The Express. — London, England, 1865-04-28 00:00:00

• ! : VAIXABLE FREEHOLD GROUND MlB, alumnae( to £715 Si. per annum, secured epos 72 private homes of the rack value et about £3,500 per einem, a desirable opt. or tunny to triudees and Mims seeking nrattlaaskoU la ve‘tments ; to be sold in lute. CIIINNOCK, GAL6WORTHY, k CHINNOCK are Instructed se aELL by AUCTION, on FRIDAY, May 5, at Oarrsway's, ohludessilff, clo, at IL by direction at ilortrautees , valuable F IL LIIIIOLD (MAUR D k 51.418, fasountittg to Cl 5 Ba. per annum, secured by 72 private houses, 'Matt Elgin-cteseeut, Portland-reed. sad Gloucester-ter race, Notting-hill. Mans of the annual value of upwards of Mite per annum. Theaa nuts are well mitred by property ever lecreng in value, and offer to trustees and capitallate rectally e rrteissa investnumta. and to the lessees lbe desia able opportunity of converting their leasehold interests Into treehol,L —Particulars may he obtained of Molars. Blanglater gad culliagtos, .oticttors, 6, Ramada-street. CurendisnAgnine Mr. J. D. Oowland. builder. Yortlaud-road, otting-hill; sad et Cautliocu and Co., land artier, 11. Wstalaloo-181881. YREEHOLD IMIDLIICIM_PWITCIVITS II . II Th eI . near Eglammeaat, bamitamat ar Ccuff t il t. ROCK, GALSWORTHT, CHINNOCK are butmeted to SILL by AUCTION, 011 FRIDAY, May 5, M °areaway's, Chaugealley. at 13 . * aiffe° 4l " of Mortgagees, &WINN capital VIKA:MOLD HOUSIM, Wog Now 3. 4. S. ,1 a, and 9, Olouctatcr t u mor, near klgiueresoent, 9 MottloomM, nrlth a MOM of accers to a larM p 9 nether üblte garden: the whole anneal value is @bust ASO par annum.—par licuLsrs may be *Atwood of llama Slough ter and Coillton. solicitors, 6, Mansfield arm , Cavendish -square ;of Sir . .1. D. Cowland, Co. , Ponland-road, Nottlng4Mll ; and of Maar& CIIIIINOCK awl Co., 11, Waterloo-Place, Pail-mall. HOLLOWAY, SEVIN 8118T1iltg IDAD.—Valnable CLAM. HOLD INVIOSTMINT, with eossessiou at Msdsumuser. CHINNOOKALS WORTHY, it: CH INNOCK will MILL by AUCTION, at Osrrawais Coffeehouse. Change alley, Centhill, on THURSDAY. Mg IS, MM. a capital detached VILLA RINIDINCL being N. 9, Albert V Was, en Sisters'. road, Holloway, coetaining suporior accommodation, and luaing an entangle(' garden in the rear : now let at s:7O per annum, and held to Ile years from Christmas. 1830, at a croand-reot of SA—Particulars of Mews. Powell, Thompson. • and 0100., I Ka i:Hon. S., Baymond-bnildings, Gray's-inn, W.C. I and of meagre Cent:foci and Co., land sgenta and surveyors, IL Watedotrldaos , &W. MARY LESONL LEASEHOLD INVISTMENTB.—sous HUUSIE, held for long terms at low ground-rents, sad Pro duct= mats amounting to about ENO per annum.-1 1 7 order of Execitore CHINNOCK, GALSWORTHY , & CH INNOCK will SILL b 7 AUCTION, at Oarrawara, Changesalksg, CornliiH. on THURSDAY, May 18, at if. TS REM 8.. ors, d being Noe 2. 5, and 4 , Johnson's-place, Paddingtowstreet hel from the Doke of Portland for 41 years unexpired, at mound -rents of 46 and ,C 6 per annum, and producing £l6O per annum. Also. No. 14, Paradisc.street, High-street ; bell for 47 years at Z-2 per annum, and producing £4,2 per annum —May be viewed, and particulars obtained of Mews. Powell. Tinnalesen, and 60 00 M. eolioitora, litaysemid'abolldinp, OraVel.fn :at Gareaway's; and of Yews. Cilr.clece and Co., land agents and surveyors , No. 11, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall REGECT-STRKET, corner of Beak-street.--Valnahle HOUSE and SHOP, let at the low rent of £666 per annum In conside ration of a premium of LSOL, held for 64 )ears unexpired direct hoes the crown.—By direction of the Trustees wader the wilt of the late Z. A. Jewel. CHINNOCK,GALSWORTIY,andOHIN NOCK will SELL by AUCTION, at Oerraway's Codee-how,Cbange alley, City, on THURSDAY. June 8, at to, the very valuable BUSINESS PREMISES, No. 150. Regent-street, at withrnr of Beak•strest, compriaing capital dwelling-how, modern donde-fronted slop, situate In the beat port of this most Im portant and fashlowille thoroutlifere. The lease to Mr. Lodge. the tenant, was minted In 1263 for 21 years. hi coosideration of a prenitun of £5OO and the mealy rent of gall Maas that period the rests of this part of the street neve steadily in creased, and at the expiration of the nine lean unespired of the present term a large premium and Ineremed rent may be confi dently anticipated. The premises are belt direct from the crown for 64 mere =expired. at the ground root of 270 per annum.— The Y ore:lord M ir : by Sand au °l l premdl ot Sol3 th ; e aO te ttra ; 811. and ord•row, W.C. • at Garralrly'S Coffeehouse ; and of Hews. CRAM= and Co.. .laid agents andsurveyors, 11, Waterloo-Woe, Pali-mall _ _ PUTNEY.—Valuable YRISHOLD RISIDINTIAL and BUILD ING PROPY.RT Y, oom LOWLY RESIDXNCII, known as GORDON-110Vrignir sores of land, does to the railway station. By direction of the Trustees under the will of the late Z. A. Jeeed, CHINNOCK, Q A -S WORTHY , WORTHY, & CHINNOCK wal SKIL by AUCTION, at Remit Coffee-bottee, Change-alley, City, ou THURSDAY, Jane and compact FRIZHOLD FAMILY RESIDIINCE, known me Gordon-borne, Putney, close to the railway station: standing within its own grounds, baviag a V e t gravelly soil, screened from the rood by a MM wall, and ap proached by a carriagedrive ; it contains a capital diaing.room 31 feet by Hiker., elegant drawing - room 3l by tO, library, morning room, schoolroom, and numerous airy bed chambers, dressing rooms, and convenient domestic and out-odic-es ; large pared y.ird, • coach-house, gardener's cottage, Mc.: the lawn Is exteu sire and Mudded with choice trees and shrubs of luxuriant growth; there are extensive vineries, hint and Mein n gardens and paddock , the whole containing Se. tr. cep.. baring a front age of about 970 feet to the High.street, sting:dug Putney Sta tion, and a depth of more than 900 feet. It la pmeticohirly well adapted for laying out In building Silos for villa residences of a modiste elms, the property being thus highly eligible for reeidentlai purposes, or for the creation of g, oand rents, or • combinatiou of the two.—Particulase and conditions of sale (when ready) may be obtained of Howe Budd and Son, solid ton, 23, Bedford-row ;at Garraway's Coffee bones ; the Hallway Tartest, Putney ; end of Mews. Ciinnioce and Co., land agents and survegers, 11, Waterloo-place, pall-mall. PUTNEY. dose to the Railway Fistinn.