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Mr. MacNeill, member for Sosth Donegal, them moved an avendment that the Honse disapproves of the attack on the freedom of the press in India, sad the imprisonment of British watjoute without trial, and urged the extension to British subjects in Indis of the fall privi- legos of the British Constitution.

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Now that the Chimatta Corporation, are, ang wosting an outrol, it is very niceruty for pops of notorions scosmlivls of the despie to know something about it. It was a tar in the South Seas le perfectly demo which originally was levied at the gates of aneespal convicts, whose handles were against, town on every article of food that went into it, every mms, for every man's hadde was spelfie bat which has sinos heen extend bo to other them, but they were hutsletve in nume articles. The tax has at all times bees, theber when compared with the legitonto d

ballar, and the malakand The British tamir Haimar, from Ampy sohject of popular execration, and some traders who had established themselves on the soul tractina years ago, when it was bolshed a Bras hundreds of Islands Arena Pitcairn in the east to, arpalition, bai against his whis the rise in 19th August, hed moderste S.W, to W. wind sol, there was great publiavejšining In Indrozes in the zorth west. J That pinarly exchange and a botter harvest. When these doth son cnd floo older mother. In Amoy The Ualuesigned having been appoint A exists in Paris and many largo Freñon all of those men fyers, déserts from the 7535 gaand had been realised; he hoped the definitStr Neuchyvang, Heitan, Thales, Karo 2300 ANTS for the abová Lenapeny say "pro-/ towns, but its orisionco a boing threatened test of whaleships that from 1704 np to 1850 would 10% be tuc in excess of the estimate this, and had heiskstege svorywhore. In Indis it axista st Bonibay, we grained through both Pastes is true, but they made as the beguiling of the year. He rejoiced The Booster Nama, from Unas paved to ACCEPT KISKS I FI Bank is, on demand believe, and in Caraparo; and in almost 'avery were not the tərrible villains it was the fashion that the revenus from opium had been steadily] Porta 19th August, Ead Igaz p.k. mind and RRANS SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., large town in the North Western Provinces to describe them. The gator number of dirinaling. He spoke in the highest terms fine weather to Amor. From. Amor to RATON and Oudh and thie Panjeb, where is is frooly them were simply traders and sold co20-nut of the sticionor of the Indian Army, and moderate 8.W. wild and car weaster From cursed; and many years ago it was notorious oil, pear-shells, and prezimens to the whole hoped that the Indian Government would Bwatow to part light B.Wind and fire wea that the outro levied in the rising, town of ship. Some of them made fortunes others overemo the predatory habite of the ther. In Foochow Str. Java. le Amor-Str. Hattras ruined the cation-presing industry of morely made a living but a living free from frontier tribesmen by improving their Thales, Hasman, Worang, Hethod New that place. The object of it is to disguise the the hardships and miseries of life of 600 rasterial condition, which he trusted would be ofurang. Ia Swatow-Bts. Nashom, Bushing, bardes of taxation as much as possible, and some there were he became thorough natives, affected by opening the road to Chitral. He and Fatwan to shift it from the propertied classes on to the and could not be distinguished from the wild contsude that it would be most dearable to

EXPORT CARGO. general community, and to abstimate Ladirvel people among whom they lived and died Increase the Financial Docentralisation in India, But let me give a for brief akotahes of the in regard to which the Government were con

The O. & 0:steamer Gastic, sailed on the 14th for direct taxation. If you have direct taxa tion, taxation is more apparent, and there as life by both classes of the alt feland adventures adoring what arrangemouts could be made. coutimnons popular demand for economy in the genuine runaway sailor traders, and the Lord George then said it was the policy of the August. For a Franko pokages expenditure; whores If you have indirect escaped convicte from Vex Diemen's Land or Government to multiply the indutries of the tea and 25 uses all goods. For La Libertad taxation, more is traved out of the public New South Wales With the latter the ont country; thus condering the population leas 17 cases it goons For Ba Jos do

