The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-06 00:00:00

EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1860.

PAPER DUTY.

WONT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND
The following' report bas *a addressed by the
Cosaigissiosers it Inland Revisal to the Treasury
oa the Repeal of the Duty epee Paper :
Weed Beioarta. Illeserget Hesse, W.C.
Mal* 1, 1860.
May it plum your lordships.—
, We hare observed in the Nurse of the recent debates on
the budget reseal rehreeess w obesreetioom made by se in
lour easel reports an the erideess of the paper duties.
- Itsa Wee Inhered hen the pewees alluded to, that oar
apneas, of the GSM ef the paper duty does not beer out
the steaming el the Chemalkir of the Exchequer hi hie
speeds on the 10th of February, lamely, " that the Board et
Inked Leveaue ere eorepletery 'grad that there ought ere
be • repeal of the duty."
This Winer% however, Y set sorra* We beg Ism to
state that it is our &libels% "piston the" the paper duty (to
Ise the weeds el the ChaMeeihr of the Euelisquir) is
rapidly Moming eat amble," sad we hops to @gaiety your
lordetops tees this opinion le sot latemietset with those
which we hest previcualy expeassed ea **subject.
It is so doubt tree that in our first sad mooed reports we
noticed as a dreamiest' which distiegaisbes the paper duty
from other duties of mho, that the regulative, ender which
the remise from this smarm is °Waded are such as to im-
pose very alight regirioticas derieg the process of mate-
Mara

Orstivreent with tha effect of very mall clifferesisto la
la the course of MM. But we have probably mid
Eta part our consemes la the Chancellor of the
,oer's kr we comet coomin a mlaw
tau le peaks for the heads of a memo thpartment
that is which we are placed when in enswee
oemleints few meows whose trade b moiltikled by war
election of minty from which their essiolitere mp exempt,
say that such I. the neesemey osesmome of
of the tax. It Is this nehrtnnato abet of the
paper duty which so distinguishes it for evil; sal it is to
this that we limit our obervations cm the present ininelon.
Weed, such inequality of passive as we have mentioned
@ppm to afford a more valid ground of objectkn then the
wore Imam of preeenre which is insisted upon with so much
lIMINSISSI aMdaft Ity publishers, aewspaper proprietors,
sad eels edvembis ef She sepal of the paper duty.
Whit tits etalowwite ma arguments of them gentleman
your lordshipe am denhane familiar, and at all events can
rembe tee eseletewere lona us in order to appreciate their
We ham
thek howl* upon the gawks order coo -
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(aligned)

LATEST IN TELLIGEN CE.

real prospects of these mining companies la t
the commencement of last spring cannot be tested
till the rains of autumn, and we shall be much sur-
prised if at that time very satisfactory malts are not
obtained."

INDIA.

Bombay journals of February 9 have come to
hand this afternoon. We learn from them that in
COMM quenoe of the despatch from home of troops for
the China expedition, several of the regiments de-
tailed in the acoonnts by the last mail as destined
for China from the Bengal Presidency, have been
countermanded, and that the following is the present
arrangement:

/1. new gold-field him been discovered at the had of th,,
Yarns in one of the western spars of the Australia Alpe;
in • looality which from the scrubby and rocky character
of the country had never been explored. Some Elect
mad brought Into town was analysed by Dr. Mac.
&dam, cad found to be worth at the rate of
1,6001. per ton. Ia the Legislative Assembly the Chid
Secretary stated, in 'sewer to a question, that a person of
the name of Were' bad called on him some time ago, sad
reported that he had discovered a new gold-field. The Nod
was through Yew sad by Bryant'e station. Fifteen at
twenty mile' beyond the latter point the road became
very difficult. The discoverer had traced the creek
for about forty miles, and had found pia
all the way, but not in large quantities. The
staff which was taken from the creek, which bad the appear.
awn of black sand, had been analysed and declared to be
very valuable, the sample being estimated to be worth
1,6001. per ton. The road to these gold-fields is, howe‘se,
so difficult that this is no Immediate probability of their
attracting a large population.
Laroplough appears to be keeping up its character. The
official statement tithe Chief Secretary is that these digging.
aro stunting an important character, that there are alree4
20,000 people on the ground, that no tingle individual hale
obtained say great result, bat that it was believed the 1„-,-
giags would Vn out to be very profitable.
There had been a large number of insolvencies
during the past mouth, bat in most cases the liabili-
ties were small. The anticipations of large failures
had not been realised. The local markets, how-
ever, were in I most unsatisfactory state. The
Melbourne Herald .aye:

3rd Boit. goes to China.
„ 6th „ to Boum sad Atli:agar!).
„ Bth „ toroth/ to Calcutta for Chloe.
„ 37th „ stand fast at Oisateopore.
~ 60th „ (lit Bit.) Fort William
„ b7th „ pa. to China.
~ 73rd „ stood teat at Diaspora
„ 99th „ to Cat Alt.