—Valuable YREEHOLD BUILDING LAND. with exteusive frontages, eligible for Shop and Wilm—By direction of the Transom under the will of the late L A. Jewel. leg. CIanTNOCK, GALSWORTHY, CHINNOCK NJ will SELL by AUCTION, at °areaway's Coles-home. Obangeoley, City, on THURSDAY, June 8, at 12, FIVE PLOTS of very eligible russioLD BUILDING LAND, containing together about 61 acres, three of which have extensive frontages to the Richmond-road, and adjoin the South-Western Railway, close to the Putney Ratko, in the midst of extensive building operations, where sites for shops and villas of a moderate class are in at demand, presenting to investors a favourable oppor tuoity for the creation of a large amount of ground rents, or to holders an exoelleat opportunity for profitable speculation-- Ps:ocent, and conditions of sale (when ready) may be obtained of M ean.Budd and Son, solicitors, 33, Bedford row ; at Rarnorm's Coffee-house : Railway Tavern, Putney • and of Nears. Cow:soca and Co., lend agents and surveyors, 11, Waterloo-place, Pall-anal. ADYOIIBON and NRXT PRESENTATION to the my valuable and highly important RECTORY of ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, LANCASHIRE, embracing the Patronage of the Terpetua Quacks of New St, George's, Staleybridge, Heasley, St. Peter's, Ashton-ender-Lyme, and Hey, sear Lem. CHINNOCK, GALSVVORTHY, t OHINNOCK Dave received lastroctions to SELL by AUCTION, at Gar raway's Coffee-house, Change.alley, City, on WIDNESDAY, Jane 14 ionises preview* disposed of by private contract), the import ant ABVOWSON and NEXT PLIMLNTATION to the very valuable RECTORY of ASHTON-CHUB/I-LYNN, with a rectory bows and garden in the centre of the town, ands present inc , moe of £1,112 Us. Sd. per annum, arising principally from tithes, chief maga, and 46 acres at glebe land, the whole of which is situate within or in immediate proximity to this thriving and popalous town, and available tor immediate letting at chief rents, by which the Income may be inereased MI a very early period, to about L 2,000 per annum, the power to grant building leases being secured by Act of Parliament : the age of the present Incumbent le 73. Attached to this rectory is the patronage of four perpetual cumin within the parish, via.—New St. George's, Stale/brldee, £3l7loavalue 9l. per annum, age of the present Incumbent. 36 Monday, value £172 10e. per annum. and parsonage house, age ot the present incumbent SS St. Peter's, Ashton-under- Isne, as awdeslastical . district, value £4OO per annum, age of the present incumbent 36; and Hey, near Lees, value £164 M. per annum, and parsonage house, age of the present in cumbent 58. —Particdars may be obtained of Mews. Tomp son, Picherbsg, and Stan, solicitors, 4, Stoonbuildines, ; of Henry Hall, bq., estate °Mee, Ashton-uncles. Una : and of News cimnrooa and Oe., land agents and sur veyors, 11, Waterlo o - place, Pell-mall, Landon. asviur-zow. iuraumentszr. Important lEUHOLD BOTATI, comprising the substantial and commodious resi dence at the corner of Salle-row, baying an extensive frontage to=treet, with possession also the adjoining business ; let at the low rent of Z 260 per annuin.—By direction of the trustees under the will of the late Z. A. Jams!, thq. CHINNOCK, GALBWORTHY, & CHINNOCK are instructed to BELL by AUCTION „si Oarraway's Coffee holm, Chargeulley, City, en THIIIIBDAY, Jane 8. at 12. the tralimble FilffliliOLD MANSION, No. 1. Savile-row, with a frontage thereto of Taft and a return frontage of 81ft. to Vigo-street, occupying a most commanding position, and con taining on the upper Boors eleven bedrooms; on the first Boor, two drawing rooms 32ft. by 18ft. and 1954 by 18ft, com municeling with an anteroom and boudoir ; on the ground floor, entered from a handsome stone paved hall and vestibule. break fast room 20ft, Bin. by 17ft. Sin., dining-room loft. en. by 19ff,, library Mt. Stn. by 18ft. dressing-room, ; on the basement ad extensive range of domestic otiose. double staircase, ffe. In the rear is an uncovered yard available for building purpose. These premises will be sold with poesessioe, and are particularly eligible for &club, bank, or professional °faces. Also the valua ble shop and Premises. in Vigo-street, adjoining, leased to Messrs. Landon, at the low rent of e. 230 per 31/1101/I.—May be viewed by cards, to be ° b l abbed of the Auctioneers ; and para. eaten had of Maseru Budd and Son, solicitors, 33, Bedford-row, W.C. ;at Oarraway s Coffee house and of Messrs. enormous and Co., land *gents and surveyors, 1 1 , Waterloo-place, Pall mol. S.W. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, on the Domes of Beds—The NUS TON-HALL ESTATE, in Use parishes of Debater and Rush den„ a meet important and compact FREEHOLD REL. ' , DENTIAL PROPERTY, lying hi a ring fence comprising the excellent Family alLaniftn, seated on an eminence, in a wellahnirered park, with beautiful gardens sad pleasure r tawl surrounded by 9249. or. Mp. of highly productive ided into three nonviolent fume, with newly-erected homesteads, isocinclag a rental of about £1,730 per annum. tithe free an land tax redeemed. The estate abounds in beds of rich ironstone. C HINNOCK, GALSWORTHY, & CHINNOCK 0 have been favoured with instractions to SELL 1 . 411: , - TION, at Oarraway's Ocdeahouse, Changeelley, City of on MIDNEDAY, June 14, at 12 funk.' previonaly med ot by Print' contract), one of the moot Important MA truly valua ble FREEHOLD ESTATE in Northamptonshire, known as the Knustonhall Estate, situate in a famous sporting neigh bourhood. on the harden of Bedfordshire. font miles from Wellingboro, 12 from Northampton, and 14 from Bedford, within easy access of the metropolis by the Midland Railway. The property comprises a commodious and substantially built Madly mansion. exceedingly well placed in a ilnelyrimbered park of 49 acres, and commanding beautiful landecape dews. The plesemegrounds around the mansion are laid out with great taste, the plantations, belts of trees, and ornamentalwiter forming pleasing features. The kitchen gardens are sheltered, and well stocked •the outbuildings and stabling compact, awl well strangest. The land is of a superior character, well adapted for turnip husbandry, and comprises an area of 924 a. Or. in a ring fence, Intersected by good roads, and divided into theta compact farms, with good homesteads, extensive °twill-seeded tarn bnildingt, and let to highly respectable tenants of long . The plantations and eoppless throughout the Maks standing arranged for sporting, end there Is the right of flailing in the river Nene. The estate abounds In rich beds of Ironstone, and the ore obtained is considered to be the best yet seen in the county. Several ironworks In the immediate neighbourhood are In table working, thus rendering this estate particii his as an investment and employment of capital.