From Our Own Correspondents Canton, June 26.
The Assembly and the Governor-General are again at loggerheads over some newly proposed taxation. It has been decided that a tax shal be imposed on hou! and the Assembly is resisting it, not on the grounds that is uni unnecessary; but—becaus Assembly was not consulted, and that the new tax has not been discussed and passed by the Assembly, notwithstanding that one of the fundamental axioms of the new order of things was that all taxation of the people should be approved by the representatives of the people.
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