... he can by spreading- it, as it must be admitted, rather tlar. The boon he offers is an alteration in the Stamp duties and tho abolition of the duty on bricks. Tho En- glish nation asks its ministers FOR bread, and they give it LR'cks! Yet the Whig journalists ...

... showed what had been the result when the paper duty was last reduced. Previous to 1836 the duty on nrst-class paper was 3d. per lb., and on second-class paper lid. per lb.; and in 1836 it WAS equalised, the duty being fixrd at ljd. per lb. In 1836 the consumption ...

... could not accept the boons offered by the Government in the abolition of the brick duties and the reduction on stamps, as a fair recompense for the great agricul- tural wrong. The stamp duties on marine insurance ought to have been included. ...

... an Exchequer rich enough to afford a remission of taxation, the window duties possessed claims at least equal to those ofbi-icks or stamps. Beyond the inevitable weight of this duty, the scale according to which it was levied rendered it peculiarly and ...

... principle, he stated, was to avoid sending up im- portant and opposed bills to revenue bills, he designed to pro. ceed with the Stamp Duties Bill, The Ecclesiastical Com- missioners Bill, which the Lords had already considered the Mercantile Marine Bill the P ...

... King's-road, in that parish. Mr. MACGREGOR moved that in consideration of the recent changes in the navigation laws, the stamp duties on marine assurances, bills of lading, and other shipping documents should be abolished. Lord J. MANNERS seconded the motion ...

... has been held in Southwark, for the purpose of endeavouring to obtain a repeal of the Water- men's Company's Act. The stamp duty on fire insurance, in the vear ended March last, was no less than £ 1,356,069. The Lord Chancellor has just been pleased ...

... your master class (hear, hear). I laboured with earnest men to strike the stamp from newspapers, and to establish a free press, and I am told that since the abolition of that stamp 300 cheap newspapers have sprung into life, con- veying information on every ...

... subscribed £ 20,000 to send men to parliament of his own stamp. (Applause.) The Chairman has alluded to church rates. He regret- ted that misguided friends of the church refused to support the abolition of church rates. They would not allow the principle that ...