— P with plena, may be obtained of Messrs Brace and Loathes. -9, sanWeneneet, Carina/Is-square, louden ; and o 4 Massa sod co., land rethea, MO" sputa aid solvelogy. IA hi, THE iaXP,RESI: Witaliqbapti-PRI L 28, :JR6sgil TO nramiailiiem—Two asgital WITINISSID 1 gelP llll MAIDANALL—By ordaralt GALSWORTIff, Is CILINNOCK wyl* Aucriox,at Gangway's Coffeehouse, on WID:MDAT, June 14, at 11. TWO UN!N 1.41.1611001111CW5, Nos. 10 and IN, Warrington-nes cent, 11 a-vale, each having • treaters of Mt, by about 71 feet in depth. We beans are most sabstastilt. and I are approaching towards consphigioa. and. whoa / 1 " . *ill ha of the estiniarrd nine ot iti9o per Wu each. The lioness are very coanodloss, with • lacer garden in the rear, and offer • desirable opportunity for nt or occupation , held for Pr years uneed from he n t Bishop of laadou's Trustees, at • u:dd ` of n ASS each. —May be visited, and particulars *b at Yana Villages and Tailrace, solicitors, to, loost sire* Undid; and a Moms Csocoool obi Co" 11, Waterloo. oboe, Piarooll. ---- wiLrsutior, between lisllshruy and Warminster —Vehrehle lititEHLD ESTATE; comprlelmg_lB2 sees of very superior O land, in the perished OCIDPHED St PETER, with poweigsoo. MlD6SRB.neximsmrra,soN indOAKLEY have received tnetavetione from the Mortgagees under Hart Hotel , power el We to SILL by AUCTIO N, at the While a Salisbury, on TUIRIDAY, May 16, at 2 tor It precisely, In Seven Lots (unless previousiydleporied of by private contract), the above valuable end productive PROPIDITY. LA 1 will comprbe a capital and extensive set cif farm premises end 162 acres of land in a ring fence, principally capita arable, but iuciuding nearly te sew en sof very valuable d rich water meadows, now in the occupation et Mr. John Itaxworthy, but to be sold (ur well as the other lota in his occupation) with posses sion at Michaelmas nett Lots 2,6, and 7 ambit of farm premises, houses, and rdttatiles In the vie ; and Lots 11, 4, and 2, of valuable pastures and water mmWows. The whole Is near the Codford station on the Greet Western line to Salisbury, and on the liliffiroad from W ar minster to iftlisbury, about seven miles from the former sod four teen from the latter town, well o i rcum stsuund with regard to roads 273 acres , will and markets. An adjcdnlng ymart of the eetato, conteinlog about be offered at the same time and pilot Particulars and plan may be had when ready of Messrs. Wilde, Rees, Humphrey, and Wilde, solicitors, 21, College-hill, LC. , of Mears Cobb and Smith, solicitors, Salisbury: at the Bath Arms Hotel. Warminster : at the place of sale ; and of Molars.°MlMl. acres, Soil, sod °ALLEY , land sputa end sur veyors, 10, Waterloo-plecis, Pall-mill, S.W. KIST, on the Southern Coast, near Sanagete.—A desksW situate PREMIUM) SIASIDI HISIDINCI and LARD, with henesdiede pommies. MESSRS.DA.N IEL SMITH,SON,and O AKLE Y have received Instructions to SILLL by AUCTION. at the Holahan tkoffee.house, lareshan4treet, Le., on THURSDAY, May 18, at It for It weasel', In Owe Lot, a valuable MARINH HISIDINCR, known as S gABROOK HOUSR very pleasantly eltuate one considerable elevation above, and at • convenient &wanee from the sea shore, in the rural parish of Cherlton. The house Is dose to the hamlet of Seabrook, about one mile from Medea*, two from llythe, three from Folkestone, and two from the Shorncliffe or Sandgate Station on the South kastern Railway, and about two hours' journey from London. It commands very exteneito sea and inland views, the latter ex tending over a picturesque count?", Including the flee ran da ge of chalk &Ids to the north-west of F ol k estone, and Hill well apted for either a summer and autumn residence, or for permanent oc cupation. The subsoil la chalk, and the situation healthy. It contains =Relent accommodation for a nroderetealuel and is surrounded by laws, flower l an dhen threw atoms acres of very valuable pasture divided Into paddocks. There Is stabling for four horses, cease-boom, and various outhnildinga Particulars and plan may be had of Hews. 'Hama% and Knocker, solicitors, Sevenoaks at the Pavilion Hotel, Fake deee ; the Rot el Heat Rotel, Sandi*. : the Swan Hotel, Ryas: at the place of sale ; and of Messrs, DANIIM YstlyK, SOS, and 01.1LZT, land agents and surveyors, 10. Waterloo-Flee°. Plillaall. &w., where a photograph may be seen, and orders to view obtained. IN CHANCIRY. —ln the MATTIS of the sirrnju EfiTATRB ACT. and of the MATHS subject to the traits ld the WILL of the late WILLIAM COHJDHLL, Req., deceased, dated sth March. lied. as to one undivided third part, and by order of Trustees for sae as to the other two undivided third parts. forming together the entirety.—Yaloable YRIRHOL toth D 18TATL land tax redeemed, situate at ChadwelLbeeth, portal at BARKING, in the county of ESSEX. M ESSYS.DANIELSMITH,SON,andOAKLEY have received instreetioos to OFFER for BALK by IIieTION, at the Guildhall Coffee-house, Ureeham-street, 8.C.. no THURSDAY, May 18, at 11 for it precisely, thein one or four lets (pursuant as to one third port to an order of Nigh Court of Chancery, with the approbation of the judge to whose court the above matter is attached), the following valuable PREZIIOLD PROPERTY, viz. : Grove Farm, !Huston:LW. parishof Barking, on the high-road mid way between Great Word and Homford,ami within live minutes' waft of the Chadwell.heath StaUun on the Great Eastern Railway, coming an exceedingly compact residence, with anon and lar gegdens, extensive stabling and farm buildings, end several enclosures of productive arle and pasture land, containing altogether 19a. Zr. 3Sp., in the occupation of Mr. John Nelson, • yearly Michaelmastenant. The property Is well 'Mute for building purposes, and offers an excellent opportunity to our or more persons desirous of investing • SMALL amount of capital. It will be Ord offered to Coe Lot: if not sold, then in Four Lots, more ftUy described in printed particulate, which. with plan, Risky be obtained of Mesas. Hollingsworth, TYSadaa• Sad Green, solicitors 4, last India-avenue, LeadenhaU.strect. at the Guildhall Coffee - house, Greshamutreet, LC.. and of biases. Damn Emma SON, and Guitar, land sgents and mar rows, No. 10, Waterloo - 1 41 w , London, THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMP ANY will now be prepared to pre the following benefits: 1. In order to enable the Insured to remise the benefits of the reduction of duty at the earliest possible moment, it will at once want annual Policies. charging the present rate of duty to Midsummer only la requited by Government), and for the year from that date at the reduced rate of Is. 6.i. per cent. 'I. It will grant Policies without charge for stamps, no matter how small the arnonnt insured. PERCY M. DORM. Manager. