The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-10 00:00:00

TROOPS.

General PEEL asked the Secretary of State for India,
whether there was any truth in the statement that had ap-
peared in the papers, copied from the Oude Gazette, " That
tidings had been received at head quarters of a feeling of
discontent still lingering in the minds of the remnants of
the late Company's European troops, especially the artil-
lery P"
Sir C. WOOD said he had seen the statement alluded to,
but the Government had received no official information on
the subject.
MANOR COURTS IN IRELAND. _ _

Mr. lIENNESSY asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland,
when the scale of compensation to be given to the seneschals
and the registrars of seneschals, consequent on the abolition
of Manor Courts in Ireland, would be announced.
Mr. CARDWELL said that the Treasury minutes on the
subject would be shortly issued.
NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND.

Mr. SCULLY asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland
whether he was prepared to introduce any reforms or im•
provements in the present system of national education in
Ireland ?

Mr. CARDWELL said the house was aware that
her Majesty's Government intended firmly to adhere
to the system of national education in Ireland. Full
and ample means would be afforded to hon. members
to consider any improvements or alterations that it was
proposed to introduce.

every five gallons. There is another class of goods, which
being foreign in their origin, but coming into this country
without any payment of duty, are exported aft r having
undergone here some particular sort of operation. 'I hose free
imports which have not gone into warehouse, bu have been
landed, and subsequently sent abroad, we cons er to belong
to the same class as British goods when e orted. It is
necessary to take with respect to them an a urate account,
and therefore we propose to class them alone with British
goods when exported. NoW, in the case of that particu-
lar description of exports, it is evident that the simplest as
well as the most accurate mode of proceeding is to charge
a small fee according to their value, and which shall have
no reference to the number of articles exported.
The reasin why I look upon value as the best
standard to take in this instance is that the value
of the goods is invariably set forth in the document which
it is necessary should be-presented before any goods can be
exported, and that the imposition of a small charge will give
the means of effecting improvements which, as I shall on
some future occasion be able to show the house, are much
needed in order to procure an accurate and satisfactory
account of the exports of the country. There will, there-
fore, be three modes of charge—one of ld. on free imports ;
another of ld. on foreign goods out of warehouse ; a third,
a charge of per cent. ad valorem on British goods when ex-
ported, and on foreign goods exported free of duty and never
having paid any. [Sir S. Northcote —What will be the rate
fixed upon those goods on which drawbacks have been
paid fl They do not require any separate arrangement.
Goods trans-shipped will be charged at the rate of ls. on
the value, and corn and timber, which are liable to a low
duty on importation, but which, nevertheless, do not go
into warehouse at all, we propose shall be subjected neither
to registration dues on importation nor to any charge when
re-exported. (Hear.) It will be found by the resolutions
which I shall lay on the table for the purpose of carrying
into effect the proposals of the Government with regard to
registration dues that such an adjustment has been made as
to secure the sum of nearly £300,000, upon which my cal-
culations were based. The next resolution is that which
relates to the removal of goods in warehouse. Objection
may very fairly be taken to that resolution in the form in
which it was originally presented to the house, both on the
ground that the charge which it fixed was too high, and
that it would operate with undue weight in those instances
in which successive removals of goods might take place,
The total amount which we hope to receive from the charge
on removal is not large, and were it only a mere question of
finance which was involved in the matter, we might have
abandoned the £50,000 or £60,000 a year which we hope to
derive from this charge. There is, however, another con-
sideration connected with this impost, to which some
degree of importanceis to be attached. It is only by means
of a charge on -removal that we can establish a self-acting
registration in those towns of secondary importance to the
revenue, the expense attendant upon keeping up a separate
staff in which would by no means reimburse the State for
the outlay which it would be necessary to incur. We there-
fore propose to continue the charge on removal, making a
reduction in the amount, so that in future it shall be a uni-
form charge of ld. on each Ll of duty to which the articles
subject to it may be liable. I may add that in the case of
tobacco we propose that the charge shall be id. It is also our
intention that the charge for removal shall be levied along
with the charge for duty, and that it shall be levied only
once on any description of goods, and that it shall be paid
by the purchaser of the goods, inasmuch as by that means
it will be levied over the whole of the community, and
will not fall exclusively upon the dealer in bonded goOds.
There is also another charge which I propose to make,
which, I trust, will add something to the revenue of the
country, but which I adopt not so much on that account as
because I deem it absolutely necessary to remedy a glaring
anomaly in the case of removals which at present exists,
but which would be ten times more glaring in consequence
of the alteration in the duties of wine, tending to produce a
considerable increase in that article, which the house has
deemed it right to sanction. In accordace with the present
law, while every man who dealsin wine pays a duty and is
liable to be called upon to take out a 10-guinea license, it is
open to any person who may think fit to do so to deal in
wine which has not paid duty, bonded in warehouse, with-
out taking out any, license whatsoever. It would, therefore,
in my opinion, be most unjust to the general dealer in wine
to.permit this exemption any longer to exist, especially
under the altered circumstances of the trade which we ex-
pect will take place. We therefore propose that all persons
dealing in bonded wine or spirits in a less quantity than 90

gallons shall be liable to be called upon to take •ut a 10.