The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-06 00:00:00

LOCAL TAXATIOF.

• HOUSE OF COMMONS, TuEsDAY.
The Select Committee on Local Taxation-resumed
their sittings this morning, the Right. Hon. Mr. Goscheos
the President of the Poor Law Board, in the chair.
Mr. H. C. Belve, a magistrate of Liverpool, chairing'
of the Water Company, and who had been a member of
the Liverpool Corporation for fifteen years, besides hold'
ing many other important public offices, was called, and
described the various kinds of taxes levied in Liverpool,
the assessment of which, he said, was mostly based upoll
the poor rate. There was no borough rate in Liverpool,
all the expenses of the Corporation, the cost of male
taming the mayoralty, royal entertainments, and the
paamidoluitted t
of theono_
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private property of the corporation,
Nbvehi
amounted
£150,000. Speaking atsh:
large owner of property, he was in favour of altering
incidence of local taxation by dividing the rate betweed
the owner and the occupier, and that plan had been adoPte,..
in Liverpool in respect to two of the rates—the water rate
and improvement rate—with great success. Each
those rates was divided between the landlord and th
tenant, and the system was one which gave every satisfs'e.
tion. He saw no reason why it should not be further Occi
tended. He was himself a very large owner of property, an
was extremely well satisfied with the working of the systeol?
and he had no reason to believe that his tenants were no""
With respect to the assessment of the property, he thought,
it convenient to have one fixed method of asseslo
ment, and on the whole approved of the 1301
afforded by the assessment of the poor-rate;
It would, of course, be very convenient to he'llo
a settled mode by which all rates on property could
calculated so as to get rid of the complicated eYste
which at present existed throughout the country. ei
On the conclusion of Mr. Beloe's evidence the committ
adjourned.

The High sheriff of Devon has received a writ WI
the election of a representative for the eastern division °f
the county. Saturday next is fixed for the nornination.
Several students from the School of Naval Arelli;
tecture are to undergo a six months' course of practiu°-
study in iron shipbuilding at Chatham Dockyard.
A great fire occurred at the. East-end of London
on Monday evening. The premises of a large firm of la
factors were destroyed, the damage amounting to 240,uv
Count Bismarck, it is stated in the German paPel4
intends to propose a bill making it obligatory upon the
railway companies to provide fourth-class carriages for tn.
benefit of working people.
Devonshire possesses endowed charities willch
according to a parliamentary return, have a gioss agqi
gate annual income of £45,568 2s. 2d., of which 212,1
are for educational purposes.
Messrs. Newton, Chambers, and Co., of the Than;
cliffe Collieries, have already paid £1,130 for the serviceo.
of extra police employed for the preservation of the po.c. •
The firm mot§gits against% .

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