... 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 ...

... to this great national establishment, it weuMK credited with the sum now paid as stamp dntyWi newspapers. At present that duty is levied undet badge of a permissive stamp, while the post-^1 department of the state presents the anomaly of carrfjl millions ...

... required to nay the enormous amounts levied by the government in the shape of the pennv stamp, the paper duties, and the advertisement duty. The advertisement duty is, no doubt, a great impediment to the establishing of newspapers, reqmragricultural school ...

... best use of it. Now, propose that stamps upon sales and transfers should be abolished, or made of a nominal amount, and if there be a deficiency in the revenue, there woald be from that, I should propose that the stamps on settlements should be levied, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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

... eleven months) of the present duty, is really verysmall; a-*, indeed, we expected it would be: the very large quantity of corn imported nearly compensating the Exchequer for the reduced duty, compared with 1848. The nominar duty actually yielded in upwards ...

... coin..y ?Ty, mittee were he' d- for the purpose of considering the best minsan of H tint effecting the abolition of the advertisement end- paper duties. After u ed en iterview with the Chapoeller of the Richequer on the subject, the 4 retcommittee, upon ...