The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-21 00:00:00

THE INDIAN FINANCES.

Mr. CRAWFORD asked whether it was true that the
Government had received, by telegraph, the heads of the
stat ment made by the Financial 31 inister in India ; if so,
whether he zould state to the house if they were of a fa-
vourablo character.

Sir S. NORTEICOTE said it was quite true that ho had

received the heads of the statement mado by Mr. Massey,
and that they were of a very favoucabie character. ([Lear,
hear)" Tlie'-.surplus, after all charges, lied been met,
except irrigation. There was no new loan or new taxa-
tion, and the income tax was to bo reconsidered and im-
proved. ([fear, hear.)
ALLEGIANCE TO THE QUEEN.

Ou the motion for the house going into committee of
supply,
Mr. W. E. FOSTER called the attention of the house to
the effect of the law regulating the allegiance of subjects
of the Queen who had emigrated to foreign countries, and
especially to the United States of America, and
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether
he did not think the time was opportune for attempting
to arrive at a mutual understanding between her Majesty's
Government and the Government of the United States re-
specting the right of expatriation.
Sir J. COLLIER followed the hon. member with some
remarks on the same subject, and was of the opinion that
the laws of both England and America required revision.
Lord STANLEY thought Yr. Forster bad done service
in bringing this question forward, and would at once de-
clare that he saw no reason to dissent from the genera
tendency of the views the hon. member had expressed. So
long as the law of the United States remained identical, as
it now was, with our own, we had a fair reply to them in
any controversy that might arise ; but that was no reason
wby the two countries should not agree to amend the law
of both so far as it was unsuitable to the times in which
we lived. He had, therefore, directed our Minister
at Washington to express to the Government of the
United States the wish of her Majesty's Govern-
ment to take the whole question into consideration
and, if they would act in same manner, to meet them half
way respecting it. The difficulties of the question were
not great in themselves. Those of a political character
were indeed comparatively unimportant ; but there were
many legal difficulties that might arise and which would
require to be dealt with carefully—as, for example, the
status of the children of emigrants, of persons returning
to their native country and resuming their allegiance here,
and of the inhabitants of English colonies. lie was un-
willing to give any distinct pledge to the house, but he
thought it likely, before anything was concluded, that it
would be found necessary to have an inquiry by competent
legal authorities into the various technical difficulties and
points of detail.
In Committee of Supply, a vote of £1,000,000 was
taken on account of the army service for the ensuing finan-
cial year.
The Compulsory Church-rates Abolition Bill was re-
committed for the insertion of certain amendments. The
bill was then reported, as amended, to the house, and or-
dered to be read a third time on Monday.
The house adjuarned at half-past 12 o'clock.

CHESS CONGRESS OF 1868.—Wilkes's Spirit says :

—The project of organizing a Chess Congress meets
with much favour in New York. Many of the most cele-
brated chase magnates of Europe have already expressed
their desire to participate in it. Among others we may name
Messrs. Staunton, Kolisch, and Steinitz —a host in them-
selves. Let every chess club throughout the United States
both North and South. East and West (for chess is cosmo-
politan), obtain subscriptions for this desirable object, and
the requisite amount ($5,000) will easily be obtained.
The Pall Mall Gazette remarks :—"lt appears
that the proposed rowing match between Harvard Univer-
sity and the University of Oxford is abandoned, the Har-
vard oarsmen being determined to row after their
fashion, without a coxswain, and the Oxfordoarsmen being
equally determined to row with one. We cannot correctly
see why a compromise could not have been effected, each
crew rowing after the fashion to which it had been accus-
tomed. It must bo admitted that the Harvard men, in
offering to cross the Atlantic to try their skill with the
best crow in England, showed an excellent spirit, and we
cannot but regret that they should have been thwarted by
a matter of detail."
About four miles from the newly-opened-Japa-
nese port of Iliogo is an extensive deposit of coal. The
methods of working the mines are of the most primitive
description, Wherever the coal or shale has been seen crop
ping
out from the hillside, a horizontal passage, never more
than 25 test long, has been run in. The miners, crouched
to the ground in these burrows, with pointed ham-
mers pick away at the sides, and very carefully assort with
their hands each little piece of coal obtained, according to
its quality. The Japanese Government is not insensible
to the advantages of an improved mode of working the coal
of Wog°, and it is not impossible th tt, before long some
more systematic plan will be introduced.
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