... SMITH-Are the duties to be equal- ised ? CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER-Cor- tainly not. I will state the exact amount of the duties to be chargedc We are undertaking not to equalize but to reduce all duties in the same proportion. The duty on refined sugar ...

... penny stamps on cheques, and said it was a most odious form of a new tax. After some observations from Sir H. Wir.aouHvBY, Mr. SLANEY, and several other Members, the bill was read a second time. Oil the motion for the second reading of the Stamp Duty on ...

... that in the very moderate duties still levied on it there is a decrease of £095,000. The dimi- , nished duty on tea is answerable for £100,000, while there is a fall of £10,000 in the duty on tobacco, and o £55,000 in the duty on wine. These losses mre ...

... atteution last session. Attacks will be xpade on the house tax by Alderman Lawrence, on the in(coue tax by Mr Massey, on the stamp duty by Sir David Salomons, and on Queen Anne's bounty by Mr Thos. Cave. Select committees will be asked for by Mr Clare Read ...

... articles. The abolition of the duty on bricks came into operation on March 16, 1850, and, setting the draw- backs against the payment of arrears, -we are not aware that the comparison of the two quarters is much affected by that change. In stamps the decrease ...

... l can. b - gone into by them, ElMAlX'1 ON OF THlE DUTY ON FIlREi INXUIIxNCEc. Tlelo was read a letter from MIr. Chas. Maxlield, agent to the Asaociatiou for the Abolition or1'idue- tioni of tihe Duty on Fire Insurrnces, stating that Mr. H. Ii. Sheridan ...

... wold support the action of the Treasury. The increase itn revenue,! particularly under the heidL of registrationa and j 'stamp duties, railways, postal and telegraph, services, tobacco, salt, and Customs. was a sure. indication of a notasble revival in ...

... inhabitdl e hepses and shops, £100,000 oft-the tax on male ser- 1 varns,.£50,000 of the licence duty on dogsjg50,00 n of that-.on horses, g1lO,O00 out of tse stamp duties, S and sone £8000 at most out of the Income-tax-or, r in all, 'about £500,000 'out- of an ...

... amount of paper duty collected in 1840 was P £108,672, 4s. 7id., and in 1849 it had risen to £176,815, 4s. 8id. op In Ireland the amount of duty raid in 1840 was £23,160, 0s. lid., ad and in 1849, £41,163, 13s. l0Nd. The lowest amount of duty on 58 paper ...

... on, it arbitrarily :enropriated cne-half of the stamp tax receiptst bu;t thssis right was ever contested by us. The ,.ocrage half of the Customs receipts ateountse Ato £T.16,000, that of the stamp duties to B-2'.2500. while the salt tax never had any sur- ...

... delayed in order to take, advantage of the dct reduced scae of duties. In the Excisei the decrease on the V1., quarter is 2501,000, of which;C244,000 isijocounted foe byea por- th lion of the~ hop duty beinig postponed until the'uext quarter. :A The reduction ...

... they now are (from the westward), the number of arrivaln will be unusually large. The prospect of an early abolition of the newspaper stamp duty is engaging here the attention of speculators, and is not, to say the least of it, veryfavourably received ...