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, !Secretary in London. Royal imamate -buildings, Lombard-Arcot, LC., April 28, 1665. • NORTH BRITISH and MERCANTILE INSURANCK COMPANY. Aeetmndated rands to Slat December, Mt, £3,706.612 7s. 10d. Annual revenue from all source.. £146,468 16. td. OFTICSB. London—el, Threadneedle-street. We teed Braneb—a, Matertoo-pluce. Pell-sell. maul to the assawaisation of the President of the United States. In committee of Ways and Means, The Caulcuroa of the iIegS4IIIIR brought forward his financial statement. He commenced by observing that at the sloes of the last parlia ment the country wasinvolved in a war with China, there bad been a bad harvest, our armaments were in process of costly reconstruction, and clouds hang over Europe. Since then the clouds bad to and burst over the West, and war C s d ie been sweeping over America, the evects of the contest ragieg there culminating in the terrible catastrophe which bad just sent a thrill of horror through the world. But in this country prosperity had prevailed, and its financial condition, though aooompanied by a vast expendi ture, had been prosperous and satisfactory during the present parliament. The expenditure of 1864-65 had been estimated at 66,890,0004 —appearing iu the Appropriation Bill at about 87,000,0001. —while the actual expenditure had been 66,462,0001 , being less than the estimate by about 611,0001. The variation arising from the votes for the army and navy was not of any moment in the calculation, as the final accounts had not been made up ' • but the charge for miscellaneous services, which bad been estimated at 7,380,0004, bad only amounted to 7,267,0001. Comparing the expenditure of this department with previous years it would be found that the total civil expenditure of the oeuntry for last year was 10,203,0001., while in 1859-00, the first year of the present parliament, it was 10,820,0001., showing a reduction of 600,0001. ; while in 168-69 it was 10,040,0004, being leas by 160,0001. than that of the year which had just ex pired ; but the real expenditure in that year was 10,270,0001., so that on the whole the civil service expenditure had not increased in the pre sent as compared with the previous parliament. If the true expenditure of the couutry was taken, and miscellaneous receipts were struck out, that of the last year was 65,967,0001•, while in 1859-00 it was 67,471,0001., showing a large reduction. Look ing, however, at 1858-59, there had been an increase of expenditure as compared with that year of three millions and a half ; and the total increase on the charges of the country since the Russian war had been 12,500,0001. Although the expenditure had been great it had been in consonance with the wishes of the country at large. The expenditure of the past year had been 66,461,0001., while the revuuue being 70,313,0001., there was a surplus of 3,951,0001., and subjecting it to all deductions, the surplus was 3,200,0001. The estimate of the re venue of the year 1864 was 67,128,0004, while the amount received was 70,313,0001 —showing an in crease of 3,181,0611. This increase had been appa rent in all branches of the revenue, and the only falling off had been is the duty on foreign oorn to the extent of 184,0001. The wine duty increased by 75,0001., and on the article of sugar the loss by the reduction of duty last year was only such as •to show a recuperative operation amounting to above 400,0001. The excise had increased by considerably more than a million ' • the two most remarkable items of increase were malt and spirits, the letter yielding an increase of 741,0001. in the year. He proceeded to point out the gradual growth of the revenue of the country, and he exhi bited that growth from 1840 to 1852, which amounted to 12,363,0001., or at the rate of a million and thirty thousand a year. In the period from 1853 to 1859 the revenue had improved by a mil lion and forty thousand a year, or above seven millions in the gross. From 1859 to the present time the increase of revenue had been 3,968,0001., and the annual growth was 178,0901. The state of the balances this year was over 7,000,0001 4 showing an increase over last year of above 300,0001. The debt paid off iu the year had amounted to 5,240,0001., while, deducting the charge for fortifications the real diminution was over 4,000,0001. The total debt of the country, including every item, was 823,934,000/. in March, 1859, while now it was 808,288,000/., showiug a diminution of 3,000,0001. a year du • total reduction of nearly 18,00 0 ,01/01. uring the present parliament. Looking to the trade of the country, he selected iu the first instance the paper trade for observation • admitting that the period of transition iu that trade had been one of great severity, but asserting that it had showed no symptoms of leaving the country. The im portation of paper from abroad had risen to nearly half a million, while the import of raw material for manufacture had risen from 37,000 tons in 1859 and 44,000 tons in 1863, to 67,000 tons in 1864, showing that a great stimulus had been given to the manufacture in this country notwithstanding the competition with the foreign importer. The trade with France continued to increase in imports and exports. In 1869 their trade with France was 26,431,0001., while in 1864 it was 49,797,000/ 4 being an increase of 23,366,000/ 4 or 90 per cent. Arguing that it was erroneous to suppose that the expenditure of France was much less than that of this country, he showed that in 1862 the expenditure of that country was 60,815,0001., while that of this oonntry was 70,352,0001. , being only a difference of 9,000,0001. The trade of the country had steadily increased, the imports of the past year being 274,000,0001. • the exports 212,000,0001., making a total of 487,000,00 K, or an increase of 219,000,0001. since 1854. 1n an argumentative and statistical strain the right hon. gentleman proceeded to prove that although nominally the trade of France had increased in greater proportion than that of this country, yet that relatively, and looking to the steady progress of the latter, that had not been the case ; while in relative comparison with Belgium and Holland it had considerably in creased ; and he came to the conclusion that im mense advantage had resulted to our trade in the removal of bars, fetters and impediments from the path of human industry in this empire ; as well as in the union of class with class, and lie hoped of na tion with nation ; while in such a retrospect he could not forbear rendering a tribute to the character and ability of the man who was the main instrument of these great commercial changes—Mr. Cobden. He then came to the estimate of revenue and expendi ture for the year 1865-6. The charge for the debt was 26,326,0001. ; for the consolidated fund, 1,900,0001.; army, 14,348,0001.; navy, 10,392,0001. ; collection of the revenue, 4,657,00 N.; packet ser vice, 842,600/. ; miscellaneous, 7,650,0 W ; total, 66,139,0001.; or 1,110,0001. less than the estimate for 1864-5. The customs were estimated, 22,775,0001. ; the excise 19,030,000/. ; stamps, 955,0004 • taxes, 3,350,000 t • income tax, 7,800,0001. ; post-offioe, 4,250,000 i. ; crown lands, 315,0001. ; miscellaneous, 2,650,0001.; China indem nity, 450,0001. ; making an estimated total of revenue of 70,170,0001. • while the charge being estimated at 66,139,0001., there was left a surplus of 4,031,000/. He then came to the " difficult " question of the disposal of the surplus. It was proposed to change the duty on transfer of shares and convey ances, by a different allocation of stamps. The duty on agreements for the letting of small tenements would be reduced from 6d. to Id. The tax on appraisements would be reduced rateably to 3d. Special pleaders and conveyancers could have a half license for three years ; stamp duties on eccle siastical licenses