... The Town Council of Edinburgh have petitioned Parliament for the abolition of vamp receipts on all sums under one hunched pounds, and, this, the adoption of a system of penny receipt stamps for all sums above five pounds and under one humdreil pounds The ...

... them the firmest sulifectire hold on the memory. The object of the advertiser in the performance of an arduous and responsible duty, will ever be to develope, to the full extent of his ability, the moral and intellectual faculties of each individual Pupil ...

... therefore, that thorw should be a considerable reduction of the stmip duties upon the transfer of landed property anid upon mortgages under £1,000 afnd that within the same limit the !stamp duty upon leases shoald beain unilorm hall per elit. His next proposal ...

... the Arctic expedition. He c8 gives towards the redaction of the debt L £750,000.; and for the abolition of the duty on bricks, and redaction of duty on stamps for ot the transfer of property £750,000. of The scheme of the right hon. baronet also embraces ...

... principle of an ad oil valorem duty; and, in order to do this, he proposed that the gradations of property which governed the thl increase of duty should be small, At present, above of a certain amount of property the stamp'duty did not slc increase at all ...

... . he He might as well propose removing Snowdon ?? by carrying away a wheelbarrow full of rubbish n, annually. The abolition of stamps upon bonds *w and mnortgages under £1000, will relieve those es who borrow money on small houses, but for a, any national ...

... phi- lanthropy. But they did not do this. They l have encouraged slave productions more than I ,they ever did before the abolition of slavery.- Cotton, tobacco, sugar and coffee, are culti- vated in America, the Brazils and in Cuba and l other places by'slave ...

... can at length thankfully omit bricks ; but it still eludes windows, timber, and soap ; paper, new stamps, advertisement duty, and duty on foreign Duties upon the raw materials of manufacture, especially when (like ships) the finished article may be imported ...

... notice for the 6th of May of a bill to abolish the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Stamp Dritiee.—On the motion for the bouts going into committee on the Stamp Duties Dill, The CHANCELUIR OP THE EXCHEQVER entered into a preliminary explanation touching ...

... reduced the duties upon advertise. ments and'stamps, at a sacrifice of £750,001) annually. its. Likb thoise former colleagues lie entertained no fear It- . f the political consequences that might follow the the abolition of newspaper stamps, but considering ...

... The Chairman then reported progress/, with leave to proceed on Thursday, Lord J. RCSIELL postponing the committee on the Stamp Duties Bill, which definitively Axed for Friday next. Ilil a.—Tbe Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill was committed re follies ...

... Exchequer -0 aunio'nsed the coursel he intended to pursue with not regard to the Stamp Duties Bill, in consequence of Gri the decision of the House boy Which the proposed olfie duty on mortgages was reduce I to is. for suulis be- in ti low £60. If, he said ...