'tremendous
hill.' Sir Charles Jackson followed, and declared his
determiration to resist, unless • clear balanoesheet
were laid on the table. The Vice-President, Sir Itarnes
Peacock, thief Justice, awl for eight years legal intim-
ber of the Council, made Asti!! stronger protest, refusing
even to admit the hill. All, mover, protested
against tho exemption of officials—an exemption which,
Mr H. Peacock said, left the poor clerk on 1151 r. a
month taxed Ti]. on every pound, and exempted himself
with 1311,000 a year. Mr. Harrington replied that
Government would reduce salaries in equal proport' ,
and was told the promise was not sufficient. The Euro-
peans have generally expressed their willingness to pay
even this tax, provided it is extended to all classes;
otherwise, it will be vehemently resisisted. I think
the amount heavy, as the tax descends to incomes of £24
a year, but it certainly would alter our financial position
if it could be levied."

" Postacript.—Angust 31, five o'clock. The Inoome or
License Tan Bill passed yesterday, in the midst of a most
extraordinary scene. The Legidative Council was in-
foi meil by tinvernment that it hail not and should not
have the privileges of • House of t 'oinnions. It was, in
fact, ordered to pass the Bill. They yielded, and gave
up the demand for a budget, but placed the tax on all
officials, exempting tteia only from the visits of the
tax-gatherer. The tax is to reach down to all persons
with seven pounds • year. You 'nay think this incredi-
ble, but it is the fact. If the Bill does not produce uni-
versal insurrection, it will save the finances, producing
at least four millions • year."
The Commander-in-Chief had decided on leaving
Simla on the 20th of September, whence he would go to
Lueknow, in order to meet the GoveniorAleiteral, who
we, expected in the capital of Mule about the L'lth or
20th of October. It is probable that Lord Clyde would
then take leave of Lord Canning, as the latter was on
bin way to visit Agra, lielhi, Lahore—perhaps Podia-
wur—before he takes up his quarters at Simla, which
will be the seat of Oovermuent next summer. Lord
t'ly,le will leave India, at the close of the year, or early
in January next. Except in escaping the heat, he has
not derived mach benefit from his stay in Binge, and is
mid to have suffered during all the rains frims • severe
cold.

VEST AFRICA.
(From the West Africa's Herald of August 19.)

The Sunbeam an* Rainbow. alter coming down from
the Niger, returtiml on the 25th ult. The Rainbow
but brought down a quantity of oil, which Mos been
transhipped on board the Ethiope, while she waa staying
at Bonny.
At Bonny the natives have re,ently killed and eaten
four men, prisoners they had captured from the interior.
The oil paid on Recount of the line iturmed by the
Consul hail been mild by public auction. Season very
severe as regards wind and rain. 011 not very plentiful
within the last month, and price very high. The bar
very rough. On the 2ith ult., four wen, belonging to
one of the ship., were drowned while coming in for the
pilot. A Mth man was saved after being 2.1 hours in
the water. . . . .

- • .
The district et Abrab, in the interior, is very quiet.
Murano., is santiniatering the tiovernment of I hem-
gush, and Otoo has returned to .%brsk amps. (Me of
the great mischiefs occasioned by the disturbance in
this district is the breaking up of the Wesleyan Mis-
sion selim.l at Itoonquali, which was first established
we believe in 1f147, and wax flourishing. There were IT
ill .% tagu4 Lot, when it wax broken up. It is
reported that the Mee. Mr. West, the superintendent
.4 the Wesleyan inissoms in Guinea, will visit Doom
wish shortly, with the view of re-establishing the
school. . . .

ou the 10th inst. • canoe was capsize.' crossing
Linmo.. her, and two white men (names not rawer-
initial) and • coleus.' lady (ruin Sierra Leone were

shii. the foregoing accident another more terrible
has happened in the ame place. Lieutenant Hope,
It. N., commanding Her Majesty 'a stesinahip Brune,
the second master of that ship, the gunner's assistant,
with l 5 Kroomen, were all lost by the canoe which
carried Mama swamping ma it crossed the bar.

The Bpanish-vrar fripte Ferrolana, conveying the
new Governor, Brigadier 1). Joe 6 de Is Ganders, had
sowed in Fernando Po on the 28th of July. His
Excellency was aoconapanied by his wife, two daughters,
and an F.nglish governess ; 150 soldiers, with a civil
staff for the Administrative inriadiction of the colony,
were likewise in his suite. On the first of September
the new Gorenor was proclaimed, and a Royal decree,
homed by Donna Isabella, was read in the Government
House, in presence of the Spanish and Britiih authori-
ties, and which provided for the first attempts at
colonisation, of the island. One of the advantages of
this, as far as outward commerce is concerned, would
seem to be the reduction of the harbour dues at the port
of Clarence, whose name has been changed to that of
Banta Isabella.
The ravages of the yellow fever at Sierra Leone had
very much subsided, alter sweeping away nearly one-
half of the European population of the colony.