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... addressed by you on the 9th inst., to the Chancelor of the Exchequer, request. isg, with reference to the proposed abolition of the duties on wood and timber, that the officers of customs may be authorised to continue to measure wood goods as hereto- fore-a ...
... Chancellor of the Exchequer said that if the old duties continued, and at the same rate of production, he might calculate upon a revenue of £70,170,000 for the year 1803-01; but, as he remitted duties calculated to lose him £3,778,000 in the year, this ...
... s is their defender no longer. He,o t indeed, objects to total abolition, but the conclu- fp sion to which his desires seem to point practically tt differs so little from total abolition that we need hi not at all despair of finding him ready to agree ...
... and tho Customs' duties in Austria after as. early date wore not to exceed 25 per cent. ,d a eforetm on any description of British goods. Hle proposed to repeal the duty oln timber, and to equaliso the duty on wine in bottles to the duty on wino in wood ...
... London l M71 e THE BENEFIT OF THE BUDGET. The duty on timber abolished, Will do the poor builders great good; Hurrah for the difference demolished 'Twixt wine in the bottle and wood! Hurrah for the sheer abolition On pepper, ye grocers, of due! How much we ...
... of Boar-lane ought to have had precedence of the abolition of the tolls. The pro- t fession to which he belonged, perhaps, suffered most from the tolls osi the bridges, but he did not think their abolition E w ould do so much general good as would be effected ...
... that the House of Commons may after all have to choose between the existing law and Mr. Hardcastle's measure of simple abolition. It is announced that the several voluntary associations which are organised for what is called Church defence, and have ...
... that of Mr. Ire, of the Press, for the sum of £5 5s.; the stamp to the account was an old one, and in looking through the books he missed several old stemps of the date 1861 and 1862. The stamp to the fresh account corresponded with the old ones. On the ...
... It is to EluL RUSSELL that the world owes the astound-. ing proposition that the duties of neutrality are not duties which one nation owes to another, but only duties which a nation owes to itself; that their violation, therefore, is not an offence against ...
... happily not without success. The first was the removal of all restrictions from maritime commerce, and the abolition k of those differential duties which injuriously retarded the intercourse between nations. The second was the con- struotion of harbours ...
... whether, in reference to the Cattle Plague Bill, the compensation clauses could not be put into a second measure, so that the stamping out bill might be proceeded with without delay ? Sir G. GREY said it was impossible to separate the compensation clauses ...
... In proof of this we had delivered to us early yesterday a telegram which gave the New York news of that mbrning. The first duty of the completed telegraph is to inform us that Mn. H.nnN, the Secretary of the Interior, has resigned; that Mn. BRowNING ...