The Express. — 1867-04-22 (London, England)

THE BOMBAY MAIL.  By the arrival of the above mail ws have advicea from Bombay to March 29, and from Calcutta to March 23.  The Bombay Gazet',:. says that Mr. Maiwey's licence tax has brought down upon his head the scorn and indignation of all India except that upper ten thousand who are exempted from its operation, and that the measure is not redeemed by a single good feature.  The Times of India writes in the following terms :  The policy of borrowing cheap English capital to pay the cost of permanent barracks and irrigation works, meets with universal approval throughout India, but very general disappointment exists with regard to Mr. Massey's budget, so far as it depended upon his own proposals and arrangement.. The numerous and important adjustments and corrections which Mr. Massey had to include in his statement, and the aspect of uncertainty thereby cast over the national accounts, are probably due to inefficiency in the financial department, and pertly also to the irregularities inseparable from making up the account in eleven months instead of twelve. But Mr. Massey in conjunction with the Supreme Council, must bear the full responsibility for the retrograde step of increasing the export duty on grain; and still more distinctly does the Finance Minister Mend responsible for the groat mismanagement of the schedules of his new licence tax. Had the classification of incomes under the act been reasonable, the country would have acquiesced in the tax without an audible murmur, and the impost might easily have been made to bring in between one and two millions sterling per annum. By Mr. Massey's own calculation, his scheme will only produce half a millton,while his having included under the tax persons whose incomes range from re. 17 to 42 per menaem (201. to MI . per annum) has aroused against the act a determined opposition from per sons of all classes. Tho impression gains ground that Mr. Massey as a Finance Minister will come to be regarded as a failure.  We read in the Calcutta Englishman of March 23:  The merchants of Rangoon have spoken out in an address to Colonel Phayre on the English relations with Burmah proper. Their views deserve attention. It is saggestive of what must happen in that quarter that the King will not fulfil the treaty of 1862, will not give satisfaction for the murder of one British subject, and the destruction of the property belonging to many others, and will not enter into any new engagements with the English. This barbarian obstinacy ran only lead to one result, • short campaign which shall advance our frontier to the borders of Yunan, and rescue a million of people from • state of indescribable anarchy and confusion. The latest accounts from Moindalay represent the government of the King as a reign of terror ; wholesale executions of rebels, real or supposed, being the order of the day.  The Roman catholics of Bombay have presented a farewell address to Dr. Steins, the Roman catholic bishop of the diocese, on the occasion of his promotion to the archbishopric of Calcutta. It is also proposed to commemorate his name by calling the college to be erected in Bombay Archbishop Steins' College. Madras has declined to entertain the proposal for a state bank for all India; but the negotiations between Bombay and Bengal continue. A telegram from Calcutta states that the Bank of Bengal will not alter its first proposal. This is not likely, it is said, to delay a settlement, for upon the receipt of postal details from Calcutta it is expected thedirectors of the Bombay Bank will call a meeting of shareholders, and ask their consent to the amalgamation.  THE Mammas roe