would be diminished • there would be a change in the duty upon charteiparties, from 2s. 6d. to 6d., if they were put on stamped paper_ ; policies on foreign marine insurances would be stamped, and the duty on time policies on marine insurances would be changed ; and the duty on the Railway Assurance Company, the Accidental Death Company, and the Plate Glees Company would be modified. Coming to the subject of the malt tax, he controverted the assertion that in reduction of taxation nothing had been done for the agricultural class, and affirmed that in no case had the revenue of the country been surrendered for the benefit of any one, but for that of all classes. The right bon. gentleman dealt with the allegations of the effect of the malt duty—whether as regarded increase of cost to the consumer, or diminution of its application to the feeding of cattle, its in flume in lowering the price of barley, and its dis couraging of brewing at home—with argumen tative denial, and proceeded to inquire whether it was reduction or total repeal of the duty which was asked. Pointing out that its repeal would be the death-blow of indirect taxation, he stated that the oily guidon ,was nductioa ; aped it was Reassary to ascertain what amount of reduction would meet the case est up in its favour. The malt tax im posed a duty of 12} per cent. on beer to the con sumer ; but be would take the charge on beer in the barrel at 20 per cent., and if so how much must be taken off the duty on malt in order to reduce the price of beer to the extent of a farthieg • quart I It mast be reduced at least one-half for this purpose, at • cost to the Ex chequer of 2,480,0001. for the first year, which in the aeoond year would be 3,360,0001., while there would be no recuperative increase of consumption. It was a mere dry question of W- I dispensable revenue, and it could only be treated in that sense. There was no alignment in favour of the repeal to be derived from any languor in the consumption of beer ; on the contrary, there bad been an increase in the use of this national drink as compared with that of spirits ; and this he illus trated by • comparison of the relative consumption from 1732 to the present time ; it being now one barrel per head per annum in the gross, while the q u a y for every adult male was about 600 quarts a year ; and as 40 millions a year was ex pended on the article, there was no symptom of the consumption dying out. Turning to the barley part of the question, he produoed statistics to show that the price of barley had not diminished, but bad in fact improved regularly and progres sively until it had reached 34a. 6d. a quarter. As to the relative unjust taxatiou of malt, as com pared with other articles, he argued, and illus trated his argument by figures, that this was not the case as regarded spirits and wine, the latter being taxed 50 per cent., while beer was taxed at 20 per cent. But, taking tea into consideration, if beer ought to be taxed more lightly than wine or spirits, he confidently assorted that tea ought not to be more heavily taxed than beer. The tax on a barrel of beer was 20 per cent., that on &cheat of tea was not less than 40 per cent., and he contended that tea was entitled to a preference in reduction of duty. It was, however, proposed to give the malt star the option of having the duty charged by weight instead of by measure, which would operate as • relief to the growers of medium and lower quali ties of barley. He did not say that he looked forward to au indefinite imposition of the malt tax, but the time fer the reduction of indirect taxation was not likely to be favourable until the incidence of the income-tax were finally settled ; but for the present year he had arrived at the conclusion that it war not possible to apply a large portion of the surplus to the reduction of the malt-tax, but to place the duty in the position of relative justice which he had laid down. It was thought that diminution of the duty on tea by 6d. a pound, would reduce the price to tbe consumer by 20 per cent ; the loss to the revenue would be above 2,375,0001., but looking to recuperation by consumption in the present year it would be only 1,808,0001. Referring to the income tax, be said that 10,000,0001. a year had been added to the ex penditure of the country, which bad tended to prevent the extinguishment of that tax ; it was yet the duty of parliament to do all that could be done to reduce that impost. The income tax was now practically at the lowest point which it had ever reached. It was proposed to reduce the present charge of lid. in the pound by one-third of that amount. If that proposal was accepted, the effect would be to reduce the income tax to 5,200,0001.. a I year, the value of the penny in the pound being now 1,300,0001. In this shape the tax would be handed over to the new puha ! ment, in which its final adjustment might be dealt with, and if it was thought desirable to to return to it, as a part of the taxation of the country, fourpence in thepound was the rate which it might well be kept at in time of peace. Advert ing next to the duty on fire insurance, he stated that the house had come, by a large majority, to a resolution that the duty as it now stood on stock in-trade should be extended to all insurable pro perty. The reduction of 3,518,0001. on tea and income tax left a margin of the surplus, enabling it to be applied to the duty on fire insurance, and a reduction in conformity with that resolution would be made to ls. 6d. from the 25th of June ; while a reduction would be made in the shilling duty on the policy to a penny stamp. The result would be that in the present year 725,0001. would be re ceived, and the ultimate loss would be 220,0001., followed in the next year by 260,0001. more. The I relief on tea being 2,300,0001. ; on income tax, 2,600,00001. ; on fire insurance, 520,0001., there would be a total of 5,420,0001. reduction of tax ation. The lon in the year 1865-6 was 3,778,0001., and in the following year, 1.417,0001., making a total for the two years of 6,500,0001. The leas this year of 3,778,000/. would leave a surplus of 253,0001. This would leave alum of Nearly a million and a half to be borne by another year in the way of reduction of taxation. He earnestly deprecated any invasion on the modest surplus which he had retained. He I admitted that there were several claims for reduc tion of duty, such as that on public conveyances and marine insurances ; but he trusted that the house would agree with him that the claim of tea was paramount ; and he expressed a sanguine hope that the course which the government had adopted in dealing with the financial situation would be acceptable to the house and the country. A discussion followed, in which Mr. White, Mr. Marsh, Mr. Bentinck, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Du Cane, Sir F. Crossley. Lord J. Manners, and (others took part, and in which approval of the budget, so far