New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-23

doc L. forced to aid in filling the world Of Chin.
with opium, but be is not permitted to use the
salt thst is almost everywhere grstuitously
supplied by Nature for his use. lie nay a IT
make it from the earth. If he approa a tas
salt lakes, he finds them surrounded by offcials
whose presence renos rs that which is abso.
lutely worthless on ose side of an imaginary
line so valuable on the Otser that ii requires. a,
| The London Times has assured its readers, the
labor OF several months Of the year to purchase
salt alone for the supply of the wretched cult
! vatoIs family.
We are fed that the wretchedness Of tho
people of this magnificent country Is Gomez.
qence of over-populatou, but when We come TO
study tie facts Of the case il is plain to be seen
that even in the valley of the Gauges third Of
the cultivable lands-and those the richest ones
ARE not cultivated. In other parts of the soua-
try one-half is waste, and everywhere have
evidence that rich lands that were cultivated
prior TO the British domination are now in .
state of wilderness. And this notwithstanding
every effort of the officials to compel their culti-
walton By the wretched tax payers. Should our
correspondent desire to know what are the
methods of compulsion, we would beg to refer
him 70 Mr.. Campbelfs recent volume on the
Government of Ipdia-s work Of tue highest
authorty-in which he will fnd tax collectors
stimulating the tardy "by placing the delinquent
"in the sun, obigiDg him to stand on one leg.
"to sit with his head between his knees" &c.
Should he conclude to abandon his land and ay.
he is-as we are told by Mr.. Rickaud, another
high authorty-followed. brought back, aud
made to work, that he may be enabled to pay
to his tssbmasters the sum that they are willing
O receive as rent If our correspondent can
discover anything that more nearly approaches
the negro-dri ing system of Carolina. We shall
be glad to have him point it out.
As regards the doubt he has expressed in re-
lation to the disappearance of tho small land
holders throughout large portion Of India, We
need only to refer him to the histories that
have been given to the world of the conversion
of native revenue officers into great landed pre-
prietors, under the style and title of Zemindsrs,
and of the extraordinary process of rack renting
and logging by which they endeavored to ex-
tract from their wretched tenants the enormous
sums they were required to contribute to tho
support of the intruding Government. Under
that system large portion of the smaller pro-
prietors were converted into tenants at will.
Another disappeared under the ruinoas system
that closed nearly all the markets for labor.
while increasing the taxes paid by the laborer;
and still larger portion is now gradually dissp-
pearing under the existing system thus de.
scribcd by recent traveller;
Always oppressed and ever in poverty, the ryot is
compelled to seek the aid of the mahajun, or money
lender This will frequently be the talukdhar
or SUI renier, who exacs from the needy borrower
whatever interest he thinks the unfortunate may
be able TO pay him-often at the rate of one cent
per week. The accounts of these loans are kept
by the mahajuns, who aware OF the deep ign0-
rance of their clients, fasify their books without fear
of detection. In this way, matter how favorable
tie season, how large tle crop, the graspns mahyun
is sure TO make il appear that the Uhote IS due to
hn.-for he takes il at his own value. 80 far from
Mr.. Burke koping orerstated The case Of The oppres-
sion of the riots on The trial of Warren Hastings,
hen he Sad that the tar galherer took from them eeh-
teen shiHings every pound, he cas really wnhia he
mark AT the conclusion of each crop-me the grower
of rice cotton is made to appear debtor to his SUI
perior, who thereup0n-provided the ryot appears
able to toll for another season-adyances more seed
or sowing and little more rice TO keep the laborer
nd bis family from absolute starvation. But should
here lie any doubt to the health and strength Of
the tenant-laborer, he is merciessy turned from bis
end aud his mud hut, and left to die on the highway.
If this is not slavery, we pray our correspond
ut to tell us in what slavery consists. Ifit 10
OF as great slavery as that of Carolina, VIC beg
i'm to explain in what its superiority consists
there is any thing in this to warrant him in de-
string US to pray for the extension of the British
power, or for the success of the Allies, let him
search it out. We can see no reason for SO do
ing. In both Ireland aad India the British sys-
TEN looks toward exhaustion, depopulation and
barbarism; and such are the results that ia both
of these countries are obtained.