3 case silk goods. Fet Goranto-E though in a less visits mankar and with las ting-off of ships was favourite pursuit, and dependent on the rainfall. The Government thalaces sit goods. For is Union discontent, but it is spent wild loss omvorin com the capture of the Globe, of Nantucket sixty did not favour wholesale penture cu frigusi goods. For Ponta Areas Che sequence. A rocent, Aniarianter as the four years ago, was a notorious The tion; but were determined to adhere to un

increased outlay on Hailway Constraction, goods For Champerzoo:-0 cases ik goed. rabject of taxation, the Hon. David & Walk, Ciobe lay as anchor in illi Ingoon in the who may be said to be one of the greatest Marshall Islande, when an eased donvict and Lord Elgin, he said, had faced the many differ Acajuthee silk goods for fan- Hiring authorition on this subject tells a Portuguese named Antonio Gomal, who were culties 49 ad uscountered with judgment, lik goods. For myaqui

that in England it has been estimated Living on the island, planted with the natives. great courage, and anbroken success; and had cases silk goods, for Callas-7 cases bilk that for every fly millions of indiret to exptarehe ship and massacre the crew all through book wall supported by the local cos For Benfolds case bile yoods. Governmehle, the Military, and the For Philadelphis cases ilk goods. For

Now. Yock 90 bales at all. tares paid inte the Exchequer, beventy. This was successfuly accomplished, hat. It i millions are taken from the consumers and satisfactory to know that Mr. Gomal at least Servants. MYves Guyat, late French Minister of Enblic si not enjoy his centare, for the ship's cooper, Werks, recognised authority on economical seizing a harpoon, saut it through the Port questions, has recently shown, bysories of ingal's body and pinged him to the deck house statistical diagram, that the octrol systora a l'hen, a few years later, a band of thirteen indirect taxation in France adds on an average convicts ring on Plunsand Island an isolated twenty per cunt, to the cost of goods to och spot in Odeg. Zb. S. 167deg rain,and sumers over and above the In New Zan aided by two hundred natives, kent-offs sulp land, where there exist great sapilitiesforcalquin whose same was usvór actoriginal, and mur- tines of this kind, expert has recently clou dored every scul on board. This ship was wall tated that for every million and a Lul bollented sumed, and her crew of liby toen made a date through the Customs, the people of the colorymided but Topeless realatange. Bau was then have band not less than one million and to plundered and burnt, and in the bilarious feat

an addition of 10 per cent vities taust earned on sore to celebrate her think which over and above the tax. The English Finan capinto two of the white ma, God and D'Arcy, cial Reform Ascoalation stowed in 1861 that got drunk and shot a chief who claimed more the diferetico botycan the net amount paid in thes was considered a fair share of the booty to the Exchequer from direct taxes and the In an instant a general fight ensued, ps of the grose amount taken out of the public averaged writer ware Naughtered by the chief's retinue, thirty-seran per cent. Tres Uayot writes, and the remaining eight, with their nativá of the ectral LinsIt seems incredible that wives, compelled to leave the island Frenchmen, nyaally smitive to ridicula can quietly submit to be sweated and plucked like fowls without crying out against this Katignated mathod of indirect taxation, only 50 long as they are kept blind to the tar America Mr, Opsdyke stated in 1867 that the GODERMATA of imported articles are charged with at least lity per cent, in audition to the duties sotnally romeived by Government Thomas Carlyle, with his and relemence suggested that legislatore who advocats in direct taxation intend that those who are not hungry should suppress those who are, We point ent those views and the facts or pressed by them, because tedirect taxation is undoubtedly popular An Englishman, dis likemad J. S. Mill, not so much the pay ment as the act of payment? He diables, seeing the fare of the tax-colbotar; and perhape, too, the money which he is required to pay directly out of his pocket is the only taxation which hy is quite euro ho pays at all Bus it is a pure doludon. The pros of goods bousig mixed up with the tar the tax-payer does not know how much be in paying, and the cost of gools is enhanced far borotid the original burden of the tax. The merchant adds interest and profit on the tax also when he sells to the wholesale desier, and this process goes on all down the line till the whole barten falls on the poorer clones whose ties écupal thom to bay in mual quantities. And yet we are told tha: an octroi should be imposed in the intercals of the poorer class. An sutrei has, however ang great meril that the people who raise money by it can undertake the most extravagant and TABESCESSARY mesaares and fritte away publie money and obtain money to do so without creat ing general popular discontent or suiting un dmoriticasm.

Lord George Hamilton, said it wee most un. mir to compare tar Indian and the British Government. Murder, he said, and bean deliberately committed for political purposes, and the natives who had boss arrested were notorious mos, and without doubt their prrcat would give cines enabling the authorities to unravel the conspiracy. is believed that Me. and bad Boon murdered because bo draw as distinction between poor and rich,

BROWNUOGELE ON THE MITUATION IN

INDIA.

