The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-23 00:00:00

INDIA,

The following is from the Bontb67/ Times awl
SEvnclard of the 22nd ult. :

" The news of Sir Charles Trevelyan's recoThag
taken no one in India by surprise, but has 'riled
alt classes with regret. It is felt that the ber4
Clovehror We have had since Lord Wm.,Bentinek's"
time is lost to us, and that, let our opinion upon
the publication of the Madras Minutes be what it
may, Sir Charles Trevelyan is substantially right
and Mr. Wilson grievously wrong, If this income
tax measure becomes law, a reduction of the army
will he impossible. That any open resistance
will be attempted to its levy is not perhaps
Very likely', but the iron will enter into the
soisi of the people, and it is impossible to
tell Fit Wbt Moment the signal of their revolt
against the harpies to which we must intfut its
execution will be given. The idea of a uni-
versal income tax ill ft toffirtry such as this would
certainly never have °centred to one acquainted
with its circumstances, or if it had occurred,
would have been instantly dismissed. An income
tax upon the presidency towns and a succession
duty in the Mofussil might perhaps have been
levied without much difficulty, and in rejecting
the fatter for a general income tax, Mr. Wilson
has biti given irs another evidence of the danger
of entrusting the- government of this country to
men utterly unacquainted therewith. The appoint.
ment of Sir Henry Ward to succeed Sir Charles
Trevelyan is again one of those extraordinary
nominations of which we trusted we• had seen the
last. Sir Henry Ward may be everything that is
desirable in other respects, but, utterly wanting
in Indian experience, his appointment to succeed
a man of gilt' Charles Trevelyan's singular qualifica-
tions is little effort of a calamity. Ignorant of our
circumstances, ignorant of the very. crisis that has
led to his promotion, he goestoMadras a stranger
to everything about him, and with everything to
learn. Appointments of this order deserve the
marked reprobation of Parliament. Is there no
man, we demand, in the Council of India, or in
the Indian service, fitted to fill this appointment,
that we must fall back upon the patronage of the
Ministry for the appointment of Sir Henry Ward,
who, let his merits be what they may, is utterly-
unfitted to• take the reins of government in cir-
cumstances of so much difficulty as we are in-
volved in ? It is impossible to exaggerate the
mischief these crude arrangements entail upon
this country. With the best possible intentions,
Sir -Henry Ward will not dare to take decisive
action in any direction, and in the course of three
or four years, when he is becoming familiarised
with the great problems of our well-being, the
time Wilt be drawing near for his removal to
another sphere, The want of common sense shown
in such arrangements is manifest, and we can
account for the appointment only upon the sup-
position that Sir Henry Ward is expected to be
the subsersient insti'ument of any instructions
that may be transmitted to him. We had hoped
that the nomination of Sir George Clerk to the
governorship of this presidency was evidence of a
wiser spirit in the counsels of the Crown, but we
fear we are mistaken,

" The publication of Sir James Outram's pro-
test against the amalgamation of the forces has
created a profound sensation in India, while
almost simultaneously with its appearance, we
learn by electric telegraph from Grille that the
F step is already resolved upon by the Ministry.
We defer the consideration of this matter a
moment of two to notice the important revelation
incidentally disclosed, by Sir James Outram,
towards the close of the minute in question. The
whole of Southern India has learned therefrom to
its surprise that the Punjaub, the model province of
the empire, is 'ripe for revolt;' and with this fact
staging us in the face, the present is the moment
chosen tot the imposition of a general income tax
upon the country. Already is it reported by the
Calcutta journals that an exodus upon a large scale
is taking place from the neighbourhood of Umrit-
stir into the territory of Cashmere, upon a rumour
of the approach of Mr. Wilson's measures, and
simultaneously are we informed that, after all
the declamation that has been indalvd in upon
an eqUality of taxation in the provinces of the
empire, the Ynnjaub and Oude are to be exempted
during the Governor General's pleasure, and all
classes of the army below the pay of a captain
in the Royal army, absolutely. The philosophy
of these exceptions is of course plain. The tax
will be levied only upon quiescent classes, and
the income tax becomes a mere premium upon
rebellion. Under a Show of consideration for
, the position of the subaltern class of the army,
the whole body of native officers are quietly
exempted, because, in plain English, Mr. Wilson
is afraid to tax them ; and the unblushing
organ of the Council, the Friend of India, dares
to talk upon the justice of the step. What other
exemptions will be allowed we are not told ; hut a
general discretion is, it seems, to be invested in
the Governor General to exempt any district of
the country at his pleasure. if anything could
have redeemed this measure from the odium
which attaches to it., it would have been the fear-
less and just levy of it upon all classes; but •to
introduce a tax of this order after this exceptional
fashion is little short of an outrage upon the loyal
classes of the country.
" Meanwhile a very important question has
been raised in Madras by one of the gentlemen
practising at its bar, a Mt'. Ritchie. Mr. Ritchie
affirms that the Legislative Council is exceeding
its powers In decreeing the levy of this tax,
and asserts that the late Chief Justice of Calcutta
and one of the former Madras Judges were of
opinion that the assumption of such a power by
the Council is unconstitutional. The question is
of importance, and will plainly have to be
settled. Great demonstrations are taking place
in Madras in testimony of the respect entertained
fur the Governor they are about to lose.
"A crowded meeting of native gentlemen assem-
bled on Tuesday afternoon in the great room of
the Town Hall, for the purpose of voting an ad-
dress to Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, upon his
removal from the governorship of Madras. 'The
address is equally honourable, we think, to the
native community and to the Madras Governor.
Copies are to be circulated throughout the Mo-
fussil for the signatures of every well-informed
native in the presidency. Sir Charles Trevelyan
goes home as the representative of the grat
reforms our circumstances require, and we have
determined to back him up with all the moral
support at our command.
‘, We ought to have noticed in connection with
the Budget of Mr. Wilson, that the proposed
Tobacco duty is to be abandoned, and a special
license tax to be levied upon the vendors of the
drug instead thereof. The fact is, the budget is
the hasty work of an able hut ill-informed man.
We have received by
telegram, from Ahmeda-
bad, announcement of the death of R. J.:11.
Praed, Esq., of the Civil Ser.vice. He had been
for some time in charge of the Poerundhue
districts, and, on the death of Mr. Lockett, Was
somewhat unexpectedly ordered to Ahmedabad.
Mr. Praed was a son of the eminent London
banker, and Shad the brightest worldly pib.oreoPte,Wt
" A native bungalow, we are told, ha
tted
news from Zanzibar, of an outrage comet
rrfLice. a
blYhe.
French frigate upon the imaum of_thcct a
frigate is said to have demandeda, e
yet to rta: conces-
sions—the nstnre of which .7
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learn—
which were not immediate y granted, and fire
was forthwith opened upon the place, although,
the French commander the
courtesy indebted to
courtesy and assistance of
the imaum for getting
his frigate afloat,
the vesselhaving grounded
ended
her mariners and
upon arrival off the place. The frigate l
surrounded the place,
and the
imaum surrendered.

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