... Committee on the Stamp Duties Commo ?? __e_ 1. ?? I_ tit Bill. The measure itself seemed to meet with much dis- favour in many quarters; but it -was submitted to and carried. until the clause regulating the ad valarem scale of duties wasproposed. The ...

... being now unavoidably carried post free; seeing, in short, that in many cases the stamp is paid whore no postal advantages are received, and in other eases thie stamp is not paid where postal advantages are obtained, your coimmittee are of opinion that ...

... has been directed against the n present system. They must also know that the stamp duty is n the postage of thenewspaper, prepaid in that form, and ena- bling the stamped sheet to pass free by post any number of ), times, and s'o to travel to the farthest ...

... themselves. .When they sec ,ask for the abolition of the penny stamp. in the name i of the public, I ask what will the public get by it ? evi It would he Pure fudge at this time to endeavour to Ou1 separate thle penny stamp from the privilege of postage. ex( ...

... NEWSPAPER STAMP RETURNS FOR GLASGOW. I A return, procured on the motion of 3Mr. Craufurd, the member for the Ayr Burghs, has just been printed, showing the number of stamps issued to each newspaper in each quarter since the abolition of the compulsory ...

... barrier in the way of difftsion. But, argues thb Re- port, the abolition of the stamp would allow eheap papers for the labouring classes. No papers could be made cheaper by the abolition, save that portion purchased on the spot of publication, and (by ...

... brick duty. there- fore, has made the difference of £263,000 in the revenue of the quarter; so that, but for the abolition of the duty, the Excise should exhibit an increase of about £80,000- The increase has been chiefly on malt. On the stamps of the ...

... the demand in India for the supply of the army. a ?? . EXCISE DUTIES. * The remaining excise duties noticed in the report are the duty on hops, w ch has slightly increased, and the paper duty, which also shows an increase in the quantity charged. ?? remarks ...

... relignious bodies; by bir -. F. Davie, from Dunbar, for the abolition of religions tests in uliversiltes; by Mr Cowan, from the Edinburgh and Glrsgow RailWay Comlpany, pray'ing that the Stamp Duties Bill ro ar not pass into a law; also tronm the corn- mrcsioners ...

... in the same way the addition to the revenue derived from Stamps only proves that we have laid on additional taxation. The increase principally arises from the Succession Duty, and from the stamps on bankers' checks, and on proceedings in the Probate amd ...

... penny stamps on cheques, and said it was a most odious form of a new tax. After some observations from Sir H. Wir.aouHvBY, Mr. SLANEY, and several other Members, the bill was read a second time. Oil the motion for the second reading of the Stamp Duty on ...

... that in the very moderate duties still levied on it there is a decrease of £095,000. The dimi- , nished duty on tea is answerable for £100,000, while there is a fall of £10,000 in the duty on tobacco, and o £55,000 in the duty on wine. These losses mre ...