The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1860.

Office of the Gas Light and Coke Company,
Horseferry-road, Westruitiater,
25,th May, 18,60.
'NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the
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THE MEDITERRANEAN AND BOMBAY

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.

The Peninsular and' Oriental Company's steamer
Delta, Captain Field, with the heavy portion of the
above mails arrived this afternoon.

The Delta brings 2 packages specie, value not
stated, and thefollowing cargo :=192 cases Indian
shawls, 144 packages gum, 25 bales flax, 1 case
feathers, 2 quarter-casks wine, 1 donkey (alive), 44
packages dates, 171 packages sundries, and 1,019
bales raw silk, value upwards of £lOO,OOO sterling.
She sailed from Alexandria on the 13th ; Malta,
17th ; and Gibraltar, the 21st inst. On the 15th
spoke the Company's steamship Ripon ;;on the 16th
the Veetis ; and on the 23d her Majesty's ship
Queen, standing to the southward.
The Egyptian fleet and Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Panther were at Alexandria.
At Malta her Majesty's ships Marlborough, Aga-
memnon, Hannibal, Boxer. The Renown, St. Jean
d'Acre, London, and Cressy had sailed for Naples.
At Gibraltar, the Scourge, Doris, Mohawk, and
Quail.

Her Majesty's steamer Mega3ra' with 30 gunners
of the Royal Artillery, arrived• at Gibraltar on the
night of the 18th. She was to proceed for Malta
on the 22d ,With part of the 22d Regiment, which
she embarked at Queenstown, under the command
of Major Sir George Robinson.
Malta journals of the sth say that Vice-Admiral
Fanshawe would leave in the Marlborough for
England about the 22d. The steam corvette Cad-
mus took her departure on the Ist for the West In-
dies. The Russian screw line-of-battle ship Gan-
gaud, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral T. Nord-
mann, came into port ou the 3d from Palermo and
Messina.

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Kingdom, Brazil and River Plate, Gulf of Mexico,
and Havannah, 12 dols. per ton and 10 per cent. ;
Malta, Leghorn, Genoa, and Marseilles, 4 dols. to
5 dols. per ton and 5 per cent. Lead at less.
The latest intelligence from the coast of Africa
by the Delta says, General Garcia and the chief of
the staff of the army of Africa, who is expected to
leave Tetuan for the Peninsula between the 20th
and 25th inst., will be the bearer of the treaty of
peace definitely signed by the Emperor of Morocco.
Many rich proprietors were returning to Tetuan,
accompanied by their families. Peace had begun
to produce its fruits. Spanish merchants were
making large purchases of wool and other articles.
The markets were well supplied.
The steam transports Memorca and Mallorquin
had arrived at Malaga from Ceuta, the former with
358 officers and men, and the latter with 350 of the
Infante Regiment ; after shipping 39 convalescents
they proceeded to Valencia. The second division of
the Basque contingent, under the command of
General Latorre, had left Ceuta for St. Sebastian.
The following extract of a letter from Mazagan
sets at rest the question of the Sultan's real inten-
tions respecting the payment of the indemnity :7--
" Mazagan, May 14.—Four days ago 100 camels
arrived from Morocco with money from the Emperor.
It is said there is a million, and that a second mil-
lion is to come. Government gives out that this
money is for the pnrchase of cannons, mortars, can-
non balls, and steamers, but no one believes them.
We Europeans are delighted that this money is
come, as it will convince the Moors that the Chris.
tians were the conquerors in the late war, and, con-
Aeqaently, increase our influence with them,"

INDIA AND CHINA.

By the arrival of the Calcutta mail we
have "received our private correspondence and files
of papers from Calcutta-to the 23d of April, and
freni Hong Kong to the 14th of April.

INDIA.
The following is the letter of our Calcutta cor-
respondent : -

CALCUTTA,. APRIL 23.
To-day is the sixth day'sincel despatched to you
by the- Bombay route a • detailed account of the.
effects produced in Calcutta by the publiCatimi of.
Sir C. Trevelyan's Minute, and of the means
adopted by this Government to render that minute
comparatively har-mlcss: LauLliappy now to be,able
to, record that, so far as it is possible to judgei-the
difficulties of the-situation,aggravated as they have
been, are yet not beyond the capacity of the .Goiern-
Intuit to overconie.. The reports that have come in
from many parts of India, including some from
Madras, continue to show that the people every-
Where expect taxation, and are ready.te submit to
it.

