... and they were now in a position they were all aware of. The committee, under these alarming circumstances, thought it their duty to call the society together, that the members might take into their serious consideration what steps they might deem it advisable ...

... continually advertising their universal specifics for the abolition of all political dimmers. Disraeli, the Jew-Gentile romance writer, and House of Commons enlivener, is a practitioner of this latter stamp. During recess he was engaged in hawking his patent ...

... , after which the motion was agreed to. Mr Alderman SIDNEY moved for leave to bring in a bill to abolish the fines and stamp duties paid on the admission of freemen into corporations in England and Wales. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the motion; which ...

... in the stamp duties upon transfers of property to the value of £lOOO, and that above that amount they should be equalised. Ile proposed a similar course with regard to mortgages, bonds, and all sums under £lOOO, and also to reduce the stamp duty on leases ...

... no doubt that the present system of stamp duties operates in a manner shamefully unjust: thus the sale of a piece of land, worth £5O, requires a stamp costing 12i per cent. of the purchase money, while the stamp duties on the sale of a piece ...

... 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 ...

... be able to carry any question in the Chamber of Deputies; they were beaten, the other day, on the question of affixing a stamp duty to the transfer of rentes, or consols, as we should call them, from one possessor to another. An English Chancellor of the ...

... that was the stamp duties. There were obstructions in business relative to stamps and, therefore, his right hon. friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, would take the earliest opportunity he could in bringing on that subject. STAMP DUTIES ...

... Parliament to repeal the excise duty on paper; secondly, that it is expedient to abolish all the stamp duties now payable on newspapers in Great Britain and Ireland; thirdly, that it is expedient to abolish the duties on advertisements now payable in ...

... of Inverness, ho procured the signature of the said John Grant upon stamp-paper for a or note, and did forge and adhibit, or cause or procure to be forged and adhibited, to said stamp-paper, the signature 'James Grant,' intending the same to pass for and ...

... that it might be drawn into a precedent for the establishment of a Convocation In England. Mr Ewart has proposed the abolition of the duty ou advertisements published in newspapers; a tax which is very inconvenient, and very unfruitful in proportion to its ...

... intended to take with regard to the bills before the house. The Stamp Duties Bill would be proceeded with, but the session being so far advanced, he should not proceed with the Abolition of the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland Bill. He would proceed with the ...