Cry PIXIMLY.
C. J.
Awn. Don Gm/Dow.
et bar Ilsontja Treasury.

Ths Lords

In consequence of these changer," says the
Bombay Standard, "her Majesty's 24th will stand
fast, and two regiments will be stationed in the
hills, one at Dugshai, and the other at Kussow-
lie, bat the selection is not yet made. The
embarkation of such troops as are definitively
destined to form part of t►e force is rapidly pro-
ceeding, and we look with interest for some infor-
mation respecting the artillery from home. All the
arrangements are concluded for its transport from
Suez."

Your lordships mu aware that the bilerreation of the excise
oiler tikes pl.ai at • paper mill, for the first time, when
the paper is reedy to b• seat out. It Is then his business to
weigh it, to amp the duty ecooedieg to this weight, and to
place round as roans labelsand wrappers denoting that the
charge has been made, end distinguishing them from such
as have sot been brought under hie inspection.
These maple regulations leave the paper-maker compara-
tively tree to adopt the beet end most economical mode, of
workiag, and he can scarcely snort, as the malteters and
distillers do, that the cost of production Is increerid, at the
quality of the meankeotured article impaired, by the fetters
imposed epos him for fiscal purpose/.
We eessidered it right to point out this dletinguishing
o►sreelrWb of the paper duty, aim important considera-
tion in •ay discussion respecting the maintenance of it em •
source of rwvea•e, and as being a matter of which few per-
sons besides those practically conversant with the operation
of the revenue laws could be expected to have say knowledge.
But our observations were limited to able one point, measly,
the freedom of the proms of manufaotnre from excise regu-
lations, and were nut intended to convey any opinion upon
the wider question whether the general effects of the duty
were or were not as pernicious em bad been represented by
the advocates goer its repeal.
I. our third report, however (that of het year), we WWII
compelled to drew your lordships' shanties' to the
very great sod awessing msberrassenente in which we
were aveived in collecting this tax. We pointed out
that this state of things was attributable a • great
won to the condemnation of the duty by • resolution
of the Home of Commons; and we might perhaps have
added, that the evils of which we complained had bees aeon-
mulstiag for missy years previously, under the prev,lence of
a general hammiest that the duty on paper would be given
up on the very first available opportunity. We endeavoured
to show how imperials it was under these circumstances to

The expedition with the submarine telegraph
cable, which left Muscat on the morning of the 24th
January, completed the laying of the line to
Kooria Mooria saccessfally, on Sunday, the 29th
January. Bombay residents were waiting with some
impatience to hear of its continuation to Aden, when
India will be almost within instant communication
with Europe.
Lord Canning, we learn from • north-west con-
temporary, held a grand durbar in Umballah at
noon on the 19th of January, at which the Mahe-
rsjah of PlitteetJah, the Rajah of Jheend,
and a large assemblage of other princes and
nobles wire present. The scene is described
as having been very grand and impressive. In the
afternoon there was a grand review, in which the
7th litmus, 6th Dragoon Guards, a troop of Royal
Artillery, a detachment of the 33th Foot, the
87th Royal Irish Fusiliers. and the 27th Innis-
killings, together with several native regiments,
waisted, the object being that Visoonntees
Canaing might present new colours to the gallant
87th. In the evening a ball was to be given by the
of oers of her Majesty's 27th Inniskillings, and the
camp was to break ground again for Lahore, on the
23rd January. It is said that Lord Clyde will
accompany the Governor-General to Peshawar,
where Duet Mahomed is to be received at • grand
durbar.

