... that the loss of Customs duties, conse- fight quent upon the Treaty and other motives for re- Arch duction, would amount to £1,100,000 and that, like £1,900,000 more would be sacrificed through the arm abolition of Excise duties, that on Paper being the ...

... of the paper duties, As C 3 regarded the paper duty end lea duty, the Govereiment a f approached the subject wvith every desire to adept the course El . which should moat benefit the public at large. In the year 01 f 1852-3 the tea duty wee 2s. 2J d. ...

... oompetition if the duty were repealed. of t a Drune Then, it was said that the tea and sugar duties then iscount, were war duties, and that theses eught to be reduced before righ itiolt to any other. But the paperduty vwas awar duty, imposed at hear of ...

... nearly £1,300,000 fromthe Soap Duty, the Stamps or y. by £L75,000 from Advertisement Duty, both of a- which imposts have since been abolished ; while v, s, the Assessed Taxes received more than £800,000an )f from window duty, which was only partially re- ...

... when abolishing I- Customs and Excise duties with such a liberal l- ea year, has been amply justified by the result. The t; prophets of evil, who denounced especially his , venturous abolition of the Paper Duty can find in it the present return no c ...

... not having taken off the st on duty on tea end sugar, when the Government which they ni ait supported had aifn oplbortunity of doing so. At that g~, in- time, however, there was no .war duty on tea and isugar; to roe the duty upon tea woe only 2s. 2d. per ...

... with hun, or met rd him in society, but must recagnise the genuine ly stamp of the gentleman and the man of fine feeling in all he says and does ; and we are sure that his n duty of announcing to the last King of OUDE the t, downfall of his dynasty was ...

... stri repeal of the paper duties, cund in favour of the abolition am of duties en tea; by Mqjor Emvtrzina, from 600 fnba- bitanta of Halifax, against the repeal of the paper duty, ' and in avtai-tr of the reduction of the duty on tea ; afto ...

... HENLEY said his object was to provide that the amount of the stamp duty should be more proportionate to the value of the estate then it wias at present. Mr. MALINS suggested an ad valorem duty, arranged as a graduated scale of .5s. per cent. Tihe ATTOR ...

... pledged to the abolition of pensiaus alet.Veher., and consequently refused to be parties to granting a pension to one of their own members. Aia cug the many bills rejected by the Upper House this session was one for the reduction of the export duty on gold to ...

... British Forces (India), Windsnr Sns- padded Canonries, Public Works (Ireland), EdMAc burgh University, Inland Revenue, Stamp Duties on Probates, and Revenue Departments Bills n, passed through committee. a] The Industrial Schools, the Industrial Schools ...

... fifty Y millions of francs. Then there are the Octroi low Duties, which strike at the food of every man who dea lives in a tow n; besides which there are compli- tle eated and arbitrary Stamp Duties, and s multitude we I of imposts levied on those articles ...