The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-05 00:00:00

THE INDLi. AND CHINA MAILS.

MARCH 5.

The Menageries Imperiales steamship Said, with
the India and China mails, arrived here at 4 a.m.
to-day.

blooms Tax.—This morning was issued a. par-
liamentary return, showing, under various heads, the
sinned values skewed to the income kr in the an
1864-5, and the amount of tax chargeable at 6d. in the
pound, as follows :—ln schedule A. lands, tithes, &harks,
sad manors, annual values, 57,002,4254, amount of tax,
1,421,8116 ; finer annual values, 204,9324, amount of tax,
5,1184 ; houses, annual values, 63,837,3241., amount of tax,
1,596,7861; mines sad ironworks, 6,588,1611.,
amount of tax, 164,6914 ; quarries, annual values ,
584,9471., amount at tax, 14,6084 ; pa,
• canal, sad other property, annual values,
22,647,3084, amount of tax, 563,6371. in schedule
0, public divided., annual values, 32,012,8401. ; amount of
tax, 800,3211. In Schedule B, hareditery passions (Oonot-
lidated Fund), annual values, 42,3604, amount of tax,
1,0591. ; officer salaries, and superannuation, annual
values, 20,559,3674, amount of tax, 513,9514 In Schedule
D, public I companies, annual values, 11,303,4154,
salowat of tar, 282,5684 ; trades and praetorians, annual
values, 98,777,4264, amount of ter 2,469,4084
In schedule B, farms, annual values, 17,120,2244, amount
of tax, 427,9224 The total of annual values 12330,580,7291.,
and of amount of tax chargeable at 6d., 8,263,8801.

STIMATES.—RSVINUI DIPAZIIIINTS AND PONT-
orrion PAOINr BEIVICI.—This morning the estimates of
the votes proper for these departments for 1866.7 were
issued. The total suns required for salaries and expenses in
the eustome, inland revenue, and post-office, the paper.
annuatiooe, he., of the three departments, sad the Post-
office picket service, fa 5,824,862/., which is an in-
crease' as compared with last year, of 328,2551.
The chief increase is it the salaries and expenses
oil the Poet-office, which are augmented this year
by 314,5381. The customs an increased in the same item
by 25,4841., and the inland revenue by 11,4881. On the
other hand, the mweranneatiose are 4,5721. leas, and the
sum for the Poet-Aloe packet service is reduced by 20,7031•
The number of persons in the Post-office service is 25,142,
which is 555 lees than last year, the apparent decrease
arising from certain extra deliveries in provincial districts
being performed by sub-postmasters and others already
employed by the department, instead of being performed by
additional persons sot ooesected with the Poet-cifilee.
The increase in the Post-office vote arises in the item of
buildings and repairs, for which 348,8321. is required to be
voted &pipit 69,7871. voted last year. For the purchase
of the site in St. Martin's-le-Grand for additional otiose
under the Post-offioe Extension Act of 1865, 320,0001. is
asked as being sufficient to provide for the
purchase of the freehold, leasehold, and' all other
interests. It is added that it is doubtful whether the cost
of purchasing more than the freehold will be defrayed dur-
ing the year 1866-7. The leasehold and other interests,
except in the case of one house, will not be purchased until
the plan of the buildings shall have been first approved.
The number of persons in the onetime vote is 5,508; last
year the number was 5,437.
Orders have been given to the Customs' authori-
_ _ .

Meant the varlona ontports, in the event of the Peruvian
war steamers Indepesdencia and Hussar, or either of them,
putting in, to require their commanders to land any British
seamen who may be on board of them, and if the com-
mander should refuse to do so, then to require them forth-
with to depart from the port, and to prohibit them from
obtaining any supplies whatever during their stay.
Lord Clarendon has addressed to the Treasury
an order for the enforcement of neutrality in the war be-
tween Spain and the Republica of Chili and Peru, to date
in the United Kingdom from Friday het, and in our oo-
looks from six day■ after its reosipt. The instructions

with regard to the ships of war or privateers of either
belligereot are similar to those given in relatioa to American
vessels during the civil war.
The churchwardens and trustees of the English
Protestant Church at Rome have allowed the nomination
of a nueeicor to the late Rev. Mr. Woodward to devolve
upon the British Protestant Association for the Proms-
Lion of the Gospel.
Priam Count is Idol, and has valuable lauded
property in that put of Bemarabia which belongs to Ronda.
A new company is about to be introduced to carry
on the arrangements for laying the Atlantic cable. It is to
be called the Anglo-American Telegraph Oompany, with a
capital of 600,0001. The old company will be represented
on the board of the sew one, and the plan is to be sub-
mitted to a meeting of the shareholders of the former on
Thursday next.
The Sofeil of yesterday contains a letter from
Victor Hugo, in which the veteran writer declines the
offer made by the editor of 20,0001. for his new work,
" lan Travaillenre do la Her," which be intended to pub-
lish in the shape of a feui/lems. Victor Hugo says :
" Your offer is one the most splendid ever offered to a
writer. I admit its magnificence, but the question of art
la for me above all considerations, and your offer of 20,0001.
cannot overcome my scruples as an artist. lam 000viaesd
that " Les Tutvaillenre de la Kee ought not to be cut up into
jcsiffitons. Perhaps that mode of publication would unit
the romance of ' Qnstre-vingt-Treise,' which is the work
I am at present engaged ea.'
The death is announced at Paris of the banker,
M. Louis Hottiogear. He leaves two children, sal pee-
party which is estimated at 2,400,0001.