... committee to consider the duties on wood, with the view of remitting the duty on all wood used in shipbuilding. The question, he observed, was simplv one for shipowners and shipwrights, not for wood merchants, for a remission of these duties woi . xclusively benefit ...

... bad leave to sit again. The Exchequer Bills (4*9.200,000) Bill went through committee. The Brick Duties Bill, as amended, was considered. The Stamp Duties Bill was read a second time, pro forma, in order that certain alterations might be printed Tie Titles ...

... Debt! The repeal of the buck ■ duty will entail a loss of £450,000. alteration the stamp duties. Sir C. Wood tells us, will entail lur- ther loss of £300,000. But what if it should turn « that the alteration of the stamp duties resulted in- ...

... the bringing up the report the Stamp Duties i»i . The Chancellor of the Kxcuequee, in reply to » !r ' loughby, said was unable to lay on the table any statement lowing the loss or gain from the alteration of the duties beyond the t-u--mate he had already ...

... the royal borough Sir,-—I beg to thank you for the circular, meioorial, petition, Ve., respecting the abolition Sunday lab mr lire post-office. duty did nnt diclaie a strict acquiescence and obedience ! ...

... catalogues N.B, Families in remote part* of the country can have a specimen sent. po*t free, with catalogue, for 30 stamps; or, Three Opera* for stamps, by addressing as above, or to the Editor of the Pianist*. 67, Paternoster-row, London. BLAIR’S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC ...

... refused ad mission into Parliament positively for the last time.” The duty on bricks has been swept away, just as bricks are most needed for sanitary purposes; and the stamp duties have been so reduced and adjusted as to press with something like equality ...

... the annual product of the Stamp Duties shows a decline of £lB2,l33—nearly the whole of which, however, has arisen within the quarter just ended, and is obviously attributable to the temporary diminution in the demand for stamps, resulting from the recent ...

... is appointed Consul at Algiers, on salary of £BOO, by which saving to the public will accrue of year, consequent on the abolition of the office of Agent and Consul-General, lately held by Mr. St. John, but which is not to be filled up. The canonry in ...

... the difficulties in relation to the British Government levying duties at San Juan, or Greytown, Nicaragua, advices have been received at Washington, statinc that all such collections of duties on imports are for the future to be suspended, that, in all ...

... to. , The House resumed, and immediately went into committee Timber and Coffee Duties Act. .. , Mr. Baring argued against the proposed abolition of the dinerential duties on coffee, as did Mr. Prinsep, who complained of the injury which the would inflict ...

... receipts from all the indirect taxes have enabled us, since July, 1849, to repeal the brick duties, greatly to reduce the stamp duties, the sugar and timber duties, not only without loss but with an actual gain of £850,000 to the revenue. The Morning Chronicle ...