INDIA.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 315, 26 October 1860, Page 3

INDIA.

We {Sydney Herald) have Bombay papers to the 14th of September, and Calcutta to the Bth.

The Bengal Ilurkuru says that discontent, dissatisfaction, and distrust may be said to be the normal state of India at present. The Europeans in this Presidency are getting up meetings and forming associations at present, with more immediate reference to the Arms Act, but ultimately with the view of resisting the present course of legislation which is tending towards the Black Acts, and will deprive them of the protection of English criminal law, English courts, trial'by jury, and other safeguards, which alone have enabled them hitherto to exist and carry on business in-tbe interior of the country.> If these are taken fromthem, their lives and liberties "will be subjected to the Mofu'ssi courts, -where, by the admission of the civil service itself, perjury, forgery, and bribery reign uncontrolled; and to the jurisdiction of native magistrates, who, both Hindoo and Mahomedan, hate the Europeans, and who arc not at all scrupulous as to the means used by the police for bringing about their ends The Delhi Gazette says:—The scarcity of provision in the north-west provinces gets worse and worse ; and as far as we can learn not an effort has been made to procure relief, or any single measure taken to remedy this lamentable state of things. Income Tax Commissioneis have been appointed in Madras. The bill for levying a liceuse duty on arts, trades^ and professions, has been read in an amended form. It is now made supplementary to the Income Tax. All professions and cultivators who sell their own produce are exempt. The rates are from thi cc rupees to one a year. The tax on tobacco dealers, ranging from, two to a hundred rupees a year, is vigorously opposed. The bill, it is expected, will be modified in committee. The famous Crystal Throne of Delhi lias been sent to England for presentation to her Majesty. The Englishman has received a letter from Allahabad, stating that the " Nana " is in the possession of Jung Bahadar. ~ On the 31st of August tyro rebels were hung at Fyzabad who had murdered an Englishman, ni°the time of the rebellion. The gentleman had hidden himself in a corn-field, after flying from" the hands of some rebels, when the two bloodhounds found him out and despatched him on the spot. The Home Government has declined to sanction the recommendation of the Governor-General in Council f.hat. servants of the Government in India should be allowed to purchase and hold land, provided only, in case the officer wishing to speculate in this way were a civilian, that the estates bought wore not in his own presidency, and as regards military officers, uules^ L residence were a condition. o£ the bargain.