AN IMPORTANT DUTY.

In the debate on the Customs’ Act, Mr. Bentinck, when the Chairman reached the article of “apples,” is reported to have declared, with a considerable deal of misplaced passion, that-

“The duty of apples was one of considerable importance.”

However, to Members who partake of Mr. Bentinck’s crabbed factiousness, we should have thought that the duty of throwing apples of discord, whenever their party fancied they could gain anything by the move, was a much more important one. To Mr. Disraeli, for instance, we should think that such a duty would be as dear as the apple of his eye.

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