... no duty should be fixed to con- ; * upon ■ ?? either customs or excise duty, after the oeriod mentioned in the amendment, but that it should be j ;. opeD tii future consideration whether it would lie , _jj n y,:, ?? that time, to continue any duty at ...

... member for South Lancashire could insist upon treating that duty as a charge upon property, and the way to test that would be to propose a duty on pro- perty of all kinds and the abolition of the duty on fire in- j surance. ?? Mr. GREENE thought it would be ...

... side of the water. Having published it, the leading Roman Catholic journals seem to consider that the}- have discharged every duty required of them. They do not make the docu- ment the subject of comment. On their part the newspapers upholding the National ...

... which was stamped upon the pocket. The stamping of the name of the grower, and of the parish, was made compulsory upon the owner, but the stamping of the age and weight was left in the hands of the excise, and after the rep.al of the hop duty in 1862 fell ...

... commerce, which now came iuto the country without any exaction what- ever. After abolishing duty on those articles, 15 others had been subjected to customs duties. That ?? not ouly an example to foreigu nations, butencourage- ment to our own to pursue a ...

... industry. When the duty was taken off stained paper— used tor 'paper-hangings— tho paper which while tbe duty was on sold for 4d. a yaxd was reduced in price, when the duty was abolished, to a penny a -7 a ™ J ° abolition of the duty on ...

... 100,000,000fr. The Minister then detailed the different sources of the increased ordinary re- venue—customs, excise, salt duties, &c. ; the extension of the war tax, the public lottery, the sale of royal domains, State railways, &c. The Home Ministry ...

... been rendered perfectly intelligible, and a proper economy in its expenditure rigidly enforced. Laws for the regulation of stamp duties, of the taxes on heritable and personal succession, and of assessments for local purpose', have been enacted, by which ...

... malt and hop duty, £1,400,000; the tea and sugar duty, £2,100,000. Now, take the seven-tenths of £8,472,000 and they would find it was £5,900,000, and add to that the £2,100,000 on the tea and sugar duty, and the £1,400,000 malt aud hop duty, and they would ...

... remission of a war income tax and a ra- duction of the duties on tea and sugar instoad of a repeal of the paper duties. (Hear, hear.) Now if that was the case, how could they reconcile it with their j duty to the country to allow the repeal of that tax? (Hear ...

... asked what will be the effect of the repeal of the corn duty with respect to other duties, such as the duty I on arrow root. Of course they will fall with it. This change will not only remove tbe duty on corn, but on ] 14 other articles. (Hear, bear.) One ...

... only interested in the duty. The hou. gentleman said, •• reduce the duty, and then you will hare a common interest ; but he (tbe Chancellor of the Exchequer) said, No, reduce the premium in the pro- portion tb-t you reduce the duty, and tben there would ...