The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-04-21 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, APRIL

from • greet change In the habits of the people indocLug
them to abandon the um of ardent spirits—(hear. hem).
If it were the former that would tell on all your sources
of revenue, and if it were merely a question of inability,
I think you would stave elf that inability, and reduce the
probability to • minimum of its occurring bytaking oil •
duty like this upon sugar, and so increasing Jr taw., the
consuming power of the people. But if in the other case
it were due to a material and considerable change in the
halite of the people, and an increase in their temperance
- (hear, hear), I venture to say the amount of wealth the
nation would have by that change— (loud cheers) would
entirely throw into the shade any consequences to the
revenue ; and you would bee with pleasure the diminution
of the spirit duty, because with it there would be an
amount of social and moral improvement that in the end
you would find that in various ways the Exchequer would
not suffer from lose it would sustain in that direction. It
Is, therefore, with perfect confidence and without mis-
givings that the government propose the remission
they have to give upon a principal article of consumption
should be in the form of the abolition of the sugar duties
—(cheers).

•
TAXING 31:0MM PLUMS, AND ARLDNALIe AVOAIL
He estimated the loss to the revenue by that remission
at two millions, the amount taken in the Customs of this
year. The duty would be taken off the raw sugar on the
let of May, and off refined sugar on the 21st May. With
regard to plums—(laughter)—it would be necessary tore-
impose the duty on those coated with sugar, in order to
equalise plums with other confectionery now taxed. Then
the Excise duty on sugar used in breweries would have to
be raised, in order to put sugar on an equality with malt.

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THE SALT TAX. INHABITED HOUSE DLIT. DOG TAX.
lie then had .C942,0U0 still left to dispose of; and as he
had mentioned malt he might as well inform the COM.
make that the malt duty was too large to bx satisfied by
the surplus left—(laughter). He regretted this, because
he was by no means insensible to the arguments that had
been LIVOII for abolishing it, and there were enquiries being
made as to the way malt was treated in foreign countries.
With regard to those and other claimants for remission,
he could-may say that they must stand over for • more
Convenient season. The inhabited house duty required
further consideration,and some alterations would probably
be made in its assessment—(hear, hear). That duty of the
excise licenses might forum part of the scheme for local
taxation that be had alluded to. With respect to the tog
on dogs, he had received a great deal of private corrt..*-
potulence, some going in for its abolition, and others for
raising it. One person suggested a collar with a stamp on
it; but the idea of a pack of foxbotuuis with stamped
callars—(laughter)--was too much for him, and be must
take time to consider the question, especially with rota.
tion to sheep dogs, whose osvuers„ he admitted, were
under a hardship.

ARZWVJLV LICENSES.
After reviewing the arguments of the brewers for the
repeal of the license duty, he came to the conclusion that
their propositions were not conclusive—(cheers). When
the hop duty was abolished the brewers bad the advantage
of *drawback upon the hops given to them. so that they
were not altogether without compensation for the extra
license duty paid by them. With regard to the license
duty, they knew how much they had to pay, therefore it
was smatter that could be easily arranged. They pro-
posed to divide the penalties into two clauses, viz.,
penalties for offences which were accidental, and penalties
for offences which could not be accidental. They also pro-
posed to modify the penalties against entries not made at
the proper time.

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RAILWAY PASARNORRS. wry.
The railway passenger tax had boen called a tax upon
locomotion. They were not disposed to repeal this tax
until sonic security had been given that the repeal would
benefit the patsenger, and tend.to his security.

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1101186 DITT.
The isgricultural statistics for the last year showed that
in this country there were more than 2,000,000 horses,
861,000 of which were taxed. They proposed to abolish
the hope duty, and this remission would include the horse
dealers license duty, and a small supplementary tax upon
racehorses. This remission would dispose of /;180,04.10 of
the surplus.

SUMMARY.
A resume of his scheme was, therefore, simply this. The
surplus amounted to 4492000. The additional expenill•
ture on account of local burdens would come to £1,010,000,
and the remissions of taxation' to £4,020,000, together
£4030,000, which deducted from the surplus of .0,492,000,
would leave a balance to be carried forward of £012,1100.
Finally, the right hon. gentleman expressed • hope that
the Committee, in considering his proposals, would do so
in the spirit in which they were intended. He then
resumed his seat arulfl great cheenng.
Mr. LOWE complimented the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on having made an important and candid state-
ment, in which there wore many things which ha had
heard with much satisfaction.
A discussion of the usual desultory character followed.
Mr. Mantis complained, on behalf of the brewers •,
Mr. GRIEVE and Mr. Maur warmly praised the removal
of the sugar duties ; Sir W. Lawsoff was pleased to hear
the warm earnestness with which the Chancellor had
deprecated the present largo consumption of spirits.
Colonel BasTrxt.or complimented Mr. Gladstone on
the accuracy of his financial anticipations, guestimatel the
ivied ~, of Sir Stafford Northcuto in altogether passing
over the malt-tax, and declared that he should have pre-
ferred the relief of small incomes to the penny reduction
in the income tax, _

