... wine duties her Mejeet)'s govern- .oent found themsrelves in a, condition to reduce ?? the dutiom on tea and sugar, and to take off any considerable por- ticn of the income tax without having recourse toother duties, or without increasing the duties to ...

... Then there would be a duty of 6s. a cwt. on chicory, yielding 90,000h. There would he penny stamps and 3d. stamps on certain trade documents: eating-hous, including pastrycook s, would be allowed licenses to sell wine or beer. The duty on game certificates ...

... respecats brandy, Nobody vll pre- Pi tend Ihat the duty of I~s. en Frenche brandy Comrpared With to the duty at Sea. on Engliinshpittte is a revenue duty. If I ye rtqureird evidenre to show wzat that duty Is, I would rail In Wi the reopecteble menultecturere ...

... Gladstone's proposal to impose a stamp of one penny on notes of sale of foreign and colonial pro- dueo and on all brokers' contract notes, and a stamp of threepence on stock warrants, as well as a Tegis- tration duty of one penny upon each package of ...

... keeping an import duty on the articl ?? Of raw silks while the government of' this country engaged the not to levy any duty upon lb. manufhotured articrle,' low. tere was it that the government of France bed the power to levy, thai the duty upon the raw material ...

... any way with rapeot to the excise paper duty dit wan under Ihe seventh aetude, which provided for the.ed if miteton of general merchandise from F~ranca at no cuotomsne r, duty exceeding the amount of any excise duty imposed upon the eame commodities In England ...

... where is the convention in which the pro- far at tese amount of the duties is slated ? 1 say nothing of the Tb h1 priod when the duties are to come into operation, but the of 9. dutie thomselvas, it is stated, are in no caose to exceed 30 per iou3 7 cent ...

... seem that the burden which was taken off by C we the removal of customs duties was shifted to stamp d . duties on those very articles. As to the paper duty, si as an excise duty he would be glad to see it removed v in. at a proper time. The ...

... treaty ? On for the patof Englend he feund a reduction of the duty of aboutI who one-ha'lf on two essential artflele-whus and trandy. There useen wee, beetdes, an entire abolition of duties upon other articles Iin of miner importenoe. He was not ?? to ...

... swould come from the customs duty aedheted bythe treaty; dpart from duties independent of the treaty ; ande partly from I. the renmission of the exoise duty on paper. Thease were the ?? sourres of revenue which ihb F rach duty would affect. It Now, with ...

... present incidence of the malt duty it could not fairly C it be slated at more than 16 per cent. on the value of the mpenu- b, it factured derlrle, namely, beer. With respect to, the wine duty, on the other hand. the duty would be 40 or 60 b a pe etor ...

... carried out measures which led te the repeal of the advertisement aL.' the stamp duty-(hesr)-aud which be trusted would now, -Ai to their consummate vio- ?? repeel of the duty on paper. That meeting was convened in consequence ot * request mmade to the ...