... property of tho country. He examined the charges brought agamat tbe malt duty, o' serving that the question was to its abolition or its reduction. The total abolition of the duty would, said, the death-warrant of our whole system of indirect taxation, ...

... of £4,031,000. (Cheers.) Now, for the manner in which he proposed to dispose of that surplus. He proposed.to reduce the stamp duty on the letting of small tenements for less than a year. The present tax was only 61, but it was proposed to reduce it to ...

... necessaries of life. Then, discus:ling the question of the malt duty, he showed that the abolition of that duty would hi- the deathwarrant of indirect taxation, and that a reduction of the duty by more even than onehalf would scarcely benefit the consumer; ...

... prayer for a reduction of the Malt Duty, and Mr. Sheridan has placed his annual motion in the Parliamentary notices, calling on the House of Commons to pledge it self once more to the abolition of the Fire Insurance Duty. It must, however, be remembered ...

... Westbromwich. Enclosed I send ss. in stamps, as my first mite tc the Guarantee Fund. If I can increase it next year, I shall be most happy to do so. I hope every temperance reformer in the kingdom will do their duty in this respect. lam happy to inform ...

... between the extremes of failure and success, the balance can now be pretty fairly struck. After the abolition Of the advertisement, the stamp, and the paper duties, all at once newspapers were multiplied, and the issues of several that had been weekly or semi-weekly ...

... 600,000. He also proposed to reduce the duty on fire insurance to a uniform rate of mchteenpence from the 20th of Jutie next, and to substitute for the duty of one shilling on fire insurance policies a stamp duty of oho penny. By this arrangement there ...

... injuriously upon the working classes by limiting the demand for labour. The abolition of the tea duty would vastly increase our trade with China and India, while that of the sugar duty by the freedom it would confer upon refining, would tend to concentrate ...

... chapelry of Ulgharn (and after due inquiry to include all charges in one comprehensive measure). In Favour of the Abolition of the Duty on Attorneys' and Solicitors' Certificates.—By Mr. PILKINGTON, from attorneys and solicitors of Blackburn ; by Mr. ...

... saving. With this view he should Propose to remove the anomaly in the present stamp duty on scrip certificates and receipts. He further proposed to reduce from 6d. to Id. the stamp upon the letting of small tenements for periods less than a year; to reduce ...

... that 20 per cent. of the price of boor was due to the duty on malt; that reduction of the malt duty would sensibly diminish the price of beer. The duty was now 2s. 84d. a bushel. If they reduced the duty to is. 2d., that would give the consumer the benefit ...

... Mr. Maguire.— That the position in which the British paper trade has been placed by the abolition of the import duty on foreign paper, leaving the foreign export duty on rags in full operation, is one of great hardship to the British manufacturer, and calls ...