London, 6th Angnat, The non were ever heard of again, although

After Mr. MacNeill's amendment had been negatived in the House of Lommeus last night, the boat was picked up some oaths inter at an

agenoral discussion ensued, in which Mr. inland a thousand miles to the westward; in it wars the remains of three of the poor women.

sund it was patent fast, erupt to few pervers So much for nne class of the old sinnd adventuggree, replying to air W. Wedderburn, turer

whou a young man of twenty,

fifty yearsRO, air, one fany Cherry was shipwrecked on one of the Cerchide Talande. He is still alive, and has never left the Northwest Pacific, through he hse moved about from group to group with his numerong children and grandchildren. Un ona ocasion, when living on Strong's Island, he found that a plot small among some of his followers and relatives to seize a small whaling brig that lay anchored in one of the tulpat bar hours. The ringleader was his own son-in-law and bis mundanous designs wer's revealed to Cherry by his wife (Cherry's daughter). Quickly arming himself, and accompanied by tour or five of his half-caste pom, the trader at once. boarded the brig, fold the captain of the plan to acis, the remal and kill all hands, and naked his assistance to mete out justice: Manning and arming two beats, they rowed ashore, and Cherry calling together the rest of his follows. in the village square, demanded the names of those who bad planned the seizure of the brig, Nine were named, among them his native sou- in-law. No attempt was mada at dentel, and the unfortunate wretches, together with six Strong's Islanders from another village, word arched to the band and summarlly shot. If ho (the lusder) had been my own son, instead of only my son-in-law, I would have led Lim slot he said when speaking of the tragedy And yet this storn old fallow was not only respected hat lovel by his native following; none of whom, not oven those whose lives he took, would are thought of questioning his Many of these men lived in great styl. They were generally astute enough to marry a wo man of chiefly rank, and thereby increase their

winds, the incins Government had ouubated the Famine with unprecedented efficacy. The blunders and credulity of Sir, W. Wodderhura W Wedderburn had discharged his duty to his ere, he said, inexcusable, and in his opinion bir Queen and country in a muster uabefitting a

nuggree then asked why the names of dr. aber of the House of Commons. Mr. Bhor- Ghole's correspondents had been vitit so not fortheming, we were entitled to believe that long, and stated that, since their letters were they wore flotions.

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TONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK- ING CORPORATION,' ... A Chancellor read the Quan's Speech as Zol lot. The con balitas y plations with H Forsign Powers remains unchanged The negotiations for peace between Turkey and PAID-OF CAPITAL Graece have beau protracted, and a formal LESERTA FUND Treaty has not yet been signed, but there is good ground for believing that oli the more Important matters have been adjusted, and that in return for an adequate indemnity the terri tory conquered by Turkey will be, with slight modifications of the frontier, restored to Greece. The Speech then mentions the dunguciation of the German and Belgium Commercial Treaties; which have prevealed He Majesty miking with her Coloufen zuzah fiscal arrangements within bor Empiressemerpedient Allusion is then made to a fresh Anglo Chinese Convention, establish. ing a more advantageous frontier between Bur mah and Chine, and opening up the Vat River to European Commerce. The presses of re- Yesterday we guke of how the octroi tar

presentatires of the Colonies and Indis at the works Octroi, as it existed in Indis pre-Brit

Jubilee ceremonies le tended to strengthen ish times, was called choongee; literally a pinch,

the bund of union in all parts of the Empire. thatis to say when the producer os menntastore status and infance with the natives. The Allading to the Factices in India, Her Majesty brought hus gonda to market, the tax-gatherer bistones of theo men in the South Bees if told gladly acknowledges the energy and self-sacriter took a pinch of the staff for the King. Uctrol, wonki rend like the wildest romance Notably co of the otices of all ranks, both European awe administer it, I quite another thing, and this was the case in the olden days in the Caro and native, and many private persons, who has ruined many industries Upper India The and Marshall groups and in the northern with antiring zeal and anxious desire to avoid It opens the door to babory, peremption, exterennatorial lands up to 184 In Parape one giving offence to native feeling, Laboured to tion, and every olbar form of legal gratifice, so me in 1820 maintained force of fire bave life and relieve suffering. The improve tosAs an engine of oppression it is quite hundred rose, all of who were armed with ment regarding the plague, Her Majesty Bays, splendid. Let us suppose that alestoklaan in markets and eatinges Be had originally been is mainly due to the energetic and jadielona dents for certain goods. The Ostro Superin the master of London whaling and trading steps taken by the local Governments to prevent tekent lama a schedule of barges for the various vessel, and also went in for a little quict ph its spreading. Her Majesty then sistes that article of trade, and before olivery is randa, atvering during1816-20 Chared away froin the she has felt great pleasure in sanctioning the the importer must submit hie iarion for the Fast Ladies by Engdek will Leitch vier-of-warrangement for enlarging the barbours of inspection of the Ostari Superintendent. The be wos sailing ematward to try his luck aguiat Dover and Gibraltar. With regard to the latter may feel disposed and gemily the Spaniards on the Smith America coast, Military Mauros Bill, Her Majesty ex- disposed to doubs the accuracy of the in whan he lost his ship at Fompe in the Western poets it will conduce to the greater efficiency of voice, and being empowered to open any case, Carolines Out of his row of thirty men, the Army. In conclusion, Her Majesty states may do so at any time. If a private individual twenty sailed for Chua in small sobcezar that she has concluded a treaty of commerce.

