HOUSE OF COMMONS, Tuesday
THE MALT TAX.
MR. BASS (DERBY) moved a resolution declaring that one-half of the existing tax on malt should be repealed on and after the 10th of October, 1852.
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Sir W. JOLLIFFE (Petersfield), pleading the severe distress of the agriculturists, entreated the house to abolish the malt tax altogether.
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The motion was then withdrawn by consent.—Adjourned.