The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-18 00:00:00

REPUDIATION.

The republic of Ecuador has followed the example of
the rapidly increasing number of States which borrow
without considering the means of payment. The Presi-
dent has informed the unhappy capitalists who have
entrusted money to—Pcuador that a acbt, fa vnly
binding so long as there is money wherewith to pay it.
Ecuador Las long Lcen in a scull-bankrupt condition.
Fourteen years ago it made over 25 per cent. of its
Customs' receipts to the bondholders as interest upon its
debts. This appropriation, which only allowed a payment
of 1 per cent. where G bad been promised, has now been
withdrawn. The creditors of Ecuador have been repudiated
altogether. The sooner English capitalists understand
that lending money to these Governments is one of the
wildest oftspeculations the better.

The Peking Gazette, of December the 14th,
1868, contains an announcement which is interesting in
both a literary and a political aspect. An imperial de-
cree, referring preliminary to the address which it ap-
pears was presented to the Throne in 1864, on the capture
of Nanking, by the Board of Ceremonial Observances,
with the request that ancient precedent be complied with
through the compilation of an official history of the groat
Rebellion, proceeds to declare that while the last off-
shoots of the Taiping insurrection still remained in vig-
our it was not proper to comply with the board's request ;
but that now, as not only the Taiping rebels of South China;
but also the Nieu Foi banditti of the northern provinces
have been wholly put down, it is fitting that a national re-
cord of these vast disturbances be proceeded with. A com-
mission is accordingly named for the purpose of super-
intending the compilation of such a history, and among
the five Cabinet Ministers appointed to this duty Prince
Kung and Wen Siang—both well known from the fact of
their having been since 1861 the principal directors of
foreign affairs at Peking=occupy the leading positions.
Some years will elapse,- no doubt, before the results of this
undertaking are laid before the throne ; but it is to be hoped
that, when completed, the proposed history will become
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accompanied by maps of each of the ninety districts into
which the Province is divided. - The survey was com-
menced in 1864 in obedience to an imperial decree, which
ordained the revision of all existing sources of information
on this subject ; and the work performed in obedience to
this mandate was lately printed at Canton in eighteen large
volumes, containing the topographical. and statistical me-
moranda relating to the several districts, accompanied by
three volumes of corresponding maps. The execution of
the latter is inferior, although they bear evidence of re-
ference having been made to the English Admiralty sur-
veys of the coast line'; but the publication on the whole is
likely to prove of some utility as travel in the interior be-
comes more frequent.—Triihner's Literary Rec rd.
TUE NEW TAX BILL.—The most important pro-
visions of the new whisky and tobacco tax bill, as passed
- by Congress, are these :—The time for withdrawing dis-
tilled spirits from bonded warehouses is extended till June
30, subject to a tax of 1 per cent. a gallon for each month
after April 30; all spirits remaining in bond after June 30
to be forfeited to the Government. Retail liquor dealers
(those who sell less quantities than five gallons) are taxed
$25; wholesalers $lOO. Distillers of brandy from grapes,
peaches, and apples exclusively, producing less than 150
barrels annually, will pay a special tax of $5O. Either the .
proprietor's or the manufacturer's name must:be pripted.pn
cigar labels. The stamp tax on tobacco, snuff, or cigars,'
manufactured, sold, or imported .since July.2o, 1866, will .
be refunded if proper application is mada,•and it is Shown
that all the revenue laws have been complied with: 11e-
venue collec ors Mayin' any case, at theii diScrt.tian;allow
snuff and smoking tobacco manufactured prior to i li.•
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of July, 1868. not in wooden pac,kages,-to be stamped and
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sold in the original packages, and tke rate of duty on cigars
imported prior to July 20, 1868 i, afid now rernay.n," n
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bond, shall ' be the sae as on bigttislidipo:led a . fter that
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date. ' . - . • ' •
. • on) Constipation,
.• lA.DVERTISESIENT.I-Dyspepgia (Indigcsti
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Debility. Consumption, and all nervous, bi im:,tia,td
and
accele-
liver
comulaints in every stage, are only agfer3catly curable by Du
rated by drugs of every description, but.per
bee Food, as proved by. • •
Barry's health-restoring
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thousands a cases which
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flattilency,mervousness. biliousness, . ,
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tions 113-stevia, • neuraigirr...
- Matism, gout, impurities,. erup. i,ition,
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bility, sleeplessnees,_ acidity, p Ipi
nausea, and Str.kuAss,. siren gin'
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debility, dropsy, cramml, spasms.
fits, bronchitis, serbfuta,..tiglitm;Ss
pregnancy or at see, T
; at the of the stomach and bativdeu.
be
of the •ellest, pair a" 'few .-The Rope's health re'stored'by
shoulders, &e. 'We quote a
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' !tome, July I?. 184,5--Tha
Du Batrv's Food. Cure No .....,N,;
• -.• 'etifent, especially sines; libandon-
health o? the Holy Father is x
lies conflued himself entirely to -.Du
ing all 'ether rcinedies,
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Barry's Revalenta Arabica. a
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erlifeC't eon his health. and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent ,
food ton bighly.,-From the "Gazette du Midi," July 2a. Cure . •
. No, 46,270 -Mr. James Roberts, timber, merchant._ of Frimley,
Surrev, or ihirty years' diseased lungs,. spitting of blood, liver is
derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. 1,771-Lerd Stuart
tleeDecies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many year:/' dyspepsia. 1.
NO. 49,832-.."Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia
nervousness, asthina. cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms
: sickness, and ;vomiting.-Maria July." Important Caution.-
Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations.
to whieh. without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most atula ,
clo
tie; at
, - a ti`fts, at is lid; 1 lb 2s Od; 21bs 4s ca ; 5 lbs lie; 12 lbs Ws:
lbs 40s. - Also DU BARRY'S REVALBNTA ARABICA CBOCOLAT4 _ • `,te
. %TER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at Vs, for 21 ttipa'.,
at Be 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at SOs, for 576 cups at.. s
3-bciug about one penny per cup. The 308 and 55s tins are sent
'free of carriage iu England ou receipt of Post-Office Order,-
BAnEY Du BA/my and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; and
all Grocers and Chemists.