... new tariff' the reduction of the duties on wine, spirits,, and sugar, as well as the total abolition of the (luties on a number of smaller articles all tending to swell the revenue. We believe, how- ever, that the wine duty may be considered an ekception ...

... samce course should be followed on promo- tion to the rank of surgeons and subsequent trans- fers, a deduction on account of stamp-duty Will, therefore, be made in cases of first appointment, or promotion of the classes of medical officers alluded to from ...

... circumstances in con- nexion with the payment of duties about the period of the Budget last year. Stamps will yield an increased revenue to the ex- tent of about £50,000, to bet accounted for by the new penny duties. In Assessed Taxes no variation is likely ...

... 05,0001. a year; the duty on tallow, swhich yields 87,0001.; tihe duty tipomI cheeso-(clteurs)-which yields 44,0001.; the duty upon oranges and lemons, whlich yields 32,0001.; the duty uponl eggs, which yields 22,0001,; the duty upon ...

... or import duties upon it are 100 or 200 per cent. be- comes a staple directly ynu reduce these duties to 10, 15, 20, or even 30 per cent. Now that the principle of protection is foregone, a Minister is bound to consider export and import duties as sources ...

... £207,000 on accoount of the tea duty may be as- man, sumed to be compensated for by the growth of to bh that and other Customs duties, and the second ow instalment of £260,000 on account of the fire pyivc insurance duty may, perhaps, be also neglected ...

... memubers. TiEE STAMP ACT. Mrl. THOMSON asked tie Chaucellor of the Ex- chequer whiother coupons issued by railway clom- panies for the payment of their debenture interest, aie rendered liable to the stamp duty of one penny by the new Stamp Act; or whether ...

... to the public Press. When the stamp dtty upon Biritisit ncknspapers was lowered froil 4d. to 2d., and equnilised thiotulilolit tile United Kingdom, the effect of that alteration was to raise the then existlig two- penny duty lillol Irish papers eight one-thilrd ...

... Government ?? getting a 6d duty properly secured to them rathor than the 5s dnty, which they only obtained in a very few instances. The duty on re insurance imposed last year was proposed to be removed, 'as boing bur- densome and the duty on what were termed ...

... substitution of direct for indirect taxation. Sir AV. IIEA1IICOTE preferred tile reduction of d; the tca to the abolition of the paper duty, but ad- mitted that the Government was right on tile ell- 1. stittitionial questions. He arldlnml several instances ...

... But this represents only a small part Of thle suim that must be paid. -There is, first, thle stamp duty on the policy, to which no one objects; and then a duty of as. per cent., which must be paid not only on the original policy but onl every re~newal ...

... universal cry will be- Down with the Incoise-tax Ministry 1 (17ROM THE FREEM,,AAN'S JOURNAL.) Trip paper duty is to 'be repsealed, and the stamp duties are to be increased by slight taxes on brokers' contracts, doek wai'rants, licenses to eating-lhsuses ...