... Lordships to pass the Income- pro} tax Bill and the Stamp Duties Bill before the Easter recess. Any discussion upon the financial propo tions of the Government could be taken on the Paper ter. Duty Bill or the Customs Bill after The Earl of Dery believed ...

... of duty on coffee having been inconsiderable—-only £157,000; while the consumption had increased 8 per cent In the Customs duties an augmentation was shown on spirits, tobacco, wine, and sugar. had overt °pped the estimate by £2,470,000, the duty on spirits ...

... same thing might have been, and was,, said regarding the paper duty. When newspapers were sold at or 6d the paper duty formed very small portion of the price imposed on the article. Yet the duty would always have served to keep up the price, and we could ...

... at noon to-day. The President's Message recommends the modification of the tariff and the abolition of all internal taxes, except on spirits, tobacco, and stamps. The Message, in alluding to the relations with Great Britain, says:—'• This year has witnessed ...

... persons held more than 11J millionacres. The only remedy he considered adequate was the abolition entails and the simplification of titles to land, reduction of stamp-duty and agents’ fees for deeds, and the alteration of the law of succession and primogeniture ...

... After a few remarks from Earl Grey, the motion was withdrawn. March 3J, Their Lordships assembled to-day, in order that the Stamp Duties Rill and the Income-tax Rill, after being read third time in the Commons, might brought up to their Lordchips' House, and ...

... thereof assemble Parliament in the autumn. Ayrton gave notice that he should shortly move resolutions in favour of abolition of the paper duty. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the attention of Government had been called to the contract entered into ...

... hand, he determined he would no party such a state of things. The hon. gentleman said they could not stamp purchase out of the army; but they bad stamped it out of every other service under the British Crown. lon'g the Government permitted commissions to ...

... £513,000. The customs duty foreign spirits showed increase of £126,000, principally under the head of Geneva and other spirits; but there had been a falling off in the duty upon rum. There was also an increase in the excise duty upon the sugar used by ...

... the earlier part of the a:t' imr was j taken with the swearing in of members, and the introduction of such private hills have duty complied with the standing orders. lie motion of Mr T. B. Potter, an was agreed to for a copy of the relation to the removal ...

... in colour of this stamp has been made owing to the resemblance between the former issue in lilac and the Inland Revenue penny stamp, which led to the stamp of the lower value being sometimes used instead of a sixpenny postage stamp. The Foresters' Society ...

... policies wet® pursued. At first the different ltd duty upon brandy was idled, surrendering £4IG,fiUI); but July the duties were raised, which reduced the loss the revenue to £49.090 only, while the increased duties on the other spirits made actual increase in ...