... STAMP DUTIES BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that, in t 4 present state of business, he felt it necessary to propos. in order to facilitate the passing of the Stamp Duties which it was requisite to do immediately, that of it should be omitted ...

... CONTEMPLATED ABOLITION OF THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. On Thursday evening, Mr. MILNER GIBSON brought forward his three resolutions for the abolition of the excise duty on paper, for the removal of the stamp duty on ...

... any alteration is to be made in reference to newspapers, that the advertisement duty should be taken off entirely, and the stamp duty left alone. Take off the supplement stamp, and you confer a boon to a very partial extent. The public will gain by the reduction ...

... committee on Soap Duties Bill, Mr J. WILSON stated that it was proposed to postpone the reduction of the duty on foreign Soap imported until the sth of July 1854, and to provide that the privilege of Importing soap froze Ireland duty free shall take effect ...

... obnoxious duty cannot be too soon taken away. We observe, accordingly, without any satisfaction, a paragraph on the parr and advertisement duties in the Sun newspaper. Most assuredly it is not our interest to say nay to the abolition of the paper duty and the ...

... the indulgence they now enjoyed by practice—namely to stamp or not stamp parts of their publications, and to extend the same rule to all the rest of the newspaper press, which would be allowed to stamp that portion of their Issue which they wished to send ...

... NEWSPAPERS. The meeting held in the metropolis, on Wednesday, for promoting the abolition of the taxes on newspapers, the excise duty on paper, and the advertisement duty, was more than usually attended, the public having seized the first moment to assemble ...

... manufacturers in proportion to quantity made. Total abolition of soap-tax. Universal Id. receipt stamp. Apprentices' indentures to be reduced from 20s. to 2s. 6d. Attorn i es' certi &Iles reduced one-third, and stamp from £l2O to .£BO. [Mr. Gladstone, however ...

... time. Lord BROUGHAM presented some petitions on the subject of the Excise duty upon paper, and addressed some observations to the House in favour of the abolition of the stamp duty on newspoprs. Several bills of minor importance passed through committee ...

... collection of the paper duty, are quite as numerous as those which for many years it was engaged in exposing, as connected with the advertisement duty and the newspaper stamp. Nothing will tend so much to the abolition of the paper duty, as ...

... advertising-sheets. The amount accruing to the revenue from this stamp duty—only £400,000 —would be of no importance whatever when weighed against the great and general advantages of abolition. If any government desires popularity, let it take the matter ...

... collection of the paper duty, are quite as numerous as those which for many years it was engaged in exposing, as connected with the advertisement duty and the newspaper stamp. Nothing will tend so much to the abolition of the paper duty, as ...