The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-26 00:00:00

INDIA.

The following telsgram from Mr. Mark, Her Majesty's
Consul at Marseilles. dated April the 19th, 18140, was
received at elle Foreign Office at 8 45 p.m. on Tuesday.
There is no longer any war in India. The rebel armies
have been broken and dispersed. Their leaders are
fugitives in the jungle. Tantia Tope, the Rao Sahib,
the Begun', and Naha, are still at large. The rebels
are in grunt numbers in Nepsul ; but Jung Itahadmtr
has sent troops into the jungle to rout them out. The
followers of the Begun' and Nana are about 8,000.
Brigadier Kelley is watching their movements. Onde
continues tranquil. A great number of the rebels have
surrendered. The Nawab of k'urrucabad has been found
guilty and sentenced to death. Great excitement pre-
vails in Itoinhay and Calcutta in consequence of the new
Customs' tariff. .

The following telegram has been received rid Mar-
seilles :—Froni 11. L. Anderson, Esq., Secretary to the
Government, Bombay, to J. Cosine Melville, Esq.,
India-office, London. The rebels are scattered in three
parties—one with Feroze Shah, not far from Busied,
on the Agra and Bombay road ; another with the Rao
Sahib, in the Slialighur district ; and the third with
Tantia Topee, who is said to by at present in the Cliiiiii•
bul mid Parmie jungle. Maun Sing is near him. The
following rebels have surrendered :—Dithun Lath
Itheenis Nsit Ahdool Rotor Khan, styled Nawab of
Powrah, and Nawab Khan Ali Khan of Daninia ; the
latter has given himself up to the Rajah of Bikiumer.
:IVIWKANAD.—An attempt was made by a Ilinilo-
staintee. arimsl with a carbine, on the life of the Resident
wiwii returning f emu thelbirbar WI the Ilith Mat. (Marsh.)
The ball wounded "lie of the Ministers who was walk-
ing with Colonel Davidson. The 11%AllAttlil was Mune-
diately emit down. The Resident believes that there
was iie accomplices in the attempt.
THIC INMAN FINANCKS.—The Indian Government
I has determent:4 to double the Customs Duties. " I
understand." says a Calcutta ourresis.ndent, "time Maill
features of the new tariff will be Li follows ;—Manches-
ter peals to pay 5 per cent.; tea, coffee, tobacco, spices,
haberdashery, grocery, and mine other articles, 20 per
cent ; malt 'honor, 4a. (6d.) a gallon ; wines, 21'. a
gallon ; vpirita. 3r. • gallon ; and everything not men-
tioned Ili per cent.. ad valorem. In exports, bullion,
horses, Cuttull, sugar, tobacco, rum, and raw silk are
while a tax of 2a. W.) ler inaund of
inade or left free,
eighty pounds, is placed on all grain. 4 per cent, on lac
,
dye, and ItiOr. • chest om Malwa opium, which is not, b-
it remembered, a ii.onupoly. Time weavures, none of
which involve any injury to trade or the slightest point-
, lar feeling, will produce, it is calculated, £1,:100,000 ad-
-1
1 jested with remarkable skill, and I question if there
1 will be any public opposition. The natives do not care,
1 and the Europeans have repeatedly expressed their
willingness to see the revenue thus increased. The
1 Government is strongly urged to add a lialf-farthing - A
I pound to the salt-tax Which would produce I:500.000 at
1 once, and to double the excise on country Waits. The
first resource will not, I think, be adoideil, Government
fearing the philantlirolinits who denounce a toe of a
balf.penny a pound on salt as an iniquitous impost. The
second is more popular, the natives considering taxes
on spirits as not only just, hut in a high degree bene-
ficial. Indeed, as every native will inform on a dis-
tiller, or, for that matter, hang I • without the smallest
compunction, there is scarcely a limit to this form of
taxation except the means of the drinking classes. At
present it costs • man exactly two farthings to make
himself thosuighly drunk, and as the number who avail
themselves of the privilege increases year by year, taxa•
tion becuinea a healthy moral agent. The dislike of an
English Mrs. Caudle for homing is languid couipared
with the hate of • true Hindu. for • drinker or drink•
seller, but the low classes are year by year eliding into a
habit which we carry with us all over the world."