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. The Pw Wine Duties. With The Details O...
with the southern portion of Europe to expand into its natural dimensions am i order , whether we had a treaty with France or not , had become unavoidable . But those duties could not be reduced without endangering other parts of our absurd fiscal system ; and Mr . Gladstone has , we think , vainly attempted to conciliate the two . If his three shilling duty all round will suffice to guard the spirit duties till January , 1861 , might not it , or some other single rate of duty , ¦ suffice-to guard the spirit duties hereafter ? If such a single duty would have been better to institute
answered this purpose , would it not have it at once , and retain it all through , in preference to adding to our already complicated Custom-house regulations this new scale of duties on wines in proportion to their alcoholic strength ? Would it not have been , in fact , more statesmanlike to have considered our spirit duties in conjunction with the necessity to reduce the wine duties , and . have amended the whole system ? Mr . Gladstone , we fear , has been seduced into a hasty scheme by the prospect of reaping the glory of lowering the wine d uties , and has increased complication where , above all things , simplification is
required . , Till the low duties come into operation next January , there cannot be any great consumption of wine . In the country there are already large stocks on . which drawback will be allowed ; private , wine lubbers are probably , on the whole , pretty well supplied for the few months which will intervene between this and next January , and conseqtaently any expectations of an increase of revenue from wine this year from the reduction of the duty will be hopeless . 2 s o part of the revenue which Mr .. Gladstone has given up on wine this year will be replaced by additional consumption . This will all fall on wine that has b
already been imported , and on . much of which duty has een paid . By calculating that the increased ^ consumption will show itself this year in the revenue / he is preparing a disappoints ment for himself , and for those who look for immediate benefit to the finances from the reduction of the wine duties . . . Comparatively little will be entered for consumption at the three shilling duty , when everybody is aware . that next January . any quantity may be entered at " two shillings -and at one shilling per gallon . We shall be unable ,, from the actual facts which may arise in the remaining ^ part of ' this year , to form any notion of what will be the consumption of wine after the one shilling duty has come into operation . ¦ .
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Warehousing And Shipping Taxes. We Expec...
WAREHOUSING AND SHIPPING TAXES . WE expected , and are not disappointed , that the commercial classes would oppose Mr . Gladstone's projected new imposts on trade . The Steamship Owners' Association of London , representing 200 , 000 toils of shipping , have declared , in common with other shipowners , that the penny tax on imported and exported articles will press heavily on certain trades . To pay- a penny on every animal imported from Germany and Holland , and on every little package brought over fronh . Havre and Calais—to ptiy a penny on every little package sent to any
continental port to which our steamers ply daily and hourly , must be extremely burdensome ^ It will probably knock up some carrying companies . Mr . Gladstone supposes the tax ^ Yill be levied in bulk on the ship ' s manifest , but endless disputes will arise about packages unavoidably not entered . Not only will the lax fall heavily on particular species of shipping—it will be vexatious for ' all , and is directly opposed to that great principle , " facilitating commerce , " which has secured for Mr . Gladstone , his triumphant majorities . . "
We can any precisely the same of his proposed charges on removing goods in bond , against which the enlightened traders of Glasgow hjvye petitioned . Men of business in . lynemouth , Hull , Ipswich , Blyth , Aberdeen , Edinburgh ,. Leitli , Arbroath , Bristol , and many other places have petitioned against them . Many reasons are stated why they should not become law . They will deprive outports of their ancient privileges ; they Avill prevent the development of the warehousing system , which makes tho present system of indirect taxation beiirnble . They are " petty , vexatious , partial , and fit only for tho dark ages . " From the ' first announcement of the Budget , taking no party viewi
but founding our objections on tho free-trade principles which Mr . Gladstoki ? prides himself on carrying into effect , wo have expressed strong opinions against these new , paltry , and , as wo again affirm , unnecessary taxes . Wo rejoice , therefore , that tho shipping interest generally , and tho mercantile interest in every part of tho empire , oppose thpin . Wo think , too ; , after tjhe changes Mr . Gladstone has already made in his Budget , that he will yield on this pqint , and will find some other less objectionable means of raising a few hundred thousand pounds , if . he cannot spare them for a year . If those imposts be not resisted now they will become a lasting buvclcn , and the revenue obtained from thorn will be n justification of future
