The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-05 00:00:00

CUSTOMS ACTS

On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
the house resolved into committee, and passed a resolution
for continuing the Irish stamp duties, and another for re-
ducing the terms on which land tax might be redeemed or
purchased.
THE SAVINGS BANK BILL.

This bill passed through committee pro forma, the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER intimating that his ob-
ject was merely to insert amendments, and that the bill
would remain in the hands of members a week or ten days
before it was brought forward for discussion.
STAMP DUTIES BILL.

On the order of the day for the committal of this bill
being read,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said ho
felt some difficulty in respect to the course of proceeding in
this measure. In the present position of public business it
might be some time before it would be in the power of the
Government to enter upon the discussion of any of those
controverted matters involved in this bill, such as that
they were discussing on Friday last, or that which had
been brought forward by his noble friend the member for
Middlesex in reference to attorneys' certificates. He pro-
posed, under these circumstances, to put the bill in com-
mittee now, and drop from it all those matters that were
-of a character to excite difference of opinion : he meant
the matters relating to the newspaper stamp duty and the
attorneys' certificates. It was desirable that they should
get forward as rapidly as possible with the other parts of
the bill, in order to facilitate the introduction of the penny
(receipt) stamp duty, as they could not take any proceed-
ings towards preparing the dies and for the prevention of
forgery until they could carry the bill into law. He pro-
posed, therefore, toproceed. merely with the uncontested
parts of the measure, reserving the votes as to those mat-
ters which were in controversy for future discussion.
Lord R. GROSVENOR hoped that notice would be
given of the day when the attorneys' certificate duty was to
be brought on.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER assented.
Mr. BOUVERIEJ suggested that it would be necessary
to move an instruction to divide the bill into two separate
measures.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER intimated
that he would move a resolution to that effect.
Mr. GROGAN asked whether the practical effect of
omitting the attorneys' certificates from this bill would not
be that they would have this year to pay the present
amount.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—What he
had intended to say was that he would snake an arrange-
ment for the purpose of obtaining the decision of the houso
upon that and the newspaper question, whether they
would adopt the proposal of the government or any other.
The house went into committee pro forma.
In answer to a question,

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
duty on supplements, ns proposed by the government ori•
ginally, was included in the bill as it stood ; but that was
one of the matters he intended to reserve for future dis-
cussion.

Mr. T. M. GIBSON—The right hon. gentleman gave
notice of a resolution as to the size of the newspapers. He
did not know whether that was in this bill.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Yes.
Mr. T. M. GIBSON—But the house had passed no reso-
lution as to that point.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—It was
not necessary.
The conversation then dropped ; and the clauses (omit-
ting the contested ones) were gone through pro forma.