Glasgow Courier. — 1860-03-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

COD. Spirators in Benares. At the same time he himself, bitterly irritated by the non-removal of Colonel Ramsay, allowed the border Zemindars to make incursions on their own account, but hanged any Ghoorka who talked too freely of invading his ally. When the defeated mutineers entered Nepaul they were nearly 30,000 strong, and immensely wealthy. They declared that the British were malting caste throughout whole districts by force, and again Jong was threatened by the half-maddened Nepaulese. He had, however, recovered his temper, issued a proclamation threatening all enemies of the British with instant death, and at last, after months of delay, contrived to expel the intruders. The paper is a most naive Whir, and, I believe, is as true as a paper written by an Asiatic can be.- The writer adds one very pregnant fact. Every one in India at all familiar with native intrigues had been smoldering all through the mutinies at the am-appearance of Ranee Chunda Kota, Iterngeet Singh's favourite, and mother of Dheireep Singh. It was known that she was living at Katmandoo, and known, too, that, se alone possessed real influence over the Sikk mind. Lord Dalhousie always said her arrest was worth a campaign, and her appearance in the Punjaub would have beena frightful calamity. Jung knew that ka well as the British, and all through the mutinies he had her whereabouts reported direct to himself twice a-day—a service which, whatever its motive, it would be difficult to over-estimate. I see some of your contemporaries have caught the Indian habit of calling him Sir Jung Bahadoor—a phrase as absurd as it would be to call Lord Derby 'Sir G. Stanley' because he is a K.G. Jung is Regent of Nepaul, his actual position corresponding, not with that of Premier, but that of the Duke of Somerset in the reign of Edward.  US i  "lam happy to be able at last to reports real financial improvement. The loan is at last drawing rapidly—so rapidly that the five millions wanted will probably be filled in a month, and, the loan closed. The cause of this sudden change is not far to seek. The native capitalists, who care nothing about European politics, and very little about internal difficulties, care a great deal about the price of their securities in London. Unless, therefore, the financial pressure in the Punjaub—still so extreme as to make the dismissal of entire departments matter of official discussion—or the partial pressure at Bombay should become worse, the closing of the loan by May may be regarded as a certainty. Mr Wilson will be here in a day or two, and may publish a budget before that. One cause of the relief felt here is, if not dangerous, at least delusive. Some 16 millions or more of our debt has been transmitted to England, and the India House is finding the interest without drawing upon India. These home remittances will one day be the difficulty of Indian finance.  "The Governor-General is still marching to Lahore, and as he and his camp, when last heard of, were in the valley of the Markhouda, they are not likely to emerge for some days. ` "A bill increasing the duty on country rum from one rupee to three rupees (6s) a gallon has been introduced into the Legislative Council. The member for Bengal asked that the standing orders should be suspended, and the bill passed at once, but, as it contains new penalties, the Council refused. The heavy addition is also to be made to the tax on ' gunja' (in Arabic, and Monte Christ° hatichichl, the extract of hemp, with which some classes of our population madden themselves. The drag is the most fatal stimulant used by man, destroying gradually the reasoning powers. It gives men, however, a momentary courage, and the fighting classes all keep it. Government is anxious to suppress it, as men under its influence have a penchant for committing murder; but, as a bolus the size of one of Holloway's pills is sufficient for two doses, there is a limit to taxation.  "The English order limiting holders of staff appointments to a five years' tenure of office has been extended to this country. All the civil staff and soldiers in political or civil employ are exempted from its operation."