At no period daring the peat five years have them markets
been so oompletely overdone and depressed. The evil woe-
gnomes of tzarist/a importation would appear to hate
culminated, •nd a general feeling of want of confidence
in the future of our import trade pervades the city, and we
do not see how It could well be otherwise. From
month to month, for years past, it has been strenuously
nrpd that these markets are not capable of almorbiag the
400111109 As supplies which COM* forward from the United
Kingdom, from the East, and from America. Our powers
of consumption, it has bean said, have a positive limit, and
the old laws of supply and demand apply equally in
this as in ether countries. But enpoetulation
this nature has been without effect. Speculation
In imports, of the moat preposterous kind, has gone steadily
forward, and one section of reckless speculators has Lem
succeeded by another, so that all the evils of a bad system
have been kept vigorously alive. At this moment we find that
nearly every, if not every, imported article is held in inottlinsta
quantities, and that sellers are willing to realise on
terms which, in many instances, leave • direct loss.
Goods are passed about from hand to band, and a little
spurious excitement is occasionally engendered by the pro-
ceedings of • few credulous buyers ; bat the Lot Mill re-
mains notwithstanding, that no healthy trade is being car-
ried on, and that business is gradually becoming leas ma-
nerative to all who are moaned in it.

apply to pullameat for power to subject sew branches of the
teed' to excise regulations ; and at thorium time how unit's&
It wee to allow to ose as exemption from that duty sad sur-
vey which slow prevented • rival branch from successful
oompatition is the refirket.

A serious disturbance has broken out is the city
of the Nizani.

SYDNEY.
(DT ILICTIUO TZLEOWII.)

SYDNEY, JAN. 16.

The Liseknoie Herald says it has news from
the frontiers to the effect that Jung Bahadoor
has surrendered the Begum and her son Burjees
Ka& unconditionally, without any stipulation
for their maintenance ; and that they have
arrived at Gouda and will be sent on to Lucknow.
Should this news be confirmed, there is no longer
any rebel leader in the field, of high or low degree,
in Nepaul. There appears, however, to be a cause for
regret inanother quarter. The Oade Gaulle hears that
tidings have been received at head-quarters of "a
feeling of discontent still lingering in the minds of the
remnant of the late Company 'a European troops, wipe-
cially the Artillery. It has transpired that several of
them, in different parts, have been in correspon-
dence, urging each other to agitate for the bounty.
To put down this spirit of insubordination, govern-
ment has resolved upon some most stringent mea-
sures, which the ringieaders will be shortly made to
feel."

Flood has resigned his seat for Canterbury. Busi-
ness dull. Martell's brandies have been quoted at
lls. The City of Sydney while steaming down
the harbour on Saturday evening with the
sup.lementary mail, ran down the boat of the
American ship John Gilchrist, and Robert England
the carpenter was drowned. Bush fires are raging
at Botany, Rondwick, and North Shore. The
Champion cricketers played eleven picked men oa
Saturday. The latter in their first innings scored
81; the Champions, 84, when stumps drawn with
five wickets to fall. Weather very warm.

As an example, we selected the case of the cars-makers
and the ps.teboard-makers • we slight hare specified amoral
others, which have lately Less brought to your lordships'
mike.

Without going into the details (which are to be found Is
pages 13 and 14 of oar third annul report), it may he
eufßchutt to state that card-mane are exempt from excise
survey while pasteboard-makers are subject telt; that the die-
Unction, between the ankles prods:ad ay the two Medan is
merely seminal, and that it Ia dearaely as exaggeration to my
that we are Laying a duty oa A, wink we allow B to send
mat goods pricks, similar to salon, without sny laterfe-
rums from the revenue dicer.

It may be esti that the lira, Is, either to plea the °ord-
inate* wider sultry, or to exempt the pestaboard-makers;
bat, besides the remelts above referred to, which pre-
vent um from adopting tita former alternative la
• ease of paper duty, we nut frankly ova that
we believe It to be itopawitibt et the prating day to
subject to the enpervistun of tbe eaelsewea say rem
of traders who bare hitherto beta Ns hem It; sad, on the
other head, if the peateboord-makes were be be declared
exempt, we shosid have to tsooantor the load and well-
feuded oomplistate of their rivals, those piper-makers,
samely, who make pasteboard at their wills, and who are
rear/eerily ander excise survey so long se • duty on paper
exists.

