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At all events, there are remissions that will be welcomed

Irby every class ha the nation. There is a little for everybody. The Budget is a Free Trade Budget after the heart of the old-fashioned - Radical. It comes as near as possible to providing his ideal of a " free breakfast table." Altogether the reduction of taxation amounts to £34,000,000. Mr. Snowden is plainly an optimist —and we fear he may be too much of an optimist—with regard to the revenue, but no doubt he has reacted from the under-estimation of revenue which has been prevalent in the recent Budgets. As we have criticized the Budget at length elsewhere we will content ourselves here with a summary of the main proposals.

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