Wine, the vine and the cellar / [Thomas George Shaw].

  • Shaw, Thomas George.
Date:
1863
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wine, the vine and the cellar / [Thomas George Shaw]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    65/532 (page 45)
    a ver}^ liberal, trustful way in regard to the Treasury Minute. On the 1st of January, 1861, this uniform rate of 3/ per gallon ceased, and the duties, taking the degrees of strength, according to Sykes’s hydrometer, were as follows : — Under 18° . 35 39 39 26° . 40° . 45° . On all in bottle 1/ 1/9 2/5 2/11 2/5 per gallon. 39 39 99 39 Although rejoiced to see 1/ per gallon reahsed, my disappointment was great to find it accompanied by not only one, but three other rates; besides the unjust charge laid on even the weakest, if imported in glass instead of wood. During the first six months the ‘ tests ’ of strength by the Customs were 72,031; while it is impossible to say how many were tried by dealers and those they employed. The Chancellor of the. Exchequer got httle rest from complaints and representations, public and private, addressed to him on this head ; yet often have I been astonished by the way in which, in the midst of apparently overwhelming questions, he has immediately rephed to long letters full of details, as if he had nothing to think of but the wine duties and the alcohohc test. It would be very ungracious to express aught but gratitude to him for having efiected even a partial reduction, for he had much opposition to encounter;