as it went, was expressed, but exceptions were taken that tobacco, timber, and above all malt, had not been included in reductions of taxation. The house then resumed. A long discussion then ensued on the second reading of the Writs Registratfen (Scotland) Bill, and the other business haviung been disposed of, the house adjourned at a quarter to 2 o'clock. A I'l*Am:a Minister who has an annual surplus to dispose of for the benefit of the tax-payer and the consumer may be said to have borrowed* grace beyond the reach of rhetoric. Perhaps the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHIQUER begins to feel this, for last evening, though he had a very good story to tell, and a crowded audience hanging on his lips, he was not more than two hours and half at the table, and went through the great performance with something of the hardness and dryness of an actor who has played the same part • hundred nights, and is sick of his own success. In the House there was little or no abatement of the eager zest and curiosity of former occasions, though Mr. GLADSTONE had allowed the "secret" of his Budget to become the secret of the fifth act, which everyone knows before the curtain rises on the first. Perhaps, as an orator above all things, he disdains appeals to a vulgar curiosity and trusts to the pare art of exposition for applause. There was not, to be sure, much room for mys tery this year, from the moment the amount of the surplus was known. No one expected Mr. Girosiozz to tamper with the Malt duty after that debate and division on Sir F. KELLY'S motion. That he must deal with the Fire Insurance duty after so strong an expression of the will of the House was morally certain. That he could hardly leave the Income tax and Malt duty both untouched with a surplus of nearly four millions, was easily divined ; his repeated declarations last year with respect to the income tax and the tea duty suggested tea as the most likely candidate for present favours; so the effect of his announce ments lost little by leakage. Indeed, if he had even gone so far as to communicate to the public in advance his intention to give to special pleaders and conveyancers the same immunity as to attorneys and solicitors for the three first years of practice ; to reduce the stamp on the leases of small tenements for less than a year to a penny ; to make the tax on appraisements propor tionate--from 3d. upwards ; to alleviate the cost of certain ecclesiastical licences ; to reduce the duty on charter-parties from five shillings to six pence," on stamped papa r to subject 'Grip mil- fiestas and receipts on foreign to the same charge as those on domestic "transactions r to reduce the rate of duty on time policies in marine insurances, and to make policies on such assurances, if issued abroad, not recoverable unless brought home to be stamped within a certain time—if the Oitawcimen of the Excite:lu= had allowed all these delicate and ingenious devices to ooze out a week or a month ago, the public interests, we dummy, would not have suffered by the discovery. It is interesting, however, to note how fond this great artist is of manipulating stamps, and kow fine avows of grouping he shows in the composition of his financial picture. If, indeed, the oratorical display but evening seemed, on the whole, a little cold ; a little wanting in heartiness and freshness, a little less spontaneous and exuberant than of yore, it may very well be owing to the absence of op position and the cessation of conflict. After the delight of battle and the excitement of victory, oomes the lassitude of success. It may be doubted whether Mr. GLADMFONZ really enjoys the mere distribution of the spoils. And we may be certain that while he is converting a surplus of 4,031,0001. into one of 253,0001., cut ting down the Income tax to fourpenoe, taking sixpence a pound off the tea duties, and reducing the fire insurance duties to a uniform rate of eighteen-pence, he is sighing all the white for other worlds of indirect taxation and JOHN BROODEN. 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Les.—THE MOUNTEBANK. b Mr. Fsebter sad Master Feebler, Mr. WNW com : Lading, Mel& Bestries—And THE DUET CHILD. BRITANNIA. Tins EVEMNO, THE VOLCANO OF ITALY; OR, THE MUM ris PERIL Mn 8. Lima -Prokepor Ittßon.-Dll3O. LEAF. Mir Clara St Cum-And THE EAGLE AND CHILD. -.Cornmisco AS balt-goot HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tine DAT Yoruba& IR 40m.....Aftenuon. Wt. iilL TO-XOLOW .. Morning, O. 2.51n.....Aftern00n. 4h. 475. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 28. lw the Hones of LORDS, Earl Russau. gave ; notice that on Monday next he would move an ad dress to the Crown, expressing the regret and abhorrence with which it had beard of the assassi nation of President Linooln. The Earl of Dean' hoped that pains would be taken that the form of the address would be such as to secure the unanimous opinion of the house. So far as the subetanoe was concerned, every man, woman, and child in the coun tr y must agree in it. Lord CHZIAIBI , OED called attention to the im prisonment and severe treatment to which a British consul and other British subjects had been exposed by the orders of the Emperor of Abyssinia • and asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps had been taken to relieve our fellow countrymen from the severities to which they had been subjected, and to which it is believed they are still subject, and moved for papers. Earl Rosen!. stated that the government was doing all in its power on behalf of those persons, and he hoped success would follow. The District Churches Tithes Bill was read a second time. The East India (Governor-General's Powers) Bill was read a third time and passed. The house then adjourned. IN the Hones of Commows, Sir G. Garr gave notice, on behalf of Lord Palmerston, that on Monday next he should move an address to her ' Maieety expetesire of the feeling of the haws with Z` "'Rae , ' "r• Customs duties to conquer. Mr. GtaosroNz has taught his admirers to be critical and exacting, and to try him by his own high standard of achievement. Hi; constant benefactions have made them ungrateful. They are beginnin i _ already to fancy they miss the old fire and ful ness of eloquence, the far-reaching generalizations, the suggestive doctrines, the weighty warnings, the close and anxious reasoning, the richness and felicity of illustration. Yet no one will deny that any orator less gifted than the present CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER might have stated this year's Budget in three-quarters of an hour. Mr. Gran- Krona, whose financial statements already exceed the limits of one volume, treate his Budget as a text for • valuable and instructive essay to be pondered and studied with pleasure and profit by thousands of readers whom his reductions of taxa tion concern only as an example. Frenchmen ad mire them for their form and plan, and accuse them neither of