... that duty, and now there is a duty of 10 per cent, But they will not allow the same extent of protection to agriculture (hear, hear). The importation of manufactured iron was utterly prohibited up to 1820— from that year to the year 1846, a duty of 50 ...

... , and their opera- tion on trade generally. When I said trade generally, I did so because the duties on manufactured goods have been rednced, and the duties on foreign corn have been abolished altogether. Before I proceed further I ought, perhaps, to ...

... ports? Look at the fact that in 1(115, for six months con* secutively, a duty of 20s. per quarter was paid on a large importation, while home averages were 465. or 475. Deduct the duty, and the price to the foreign grower was 265. or 275. Sir R. Peel gives ...

... (cheers). It was said what was it they desired to have done! It was not his duty to state it. He had made no secret of his own views, being satisfied that a moderate fixed duty would be an advantage to the agriculturist and to the revenue, and that H would ...

... absurd to repre- sent the question of agricultural protection as one of high rents, when it is palpable that even the total abolition of rent could not compensate the farmer for a fall of one-fourth in the price of his produce. This truth cannot be too often ...

... for the dispatch of business. ABOLITION OF FREEMEN'S FINES. The Remembrancer announced to the court that notice had been given in the House of Commons of a bill for the abolition of the payment of fines and stamp duties npon the admission of freemen ...

... petition for making the sale of lands in Ireland free; and petitions from Manchester for the repeal of the stamp duty and the adver- tisement duty, and in favour of cheap newspapers. Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from a lay association for protecting ...

... reason for its abolition (hear, hear). The time had gone by when at- torneys made great profits, for the house had, within tho Inst ?? taken away from them a sum of 45,000/. in hard cash, *>•* refusing to allow them any discount Upon stamps of upwards of ...

... about the probable intention of the government as to the removal of the stamp duty on freedoms, Alderman Sidney intimated that the most sure way of accomplishing the abolition of that duty would be by imme- diately giving up what was considered by the government ...

... WILLIAMS presented a petition from Peterbo- rough, for the repeal of the stamp duty on newspapers, &c An Hon. MEMBER presented a petition from Permoy, praying for the repeal of the duty on solicitors' annual cer- tificates. , Sir W CLAY presented a petition ...

... Birmingham, in favour of the abolition of the stamp and advertisement duties; also a petition in favour of the bill for legalising marriages with a deceased wife's sister. Several petitions were presented in favour of the abolition of Sunday labour in the ...

... amount of duty paid upon paper in the several excise collections in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, for the last ten years, stating also the totals for each year.— Ordered. Mr. BROTHERTON moved for returns of the aggregate number of stamps issued ...