The dog nuisance has at length engaged the attention of Parliament, and the Chancel lor of the Exchequer admitted its importance and suggested a remedy. The dog tax, ac cording to him, is the most troublesome of nil the taxes, from the difficulty in tracing the true owner, and the necessity for some exemption whero the tax is so high. The plan helms thrown out for consideration is, to substitute a licence for a tax, ami to reduce the sum to be paid from 12s to a uniform duty of 5s without any exemptions, which are always, in fact, evasions. The dog thus licensed would, we presume, bo required to carry about his neck an impressed collar, and any dog not so marked would be liable to summary destruction by the police, or by any other person. Some of the speakers stated that the annual loss of sheep in many parts of England by means of straying dogs amounts to ten per cent. We may, there fore, hope soon to see this nuisance abated.— Law Times.
