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is deemed to bo the person who keeps such dog, unless the
contrary be proved.
Post-office orders or postage stalips for the duty may be
remitted to the Collectors of Inland Revenue at Tower-
hill, London (Nliddlesex Collection) with a statement of
OP name and abode of the applicant., on receipt of which
a license will be forwarded. Forms of application may be
obtained at any post-office.
Licenses may be obtained in the county of Middlesex at
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tendance.
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WM. CORBETT, Secretary.
inland Revenue, Somerset House, London,
April 4, 1867.

DOG LICENCE.—The COMAIISSIONERS of
INLAND REVENUE Give Notice, that from and
after the sth of April inst., every person keeping a dog is
required to pay a licence duty of ss. for each dog.
The penalty for, keeping a dog without licence is £5.
The person in whose custody, charge, or possession, or
in whose house or premises any dog shall be found or seen,
is deemed to be the person who keeps such dog, unless the
contrary is proved.
Poet-office orders or postage stamps for the duty may be
remitted to the Collectors of Inland Revenue at Somerset
Rouse or Tower-hill, or Gresham House, Old Broad-street,
with a statement of the name and abode of the applicant,
on receipt of which a licence will be forwarded. Forms of
application may be obtained at any post-office.
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Islington lnland Revenue Office, 6, Pullen's-
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London, April 4, 1867.

INDIA OFFICE, 6TU APRIL, 1867.
IM SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA in
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COUNCIL hereby gives Notice, that he has received
from the Right'Honourable the Governor-General of India
in Council the following Notitipation relative to the Sale of
the HAWULBAUGIL and AYAR TOLL GOVERNMENT
TEA PLANTATIONS in KUMAON.
HERMAN MERIVALE.

NOTIFICATION, DATED THE 13Th FEBRUARY.
The following TEA PLANTATIONS and FACTO-
RIES in Kumaon, the property of Government, are offered
for SALE at the prices specified :
1. Hawulbaugh, in Kumaon, forty-six miles from the
plains, and six miles from Almorah. —The Plantations,
including the small Nursery of Kussoena, in the immediate
neighbourhood of Almorah, consist of about 106 acres
planted with tea. At a short distance from the planta-
tions, there is a cheer (Pinus longifolia) forest, consisting
of 102 acres, belonging to the estate, the timber of which
is well fitted for making tea chests, &c.
There are on the estate two large slated houses, a large
slated factory, two large slated godowns, a slated barrack
for Chinese tea manufacturers, and numerous slated out-
offices, and the stock and block of the factory are com-
plete for tea operations and in working order.
The yield of the estate last season was about 16,000 lbs.
of tea, and 500 maunds of seeds, all of which have been
sown in the plantations.
This estate will be sold in one lot, in fee simple, free of
all demands on account of land revenue, exclusive of ex-
isting local cesses, such as road, educational, and postal
cesses, or such as may be hereafter legally imposed, for
Rupees 40,000 (forty thousand rupees).
2. Ayer Toli, in Kuttvoor, Kumaon, distant about 80
(eighty) miles from the plains, and about forty mileas'frean-
Almorali.- This Plantation, with the smell Nursery of
Lutchninissur, consists of about 2,550 acres, of which
about 300 are under cultivation with tea, about 700 acres
of cleared land, and the remainder covered with pine, oak,
&c., forest, the timber of which is well adapted for making
tea chests, &c.
There are on the estate a slated house, a slated factory,
and a slated godown, and numerous out-offices ; and a
slated house or godown at Hawulb:iugh, for storing tea,
will be sold with the estate.
The yield of the estate last year was about 12,000 lbs. of
tea, and about 600 maunds of seeds, all of which have been
sown in the plantations.
This estate will bo sold in one lot, in fee simple, free of
all demands on account of land revenue, exclusive of
existing local ceases, such as road, educational, and postal
cesses, or such as may be hereafter legally imposed, for
Rupees 1,25,000 (one hundred and twenty-five thousand
rupees).
A small portion of the plantation of Ayar Toli. named
Bincoli, belonging to the temple of Nagnath, will bear an
annual rental of Rupees 2 i(twenty-four rupees) per annum.
This land is leased in perpetuity from the temple of Nag-
oath on this rental.
Offers will be received by the Superintendent, Botanical
Gardens, North-Western Provinces, Saharunpore, and, on
the offer being accepted,.the purchaser must deposit 5 per
cent. of the purchase-money, which will be forfeited if the
amount of the purchase-money be not paid in full on the
date.which may bs agreed upon at the tune of sale. •
Both of these estates have been surveyed, and copies of
the Survey Maps may
be seen on application to the Super-
intendent, Government Botanical Gardens, Saharunpore.
By order of the Honourable the Lieutenant-Governor of
the North-Western Provinces.
R. SIMSON,
Secretary to the Government, North-
- Western Provinces.

