... for some time been very eccentric in his manner. Lip-service of Ljkeral M.P.'s. In a report just issued the Newspapo* Stamp Duty Abolition Committee allude when there is no chance of success. The accession of Mr. D'lsraeli and about forty Conservatives ...

... ABOLITION OF THE PAPER DUTY. On Tuesday, at noon, meeting the Yorkshire paper manufacturers, convened circular, was held at the White , Horse Hotel, Boar liane, Leeds, for the purpose of taking steps with a view to obtain the abolition of the duty on ...

... ABOLITION OF THE NEWSPAPER STAMP. t THE CHfANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER was last night to propose resolutions in the House of (Coumnons a s preparatory to an abolition of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers. We say the ...

... OBJECTIONS TO THE ABOLITION OF THE e NEWSPAPER STAMP ANSWERED. It andun andof IT would be a newv thing in the world, if the off sands interests fostered under a vicious system did not rise no ,'inactle utp to oppose its abolition. The Newspaper Stamp has Cli ...

... , reduction of the stamp duty in 1836, they do not j apprehend any injurious consequences from a total abolition, though they admit the prevalence a, contrary opinion. We confess we cannot understand why the repeal penny stamp duty should ...

... the stamp duty fifteen years since from 4d. to- and Id. The only plausible arguments in defence of the I men remaining newspaper stamp are, 1st, a financial neces- i and . sity requiring it, and 2nd, the partial compensation: upol made for the duty by ...

... T e IREDUCTION OF THE ADVERTISEMENT nI DUTY AND SUPPLEMENT STAMP. l WE have the satisfaction to state that the I CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, in his amended resolutions, proposes entirely to remove the stamp duty Le ion Newspaper Supplements (ap to half ...

... the end. Mr. LOCKE KING accordingly postponed the bill until Tuesday. The Consolidated Fund (£11,000,000) Bill, and the Stamp Duty on Passports Bill, were fead a second time. COMMON LAW PROCEDURE ACT AMENDMENT. Mr. ATHERTON moved for leave to bring in ...

... THB NEWSPAPER STAMP, Among the financial schemes which it appears Mr. Gladstone has in his repertory for the session of 1855, is the Repeal of the Stamp Duty on News- papers. In this case agitation has done its work, and the Coalition Government once ...

... although Mr. | pledged himself to introduce a measure for the a D y .of the newspaper stamp, we can hardly congratuia jl ! nation at large upon the substitute for that stamp- true that this is at all events a step in the right dir fl f I and we may anticipate ...

... has imposed a uniform penny stamp on receipts, which, by the smallness of its cost, offers little inducement to evasion; and under cover of this seeming liberality he has again subjected to the requirements of the stamp duty all receipts for sums between ...

... THE PAPER DUTY. There are, perhaps, few taxes which could he selected out of the long list of those which contribute to the British Exchequer, more impolitic, injurious, and inquisitorial, than the duty on paper. It is one of those duties which, by the ...