poris clothes or any other necessary article built from the wreck, while he and the remain and friendship with King Menelik, for purely private use, the Ootal Buperinten der accepted the invitation of the chief of the THE PARLIAMENTARY AUTUMN BISSION London, 7th August. douf aan detain the parcel and cell upon the Jakoits district to remain on the and and importer to declare its contenta and pay the assist him in his warlike expeditions Thoy.

Parliament wil re-assemble on the Ent October. octroi tax socording to the chalule, and here went to work with a will sud in six months- it is that the door to bribery and corruption the whole of the three districts of Ponipa were is laid upon. If an importer rifosco to bribenader the way of the thier who had seental. the octroi oficial, it is in the power of the their services, Four carronados taken from the latter to make it coordingly unplexcht for wrubked vessel and manned by the white men, him, and by various overt note on sa him thd each craptation among his enotes that they marions last without putting himself within werp glad, to make peace As might have been the watabas of the law Ye lave known orponte, however most of the adventurors met case when this official Incasted on opening with violent deaths, till there were but three photographio films. The objections to an octroi left the captain and two scation. These latter tax are so many and so great that no one in were well provided for by the native rulors; bis senses should help its introduction inte but the captain became rich and powerful, and this city. It has the effect of polyeing trade lived on the fat of the land. Although thais and in these days of been trade competition, the English names one forgotten the memory of delays incidental to the working of the octroy their doings has not yet bed away in the * tax would cause serious losses, and hair trade Western Carolines. The ex-captain eventually to an enormous extent. It le a rélio of berried daughters of the three leading chiefe, bacio umy scd that the trei Suparin and choosing the month end of the island for his tendent of an Upper Fudid town subaly retires domain, lived there in state. W prever he with a fortano in five years 6 Daily News, went he was attended by bie designed body. guard and he zected a tribate of oil and pearl- THE ISLAND TEADER 18 BE 18chell from his sebjects, and exported it to Chins for sale. His say seemed to have been wild but firm, not when in his old, age he was Mr. Maddison, 4,250); Mr Hope, 1,106. kost by an socidant at ses be vas mourned by a

AND AS HE USED TO BE

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THE ENGLISH MAIL.

steamer Pozilla with the Eng July Arrived yesterday are from the Times of

all away beyonít thờ váral track of the regular traiting vessel of tenag you will arme to plibes where a stazzy jew of the old style o. men shif exist in their iertaling: Bat:thms are hava made money in the door fays. pushed out in Ungaro the pyllised and

- London. 1st Augus crowded groups of Eastern Polygenis, where The Albanians continun railing on the Ser the voice of the tourist in dow renous in the view frontier, and have attacked Mockhouses Inad, because the men beculations of life hebrae and retired after fighting. The Amhandnes hateful to theas, and the incessant competition of the Powers have decided to make representa that dissed them, in toolz, braizong lessened tong in the msttar. À their prestige with tu nenver pare, sad mayo

THE REDELS overy day. And so as the, Thếw- mêm canno in and openod." hơn Là Đình nói Toure and Banan and the Herrer grouse, and the ailing Vensus wore replaced by dirty" Lowry-Boking

7,000 relew In Gahnlaud, with stomers willa fondly, drogood", "Enféren whose "ziamen were the names of the Chessa red, while the nous test, 2003 Feople who pry the oddi fan vistine LIRITS THE COVEENOR GE Aisappeared one by one, der

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