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natural course of events. Thee ession of Russian
America to the United States may, perhaps, ac-
celerate or assure this result, but as the result
has been lone- accepted as a probable and
not very deplorable necessity, we look upon
the proceeding without uneasiness. But neither
France nor Germany can look on the • fate
of Luxemburg with similar indifference. This
little Duchy, insignificant as it appears on the
map of Europe, would nevertheless convey some
accession of- ,strength to either of the two rival
Powers competing for its possession. Its population'
is inconsiderable, but its position is strong, and the.
value of territory increases enormously where so very
little comes into the market. It would be unfair to
forget, in egimatiug the claims of the competitors,
that whereas France, according to old theories of
the balance of power, and a spacious claim to some
acquisition;-his Duchy of Luxemburg was about the
only piece of territory which she could quietly ob-
tain. It belonged to a proprietor who was willing
to sell it, and it formed no part of any organis4
Kingdom or Confederacy which might be unwilling
to lose it. The Germans, in fact, can only forbid
the sale by an appeal to force. They can say that
they will fight rather than permit the bargain, be-
cause the interests of their country require them to
do so ; but they cannot say, as far as can be seen at
present, that either the Emperor Napoleon or the
King of Holland would be doing any wrong in effect-
ing the transfer. Luxemburg, it is true, is German,
and not French, but so are half-a-dozen Depart-
ments of the French Empire. There never was a
distinct line of partition drawn between the nations
of France and Germany ; and Luxerriburg, for
that matter, might be French as easily as Stras-
burg, and with as little violence to nationality. On
the other hand, the Germans are enabled to say
that Luxemburg did and does actually belong to
Germany. It is only outside the Germanic body
by accident, or pending the reconstruction of the
Confederacy. It belonged to the Germanic Empire
ages ago, and to the Germanic Confederation only
twelve months since. It is still as much a portion
of Germany as Wurtemburg or Baden would be had
those States abstained from forming any new con-
nection after the dissolution of the old Buud. In
point of fact, the Prussians look upon the Duchy
much as the Anierican Congress looks upon the
Southern States of the old Union. They deny that
it has any right to secede, or form part of any State
but Germany, or even remain independent. At a
public meeting at Berlin, on Sunday last, it was re-
solved, not only that Luxemburg must never be
separated from Germany, but that it should be
incorporated with Germany as soon as possible, and
that no appeal to the inhabitants of the Duchy on
the subject should be allowed. This last resolution
is probably less arbitrary than it appears. It may,
indeed, be doubted whether Prussia would willingly
permit the Luxemburgers to become French were
they ever so much inclined ; but the decision itself
was directed, no doubt, against the stratagem of
universal suffrage, with its notorious opportunities
for trickery and fraud. The truth of the whole
story, however, lies -in the fact that the Germans,
who, before they had consolidated their national
strength, woul I have purchased the acquiescence of
France with a larger sop than Luxemburg, are in-
disposed to make any concession now that their ob-
ject has been unexpectedly attained. They accom-
plished all and more than they hoped to ace nnplish
before France had au opportunity of making her
assent indispensable ; and though the terms since
suggested by the Emperor Napoleon have not been
immoderate, the Germans, being in a position to
refuse them, have availed themselves of their advan-
tage. They hell that France must not be strengthened
by the acquisition of Luxemburg, just as we, had we
pl-ased, might have. said that the United- States
should not acquire territory to the prejudice of our
dominion. They make the question one of might as
well as of right. Perhaps the right of reasonable
expectation really does belong to France, but there
is one thine. which we should think must soon be
clear to the French Emperor and the French peo-
ple. Luxemburg cannot be necessary to them, and
would do them little good. The cession might have
gratified their national pride as a tribute paid to
French influence, but the Empire is already power-
ful enough to dispense with the mere profit or pres-
tige of such an acquisition.
POST.—The debate which took place last evening
in the House of Commons in committee on the Re-
form Bill, irrespective of the particular issue raised,
at all events proved the great inconvenience of pro-
ceeding to the discussion of the separate clauses of a
bill when its general principle has not been affirmed.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer was fully justified
in replying to the sneer of Mr. Bernal Osborne that
although he had professed great willingness to take
counsel of the House of Commons, he obstinately
refused to accept any of the proposed amendments,
by the obvious retort that he could not be expected
to endorse proposals which overthrew instead of
amending the bill which lay on the table of the house.
It was to be assumed, said Mr. Disraeli, that the
house had assented to the general principle of the
bill when it read it a second time, and therefore it
was inconsistent to propose changes which could not
be entertained without a complete remodelling of
the entire measure. Of course it was expressly un-
derstood when the-bill was read a second time that
the house was pledged to absolutely nothing that it
contained, but if the house insisted on keeping its
hands free the Government were clearly entitled to
a similar indulgence. It was, however, in the in-
troductory discussion on Mr. Gladstone's first
amendment to dispense with, the necessity of the
personal payment of rates that the inconvenience of
this exceptional mode of procedure became most
apparent. It was impossible to consider this pro-
posal apart from the general tenour of the bill, but
what that general tenor will be no one is in a posi-
tion to say. According to strict rule every speaker
should have confined his observation to the particu-
lar clause under discussion, but none, not even ex-
cepting the proposer of the amendment, could avoid
entering into the consideration of the general prin-
ciple of the bill, and speculating on the probable re-
sult of certain clauses being retained and of others
being altered. We have never ceased to maintain that
the house committed a fatal error in declining to
discuss the general merits of the Ministerial mea-
sure when the motion was made that it should be
read a second time. We pointed out how delusive
were the hopes that such a course of proceeding
would either lead to.a saving of time or to a more
easy and satisfactory settlement of the points in issue
between the Government and the Opposition. The
tenour -of every speech delivered last evening fully
justifies the opinion we expressed. Though bouud
to confine himself to the consideration of a particu-
lar clause, each speaker canvassed the policy of the
measure considered in its entirety, and the conse-
quence was that the house witnessed what was in
truth a debate on a second reading, conducted under
conditions which deprived it of all its value. The
preliminary skirmish on the proposal of Earl Ga. -
venor to postpone the consideration of the bill
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committee until after the Easter recess was intended
rather to sound the general feeling of the house on
the expediency of postponing aslong as possible that
inevitable decision which must determine the fate of
the bill than to lead to any practical result. Whilst
admitting the advisability of effecting a compromise
between the rival parties in the house, it was never-
theless patent to all that such an end was not more
likely to be attained by deferring the discussion on
the fundamental clauses of the bill until members
had returned after the holidays than if pushed on at
once. The issues now raised are clearly defined ;
and as the Government have declared that they will
not give way, it may fairly be assumed that a fort-
night's consideration would not have the effect of
inducing them or their opponents to "change the pro
' gramme they have respecti rely published. If, intleed,
the Liberal party continued to be divided, there
might have been some reason for deferring the con-
test, in the hope that they might become once more
united ; but as such is not the case, they or their
chiefs had no motivelor procrastination. Whatever
may have been the object of the member for Chester
in making his proposal, the short discussion which
supervened before it was withdrawn put it beyond
Ia doubt that the Opposition were determined to
support their leader, and were ready at a moment's
notice to divide on questions which they were as-
sured by the Government threatened the existence.
of the bill. The Conservatives were not averse from
a postponement, and, indeed,-the only persons who
supported. Earl Grosvenor's motion rose on their
side of the house. The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
however, had the sagacity to 'perceive that if a divi-
'Ova were takeu the result would be adverse to the