--Mr. BARCLAY and Mr. STORIR thought the niTioulturista
bad reason to be disappointed with the financial
proprcals.
Mr. Svasvoin gave notice that he would take the
opinion of the House upon the question of exemption from
the income tax of incomes under 1t31.10 a year.
The resolutions as to the sugar duties were Put and
agreed to.
The Mutiny and Marino Mutiny Bills were passed
through committee,
'ilia I lOirchWailleßS Hill f Mr. MONK VIM thrown mit
upon the order for the second reading without a division,
and on the motion of Mr. (Nose a select committee was
•Praiinnt's4vl.—on3trx. I.l°.aillega.'wust su7aMitted his views to the
llonse MI the organisation of the Navy Reserve and urged
the importance of establishing a close connection between
the navy and the mercantile marine.
Mr. GOSCIIV4 warmly defended the department Last
year the reduction had ceased, and there were now 2,0Q0
men more than at that period. The difficulty at present
10. not in the pay and pension, which were adequate, but
in tht fact that seafaring nom (mind themselves unable to
attend drill fur tM days every year, said that there was an
indisposition on the part of shipowners to employ seen
who were liable to he called out for service.
Mr. MENT (First Lonl of the Admiralty) conceded that
the subject was MII important one, and promised to devote
to it considerable attention.
Sir J. Ilav thought it desirable to add to the number of
training ships, and use them as coninion schools fur the
boys of the neighbourhoods a here the ships were
stationed.

Mr. Noowoon
drew a very dismal Orlin.° of our Mb.
men, Isith physically and morally. Of the crows now
engaged warmly one in three was an A. it., and of those
who declared themselves A.ld's few were b 0 in reality.
lie sthmested a !loyal I 'omniission.
Sir r. A 1111 Ell 1.1 iII ti mato(' that the opinion of the Board
of Trade differed from that .4 gentlemen who represented
that the men of the mercantile marine had undergone
eerious.deter.ioration _

....
On the close of the discussion the House went into
Committee of Supply, and voted the sum of 33Z7,000,
being the anemia of the army purchase commission
estimate. Subsequently several votei were passed for the
Civil Service, including the Treasury, the Home, Foreign,
and Colonial Offices, and the Board of Trade
A division was taken at the instance of Mr. DILLWTN,
on the vote for the office of the Privy Seal, which, how-
ever, was amen te,l to by 135 to 61.
Mr. Burr's hill to asinnihite the municipal franchise in
Ireland, to that in Rngland, was opposed hr Ministers,
and defeatist hy a majority of 37.

AN ANTI-DRINK MOVEMENT AT MANCHESTER.
A women's whisky war has loon commenced in Man-
chester. The fair ground at Knott Mill, which during
the Easter week had been given up to the annual fair,
WAS on Sunday the scene of • very different gathering.
From a temporary platform, consisting of a lorry, about •
dozen working men's wivesaddreued an attentive crowd
on the evils of intemperance. One woman introduced
herself as "no far away bird, but tam daughter of old Joe
Blank, the drunkeunest man in Deansgate i" another
speaker, also locally connected, said she ' had been
twenty-one years drink-mined, having for a husband the
greatest drunkard that ever walked the streets of Man-
chester." This woman's husband, who wu at one time
never without an excuse to thrash her,wes now &reformed
character. At the close of the speeches a ntuuber of
persons took the temperance pledge.

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prices are lower than on Monday. English sheep
also are not more plentiful, but foreign are. The
demand is exceedingly limited, and prices are lower
for all kind_s. Choice lambs and calves are in demand
at our quotations. There arc 6o English and So
Dutch milch cows on offer; trade is very heavy for
them. Our foreign supply consists; of 340 beasts,
4880 sheep, 270 calves, and 80 mach cows.

t d s. d.
044 t Boots, Herefords, &c. •6 10 8 10
Hest 131vostloros5 lbS 8
844._ 041 quality Beasts •. .. • • 44t0 3 3 mot downs sod Hail.bredi • 00to 0 0
DittO Shorn 6 4
8661 1-4)06- toolS • • • • • 00to 0 0
Ditto Shorn
.. 4 Bto 0
nn° 8441°44 SOti•iiy •.: o oto 0 0
Ditto Shorn
•• •• 6 0106 0
I• 1101 • ••4
0 to
Deasioi, 1100: Shoe— p, 11:180 ;"ealros., aso IMp, 30.

METROPOLITAN MEAT, THURSDAY.
(l'er stone of SR, by the carcase )
s. d• sd. ..d. ed.
Hod •• .. 44t0 6 4 I Foreign pip „ • 4 4to 5 6
Mutton 4 4to It 6 English do 4 6to 6 8
Hest Fresh Butter .. • • .. 17.. per dozen
Second do. do. .. • ..
i.
Jas. Basta k Co. 143, New Meat Market, 86111161,