The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-04-19 00:00:00

Stamp.

21,640:00o docrea.e iil,ooo

13,700,000

2:15:4):00CI ilocrasse 1,00,000

Proporty. 7,000,000 &cream, 2,440,000
Put iditm 4,900,000 Increase 230,000
Crown Lan& 335,000 Increare 10,000
Illocellaneous 3,050,000 &cream 155,000
Talegrapbe 075,000 incraue 575,000

Res ea Ise £71.4.;0.4m0
Expeambture 67313,000

Sundos . £4,337,000
A Mlntlll% t 4 £4.5.17,000 having been annouced, the (louse ex-
pected that its disposal would next be explained, but Mr.
LoVe.'S erst tare wu to consider how it could he incruased.
An animated .liscueion .1 the dangero attending the too
pindar ot &terms provoked SoMe cries ooh f. but the
upiemition coofirmed, with A cheer, the assertion that the hablt
of carrying • ;run for a %hot at small binin wax In country district..
the foundation of poaching. The propels' to abolhe gone
certificates, and Impose instead and an excise licence duty of XI
for right to carry lirearms of env kytel
memptedk was received witn neer, Tne effect wuald be to
double the £170,000 now derived from garne tartificats.,
nix brought the surplus lip to £4.457,000, and Mr. Lowe pro-
ceeded to diaries the relative merits of the various claimants
for a share .4. t. Di.mirsing as Impracticable the idea ot
ue,,g the surplus exlmively for the redemption of the National
Debt, ho proposed to convert g 7,000,000 of Poet Office Savings'
Hank Stiwk into terminable annuities, the interest on which
for this year would be gindmin. Although he could not see
1,,. way to any change in the leer duty or malt tosx be offered
lea compromise to give facilities to fanners to steep barley
for agricutuml purposes, which wild then be free of duty If
DDD dried ; and if there were no kiln or.. in immediate cote
tittuity to the farm. The remission of taxation proposed
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer ,may be summarised
thin:
en it RirsAugo.-- Foot hawkers, licence, £31,000,
of which £16,000 will fall within this year; maker*,
tu pia 61; sellers of playing cards, i1,t93; soap maker.,
£l,lOO ; paper makers, £1,118e; watch-eaar makers, C 1,500.
STAIPIL The stamp laws to be consolidated, and reductions
to the amount of t 2110,000 made in various stamp., Includlng
progresaive doty ..n number of words In. deed, duty on letters
41 attorney. dr.e. The dmits on inlsod and foreign bills to be
Stamp duties on insurances for ball, injuries to
cattle ke. .

NSWAPARIL POW! 101. —The itnpre...ed tamp on newepapers
to be alviiiiihod. Bona Mr new Inisper, weighing Owen than box.
to be carried for id. Other pouted matter to he carried for
Id. for every bia.
RAILWAY TAI. —ll/11 6 per eent railway pawengers' taa to be
aboltibeti, and • 1 per amt. iluty on the total drama tralbc
mooed.
lacuna Tax. —A penny to be talen off the Incase tax, which
wild now be ed. .

Ilvamt DMus.— The duty on sugar to be reduced one-half
on raw sugar Immediately ; on One sugar, ander three weeks, in
order to enable refiner. t' work off thMr goeL
In the coor thin speech Elr. Lowe laid down the principle
that the great object of a Chancellor of the Exchequer shoukl
be to 'outgo taxation : Instead of a premure of taxation
crushing ;tar, leular Cia•MM. everybody should be made a little
mummy all round. The financial result .1 the proposed nog*
will be seen front the following acoount :
Estimated !avenue, 1170-n .LT1,460.000
.

fatisoalad expeadlitire

-67:172:600

Surplus • • • • .. £41,337,000
Simnel tax • • • • .• 150,000

Total surplus .. .. 1.487.000
Remon of taxes :
Ila a here Ileencea .. .. £16,000
Other licences .. .. 6,000
Stamps 60.000 .. .. ..
!fall owl cattle Insurance .. 6,000
Impressed newspaper damp 00.000
Other postai charge* .. 125000
Hallway las .. „ „ 107,000
I ne.lme 0.1 (1.1.) .. .. 1,460.000
Soar duties .. .. 4.360,000

Tot,' 3,906.000
Interest on terminable annuities 190,000
£4.166,000

Surplus £331000
After a lengthy diacuedon, the Chancellor'. resolution. were
On the House returning. the Lord Advocate moved the
ICColl.l reading of the (tune Laws (Scotland) BM, owning
his explanatory °beer, ations for a future nage. The motion
was agreed to.
Mr. Gladstone moved the appointment of • .elect committee
Inquire into the ttate of the law affecting Bitch peen. being
member, of the H 0..... had been reported guilty of oorrupt
practices by • Bribery Commitsion.
Mr. bromine than ruovid as an amendment that &camellia
thould be appointed to inquire late the operation of the law
referred to by Mr. thadebme, and further, to Inquire Into the
truth of the allegation .ntained In petitions presented to the
(knee during the wenn% aemlon praying that an Inquiry
might be instituted into the conduct of certain of the IMbery

......
After some dismission, Mr. Lowther withdrew his amendment
with the understamfing that the first part should be pared aa
a sebstatitive motion, and the promise that he would bring on
the latter portion at a later period of the .on.
The Howse adjourned at a quarter to two o'clock.
TreIDAY.-1114 Rouse, at It. rising, adjourned for the
EWAN, bulidlys.