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

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1859.

that their Woks, espoially if covenanted, are abdot
to be reduced. It is squally felt that the military
service is far from being overpaid. Even the higher
orders of the encovenanted look for a slight rodeo-
ties. Bat nothing can justify a class tax, especially
when it is the whole executive that is relieved from
its burden. Rather than not place all under the
general liabilities, relieve officials of the fear of im-
mediate redaction of their salaries, or redoes them
to a leas extent. It is most likely that a pro-
posal which is the fruit, if not of audacity,
at least of folly, will be dropped as the
bill passes through its several stages. It may
ultimately be posed as a regular income tax
like that in England. It is expeeted to yield 160
lace of rupees, bat this is probably below the troth.
Even however with this and the previous additions
there will be a deficit in India alone of millions
sterling. If to that be added • similar sum for the I
home deficit, we have a total of at least 13 millions
sterling. There are still four sources from which
the government may draw, mentioned by Mr.
Harington--an income tax, • secoarion duty, a
hose tax, and • duty on tobacco grown in the
country. A communion is at presentsitting in Bom-
bay, composed of a representative officer of seek
presidency, to ascertain what reduction can be made
in the military expenditure. Another occamilidoe'
will make similar inquiries the naval
department. But meanwhile from regarding the want of a
vigorous policy or of any policy, as expensive and
useless native army is being kept up, disarmed sepoys
of the old army are kept on to be watched, and
messy is wasted all over the country where it might
be eared. The quarterly official statement of sums
paid into the oven lone gives these miserable re-
sults: —Far Five-and-a-Half per Cent. Lola
Cash, 4943,400 re. ; transfer, 48,99,400 re. ; total,
96,02,800 re. Treasury Bina, 94,87,000 vs. Or is
ash not so mash as 106 lees. The total yield of
the 6 per oat. loan now closed is re. 20,79,62,000, of
which somewhat less than a half le by transfer from
the 4 per anti.
Bot amid all this, the remit of admiaisiratio and
Amadei imbecility, there is one encouraging fact.
The trade of India is advanoieg with gigantic
strides. We give an analysis of that of Calcutta in
another column. For 1868-69 its value is about 31
millions sterling, or an increase of a million and a
quarter on the preceding year. That of Bombay is
the same; of Rangoon, 3; of Madras, 7; of 'Con-
chal, 21; with the small west ports we have a
total of upwards of 76 millions. The imports of
silver into Bengal alone within the last five years
reach 26 millions sterling.
Mr. Oran, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, is
at present making a tour in the interior. Lord
Canning wilt visit the north-west in the course of
next month.

CHINA.

(Pram the Offrilla ',Vied of Chipso, of August 10.)

In eeriest report lassos (Hong Kong) we told of
the repulse of the English and French forces from
the forte at the Illtrapos of the Peiho river, and the
consequent return of the French and English
ministers to Shanghni. We have intelligence from
Shanghai to the 'lad of August, but in connexion
with these painful matters nothing of any moment
has since oocurred.

'flu Majesty's steamer Cruiser and gunboats Ster-
ling and Forester still remain in the golf of Pahlli,
the rest of the defeated Nucleon being at anchor
principally off the entrance of the Ningpo river.
The Aaiseidas plenipotentiary, Ward, is still ea
board the steam ship Powhattan, in the gulf of
Peskin, and is as unlikely apparently to obtain a
ratification of the treaty made by his predecessor,
Mr. Reed, as either Mr. Bruce or M. Bourbon=
those concluded by the Earl of Elgin and Baron Gros.
Of the Russians not • word is heard; but it is
still supposed that they are in the background, and
that it was by their aid oar repulse was effected.
Still there is no proof of this that we know of;
while a French traveller from St. Petersburg to
Shanghai, via Pekin, =sorts that the members of
the Russian =lesion are treated very cavalierly by
the Pekingites, and hardly dare to show themselves
in the streets.

desert or later the truth must cease out in re-
sod to Chins, that the foreigners there have chiefly
their own stupidity to blame for the hostility of the
Chinese. Hiyiug, the most faithful and intelligent
Mead of our interests In China, was compelled to
setae& suicide by the Imperial Court because—and
we make the charge with pain—he was so slighted
and set aside by Lord Elgin's mission that the Im-
perial Court wee led to believe he had been deceiving
it es to his knowledge of and interest with foreigners-
Ewei-liang and Hes-Ghana were so slighted by Mr
Dense refusing to ass them at Shanghai, that
Prince Senn-ko-lin-sin, the head ef the war party,
was raised to influence. Now there are indica.
tires that the brutal outbreak and aseassination at
Shanghai will be treated in a manner calculated to
Immo the evil from which it sprung. Between
the coolie and the coolie trader it is a matter of six of
the one and half a down of the other. There is oc-
easionally fraud on both sides, and there may, very
rarely, be cases of kidnapping. It is too provoking
Co have our safety in China eadanpred by the
quarrel, of a few loose Portuguese and French cc

/Ike one wide, with lying,lambling ellipses= on this
, ether. In epithet the Mini= win made &bent
a hw individual cases, the bonellts of the balk are
largely in favour of the Chinese; and therefore,
since they choose to make it an occasias foe riot, we
should be justified in closing it altogether. Bat to
do this at the priest j tincture—to dismiss, as we hear

the French minister diroatenstodednoet of the coolies
in the dertrade,would be to commit one of those weak
end ill-judged sots which always lay the foundation
of Mare trouble. If the Chinamen of Shanghai are
to be loosened from their engagements and allowed
to pocket the benefits, by the somewhat simple ex-
pedient of ripping open the stomachs of a few of the
respectable foreigners resident there, they will be
DIM to find other engagements in which similar
means may be useful. If they are allowed to escape
with impunity, or an approach to it, they will pro-
bably have recourse to that gentle pressure when-
ever they have any other point which they desire
to carry against foreigners.

MANILLL, ACOVST 4.

A vessel arrived from Cochin China the other day
with 73 alms and troops. They say that peace
has been concluded, but nothing certain is known.

81110APORI, AUOUOT 16.—The ship Sovereign of
the Seep, hound from Bombay to China, ia a total
wreck in the straits of Malacca; cargo, chit fly cotton,
partially saved ; SO los of life.

Admiral Hope has been suffering severely from
his wound', and it is said will have to invalid.
His medical attendant, when probing the partially
closed wound in his hip the other day, discovered
and took out a link and a half of the Plover's
smoke stack stay, which had been driven in by the
Russian shot. The agony which the brave man
most have undergone from such an infliction can
only be eonesived. His Bxeellenoy's gallantry sad
endurance are spoken of by all in the highest terms,
and the sincerest pity kexpressed for the result of
his expedition so far as it affects himself.
Captain Vanaittart died of his wounds on the 17th
ultimo, even before the mail left China. The other
officers who were wounded are said to be doing well.
There has been a serious emeuts at Shanghai, in
which several foreigners have been killed, and others
wounded, among them being Mr. Interpreter Lay,
whoa in a precarious poeitios, his assailant ;having
ripped up his abdomen, whereby the bowels pro-
trude.

In the 'oath of China all is quiet, and, apparently,
likely to continuo so. As we said at the time the
news of the repels, fire, reached us, neither Chimes
authorities nor Chinese people are disposed to believe
that we have been defeated unless we ourselves ab-
eam them of it; for, in the first place, they deem
any report of fighting which they receive from their
countrymen as of the usual stamp, viz., one grain of
truth to nine of falsehood ; and in the second place,
the hot of the northern, being able to do what they
could not, implies a superiority which they are not
ready to admit.