redundancy nor of prolixity. They find in them a beginning, a middle, and an end—a rase virtue in English com positions. Last evening, for instance, Mr. GLADOTONE began by comparing and contrasting the financial position of this country in the first and in the last year of the present House of Commons. He did this apparently for the sake of showing that our expenditure bad, by more than twelve millions, increased since the Ruasian war ; but that this increase wee in the military, not in the civil services, and was entirely consonant with the wishes and feelings of the nation, and that the civil expenditure had actually, during the same period, decreased, while the elasticity of the revenue and the general prosperity of the country were steadily and continuously improving. It is noticeable that whenever Mr. GLADSTONE is dwell ing with complacency on the growing revenue of the country, and apparently condoning the large expenditure, he somehow lets his audience very clearly understand that they might be at least as happy and as prosperous at a smaller cost, and that while he undertakes to be responsible for the growth of revenue, they must bear the re sponsibility of the large expenditure. He is obliged to talk of " real diminution " and "true "expenditure," and to make other nice distinc tion', and the wholesome impression on the hearer's mind is that the expenditure is much more real than the diminution. The tone in which he speaks of the reduction of the national debt, of the precariousness of a growing revenue, of the budgets of France, and of the income-tax, is certainly not that of • Minister who seeks to justify a large expenditure. He does not think that a reduction of the National Debt by some seventeen millions is • very brilliant result ; he says it is a mistake to suppose that France spends more than we do year by year; he reminds us that our prosperity may at any time be endangered by a bad harvest, or any other sudden calamity; and that he is not one of those who would treat the in come tax as • fixed and constant source of revenue. Mr. GLLDLITONE, as usual, indulges in several ex cursions and digressions, and these are by no means the least interesting or least eloquent passages of his speech. His eulogy on Mr. Cosnruc—earnest and sincere aa it 'cold not fail to be—was perhaps a little laboured in expression, but it was heard with pleasure. In referring to the steady progress of our trade with France sinoe the Treaty, he ex plains how the French trade appears to increase more rapidly than the English ; it is simply because French trade had fallen so low at the close of the great wars. Upon the question of the malt duty, and all the arguments advanced before Easter for its reduc tion, Mr. Gransrona fastens like a wrestler, and gives the agricultural, or rather the barley growing, interest a very heavy fall. He shows that they are growing more barley and selling it better than ever before ; that the people are drinking more beer than ever ; that the uses of malt for cattle-feeding are • more than doubtful experiment; and that the repeal of the malt duty must be the deathblow to indirect taxation, for how could the duties on spirits or wine survive the tax upon beer t So that all the maltsten are to get out of Mr. GranaroNE will be the option of having the duty charged by weight. As to the grievance of the " agricultural interest," be repudiates and regrets the imputation of legialating for any in terest but that of the whole country. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER bows with • better grace than on a former occasion to the will of the House on the Fire Insurance question. Scep tical as to the fiscal effects of the reduction after the failure of last year's experiment, he looks to the necessity of • still more sweeping remission if the present reduction should result in loss. He entreats the House to leave untouched the moderate sum of a quarter of a million which is reserved out of his surplus ; and while he holds out hopes to the proprietors of public conveyances he lets the House and the country know that he shall be happy when their diminished zeal for expenditure will permit him to listen , I favourably to • host of other claims for reduction. last) Callum CouNcn..--Summonses have been issued for s Cabinet Council on Saturday next, at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence, in Downing-street. In consequence of the noble Premier's steams from town the Council will not meet until two o'clock. Mr. Mum, the author of the Fugitive Slave Lam, mains to the index oe the subject el the aseeminalieu of Yr. Limas, rye :—" As to the mime which hie berm nem mitted, some will view it with mere abhorrence this the people of the South, bat they will know, es will equally all well.telenced minds, that tt is the nereseerg off+p►ing et these seems of bloodshed and ermdm i• every tam al en. bridled term whisk have 'linage& the iambs el the Smith by Northire smirk =rebuked esztaisly, and their kg* 0 00 110 8 4 bf *dr We sod lisle ova *NV THE BUDGET NIGHT. A SKETCH. Any u, who in curt parliamentary phr ase is • stranger, that happened at an early hour yesterday to pass through St. Stephen's Hai i n th e Palace of Westminster, would have see n the grand corridor under an unusual aspe c t. He would have observed the seats on either aide closely packed with people who bad taker up their positions there ; the majority bea u boys, supplied with portable refreshments and cheap literature. If such a person bad penetrated into the dark, damp vestibule beneath the lobby of the house, which serves as the regular initial:- room for aspirants to seats in the Strangers' Gallery, that place would have been found densely pope. fated ;—and, in short, there would have been found in all the purlieus of the bowie those signs which have of late years been indicative of the day on which the budget of Mr. Gladstone is to be deli vered. The usual expectant crowd had assembled preparatory to the hour when there wag to be pronounced—not s declaration of harsh and crabbed figures ; not a dry balance. sheet of the income and expenditure of the country; but a luminous exposition of high finance and po litico-econoinic policy , illustrated with all the gram of oratory, all the force of logical reasoning, and all the skill of a finished rhetorician. If the ob server had entered the House of Commons itself as . . . . early as 3 o'clock, he would have seen that even at that time the attendance of members war nu- merous, and that the benches were dotted all over with the cards by which honourable gentlemen who earn the advantage of Se. curing rests by their presence at prayers, had affized over the places which they bad decided to oc cupy. In a short time there would have been wit. messed a breach of parliamentary privilege by the admission of spectators to the Strangers' and Speaker's Gallery, and soon after 4 there was gathered together as whet an assemblage as conk( be