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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12.

•• • The Proprietors of Tim STAR, with a view to con-
tribute their mite inaid of the various great questions now
pending, make a tender of their columns to insert Resolu-
tions of Public Meetings at HALF THEIR USUAL MODE-
RATE RATE OF CHARGE, and GS THE STAR is in establish-
ed circulation throughout the United Kingdom, the advan-
tages of such reciprocal communications between public
bodies must be obvious. The copy of such resolutions may
either be sent per post, or through the Printers of local
Newspapers.—ln the Panorama, since its commencement
on January 1, will be found the best, and often the only
account of the proceedings of such Meetings, which has
appeared in any London Paper.

To-day we approach the Ministerial Plans on the sensi-
tive subject of taxes, those remitted and those modified ; as
well as those substituted with a view to meet the actual
public expenditure.
The Duties are wholly removed on
COALS and SLATE,
CANDLES,
GLASS, and
PRINTED COTTONS,

as well as some petty articles which produce little, while
they create great annoyance.
The duties on TOBACCO, SNUFF, and CIGARS, an to be
redneed ONE HALT.

The stamp on NEWSPAPERS, now nearly 31, is to be
reduced by the sum of a fraction less than sty z VAR-
THINGS per paper.
The duty on ADVERTISEMENTS, now 3s. 6d. on all,
is to be reduced to Is. on those which do not exceed ten lines;
but above that length are to be 2s. 6d.
The duty is to be abated on Sales of Land by AUCTION,
—all which at present yield a total of soca unuows;
and made the surplus of taxation over expenditure, about
800,0001.
To supply the deficiency, therefore, other taxes are to be
imposed.
The respective duties on Fatima', Poarvosa., and CAP!
WINES, are to be averaged at ss. 6d. per gallon.
The duties on Foreign and Canadian TIMBER, are to be
raised to 50s. and 20s.

A duty is to be imposed on RAW COTTON of one PENNY
per pound.
The duty on the export of COALS is to be laid at 10s.—
on large and smell.
A duty is to be levied on Passepgers by STEAM Vassals,
of Is. on 20 miles ; 2s. on 30 ; and 2s. 6d. above.
A duty of 10s. per cent. is to be levied on all bona fide
transfers of FUNDS') STOCK and LAND.
AU which it is estimated will produce TWO MILLIONS
TUBES QUAILTIRS, and afford a surplus on the year of
300,0001.
And the difference in the amounts will, in the estima-
tion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, diminish the public
burdens, 1,340,000.
The remission of old taxes is of course agreeable ; the im-
position of new ones, disturbing established arrangements of
industry, is at the same time agitating and obnoxious. A
taxed nation is like a man tied to a whipping post, who ob-
jects to the fall of the lash, on whatever part it is applied.
We will, therefore, not insult any class of our readers by
saying which of them is good or tolerable, more than we will
imitate our contemporaries, in their quarterly exultation,
about the amount of the revenue.
We will, however, venture to express our extreme vexa•
don, that the Parliamentary combinatiens have prevented
such a tan on real property, on mortgages, ground-rents, and
public fends, as not only would have compensated for the
amounts remitted, but would have swept away the malt and
soap tax, and the unwed taxes on houses rated at Was than

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