... STAMP DUTY ON NEWSPAPERS. A meeting of newevenders, convened by circular and advertisements, was held last evening at St. Martin's- ball, Long-acre. The meeting was convened for 7 o'clock, but it was an hour later before the chairman, Mr. WILD, accompanied ...

... column in length pays no more duty than thatof he A. the poor girl who wants a place ais howus~maid or cook. Re- wi a- peal the stamp duty and you free the newispaper from a Th lgreat burthen : the reduction of the stamp fromi fourpencei to m Isone penaty ...

... their goods. The advertisement and newspaper stamp duties he regarded as equally objectionable, and the time had come for thoir repeal.. Mr. Alderman BALDWIN also spoke strongly in favour of ?? of these duties; if they were remove he believed that they ...

... your ob- 4 ecbeteremoval, as 'Speedily RS possible, of all taxes o Iupoa knoledge, but ?? S the game right of prlnting both stamped copies '(for post) land ueapeI coies (for local crcualation). of your journals as Is new 'enjoyed -b y fifty GnS London, ...

... assailed-tha advertisement duty, the stamp duty, and the paper duty-the latter alone remained, and the association would not have discharged its duty to the public till the paper duty was re- pealed. The ...

... repeal of the 0 paper duty because it was one of those duties the repeal of i which was calculated to put a considerable sum of money tl into his pocket, and because he had sometimes doubted a whether there were not other duties which were perhaps a more ...

... repeal of the stamp duty, I wish to give in my adhesion in( to the movement which you are promoting, so far as the abolition of that duty is concerned. The paper duty, as a financial measure, stands on a different footing. But me the ...

... loss. This would be the ease even if there were no stamp; but the effect of the stamp is to bring about the balancing point much sooner than it would occur if E the sheet were duty free;, sa that tho stamp practically e cOnULU ts the circulationi, and limits ...

... number ot persons would in ure it the duty was reduced to Is. The present system preseed particularly on the poor man, who could not insurut 1002. for loss than 7s. 6d., the premium being 3d,, the duty 3s, and the stamp and policy le. 6d. Mr. DAY observed ...

... amount t of paper paying duty was 70,689,00Dlb,, and in 1846, after the t I duty had been reduced, the quantity upon which duty was 1 l paid was 127 millions, so that the consumption had increased I upwards of 80 per cent. If the duty were totally repealed ...

... was 198. At the instance of the New~s-2 paper Stamp Abolition Committee 183 petitions were pre-t sented against the three taxes on knowledge-viz., the paper duty, the advertisement duty, and the stamp duty. ...

... reps al of the duty w ould not reduce the price, and quoted lhe instance of the leather duty the repea t of which had not decreased the prie of shoes, which had rather gone en increasing sinw e the repeal of the tax. But theo leather duty ewas an exeeptional ...