ABSTRACT

Parnell's treatise on financial reform. Repeal of the tax on beer and the tax on leather. Reduction for sugar. The Whig administration under earl Grey. Althorp's Budget in 1831. The proposed tax on transfers. Taxes on coals coastwise, printed goods and caudles repealed. Expiration of the Methuen treaty. Wine duties equalised. Financial year changed. The Budget of 1833. Reductions of duty. Half the soap duty repealed. The ‘ malt tax repealers ’ at work. Repeal of the tax on inhabited houses. Division on lord Chandos's motion for relief of the agricultural classes.