ADELAIDE, imi. 16.
Flour, 161. 10s. Wheat, 6s. Ild. per bushel.
HOBART TOWN, Jan. 11.

Wool sells more readily, but prices have not ad-
vanced. Timber dull. There is a fair local demaud
for potatoes. Flour, 201.; bran, Is. sd. The 'Pas-
mania sailed for Melbourne at 3.30 pan. to-day.

The parteboard-makin again come before as in the cha-
racter of tail:wed poetise, W 11.12 they compare the treatment
whiob they receive with that of the seal board-maker. Pasta-
board it swim la Os natural rival of waleboard. Left free
from *stemmas hideouts., thew two articles might perhaps
maturate the struggle foe supremacy without any decided ad-
vantage on either *ids; but lb* weight of actin, duty and
survey, which is brought to bear upon pasteboard alone,
gives to sealebtord an easy triumph In tbs wry same fleld in
which pasteboard form. rly obtained tits prodassow. Boxes,
for 'octane', of various Iliad., and especially bat-bozos, were
originally wads of pastotrosid--• mute mutable material for
the purpose than waleboard. Binee the duty hr been levied
on the forum and not on the latter • trade .Nab entirely
supported • large msnotactmy near Ozlord bas awed to
exist; asd it is asked, not without realm, whether it is fast
ID Wen arbitrardy for tazeti,,n on. of two articles me slier
in their 'stare sad is the purposes to which they ere ap-
pal:6l4e.
The grievances of the pasteboard-makers do not end hem
They appear again with toe more Important complaint that
the duty on peetsboard is aerioualy detrimental to the at-
port.n of serum light manufactures which are partial la
oresseretal boxes fur the foreign market, aao that it ideally
bas the effect of wropelliag Om British roar, pant to import
fur this purpose boxes made in Germany instead of ludas
these leads et home. .

We observe that the Madras government have
sanctioned 7,01,440 rupees, the estimated oast of 23
miles, 3 chains of railway, in district No. 2 of the
North-West line. The district hes wholly in North
Arcot, and is not remarkable for large bridges
or any extraordinary amount of cutting and
emb►nkments, the largest bridge in it being the one
which crosses the Suvarnamukhi river. The esti-
mates include the whole work up to the formation
level; cost per mile, exclusive of station., rolling
stook, and the materials of the permanent railway,
Rs. 30,448.

On the 7th of February, the Bombay, Baroda,
and Central India Railway Company were to open
formally the Bret portion of their line. Great pre-
paration. were made at Broach in celebration of the
event; and trains were to start from Amrolee and
Kurjsn at 8 a.m. for Broach, leaving again for those
stations in the afternoon.

—Year lerinhipeare aware that to drawback as. be gins
lls such case, Masse, Is the Stet place, the serest of duty
originally paid on the paper °turning the pasteboard sank
be ascertained, and In the hafted plus, supposing that an
approximate rate could be find upon, so as to obviate
this difficulty, it would still ha Impracticable to obtain the
tan of Will boxes when tilled with roods reedy for shipment.
That a close examination would be neseessry is proved by
the remarkable fact that an sppliraat on this subject recently
forwarded to as a box as a speciroso of than which he used'
sod which turned oat to be nude of soalaboard, an article as
whin, as before observed, no duty is levied. The duty,
Weston os pasteboard boxes, and as slips of pasteboard on
which certain goods are wound, or to %Wok they are at-
tached, le a bardea from which our manufacturers °asset be
rell.ved so lona as the paper duty is maintained, end is, so
doubt, u alleged by them, an impediment the clue com-
petition which they esemanter is the foreign and animist
markets. Their endeavour to sane front this difficulty
by Importing foreign base (sabres et the Comoro-
Men to as al valorem duty, which is set an equiva-
lent to that of the Sarin) whin it etude but aa Imperfect
remedy to the exporters, is an additional cause of ootoplahtt
@genet the anneal °parades of the revenue laws from the
seeker@ Sparer and netaboard is oar owa eountry.
The &ben Was= are Bosse of those which have been
asst resseely pond ape our smiths as Illeatradag the
uneepal ilesideese of the piper duty, aged we have fated It
impossible .eideor le they the existesse of Os ends coin •
pained .1 oe to suggest say moody shin of the earn
repel of Oa duty.
Nomeress other samples might he adduced of the raw
'sharpy effect from this tax; bed the orpleastions maso-
nry to sake them ineligible would Ind as lath too much
detail Le our prevent purpose. We oaten ourselves with
rondading your lordships of the leassent demands of the
stainers to have the Dame drewbaak os the waste
caulap of writing-pales as Is allowed as the cuttings of
envelopes. of the Impossibility of greeting this wittiest
opening the door to the payment of drawback upon every
small piece of pope produced fir that purpose, and of the ab-
surdity to which the cathesion would this reduce os. Your
lordships may remember that all ear diffiroldes Is this respect
have erase from an attempt to motors the balance between
the envelopes made at a pier-wilt sad those mode by
stationers, disturbed se It was to the diesdnaune of the
laity by their waste cuttings being subject to the duty,
while there occurnag at the mill are reconverted into pulp
before the charms of duty is nine. It is Impassable to May
that the prinarle on which we thus acted is of wore extended
application; bat we have elsewhere hilly eaplaisad to your
lordship how Impracticable it would be to attempt to carry
it into effect.

