The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . da, jjillaredpalanquins, and other things having as little todo with the question. The surplus of this yeardid not depend upon the income-tax : it was in-dependently of it that the repeal of the moreurgent burdens had been proposed; while therepeal of others would depend upon the settle-ment of the question, whether the income-taxwas to be continued or not. Mr. DIsraelis re-solutions were negatived by 242 against 129. In the reduction
The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . da, jjillaredpalanquins, and other things having as little todo with the question. The surplus of this yeardid not depend upon the income-tax : it was in-dependently of it that the repeal of the moreurgent burdens had been proposed; while therepeal of others would depend upon the settle-ment of the question, whether the income-taxwas to be continued or not. Mr. DIsraelis re-solutions were negatived by 242 against 129. In the reductions of this year upon the customsduties were those on timber and cofi^ee, whichwere brought down to half their previous proposal was made for the repeal of the malt-tax; but as this yielded a revenue of £5,400,000,the loss of which would be ruinous to the revenueafter the late concessions, the motion was nega-tived by 258 against 122. After this defeajt, the advocates for wholesome drink for the working-classes, instead of gin and foreign spirits, movedfor a repeal of half the amount of the tax uponbeer, but were in tliis instance also defeated bv. The Right Hon. B. DIskaeli. From a print by Zobel, after the portrait bj F. Grant, K A. a large majority. The same fate attended a mo-tion for the remission of the duty on motion resi^ecting the mode of levyingduty on home-made spirits taken out of bond,although idtimately lost, produced a discourag-ing defeat to ministers, as on its first proposalthe votes of the ministers and opposition wereequal, so that the question was adjourned onlyby the casting vote of the speaker. Such were the chief events of a session which,with the exception of the Pai:)al aggression, andthe ecclesiastical titles bill founded u]3on it, pre-sented scarcely any event of historical import-ance. But the great event of public interest,the crowning achievement of 1851, was not onlyunconnected with i^arliamentary proceedings,but sufficient &
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