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 Ecuatlur tl zt a -debt is only
binding so long as there is money wherewith to payit.-
,
Ecuador Las ling been in a semi-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withdrawn.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 or:speculations the better.

The Peking Gazette, of December the 14th,
1868, contains an announcement which is interesting in
bath 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 great
R:bellion, 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 Pei 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
accessible to foreigners ; and if such publicity be antici-
pated by its compilers a check will, no doubt, be placed on
their natural but unhappy tendency to misrepresent the
true state of affairs. Another Chinese official publication,but
of a different character, has recently been completed. This
is a topographical survey of the Province of Kwang-tung,
accompanied by maps of each of the ninety districts into
which the Province is divided. The survey was com-
menced in 1861 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
volume; 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 boar 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.—Triibner's Literary Rec rd.
TIIE 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 f. om 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 bo printed on
cigar labels. The stamp tax on tobacco, snuff, or cigawrs,
manufactured, sold, or imported since July 20, 1868, ill
be refunded if proper application is made, and it is shown
that all the revenue laws have been complied with. Re-
venue collec ors may in any case, at their discretion, allow
snuff and smoking tobacco manufactured prior to the 20th
of July, 1868. not in wooden packages, to be stamped and
sold in the original package; and the rate of duty on cigars
imported prior to July 20, 1868, and now remaining in
bond, shall be the same as on cigars imported after that
date.
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