£ Ten per cent. on all Teas over 2s. 6d. per lb., which would probably produce 30,000 Doubling the tax on Paper except Paper-hangings and glazed Paper ” 130,000 Drawback on the export of Calicoes to be taken off, and extra duty of one penny imposed ” 155,000 Increase of one-third on the tax on Timber, Staves, and Deals ” 95,000 Sixpence per lb. export duty, and threepence per lb. on home consumption to be levied on Pepper ” 119,000 Twenty pence per cwt. extra on Sugar ” 166,000 A duty on Raisins ” 10,000 do. on Lead ” 120,000 Ten shillings per pleasure Horse if only one were kept, and an additional ten for each horse so kept ” 170,000 Horses used in agriculture 4s. each ” 136,000 Increase of stamp duty on Bills and Notes ” 112,000 Double stamp on Marine Insurance Policies ” 145,000 An additional duty on deeds of Conveyance ” 93,000 Modified Postal arrangements ” 80,000 The Penny Post to be Twopence ” 17,000 Other modifications of the Post-office ” 53,000 There had been political dissatisfactions for some time past, which was dignified with the name of sedition, but the malcontents were lightly dealt with. On the 2nd of March those who had been confined in the Tower and Tothill Fields were liberated on their own recognizances except four—Colonel Despard, Le Maitre, Galloway, and Hodgson, who, being refused an unconditional discharge, preferred to pose as martyrs, and were committed to Tothill Fields. Of Colonel Despard we shall have more to say further on. Vinegar Hill had not been forgotten in Ireland, and sedition, although smothered, was still alight, so that an Act had to be introduced, prolonging the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in that kingdom.