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    WAREHOUSING AND SHIPPING TAXES.

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    CONVOCATION AND ORDINATION.

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    with the southern portion of Europe to expand into its natural dimensions Md order , whether * we had a treaty with France or not ,, had hecome unavoidable .. ' But those duties could not he reduced withottt endangering other parts of our absurd fiscal system ; arid 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 riot it , or some other single rate of duty , suffice to guard the spirit duties hereafter ? If such a single duty would have better to institute

    answered this purpose , would it not have been it ait 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 duties , 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 bibbers are probably , on the whole , pretty well supplied for the few months which will intervene between this and next January , and consequently any expectations of an increase of revenue from wine this year from the reduction of the duty will be hopeless . No 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 of which has been

    already been imported , and on much duty paid . . By calculating that the increased } consumption will show itself this year in the revenue , he is preparing a disappointment 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 maybe entered at two shillings arid 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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    " \ Tl 7 "I 3 expected , arid'are not disappointed , that the commercial W classes wotild oppose Mr . Gladstone ' s projected new imposts on trade . The Steamship Owners / Association of London , representing 200 , OOQ tons of shipping , have declared , in cornmon 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 from Havre and Calais— -to pay 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 carrythe tax will be levied

    extravagance . Economy will now and hereafter be more studied if the shipping and mercantile interests steadily resist these nevy 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 " Budget of any attempt to get . of the differential duties on shipping which now exist in France , The principal effect of such duties is to injure the French by laying a tax on them for behalf of French shipping . It lias lately been made manifest—and every one may satisfy himself of the fact who will examine the navigation returns of different 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 lias 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 eq ually a fact in the United States , in France , Belgium , Spain , Germany , etc . All the shipping of the world 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 pepphv and by injuring them may injure bthers , 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 make any man suppose that such laws increase the trade and shipping of France , and decrease the trade a . nd' shipping of other eountries ; We regret to see our neighboursTinjuririg themselves by their own legislation , arid 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 .

    ing companies . Mr . Gladstone supposes in bulk on the ship ' s , manifest , but endless disputes will arise about packages unavoidably not entered . Not only will the tax 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 say precisely the same of his proposed charges on removing goods in bond , against which the enlightened traders of Glasgow have petitioned . Men of business in Tyncmouth , Hull , Ipswich , Blyth , Aberdeen , Edinburgh , Leith , Arbroath ,

    Bristol , and many other places have petitioned against them . Many reasons are stated why they should not become law . They will deprive Qutppvts of their ancient privileges ; they will prevent the development of -thp warehousing system , which makes the present system of indirect taxation bearable . They are " petty , vexatious , partial , and fit only for the dark ages . " From the ' first announcement of the Budget , taking no party viow , but founding our objections on the free-trade principles which Mr , Gladstone prides himself on carrying into cfl ' eot , we have and

    expressed strong opinions against theso now , paltry , , as we again affirm , unnecessary taxes . We rejoice , therefore , that the shipping interest- generally , and the mercantile interest in every part'of the empire , oppose them . We think , too , after" the changes Mr . Gladstone has already made in hie Budget , that ho will yield on this point , and will find some other loss . objectionable meaijs of raising a few ' hundred thousand pounds , if he cannot spare them for a year . If these imposts be not resisted now' they will become a lasting burden , and the revenue obtained froiii them will be a justification , of future

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    I T is not our intention just now to discuss the question ol 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 its decision . It might be interesting , to set the combatants in the field , and observe their tactics and arguments . A . mongst them would be found Luther , Sir Thomas More , Hooker , Bacon , Milton , Burnet , and Swift—we know riot 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 , bu t a practical matter , subrhitted recently by the 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 iipori this head . We cannot proceed further on this subject without congratulating Churchmen on the steady improvement which , with , occasional 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 body , of course—and without referring to inexpediencies of ritual . ' One scarcely recognises in the Church of to-day the Church in which , a few centuries ago , a man was at the same time an evangelical bishop and a keen sportsman like-Cranmbr and Abbot , and when the following picture , though drawn from a Catholic , might have done for many a Protestant priest as well . " Itpm .. Sir John Buck , parson of Stratford , fished my slinks at Podham , and helpod to break my new mill , and was against mo always at Podham . Item . He and John Oolk hath by force this year , and other years , taken out of my waters at Dedhnm to the number of twenty-four swans and cyjgnots , ami 1 pray yon this be not forgotten , " ( We quote from a wellknown collection of ancient letters . ) Many a pouching parson

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    OAr > T / ie Leader and Saturday Analyst . [ March 3 , 1860 .

    Warehousing And Shipping Taxes.

    WAREHOUSING AND SHIPPING TAXES .

    Convocation And Ordination.

    CONVOCATION AND ORDINATION .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 3, 1860, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2336/page/6/