extravagance . Economy . will now and hereafter be more studied if the shipping and mercantile interests steadily resist these new exactions and restrictions . . While we urge the shipping interest to this course we must record our dissent from its remonstrances against the omission from the Treaty and from the Budget of any attempt to get rid of the differential duties on shipping which now exist in France . The principal effect of such duties is jto injure the French by laying a tax on them for behalf of French shipping , It has lately been made manifest ^ -and every one may satisfy himself oi the fact who will examine the navigation ^ re t urns of differ ent nations ( we mean to take an early opportunity of laying , the
evidence of the fact before our readers , )—that in all cases the foreign shipping entering the ports of commercial countries has of late years increased in a faster ratio than the native shipping , as well as in our own . Here , the fact is admitted , notorious , and complained of ; but it is equally a fact in the United States , in France , Belgium , Spain , Germany , etc . All the shipping of the work ! is exposed to a like competition ; and the amount or value of freight to be divided amongst them all depend exclusively and entirely on the quantities of goods to be carried . The regulations of the French Government may decrease—they cannot increase—the quantities of goods in existence , and of which the shipping of each nation competing in all the different harbours of the world
will get its fair share . If French shipping carry more goods , at a higher rate of freight , from the Mauritius to France than other shipping , they will carry less from some other place . The restrictions favourable to French shipping cannot extend to shipping in all the ports of the world / and cannot alter the general relations which every where exist between the goods to be carried and the ships to carry them . Consequently , the French navigation laws may injure the French people , and by injuring them may injure others , but cannot injure these directly ; They are intended , we know , to enrich the French , and to
promote French , navigation at the expense of other people ; but , after our experience of the continual failure of all such laws to realize the intentions of those who enact them , nothing but an old prejudice in favour of protection and restrictions can makeany man suppose that such laws increase the trade and shipping of France , and decrease the trade and shipping of other countries . We regret to see our neighbours injuring-themselves by their own legislation , and so injuring us ; but we cannot ' lend our aid to make them believe , by asking them to alter their laws in our favour , that they are benefiting themselves by continuing them
Convocation And Ordination. It Is Not Ou...
CONVOCATION AND ORDINATION . IT is not our intention just now to discuss the question of councils or " convocations" generally- — -we mean their expediency for settling Church disputes—nor to range ourselves under the banners either of those who have cited the worn-out passage of Gregory ; Nazianzen to approve or to condemn it $ decision . It might be interesting to set the combatants in the field , and observe their tactics and arguments . Amongst them would be found Lather , Sir Thomas More , Hooker , Bacon , Milton , Buiinet , and Swift—we know hot how many more ; but these we can answer for , and such names might give a zest to what appears but a dry subject to the majority of readers .
However , we forego this pleasure , to dwell on , not a doctrinal or ritual , but a practical matter , submitted recently by tho Bishop of London , in Convocation , to some of his brother Bishops , the drift of which is contained in a few Well-known words / that bishops " should lay hands suddenly on no man . " At the same time he intimated , that in certain quarters there was reasonable dissatisfaction upon this head . We cannot proceed further on this subject without congratulating Churolimen on the steady improvement which , with occar
sional relapses , has been going on in the character of the clergy , and their respectability ; and on the sacrifices they have made * not only of the wrong , but of the innocent , yet inexpedient—we mean as a general bpdy , of courser—and without referring tq inexpedienoies of iritual . One scarcely reepgnisos in the Church of to-day the Churoh in s which , a few centuries ago , a man was at the same time an evangelical bishop and a keen sportsman like Cranmer and Abbot , and when the following picture , though drawn from a Catholic , might have done for many a Protestant priest as well .
" Item , Sir John Buck , parson of Stratford , fished my stanks at Dedham , and helped to break my now mill , and was against me always at Bokhara , Item . He and John Cohu hath by forco this year , and other years , taken out of my waters at Dedham to tho number of twenty-four swans and cygnets , and \ pray yon this bo not forgotten , " ( We quote from a wellknown collection of ancient letters . ) Many a poaching parson
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Leader (1850-1860), March 3, 1860, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03031860/page/6/
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