Many considerations have combined to induce

the great mass of the population throughout the
country to regard Mr, Wilson's Scheme with even
a favourable eye. It has not escaped-attention that
every man receiving less than 16r, 112 a. per mensem
isealtegether free from the operaticnTOl the tax. To
the peasantry in general,- then, who do not earn
one-half that sum, and who constitute pre-emi-
nently the mugcularelement of the population, the
measure does not appear unacceptable. It has been
felt for some time past that something iu the way
of legislation has been impending, and the very
uncertainty existing as to the shape that legislation
would take has tended more than anything else to
'disquiet men's minds. It is now certain that wher-
ever it has bean possible tnacquaint the people with
the details of the proposed measure, and to ascer-
tain their opinion regarding it, that feeling of dis-
quietude has been changed for one of surprise at
the moderation of the Government. The attempted
disturbance at Peshawur, of whichl gave a short ac-
count in my last, affords not only an illustration of
this statement, but places in a strong light two of
the most striking characteristics of this people—
their readiness to imagine, and their inclination on
all secular matters to submit to the voice of autho-
rity, It appears that, misled by au idea that each
householder was to be called upon to pay 35r. as a
tax on his own account, 30r. for his wife, sr. for
each living child, and half that sum for every one
that had been buried, a mob of natives assembled
tumultuously before the house of the Deputy-Com-
missioner, Explanation, however, was all that was
required to satisfy their minds. No sooner were
they authoritatively informed of the actual rates
proposed to be levied than contentment took the
place of disorder. It is with the view probably to
prevent in other parts of India any similar ebulli-
tion that Government is taking the greatest pains
to disseminate throughout the country expositions
of the nex taxes adapted to the several dialects of
India. Here, it is not ignorant impatience, but im-
patient ignorance of the precise method of taxation,
against which the Government must be on its
guard; and it is felt, and rightly felt, that the safe
and simple means by which this evil is best encoun-
tered is by a distribution on the widest scale of a
plain, unvarnished statement, showing the financial
exigencies of' the State, and asserting the general
principle on which the new taxes are to be levied.
It cannot be doubted that the natives, as a body,
will appreciate a communication of this description.
Drawn up as it has been in a style easy of compre-
hension, and adapted to their habits of calculation
they will not fail to see and to admit not only the
necesFify for taxation, but the yet more weighty
fact that the new scheme has been based on the
principle of fairness and equity. • Too much cannot
be said in praise of the skilful manner in which the
details of Mr. Wilson's scheme have iu these expo-
sitions been rendered suitable tnnative comprehen-
sion, or of the statesmanlike foresight which sug-
gested their employment.
But, while the dissemination of this document
has been adopted'as a general measure of precau-
tion against false or exaggerated rumours, other
and more direct methods of instilling confidence
into the public mind have not been lost sight of.
The Minute of Sir C. Trevelyan dealt largely in
objections. Vague as these were, and foimded
on no given data, Mr. Wilson has taken the earliest
opportunity of submitting them to the inexorable
test of facts and figures. An opportunity was
afforded him at the meeting of the Legislative
Council on the 21st inst., of which he was notslow
to take adVantage. It will be recollected that in
his Minute Sir Charles insisted on the possibility
of balanctng expenditure and income at the end of
1861 by means of a further reduction of military
expenditure. Mr. Wilson thus disposed of that
assertion. The military expenditure for the past
thre years and during the current year, had been
shown in the a nnexed tables :

1856-7 X 11,303,780 j 1858-9 -.. £20,258,065
1857.8 .. 15,089,391 j 1859-60 .. 16,855,275
It will thus be seen that military expendittire was
at its lowest point the year before the mutiny, at
its highest in the year ending April 30,1859; Be:
tween this last date and the corresponding date in
the current year a saving of £3,402,790 will have
been effected. It is estimated that in the year
which will close on April 30, 1861, a further re-
duction of £1,740,000 will take place. Thus in two
years, from the date on which the mutiny may be
said to have been suppressed, our military expendi-
ture will have been diminished by £5,142,790 ; and
yet, notwithstanding that diminution, there is an
estimated deficiency on that year of six millions
and a half! The question is, how is that deficiency
to be met ? Sir C. Trevelyan, states, by still further
reducing our military expenditure. The following
table will show how this plan would work :
Expenditure of 1858 59 .. £20,258,065
Reductions made by the Supl'enic Govern-
ment up to April, 1861

Military expenditure, according to Mr. Wil-
son's estimate, for the year ending the 80th
of April, 1861
Deduct the estimated deficiency which Sir C.
Trevelyan says . can be met by a further
reduction of military expenditure

Balance available for military purposes ...... 0,615,275
That is to say, a sum will be available for the pur-
poses of defraying the expenses of our European
army in 1860-611ess by £3,000,000 than the amount
which was expended on our native army in 1856-7.
Absurd as it may appear, this is the inevitable re-
sult of Sir C. Trevelyan's scheme for balancing
ea ex-
penditure
elementan hdians come. At a time
increased at t least three-fold, at a
cost to the State four or five times greater than;when the Euro-,
peen
that of the same number of natives; when it is ad-
mitted, too, that the number of European troops is
certainly not too great for the preservation of the
empire, it is gravely proposed to reduce our mili-
tary expenditure to a point which would compel a
diminution of the European element by nearly one-
half, which would place usin a more helpless con-
dition than that in which the outbreak of the
mutiny found us. The reduction spread over two
years, and now being carried out, of one-fourth of
the outlay of 1858-9 is a bold measure ; it is re-
trenchment carried toits extreme limit. To go
further at the present moment in that line would
endanger the empire. The ashes of the rebellion
are, it is true, trodden out ; the survivors of those
who fought against us harbour now no hope of a
national Sovereignty, and our power ever present
to them. There is not a fortress left unguarded by
European troops. In every corner of the country
there are visible signs of a determination to main-
tain what we have; but remove those signs, take
away those troops, or diminish them by one-half,
and we should very speedily see in the altered de-
meanour of our native fellow-subjects that once
again the day of safety had passed away. An ex-
penditure of kii,oomoo did not ;Aye us from being