pressed into the somewhat limited space allotted to the deliberations of the third estate of the realm, and therewas the usual crowd of peers, and prelate*, and statesmen, and general public, which invariably awaits the happiest moment of the year to our Minister of Finance. During the uninteresting process of the presentation of petition, and whet the house had settled down into an attitude of expectation, the " well-graced actor" of the eve; ing glided rapidly in • and had almost reached the Treasury Bench before he was observed, but then a cheer of welcome broke out from even side • for whatever di ff erence of opinion there might be with regard to the policy which Mr. Gladstone was about to declare, there was unani mity in the feeling that he was about to afford se intellectual treat to everyone who listened to bin. An illuatration of the proverb that there is only one step from the sublime to its owe. site, was afforded in the fact that Mr. Cox, of Finsbury, having followed bard on the steps of Mr. Gladstone, was greeted with a mocking cheer and a burst of laughter as he proceeden to his place. There was a prevalent expectation that the house would be officially called upon to ex press an opinion with regard to the terrible event which has occurred in the United States, and that therefore the opening of the Budget would be postponed by half an hour ; but as notice only of a formal motion on the subject was given, but a few minutes passed before the Chancellor of the Exchequer rose, and having presented a report of the revenue and expenditure of the pent year, made the formal motion that the house do resolve itself into committee of Ways and Means. At that moment, unquestionably, Mr. Gladstone was under the influence of ner vousness ; he appeared to be embarrassed with his hat, rose more than once prematurely, and before the chairman of committees had Battled him self in his place, and his opening sentences were spoken in a voice almost tremulous. In the very next paragraph, however, his ordinary qualities asserted themselves ; and he proceeded in a strain ' singularly calm, and measured, and with less of that ' fervour of expreasion which usually characterises him in the exordiums of his great speeches. Although this section of his address was comparatively brief, it at once struck the listener as felicitous, the com parison between the financial situations of the par liament which ceased in 1859 end that which is about to expire appealing st once to the sense of appropriateness. He did not linger long on this preliminary dissertation ' which was met with the deepest attention and the utmost still ness, all through the audience ; broken sal denly at its close by hearty and spontaneous applause. Assuming a decided business-like air (the transitions of Mr. Gladstone's manner and the change in his voice on these occasions, and thin adaptation to the spirit of the inquiry he is pur suing, are worthy of notice), be entered upon a com parison of the actual and estimated expenditure of the past year, showing how favourably from an economic point of view it hadresulted. Turningtben from particulars to generals, with some elaboration, but with most perfect precision and clearness, he exhibited the progressive growth of the revenue in this country ; bursting, as it were, through the burden of additional expenditure which had been imposed upon it; while he adroitly justified his policy of expenditure by the assertion that it was simply the result of the national feeling and will. With admirable and without the least tinge of triumph in his tone, be dwelt on the circumstance that the actual revenue of the past year had exceeded his estimate by at least three million% and by reference to statistics showed that this in crease had arisen uniformly in all branches of the revenue, and from no factitious and abnormal causes ; but there certainly seemed to be wore earnestness and a justifiable emphasis in his ex pression when he stated that the national debt had been progressively reduced by a large sum dining the present parliament—that is, durin4 his occupancy of the o ffi ce of Fin ance Minster: and he rolled out with a sound as of a trumpet the gigantic figures and statistics which exhibited the enormous increase in the trade of the country 111101 1854. The reference which be made to the grati fying results of the treaty of commerce on the expansion of the trade between this country and France was an obvious prelude to the warm and earnest tribute which he t a tt this period of his speech to the c and ability of Mr. Cobden, and it was at this juncture that he gave free play to his eloquence and delivered some of those grand sentences, rich in all the graces of language, which he can deliver without verging in the least on whet might be called mere declamation. A pause, not foe breath, for Mr. Gladstone never needs any snatches of his rest for his lungs ; and then came the turn ing point of the Budget. With all directness sad perspicuity he stated the figures of comparative estimate and revenue for the coining financial year, which left him in the po s ion of the astir factory surplus of 4,031, The effect was irre sistible ; even Mr. Bentinck could not refrain from joining in the triumphant cheer which rang through the house, and was renewed again and again ; and there was a doubt whether even Mr. Diana did not relax the immobility of countenance and immoveability of limb which he always preserves when Mr. Gladstone is, so to speak, " riding on the whirlwind" of successful finance. Administrative reformers grew cheerful, and even malcontent pro tectionists and protestors against injustice to agriculture saw dimly . some bops of advan tage to their faction. Again Xr.Gladstone" changed his band," and standing erect and casting a good-humoured smile round the house, lu e 7, ll t ; ingly stated that be had cove to the " did question of the disposal of the surplus. More ca, some laughter, and eager expectation on every countenance ; everybody leant forward, and every ear tuned acutely to catch the next dr liveranoe. But it was not the humour of a prier taxed rhetorician to gratify on the instant the curiosity which it was his cue to keep as long as pos sible on the alert ; and so with positive playfulnees of manner and speech be set about talking of a num ber of little adjustments of taxation ; and shifting of petty stamp &Use, and mused ebullitions half of impatience half ofmirth as he dallied with ironical earnestness with licenses to special I t s m e. d o ers me and 'Dworman, sad Ow abarlimP of noa.comC .. rs ta ergo b the lol i t o Or r salt, . an d it re ? co /IL AY that ' s gitoters.i . o f wine ' ea at s ows ke ola il l, q Con iselP- ging• °mid , e ih obi , ....go $1 111 .' 1 /gotu• v., I. m alt 'pert the h° r " i , rue ; end ono mount wit'a tease i t was to t that n eatly t uch oomi mei a a bould finnan aircumatiuc r. 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