The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY %-oipirENlN

LATAirg INTELLIGENCE.
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INDIA•l
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THE BUDGE. •
Bombay journals of the 25th ult., received this
morning, contain summaries of Mr. Wilson's finan-
cial statement. The Gazette nays :

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The brightest page in the history of British India seems
opening out before us. Since the outbreak of the groat re•
hellion three years ago no mail has taken home to England
such wholly cheering and satisfactory news as we now
have to record. The successful laying of the
submarine cable from Burrachee to Aden has
removed oee source of anxiety for the stability
of our Indian government, by bringing this country within
a week of England. The closing of the Fivnmd-e•Half per
Cent. Loan, which at present stands at a premium of some
3 per slant. all over India, and Mr. Wilson's hopeful finan-
cial statement, combined with a new scheme for taxation,
which has been accepted, in this presidency at least, with-
out the slightest grumbling or disconten►, have convinced
everyone that the worst of our financial difficulties are over,
and that the country will henceforth be freed from the
heavy curse of an annual deficit. Finally, a healthy sign of
the progress of Eaglish enterprise in developing the re-
sources of India is given by the opening of the first portion
of the great coast line of railway from Bombay to Baroda
and Ahmedabad.

lir. Wilma has justified the choice of the home govern-
ment, end the confidence of the people of England, that he
would enlighten our darimen seed bring order oat of the
chaos of Indian Ammon On Saturday, Feb. 1.8, the right
how gentleman rose in his plea is the Legislative
Orencil to make that slabeasat about widish &gland
and India have been vainly "peculating for the last
six months. The demand for tickets to be present
en the occasion seems to have been quite unpreeedented
in Calcutta ; and, indeed, the people of the swAropoklo are
show beginning to enjoy something of the mettentent of
parliamentary life. No detailed report of Mr. Wilson's
speech has yet reached Brenlny ; but, from telegreme re-
ceived by the government end by ourselves, we are melded
to place the following abstract of the Midget before our
readers. The proposed change' u cerionee donee were
notified in • GOWTIIIIIICII, Gazette Ilatraoratiaary, published
at an early hour on Monday morning, the 20th indent.
This we here subjoin in full :

NOTIFICATION.
Tim:mew. DSPARTIMIT, REMier.

The following {germ from the lime Secretary to the

government of bobs; despatched from Calcutta on the 18th
instant, is published for reend information :

A new Customs Duty Bill wes brought in to-clay. The
Iterstious are as follows :

All twenty per cent. duties reduced to ten per cent., ex-
empt duty on tobacco.
Cotton thread, twist, and yarn, raised to ten per cent.,
but proved contracte of goods actually at sea to be admitted
at five per cent.
Tobacco duty to be eight mums a seer on unmanufectured
tobacco ; one rupee a seer on manufactured tobacco.

The duty on saltpetre to be two rupees a maund.
The following articles to be added to the free list :
boom's.

Wool, flax, hemp, jute, maps, prints, works of art, and
hides.

Wool, flax, hemp, jute, hides, tee, and ooffee.
Direct levy of customs duties on Monday next, the 20th
heat., at all porta, according to the above alterations.
By order of the Right Hon. the Governor in Council,
B. R. atm, Acting Secretary to Government.
Bombay Castle, Feb. 30, 1800.

amels for the indirect tame. In the way of direct
taxation we are to have both a license tax, in carne the
war, but in reality totally unlike that roassorabie tax
which lir. liarinaloa proposed, and which Dearly teased
smother rebellion, and a regular income tax. The license
tax will be levied as follows :—Artisans, Ir. per amain ;
tail dealers, 4r. per annum ; wholesale dealers, 11%. per
annum.

The income tax will be thus imposed :-1. All incomes
below 1100 r. go tree ; 2. Incomes between 109 r. and 500 r.
pay 3 per cent. ; & Incomes abo►e 600 r. pay 4 per cent.
The additional 1 per cent. oa first-class incomes will be
devoted to public improvement*. The semindars of Hemel
(as well as, of course, the fundholders and civil servants) are
subjected to the tax.

The prayers and remonstrumes of the Civil Service have
prevailed; and Mr. Wilson, as was anticipated, has declared
that he does not consider the expense of the service cap be
reduced. He, however, thinks the European army now
maintained in India far too large ; and porpoise to economise
fa ezpeaditure by incorporating en efficient police to discharge
many of the duties which are now left to the military
to perform. In conclusion, the finance minister tells
Luba not to look tel England for help, but to rely
oa herself. The Memory, he intim►tes, is full of cash ; no
new loan LI likely to be required for • long time to come ;
the introduction of a paper currency will increase the
mans and provide for the security of trade ; and, wit► her
whsle limacial system thoroughly restored, India hes no
right to ask from England • versales of her
Such is • 'nunnery of tho first good budget that India
W ►ad. It has met with general favour, and will, we
voltam to predict, pass into law wittiest opposition.

The latest news of Lord Canning's tour brings his
lordship to Lahore, from whence be was to journey
to Peshawur to meet Dost Mahomed, and then back
to Bealkote to have an interview with the Maharaja
of Cashmere.

Khan Elahadoor Khan has been tried at Bezellly,
and sentenced to be banged. He took the matter
very easily, chewing opium all the while the trial
was going on. It is a significant fact that the
Mahomedans could not be induced to give evidence
against the prisoner, or even to be present in the
court $ all during the proceedings.
The preparations for the China expedition were
proceeding briskly. Sir J. Michel, one of the
generals of division, had arrived in Bombay to
make ready for the voyage. The 3rd Regiment
N.I. had already embarked for its destination. Sir
W. Mansfield goes in obedience to the commands
of the Home Government.

PRUSSIA.

