The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-27 00:00:00

INDIA.

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The following sommary of Indian intelligence is
from the Overload Friend of Indio, of August 22 :
The unexpected intelligence of the British disaster
at the month of the Peiho, sod the prospect which
it renders certain of a third China war on a mush
greater scale than its peacetimes, has given •
new colour to the difficulty caused by the dis-
charge of so many of the Local European Force.
The moment that the news reached Calcutta, the
saiversal feeling of the press and the public was,
that the discharged men should at one* be
offered double bounty to volunteer for • cam-
paign is Chios, and that a large; force of Sikhs
ahead also be sent. It was felt that not only
had India as opportunity of repaying to the China
fame the debt she owes it for its services in 186748,
but that two difficulties, the gni immediate and the
ether anticipated, wwaid thus be lessened or rameeed.
Woe the Barepeass who have taken their discharge
employed in this service a large body of trained and
acclimated soldiers could within one or two mouths
be thrown upon the coast of China in the very trona-
poets engaged to carry them to England. They
would retrieve their character as loyal and disci-
plined men, and the Governor-General, as well as
the home government, would be able to recede with
meaty from a position taken up too hastily. The
anticipated difficulty is the large element of
Subs, who have taken the place of Iliadostaams, is
the Bengal army, and who are even more dangerous
than the men whom they have helped to extinguish.
Until they are reduced in number, foreign service
would remove the danger, and supply them with that
pay and perhaps that plunder upon which the
Panjab, in its poverty, almost entirely depends. The
mutteriep of disoontent are occasionally heard
there. The discovery of • Mossolmen conspiracy of
were importance at SeaLkote, and a slight military
frame at Theism, are looked upon by many as
totems which point to future evil, mad call
at present for the most watchful care. Wore
10,000 Sikhs, and a similar number of the
discharged Europeans—for they will probably reach
that amount—shipped for China, it would not be
necessary to draw upon England at all for men in
the present possibility of a European war and ne-
cessity for being prepared to resist invasion. As the
Cochin China expedition of the French has ended in
• treaty with the enemy said to be of the same cha-
racter se that with China, the force there, numbering
3,000 men, with a good fleet, is set free to avenge
this lore on the Petro. Such a plan as this may have
been resolved on by the government of India, but
as yet the public know nothing regarding its in-
tuitions. It has taken no action in the matter, be-
same so requisition has been received from China.
The two first detachments of discharged men have
arrived in Calcutta, sad all the available steamers
have bean engaged at Allahabsd to send *then down.
Lard Clyde has issued an order directing telegraphic
retains to be forwarded to headquarters 30 days after
the date of the registration of claims for discharge.
Bat the men en to be allowed the option of with-
drawls; their names at the last moment. Those of
the 81rk1s4, Lahore, and Peshawar division, are to
essemble at Ifeeltan, and be forwarded to Bombay,
via 'Carmelite. Those from the north-west and
rd'have their depot meanwhile at Chinestrah
irrsagementa are made for these at Rassegunge.
It is likely that the whole of the gaps in the Artil-
, hey will be filled by volunteers fees the line regi-
meals. India is well rid of the light cavaby, or
despise," as they are popularly termed.
By the month of October next it is expected that
01.& will be totally disarmed. Not a fort will re-
main amid its jungles, save 44 retained for public
purposes. So thoroaghly has the work been carried
eat that a percentage of 10i arms for adults capable
of bearing them is Oede has bola taken or sumo-
Awed. In Delhi the parentage was little above 8 for
the 2f millions of population. Besides the arms taken
hem villages by the various military columns which
passed through the country in the course of the cam-
paign the new military police, which has proved
tselfmat effective, has taken about a million and •
leaf armor all kinds. About 1,100 Sepoys and 6,618
leave men have surrendered. The Legislative Coun-
cil have extended the time for the operation of
the Disarming Act, and that relating to foreigners
resident in India, both of which were on the past
of expiry, for a longer period. The former will
probably be made permanent when it is re-considered
at the end of the year. Until the whole of India is
effectually disarmed, and the use of Are arms espe-
cially is Ingotten, oar power will be threatened,
and the civilisattha we introduce insecure. But with
• government sate se the present this is too much
Is lope foe. A large native army has sprung up
mire dangerous than the one it has superseded;
aids by side with it is a large body of polioe, military
led otherwise; the discipline is if possible worse,
and the =penes pester than before; a correspond-
lag European faros is required to watch the native;
the courts are not reformed; the regulations are
again imposed in the north-west, officials have lost
heart, and we are not drifting but being driven to
the second mutiny by the man who was unequal to
the first, and who squanders the grandest opportu-
nities for the reconstruction of an empire that his-
tory record..
All this is increased by the finaccial difficulty, to
which the attention of the public has again been
drove by a speech of Mr. Harington, Member of
the Legislative Council for the North West Pro-
visoes, leads in introducing a bill to levy a tax on
trades and profession. in India. Re reviewed the
oreeenres already adopted to meet the deficit, and
distinctly hinted at others which would be nesse-
mry in addition to this new tax. The sew tariff
which he acknowledged falls "to a very much
greater extent" on the European than the native,
with the increase of duty on Malwa opium from
400 re. to 500 re. a chest, was expected to yield
130 Lacs of rupees, and this expectation has been
more than realised. The next measure was the
Stamp Act, which ia still before the Council, and
while the revenue from the sale of stamps other than
judicial will probably be largo, the increase from
judicial stamps will not amount to meth, on so-
mint of the reforms in the courts which are about
to he carried out. Bills are also in the women to
Insane the duties on salt in the presidencies of
Madras sad Bombay. The new bill proposes to raise
a tax by mane of a goverment limas* foe camp
leg on trades and protessione. It recognises a prin-
ciple that is not new to *Mies traders. A tax of
the same kind at preemie exists in Madras ender the
name of Moturpha, and yields a revenue of about
12 lace a year. This is to he abolished, and all save
those who derive an income from land, and emu
-
moot officials, are to pay what really Is an
bosoms tax. Bankers alone will belong to the
int two classes in the schedule, on whom 2,000
ter 1,000 re. will be levied yearly. This will reach
the larp clam of native capitalists, end =shaking,
who more than say ether have benefited by the British
1111.111,111111111 t. UMW them mire individual, carrying
OM
bads or exercising a proressioa, rated
_yearly
at 800, 260, 160, 60, ?A, 10, 5, and 2 re. The eel.
teeter will determine in what class each is to be
assomed, and will be aided by • penehayst, only, we
pregame in same whirs thew is an objec-
tion to his rating. Be premier is the necessity
for additional revenge, and so fairly dose the
mew tax sleet all dames, that there would probably
have been bat little opposition to it but for its pro-
posal to exempt all officials. There can be no doubt