... of the Church-rates Abolition Bill, or whether he will consent to postpone the consideration of that resolution until the House has determined the main question raised by th« bill, namely, the absolute and unconditional abolition of Church-rates, without ...

... character, quite as much so as the timber duty. We mean the insurance duty. If the one is tax upon produce, the other is equally tax upon prudence. Mr. Gladstone contends that although in theory the insurance duty is open to that charge practically it is ...

... excise duties on the threequarters show a slight increase, from £14,216,000 to *14,307,000 ; the stamp duties have risen from £7,029,000 .n) £7,135,C00, in spite of some minor reductions, and in spite of an abatement of the fire insurance duty, which ...

... creditable to- the Conservative party, how it happened, that, on Wednesday afternoon, when Mr. John Oxford University Tests Abolition Bill went into committee, only 172 members of the party were present to give Sir W. amendment their support. Pray with what ...

... customs' duties Austria after an early date were not to exceed 25 percent, ad valorem, on any description of British goods. He proposed to repeal the duty on timber, and to equalise the duty on wine in bottles to- duty on wine in wood. The ...

... asked whether, in reference to the Cattle Plague Bill, the compensation clauses could not put into second measure, that the Stamping-out-Bill might be proceeded with without delay. Sir G. GREY said it was impossible to separate the compensation clauses from ...

... support to Lord Derby. He is opposed to the unconditional repeal of church-rates, in favour of the diminution and eventual abolition of the malt-tax, and to an extension of reform to those who, being at present excluded, are qualified to use it with judgment ...

... customs' duties in Austria after an early date were not to exceed per cent, ad valorem, any desciiption of British goods. He proposed to repeal the duty on timber, and to equalise tbe duty on wine iv bottles to duty on wine in wood. The duty ...

... addressed by you on the 9th inst., to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, requesting, 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 heretofore—a ...

... adoption of a memorial to Government, laying for the abolition of the duty upon hackney Carriages and stage carriages, which produced last year * £127,177 Us. lid. Mr. Gladstone contended that the abolition of the tax would tend to the chetpening of Omnibus ...

... The partial loss of temporal power has thus proved a decided spiritual gain, and it may be assumed as certain that the abolition of the temporal power would still further consolidate and strengthen the purely spiritual influence of the Holy See. It would ...

... money that everyone accepts. a legal tender everywhere. I suspect, too, there a greater pleasure in listening to men of this stamp in general than to those who overawe with a great reputation acquired elsewhere, and not always applicable to the questions ...