... thereupon.- Customs Acts (Tobacco Duties;— report thereupon ; Births and Deaths Begis- tration (IreUud! Bill— second reading: Illegitimate Children (Ireland) BUI -committee j Supply— committee ; Drainage (Ire- land) (Stamps)— report thereupon: Drainage of ...

... their rates of duty were considerably reduced, and rendered more simple and uniform by the abolition of progressive scales and of several exemptions. They became im- mediately more productive. In 1854, the last year of the high duties, the tax on servants ...

... admirable and long- established machinery into hopeless confusion. Unconditional abolition of church rates is therefore an unjust and impolitic cry. Conditional abolition might be reasonable if the conditions were equitable. But to maintain a legal re ...

... reducing the duty from 9d. in the pound, as at present charged, to 7d. in the pound. Tlie total present relief to be afforded would be — Abolition of small charges on commerce £143,000 Abatement on minor incomes 300,000 deduction of tea duty 1,300,000 Reduction ...

... maim, and to ravish in the name of Holy Mother Church, may, as we are but too well aware, come to be regarded ;is a sacred duty in the eyes of a certain section of fanatics. But the indi- viduals in question could plead no such pious enthusiasm as the ...

... difficulties under wbich the duties of the City police have be.v discharged durin the last few days. Comparatively few iv numbers and necessarily somewhat deficient in organisation • they have attempted to perform the duty of keep- i ing order, and preserving ...

... probable changes iv tbe duties on tea and sugar, aad like- wise by tbe biil introduced into this house by myself for altering tbe duty on tobacco. The revenue w_j injured to a certain extant by tba expectation of probable changes in the duty oa tea aad sugar ...

... opinions veered round from principles of reform that he supported Sir Robert Peel in his determination— while assenting to tbe abolition of the old corporations— to resist tbe establishment of new municipal bodies in Ireland ; and thus •altogether to deprive ...

... to repeal the paper duty or the tea duty. They determined to propose a repeal of the paper duty, and a material element guiding them to that determination was the fact that there had been recorded a condemnation of the paper duty ; but they afterwards ...

... tbat would be best effected by the passing of some such measure as the present tnlL Mr. SELWYN said that as it had been his duty at former periods to move the rejection of similar bills he begged to say tbat it had never been his intention to act in any ...

... possesses, in the office of its in- spectors, ample security, if they do their duty, for the proper administration of its funds. No doubt, a great point has been gained by the abolition of the augmentation grant, one of the most demoralising schemes that was ...

... the House of j Commons, and when Mr. Bright condemns the Government and condemns the house because Conservatives of the same stamp as myself, who are not ashamed of the old-fashioned name of Pittite or Tory, supported Lord Palmerston as the. head of the ...