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Government ; and, in order to avoid what would
have been a most damaging defeat, a'inounced his
readiness to proceed with the bill. In • one sense,
therefore, the motion of Earl Grosvenor Ltd to a
trial of strength, the result being decidedly favour-
able to Vie Opposition. In the speech with which
Mr. Disraeli introduced his bill stnn:, weeks since
he spoke of rating as the cardinal principle on which
the posiession of the franchise should be based, and
this principle Mr: Gladstone directly put in ii:33llC by
the brat of the amendments which he proposed.
Unless a man personally pays rates, says the Go-
a-eminent, he should not be entitled to a place on
the Parliamentary register. Whether ho pys rates
or not, so long as he holds a tenement out of which
rates are paid, though by another person, he should
be entitled to the franchise ; this is the position
taken up by Mr. Gladstone. We are prepared, reply
the Government, to enable the large class known
as the compound householders, and whose rates
are now paid for them by their landlords, to pay
those rates personally, and to deduct them from the
rent, thereby avoiding any double charge upon
such as are willing to qualify themselves for the
enjoyment of the franchise. Such a course, re-
torts the leader of the Opposition, is illogical
and inconvenient, besides entailing on com-
pound householders much loss of time, trouble,
and unavoidable expense. It is also urged that,
as the condition of this class of occupiers is to 'a
great extent dependent on the action of parochial
authorities, the net result would be to make the
members of the electoral body depend. on causos.the
operation of which should be counteracted in any
measure for amending the representation, of the
people. If a compound householder can obtain the
franchise by making a special arrangement for the
payment of rates, it is obvious that Parliamentary
agents will be exposed to the temptation of making
the arrangement for him, and paying his rates, in
the not uncertain hope of receiving in exchange the
benefit of the franchise with which he has been so
generously endowed. It is impossible, however, to
avoid feeling that when the committee proceed to a
division it will be on a false issue. The question will
really be, not whether compound householders shall
enjoy the franchise without the payment of rates,
but whether the present bill is one which it is ex-
pedient to proceed with any further.