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 loss of £300,000; but as he proposed, at the same time, to increase the auctioneer's license, uniformly from £5 to £15 (making one license answer for all purposes, whereas, at that time, several licenses were often necessary to the same party), he expected from four thousand auctioneers an increased income, to reduce this loss to £250,000.

On the important article of glass he gave up £612,000. These constituted the whole of his proposals; and the surplus of £2,409,000 was thus proposed to be disposed of;

The inconsistencies of the budget were thus described by the Leeds Mercury:—