The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-08 00:00:00

A Return of the Aggregai

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Number of Stamps Total Number of Gross Ain.tuit i.t Net Amount of
Rate of Duty. at each Rate. Stamps. Duty. Duty.
d
r 0 .
19,'C05. 7 s.c Idl.
18,
I 1 1i
353
,7 6,06,90650 t
5 6,099,656 • 25, .4. 0 13s .d.
1
Years
.
1}
6,452072 Z .
142,,580
.$ 6,594,652 - 27,180 13 6 20,335 10 If
1844
1
i 6,769,067
249,550 S 7,018,617 28,724 610 21,586 1 4

Note.—By the Act 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 76, purchasers of 101. and upwards of these Stamps are made an allow-
ance of 251. for every 100 L
Stamp-offiee, Dublin, March 13, 1845.

J. S. COOPER, Comptroller and Accountant General.

DUTY ON GLASS.

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PAR-
LIAMENT.
MONDAY, APRIL 7.
The following Bills were presented and read a first time:—
Northumberland Railway.
Ely and Huntingdon Railway.
Lynn and Dereham Railway.
Wilts, Somerset. and Weymouth Railway.
Direct London and Portsmouth Railway.

The following is the Bill for repealing the Duty on Glass,
brought in by Mr. Greene, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and Mr. Cardwell. The words printed in italic are proposed
to be inserted in the Committee :

Be it enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assem-
bled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after
the fifth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty-
five, all duties of Excise now payable upon or for or in re-
spect of any glass-maker or glass-house, or any glass made in
the United Kingdom, and all drawbacks on the exportation
of such glass from the United Kingdom, shall cease and be
no longer charged, raised, levied, collected, allowed, or paid,
and that the several Acts, clauses, provisions, and regulations
for charging, raising, levying, collecting, allowing, and pay-
ing the said several duties and drawbacks shall not, from and
after the said fifth day of April, be enforced or executed, save
and except for the purpose of recovering any duties incurred
or charged on or before the said fifth day of April, or any
arrears thereof, the same not being duties charged on glass
which has been warehoused on the manufacture thereof free
of duty, on or after the fifteenth day of February one thousand
eight hundred and forty ;fire ; and save and except for or in
respect of any drawback payable under the said recited Acts,
or any of them, for glass exported at any time previous to
the fifteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty-
five, which glass has been packed for exportation under the
usual regulations on or before the said fifth day
.of April; and
save and except for the purpose of recovering any fine,
penalty, or forfeiture for the breach of any of the said Acts,
clauses, provisions, or regulations committed previous to the
said fifth day of April; but that all such duties and arrears
(not being as aforesaid), and all such fines, penalties, and
forfeitures, may be recovered, levied, enforced, and applied,
and all such drawbacks allowed and paid, in the same manner
and by the same powers and authorities as if this Act had net
been passed

The, following Bills were read a second time and com-
mitted, and referred to the Committee of Selection
Cornwall Railway.
Greenwich Colliery Railway.
North Woolwich Railway.
Eastern Union Railway.
Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland).

Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction Railway,—Petition
for Bill reported ; report referred to the Select Committee
on Standing Orders.
Cork and Bandon Railway,—Petition for Bill reported ;
report referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders.
Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier,—Petition
for Bill; referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for
Private Bills.

Aberdare Railway,—Petition for Bill; referred to the
Select Committee on Petitions for private Bills.
St. Ives Junction Railway,—Petition for Bill reported, and
Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Pendarves and Mr.
Edmund Turner. •

Edinburgh and Northern Railway (No. 2),—Petition
Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in 'by 'Mr.'
Pringle and Mr. Edwand Ellice.
Coventry, Bledworth, and Nuneaton Railway,—Petition
for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr.
Dugdale and Mr. Fitzmaurice.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.

Anti whereas for the purpose of making certain allowances
to manufacturers and dealers in plate glass, crown or Ger-
man sheet glass, and to manufacturers of bottle glass made
and manufactured in the United Kingdom, for and in respect
of their stock in hand of such glass respectively, on which the
respective duties thereon have been paid or secured to be
paid, such glass has been permitted to be packed as the like
goods when intended for exportation to foreign parts, and
warehoused under the charge of the officers of Excise, or
otherwise deposited with and taken account of by the officers
of Excise ; be it enacted, that upon all crown and German
sheet glass, and upon all common bottles, vessels, and utensils
of common bottle metal which have been so warehoused, de-

Dundee and Perth Railway,—Second reading, Friday,
April 11.
Glasgow, Gstrnkirlc, and Coatbridgeßailway,—Second read-
ing, Friday, April 11.
Direct Northern Railway (No. I),—Committee on petition,
postponed from Wednesday 9th till Monday, April 14.
South Wales Railway,—Second reading, Friday, April 11.

North Woolwich IlailWay,—Second -reading, Friday,
Aprilll.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Acts Amendment,—
Committee on petition, postponed from Wednesday 9th till
Thursday, April 10.
Newport and ronty Poul Railway,—Second reading, Friday,
April 11.

posited, or taken account of as aloissaid,flud yhich.Ractarrta
forty-five, are on re-examination found conformable to such
previous account thereof as aforesaid, the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland may, for and in respect of the duties
thereon respectively paid, allow to the manufacturers or
dealers to whom such glass respectively belongs, a sum of
money equivalent to the drawback to which such glass re-
spectively would have been entitled if the same respectively
had been exported to foreign parts previous to the sixth day
of April one thousand eight hundred and forly-five, deducting
therefrom twenty-fine per centum ; and that upon all plate
glass which has been so warehoused or taken account of as
aforesaid, and which on or before the said tive(fili day of April
is, on re-examination, found conformable to such previous
account thereof as aforesaid, the said Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury may, for and in respect of the duties
thereon paid; allow to the manufacturers or dealers to whom
such last-mentioned glass belongs, the sum of one shilling and
tenpence-halfpenny for every square foot of all rectangular
pieces of such plate glass of six inches by four at the least, and
not less than one• eighth of an inch in thickness, and the sum
of four pounds four shillings for every hundred weight of such
plate glass if polished, and not one-eighth of an inch in thick-
ness, deducting twenty-five per centum from the sum to be
allowed as last mentioned.
And be it enacted, that no glass or glass wares for or in re-
spect whereof any drawback of excise has been received or
claimed on exportation from the United Kingdom, shall be
imported into the United Kingdom unless by the special
permission of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs,
and on repayment of such drawback; which drawback the
said Commissioners of Customs shall collect, recover, and ac-
count for as her Majesty's duties of Customs, and under the
laws and regulations in force relating to such duties at the
time of such importation, and notwithstanding that such
drawback on the exportation of the like goods from the United
Kingdom is at that time repealed.