... should propose that the stamps on settlements should bo levied, not at a fixed sum, but ad valorem, rising with the amount of the property, thus making up for the deficiency caused by the abolition or the reduction of that other stamp, and acting as a di ...

... interest in the intended proceedings. Shortly after eight o’clock, the clapping of bands of some loungers on the lobby, and the stamping of feet amongst the few inside, gave evidence of the arrival some the principals in the expected proceedings the evening ...

... at the present day But when the effects of the Duty on Paper, the Stamp Duty on Newspapers, and the Advertisement Duty are fairly considered, they can be deemed nothing else. In the first place, the duty ...

... the reduction of the sugar duties, and abolition of corn duties, there is increase the quarter of £38,235. In the excise, which is test of the comforts enjoyed by the great mass of the community, the increase so large Stamps, Crown Lands, and miscellaneous ...

... advertisements to the advertisement duty, complains of that impost as monstrous hardship;”whereupon the Tunes glorifies itself not a little on the extent to which it transacts business with the Commissioners of Stamps in the obnoxious article. The Morning ...

... self-interested majority ? Now, let any one count over the list of duties in the tariff, and to his astonishment he will find no less than seventy-six trades and interests protected by import duties, varying from 10 to 40 per cent. Do we wish to reduce those ...

... clergyman of the Church o in charge of emigrants, his duties will continue ust raion landing of the passengers, who will thepoeforth under the care of the C haplain for siness of The be aotice other it that, * duty of th for will be, on the arriv of a vessel | ...

... from this state of things—the proprietors of the land in Ireland being few, they neglect, and very grossly neglect, all the duties their office, and of their position as proprietors; they have pioved themselves to be a most improvident and reckless class ...

... goal:mins nt to confer in the reduction taxation. Some would call for the abolition of the window-tax ; others of tie soup dory, others ot the advertisement, stamp, aod p..per duties, and ushers would call tor a repeal of the tea elute, bust he, :as a farmer ...

... of the country); restrictions on the devise of land to lives not in being; registry: reduction of stamp duties on conveyances; tenant right; abolition nf the Irish Established Church extension of the suffrage, and increase in the number of the Irish ...

... letter-carriers. On and after the same date, no inland letters will be received on the Sunday ex cept such as are prepaid by stamps or unpaid, for the deposit of which the letter-box will be open as usual throughout the day. Until the closing of the office ...

... for the venerable interests p with which these tribunals are popularly associated, and our sense of the severe loss their abolition t would entail upon the numerous persons to whom v they give employment in the shape of official fune- tions or of professional ...