...very distinct terms that the tax was on general principles liable to objection as impeding the import of an article of first necessity, and as tending to operate as a protective duty, and I can only say that if an adversary's despatches are to be dealt with in this way , he can be made...

...Salisbury spoke of it as a "Protective Duty in favour of a native manufacture," aud he went on — " It is thus inconsistent with the policy which Parliament,...is not open to Her Majesty's Government to allow to bo set aside without special cause in any part of the Empire under their direct control. The speedy...