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abolished Abyssinian war Adam Smith additional amount annual annuity army and navy artizans assessment budget burden capital carried cause Chancellor charge commercial commodities considerable contributors corn-laws cost Crimean Crimean war debt deduction direct taxation Disraeli distress England Exchequer exemption expediency and mercy expense favour foreign fortune France free-trade French G. C. Lewis give Gladstone Government half imposed income income-tax increase incurred interest Irish famine justice labour laissez-faire Lancashire land landlord less levied Lord Lord John Russell luxury manufacturers match-tax ment millions minister national revenue nearly owner paid Pall Mall Gazette Parliament payment peace Peel's permanent persons Pitt political poor possessor present principle proportion proposed protection question raised reduced repeal requires rich share Sir George Lewis Sir Robert Peel smuggling spend spirits sugar superfluities surplus tion tobacco trade wages wealth Whigs