brought to the'very verge of disaster in 1837. Is it
p9ssible that eight millions and a-half now could
suffice for wants which have ithmensely increased
since that period? By pursuing the-prudent and
statesmanlike course Marked out by Mr. Wilson the
Government is enabled to make redactions which
are not experiments—to diminish expenditure, and
yet to-keep up a force strong.enougli to overawe,
and, if - necessary, :, to put down disaMction.
Already five millions have been lopped off, and
Mr. -Wilson is sanguine that in the cone se 6f the
next two years, if the peace of the country
be maintained; 1800,000 may follow. Be-
yona this--a reduction which would di
minish the.military expenditure of the Cuntiwit
to 14 millions and a quarter-4e and his colleagues
consider it impossible to retrench.

-It is worthy of remark that up to the present
moment retrenchment has been actually effected only
in Bengal. - Notwithstanding the economical pro-
fessions of Madras, her savings have been hitherto
infinitesimally,small. It is to her efforts, therefore,
that Mr. Wilson looks for the additional retrench-
ments which are to make the fetal savings of the
year 1860-61 in excess of £5,000,000. The follow-
ing is the table showing.the expenditure.of the three
Presidencies :

3IILITARY EXPENDITURE.
Bengal.' Madras. Bomba. Total.
1856-7 5.,6,217,517 13,005,283 12,050,931 £11.303;789
1857-8 .... 8,656,965 3,653,450 2,778,976 15,089,391
1858-9 .... 11,613,022 4,633;774 4,011,269 20,258,065
1859-60.... 8,346,480 4,303,030 4,203;795 16,855,275
"-The principles enunciated by Mr. Wilson have
met with a hearty response from the outside
coin-
munity. The native press alone withholds approval,
and, having had two months already to consider the
bill, begins now, since the receipt of Sir C. Trevel-
yan's minute, to talk of the necessity of further
delay, fdr the purpose of deliberation and action.
That portion of the native press published in the
English language represents not that large commu-
nity of natives who, working by the sweat of their
brow, are entirely exempt from the operation of the
tax, but that limited and wealthy class only who fall
within its influence, and most of whom as zemindars
consider their liability to taxation an infr:ngement
of their charter.

CALCUTTA COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Calcutta Engli,slima)o

MoNDA.v, Apiil 23.
The Produce Market has continued in the same
unfavourable state as reported in our last.
Imiaort Market—We have to report a very quiet
and dull fortnight, All imports have r3nrained in
a very depressed state till prices at last gave way,
slowly.
Government Securities—There has been grcat
buoyancy in the security market. The 511; per cent.
having 105-4, and 5 per Gent. sold at 97-12 and the
4 per cent. at 84 8; the news received from Eng-
land on Saturday is, however, likely to cause a
reaction.

Joint Stock Shares—A reduction in the bank
rate of discount and an easy money market has
caused more inquiry for approved -shares, hut the
business done has been small, owing to holders
being disinclined to part with their investments,
unless at an advance upon our quotations. The
Ganges Company has declared a dividend of 50 Rs.
per share, and the scrip is saleable at 600. India
Generals are at 1,550. The Docking Company have
sold a small portion of their waste land on advan-
tageous terms, and their shares are at 900. Bengal
Coal Company's shares are in favour at 1,800; some
,sales of East India Coal sharles are reported at quo-
tations. Bonded and Assam shares are in good re-
quest. In bank shares we hear of no transactions.
Shares in the new Tea Companies of Mar are all
held firmly, and there are no sellers.
Money Market—The money market is much
easier-both with the banks and in the Bazaar; the
Bank of Bengal has lowered its rate one per cent.
all round, and also reduced its margin for loans on
Government securities. Loans are, however, mak-
ing in the Bazaar at one per cent. below bank
rates.

Exchange—A large business has bun transacted
fpr this mail in bills on England at 2.01, for bank
bills, 2s. ld. for first class credits, and 2 11 for do-
cuments ; rates firm. On China there have been
sales at 223 to 224, but the supply of bills was

Freights—Our rates to London average £4 to
£4 ss. ; to Liverpool; £3 15s.;' to Continent (nomi-
nal), £4 104.; to Mediterranean (nominal), £5; to
Australia, £5 55.; to France, £5 10.4, or equal to
130 francs ; to America, 16* dills. a ton ; to China,
40 rs. a ton ; to Java, 30 rs. ; Straits of Ma-
lacca, 20 rs.; to Mauritius, 2 8 rs. a bag; and emi-
grants, 75 rs. a head ; to Madras, Colombo, and
Bombay, 25 rs. to 30 rs. a ton; to Arracan and Bur-
mab, 20 rs. a ton.