Provincial administrations thing ?or them in As, regards the India at Calcutta, A?A? ?eel that the bargain. members o? the ing Lord Canning, the Governor-General, mous in' putting through the income tax there was some- Government of it may be said that they, includ- were unani- at any cost. Sir Charles Trevelyan, the most popular Governor of M?ras, ofilciall? oppohed this imperial impost very vehemently and had to pay the penalty by being re- called for his opposition. Other provincial admm?stratums, on the other hand, seem to have acquiesced calmly. The community, opposed to London Economist, Indian opinion especially each other. by and that o? the at Calcutta were The corresl?ondent no mean? an. impartial server, adds that ."the tone o[ the Bengalee as much opposed to the new as Bengalees of Calcutta, ? knowing quite impotent for resis?enoe, think to that by incessant lamentations. Daily and railing ag?ins? the ?errible income by the newspapers that are the organs Their cries for pity when they see the are to be applied to the wool of. their themselves make is the tax European directly of the ob- Press is ever. The to be up for wailing renewed of the Babeos. shears which fat incomes, are ridiculous enough. This barking, we are told, may, however, be safely despised, as it is sure not to be followed by any the Trade Association, natives and foreigners, bite." Similarly at Madras presumably composed of both resolved to follow their heroic the opposition to the' tax. On the other governor in hand we are informed that the non-official at Bombay presumably Europeans, and the community at Calcutta,. were taxes. It is interesting to note the very European community, community European all in favor of the new in this connection that which is said to have The London Eoonomist, Vol. XVIII, 1860, p. A89. /hi&, July 28, 1880.
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