... £513,000. The customs duty on foreign spirits showed an increase of £126,000., principally under the head of Geneva and other spirits, but there had been a falling off in the duty upon rum ; there was also an increase the excise duty upon the sugar used ...

... would support the Irish Church long as they bad the means doing so, feeling that the abolition of the Church in Ireland must inevitably be followed by the abolition of the Established Church in England. Witn respect to the charter to the Roman Catholic ...

... containing pages, and numerous illustrations, will sent on receipt of uino postage stamps, being only half the publisbod price. Foxe’a Book of Martyrs still send for three stamps. The committee to their fellow-Protestants aid them iu circulating these invaluable ...

... legislative duties. If two parallel columns were drawn, and if on the one side were tabulated the dates of the repeal of the advertisement duty, the abolition of the compulsory newspaper stamp, and, last and greatest, the repeal of the duty ...

... ons of the existing constitution. On these two questions we hold that the duty of the Legislature is clear. The Irish Church must be maintained in its integrity. Its abolition would in no wise conciliate disaffection ; whilst it would give just cause ...

... I deem it lie the duty every Government, by fair and legitimate means, to favour and promote. reiiort the Committee the Malt Tax now published. Should succeed the object my ambition, ami be chosen your representative, it ill my duty, when that report ...

... nation, and therefore unsectarian and general its character. On the subject of the Malt Tax, I in favour of its diminution or abolition, whenever the Chancellor of the Exchequer can spare the money. To effect this object, and to lighten the burdens of the_ ...

... published Should I succeed in object of ambition and chosen as your representative will duty that report laid before of Commons to support any measure in therance of the abolition of a Tax is incon-ftout with the principles of Free Trade provided such measure ...

... are next told jbont the paper duty and the stamp duty, and that Lord and somebody else, supposed to be Tories, opposed repeal of these duties. Nov I have always been in favour of the repeal of tho paper duty and the ...

... explained that it is the duty the Churchwardens and Overseers and not of the Directors to make out the poor-rates the Board must decline to assent to any addition being made to your salary to remunerate you for the performance of any duties connected with making ...

... addition to the heavy duty upon paper, the stamp upon every newspaper was fourpence. What would you think, what would our friends behind us of tbe Daily Post say, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed to put a fourpenny stamp upon every number of ...

... public administration. The tax on Government concessions is to be extended to all the provinces of the kingdom the registry and stamp taxes are to be more regularly collected: the income tax, wblcn is present higher than that in England, will be replaced by ...