The object of the expedition sent against the
Wuzzerees has been accomplished, and the murderer
of the late Captain Mesh= has been surrendered,
and wu taken into Bunt* on the 22ad Jan. Ile
had been slightly wounded by hie captors, and wu
removed on a charpoy. He hu confessed to
having been the chief agent in the murder.

AUSTRALIA.

We have rewired advice@ from Melbourne to
Jan. 17, and from tiydney (by electric telegraph) to
Jan. 16.

The political record for the month contains but
few incidents. A large part of the interval since
the previous summary had been occupied by the
Christmas and New Year's holidays, to the almost
total cessation of both trade and polities. The
political situation remains unchanged.

The revenue returns for the year 1859, just issued.
exhibit a highly satisfactory state of things in the
Treasury. All the ordinary sources of income con-
tinue to be very prolific--subjeot of course to slight
variations from year to year. In no instance does
the aggregate revenue fall below three millions
sterling, whilst last year it was nearly a quarter of
a million above that amount.

The new commander of the forces in Australia.
Mejor-Genaral Pratt, arrived in the Blackwell liner
Result on January 8. Hs war received by his
Exoellenoy Sir Henry Baskly, accompanied by
Captain Bancroft, A.D.C., and Captain Norman,
who proceeded on board the Result, and having been
welcomed to his new command in the Australia',
the whole party returned on shore, under a salute
from the guns of the Victoria.
The following are the quantities of gold exported
during the current year :

Is It to defied sport prisoipla the eubjew.
ties of artificial pa/ohm-at to the piper ditty, while the true
parckmeat is free; yet it is absolutely owieroary to maistala
(u we did la the Nam of Zaebegoor) that • proems of
meaufactare eilmittlag et he War fieseriptioa that that
which would be OM of pipse-mairlag. mast be treated
preciaily se peps- saiikieg, sad it le riser that the Assam-
went dm claim for Oat, la the 11.11 uses VOlll4 Illsmessetly
lead lo the same remit i• the fiber. We shoal etherwhe
t=vis abstained Sr.. late with Ude wsad
prahowbee, while we bar bee bees manly imp-
rera I by the *lineal which peed it tusks the mow
It wall he a wiry leap task Y eamemralie all the come
the elms to which we ham Winne coollasi
sew remarks; times, asmely, la white Ihe large mane,
sad duty writhes to at. deeeripitm of tesemdeetored aide*
while another, Its mom tae sa ohs aiediat, le WI slab*
tree. Is rushy of thus the eat Y egreestly
though Sot M is re.Uly ; es/ eves Wises sheik us sues;
'otiose the imp mews el the lasipailhke la the insiders
of the duty will sot be duly estimated. mege tiesevite

Week ending— OIL
January 7.—Wosgi Wangettee Sydney 13,847
belle of the West, for Hoeg-

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Kong
si 14.—City of Sydney, for Sydney 1,997
Buff.4lk, ex Leadoe
Total exported this year

" The general opinion is," rye the Mellassrow
Herald, " that our gold fielda hansom their wont,
sad that 1860 will show a very great increase. The
various mining companies are only just getting to
work ; and their dams and other erections
for the purpose of catching and retain-
ing water hays to • great extent bees
Inoperative in oonaequenoo of the dry wawa. The