A letter from Berlin, dated the 16th inst., in the
Bwrienhalle, says :

Our cabinet has forwarded to Paris, relative to the
Savoy question, a declaration which napkins while waiting
for those of the other great powers, its objections on the
subject of the incorporation of Savoy and of Nice. The
observations made in this document refer partly to princi.
plea, partly to material facts.
As regards principles, Prussia points out how dangerous
appears to it the application of theories "of natural fron-
tiers," "universal suffrage," kc. As regards the fact itself,
Pruseisi declares openly that the cession of the slopes of the
Alp to France seriously weakens the security of the fron-
tiers of SvritaerLind and of Germany. . _

Naturally, this communication, which i■ isolated, and
not supported by any other power, is couched in very mode.
sate terms; it mud be looked upon se a protest wailed tlee
assesation,

ITALY.
DEMONSTRATION AT ROME.
The following telegram has been received ►t Mr.
Reuter's office :

ROME, MAEce 20.
Yesterday evening certain disturbers of the public
peace attempted a manifestation against the police,
which was immediately remand. Order and
tranquillity have been preserved, without any
incident to record.

SARDINIA.

A letter from Turin says :

L the Fri reeeplies given by the Yang of &Anne to
tie bendneena the pun of Ikeilto. who owns to
roost to hie Majesty the rink el the vole in list province

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distinotiga , being quite unexpected, produosis peat men.
satiate al Tarbes It was rqrarded not caly as • proof of per-
sonal @parlay, bat also as a token of astafaction well cal.
Waled to„sompsalate for the unjust attacks of parties.
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'ROM PARIS.

PARIS, TOVIDAT EVI3IIIIO.
of the Monitcor but of Y.
that the French government
I to the professions to be
made on the occasion of the triumphant success of
the policy of annexation in Central Italy, whereby
the prophecies and counsels of the Emperor's speech
and M. Thouvenel's despatches, in lees than tee
little month,are falsified and set at nought The Pays,
however, which hitherto has been an anti•ltalian
journal, contains a paragraph which, though not
printed conspicuously, or attested by any sig-
nature oh known weight, is worthy of notice as
confirmatory of a statement which I had grounds for
making last week, that the Emperor, upon reflec-
tion,.had made up his mind to accept the results of
universal suffrage in Italy--st least for the moment
The Pays says :—" The event, in Italy, although
they may not strictly accord with the views and
hopes that have been manifested, are, nevertheless,
regular and normal, and of a nature to satisfy the
legitimate aspirations of the peoples, and to offer
guarantees of security to Europa"
The Patric of this evening says :—" 50,000 men
are about to be levied in Tuscany and 25,000 in the
Emilian provinces, which will increase the Sardinian
army to nearly 300,000 men. It is asserted that
Piedmont will contract a loan of 150 millions of
francs."

The King of Sardinia has appointed the follow-
ing Tuscans, who all distinguished themselves in
the late war, to be his orderly officers : MM. Casa-.
nova, Serristori, envie, Corsini Laistico, Tokfn-
mei, and Itiaisdi.

The Bourse bee been steady and without any
marked feature. The Rente rose 15a for cash
and 10c. for account, closing at 67fr. 95c. and
67fr. 90c. Mobilier rose 3fr. 75c. Railways were
in request, and rose from 3fr. to Mr.

The Pn;gres of Lyons, cited by the &We, says
that three camps will be organised this spring—one
at Chalons (already spoken of ), another at Lund-
vile, and a third at St. Omer, and that the troops
destined to form them will march between May 1
and la.

The Emperor presided this morning at a sitting
of the Council of State held to consider the sugar
duties.

The Prase says, in its weekly commercial re-
view :

Business is in much the same state as it was lest week.
People await the realisation of the announoed reforms before
making new perchers., and are disposed to get together as
much capital as possible, so as to have funds in hand when-
ever the favourable moment for operations may arrive. It
is, moreover, doubtful, leaving aside the question of cus-
toms reform, whether there will be much activity so long se
the affairs of Italy remain unsettled. According to the
Lenoir Coannerentl, the new sugar duties, from and after
April lb, will be settled SS fellows :—Home and colonial
seer, 14 type, Mfr. the 100 kilos. The produce of Gorda.
loupe and Martinique will enjoy a drawback of Sir.
per 100 kilos., and that of the Reunion of Mr., until
July 1, 1881. After July 1, 1861, the drawbacks
will be reduced to from Ur. to 2fr. a year,
en
as to establish equal duties upon all French sugars
front July 1, 1864. On the 18th of April next all foreign
sugars, not being European, will pay 28fr. Sugars of the
second type will pay a surcharge of 2fr. The government
reserves to itself the right of creating as many types as may
be deemed expedient. The reduced duties on coffees will
come into operation at the same period. They will be fixed,
it is said, at 301 r. the 100 kilos. for all foreign coffeassotbeing
European, 38fr. for coffees from the entrepor and 42fr. for all
coffees imported under foreign flogs. The two war centimes
must be added to the above figures. The commercial
tarty with England having become operative immediately
after the vote of the House of Commons, cairn spesial
branches of trade have already begun to feel the effect of
it. It is within our own knowledge that several English
agents are travelling in the wine districts of Bordeaux,
Saintonge, and the TwoCharentes, and have made carders-
: hie purchases of wines and brandies. A disposition to do
I business in silks is also noticed at Lyons, where some
English houses, coming early into the field to take advan-
tage of the reduced duties, have made some selections,
which, however, are not as yet very extensive. There is
nothing doing at Rouen and Mulhouse. The iron merchants
in the Haute Marne are making a tremendous noise about
the new tariff, in the hope, doubtler of obtaining NMI
Mt of compensation and the resiliation of their retracts
with the government for the purchase, at long dates, of
wood from the state forests. There is no change in the prices
of corn and wine.

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