... ingenious and satisfactory Budget provided for the total abolition of the duty on grain. All descrip- tions of grain from any quarter of the world may now be imported into tee United KinRdom duty free. Mr. MU'Cance has referred to the Bankruptcy Bill for ...

... is current in commercial circles that it is the intention of the Government shortly to propose ths cutire abolition of the tea and coffee duties. This report has doubtless originated in the speeches of Mr. Bright at Birmngha a,,~MrBain~ af~eed, a also ...

... 32s 6d. for low soft brown, Ss. duty, to 32se 6d. good strong brown, 9sD duty. Of 4,495 bags Guatemala 800 bags sold, low to ?? vellow, 9s. 7d. dnty, 34s. to 36s. 6d ; low to fair brown, 8s. duty, 29s. to 32s. ; and washed 27s. to 31s. 6d. per cwt. Of ...

... Corporation, and the abolition was proposed of the statute requiring that a person filling such office should possess £1,000, the object being to secure the admission of working men into the council The resolution in favour of the abolition was opposed by the ...

... enter our humblest homes by abolition of window duty, Cleanliness noloqgerproscribod, soap being left free, none dissenting; nor do any need to be informed how knowledge was permitted to circulate by the abolition of the paper duty, so that by a free press ...

... Teal liii bean sold at S~s., and geod eclayed Manillt tOs. td. duty at 3ts. per awl. 118 lilido. 4 bIel. cipotollised Berbiee sold at 40s. to 41as. 'far whita and saperior yeollow. its. 3d. duty: and 9so. Gd. for flee yellow, 10s. Gd. dots'. SO bbde, Barbica ...

... that if the Association wished to propose any- thincg to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, they could sug- gest that a penny stamp duty be imposed upon invoices. 14 That would produce the amount now derivable from income tam.-Mr. Whitwell, while sympathising ...

... of the new Government bill, relative to the stamping of building leases, which proposes to subject all leases executed since the 1st February, to a stamp duty of ten shillings in addition to the stamp duty on the rent. The petitioners show ...

... of the Viceroy, and not with the Egyptian Cxoverunent. ( Anong those who are most anxious to procure the abolition of the sliding scale for duties ol wines are the merchants connected with the C(ape of Good l Hope. Falsely encouraged for many years by ...

... are held in but few hands, and the holders were aided in obtaining higher rates by the report of a reduction or entire abolition of duty in the United Kingdom, which it is supposed will not only give a strong imnulse to the export of raw beet sugar, but ...

... Licence duty foot-hawkers,n 31,000 Duty on soap and paper makers, gold workers, &c., 6,000 Reductions of stamp duties, . 200,000 Loss on change in newspaper stamp, .. ?? .. ?? 50,000 Penny off the Income-tax, ?? 1,320,000 Reduction of sugar ...

... that the present reduction in the sugar duties is only an imaugeration of a free breakfast table policy, although the final modification must materially be delayed for some years to come. Dealers in the other duty -paying articles of produce-such as tea ...