Journal of the Society of Arts, 52 tomas |
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From 1720 to 1740 few engines were erected in Cornwall because of the high duty on sea - borne coal . In 1741 , an Act of Parliament was passed for the remission of the duty on coal for fire - engines for draining tin and copper mines ...
From 1720 to 1740 few engines were erected in Cornwall because of the high duty on sea - borne coal . In 1741 , an Act of Parliament was passed for the remission of the duty on coal for fire - engines for draining tin and copper mines ...
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BY SIR CHARLES MALCOLM KENNEDY , K.C.M.G. , C.B. The Society of Arts was founded for " the encouragement of the arts , manufactures and commerce of the country , " and one of its specific duties is to endeavour " to increase the trade ...
BY SIR CHARLES MALCOLM KENNEDY , K.C.M.G. , C.B. The Society of Arts was founded for " the encouragement of the arts , manufactures and commerce of the country , " and one of its specific duties is to endeavour " to increase the trade ...
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The repeal of duties lessened this number ; but the principle of preferential treatment in favour of British possessions was ... Its objects , in the words first used , were the abolition of the duty on the importation of foreign corn ...
The repeal of duties lessened this number ; but the principle of preferential treatment in favour of British possessions was ... Its objects , in the words first used , were the abolition of the duty on the importation of foreign corn ...
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duties upon the raw material , by inciting your skill and industry , by competition with foreign goods , you have ... The admission of sea - borne corn at low rates of duty between 1846 and 1849 , when the duty became uniform at one ...
duties upon the raw material , by inciting your skill and industry , by competition with foreign goods , you have ... The admission of sea - borne corn at low rates of duty between 1846 and 1849 , when the duty became uniform at one ...
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Although after 1841 , Custom duties were reduced to the estimated amount of £ 10,000,000 , yet the loss to the revenue was only about £ 200,000 as compared with 1842 . The Excise receipts ( part of which were closely associated with ...
Although after 1841 , Custom duties were reduced to the estimated amount of £ 10,000,000 , yet the loss to the revenue was only about £ 200,000 as compared with 1842 . The Excise receipts ( part of which were closely associated with ...
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55 psl. - That this conference recognizes that the principle of preferential trade between the United Kingdom and His Majesty's dominions beyond the seas would stimulate and facilitate mutual commercial intercourse, and would, by promoting the development of the resources and industries of the several parts, strengthen the Empire.
274 psl. - Is the Queen of England to be the sovereign of an empire, growing, expanding, strengthening itself from age to age, striking its roots deep into fresh earth and drawing new supplies of vitality from virgin soils? Or is she to be for all essential purposes of might and power, monarch of Great Britain and Ireland merely her place and that of her line in the world's history determined by the productiveness of 12,000 square miles of a coal formation, which is being rapidly exhausted, and...
274 psl. - You must renounce the habit of telling the colonies that the colonial is a provisional existence. You must allow them to believe that, without severing the bonds which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain the degree of perfection, and of social and political development, to which organized communities of free men have a right to aspire.
37 psl. - The tariff of the United Kingdom presents neither congruity nor unity of purpose : no general principles seem to have been applied. The tariff...
39 psl. - But, depend upon it, your example will ultimately prevail. When your example could be quoted in favour of restriction, it was quoted largely; when your example can be quoted in favour of relaxation, as conducive to your interests, it may perhaps excite at first, in Foreign Governments, or foreign Boards of Trade, but little interest or feeling; but the sense of the people - of the great body of consumers - will prevail; and, in spite of the desire of governments and Boards of Trade to raise revenue...
147 psl. - In manufactures, a very small advantage will enable foreigners to undersell our own workmen, even in the home market. It will require a very great one to enable them to do so in the rude produce of the soil. If the free importation of foreign manufactures were permitted, several of the home manufactures would probably suffer, and some of them, perhaps, go to ruin altogether, and a considerable part of the stock and industry at present employed in them would be forced to find out some other employment....
55 psl. - That with a view, however, to promoting the increase of trade within the Empire, it is desirable that those Colonies which have not already adopted such a policy should, as far as their circumstances permit, give substantial preferential treatment to the products and manufactures of the United Kingdom.
344 psl. - for having established, after most laborious research, the true relation between heat, electricity, and mechanical work, thus affording to the engineer a sure guide in the application of science to industrial pursuits.
59 psl. - ... duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable...
39 psl. - Take the great change in the corn laws ; it may even possibly be doubted whether up to this time you have given them cheaper bread at best it is but a trifle cheaper than before...