[52] At the Colonial Office, February 15, 1898 (O’Brien’s Life of Parnell, chap. xix. vol. ii.).
| Lord Randolph Churchill | 2,576 |
| Rev. J. Page Hopps | 769 |
[55] Wrongly stated in the Annual Register of 1886 as the Board of Trade.
[56] An expression quoted from Mr. Gladstone.
[57] ‘Lord Randolph as an Official,’ Nineteenth Century, October 1896, by the Right Hon. Sir Algernon West, K.C.B.
| Scale of 1886, still in force:— | |||||
| s. | d. | ||||
| Where the packet, box, bottle,pot, &c., did not exceed the price or value of 1s., the duty was | 0 | 1½ | |||
| Exceeded 1s., but did not exceed 2s. 6d. | 0 | 3 | |||
| " | 2s. 6d. | " | 4s. | 0 | 6 |
| " | 4s. | " | 10s. | 1 | 0 |
| " | 10s. | " | 20s. | 2 | 0 |
| " | 20s. | " | 30s. | 3 | 0 |
| " | 30s. | " | 50s. | 10 | 0 |
| " | 50s. | 20 | 0 | ||
| Lord Randolph Churchill’s proposed scale:— | |||||
| s. | d. | ||||
| Not exceeding 2d. in value | 0 | 0½ | |||
| " | " | 6d. | " | 0 | 1½ |
| " | " | 1s. | " | 0 | 3 |
| " | " | 2s. | " | 0 | 6 |
| " | " | 4s. | " | 1 | 0 |
| " | " | 8s. | " | 2 | 0 |
| " | " | 12s. | " | 3 | 0 |
| " | " | 20s. | " | 5 | 0 |
| " | " | 40s. | " | 10 | 0 |
| Exceeding | 40s. | " | 20 | 0 | |