... sugar duties. Farmers will be aisappointed that Mr. Lowe does so little for them, but next year they may hope for something more tangible. The reduction of postage on newspapers and printed matter will aleo be a boon to the ufii':; but the abolition of ianoed ...

... a clerk in the employ of the prosecutors, said that the defendant until recently was in the same employ. It was part of his duty to correspond with foreign customers. The ordinary course was for foreign customers with whom they did business to send letters ...

... laughed at may come out well in time. It struck him that in country districts there were many duties which could be performed by the polio. in addition to the duties which they now performed. Now, in the district in which he lived— and which was simply a rural ...

... the of the duty upon malt. He stated that the object was to induce the House to apply the part of surplus a t the disposal of the Chancellor of the Ex- whiofc been appropriated to the reduction of the duties sugar, to decrease of the duty on malt seconded ...

... conduce to a crowded assembly commensurata with the importance of the subjee. The great anniversary gathering to celebrate the abolition of slavery throughout the British dominions half a century ago, was, therefore, held at the Guildhall, which is much larger ...

... Unionist leaders has been denounced as treasonable to the Liberal party, and no effort has been spared to brand them with the stamp of political infamy. In reply to all this, Sir Henry James quotes a forgotten axiom of Mr Gladstone, delivered only a few months ...

... lately ha Messrs. Duynan's employ, and Thomas Simpson, aged 17, one of his associates. Thompson (motioned to attend to his duties without exciting suspicion until Saturday Lat. He has since been absent from home, and he and the other have been traced to ...

... the land question. regard to the stamp duty on life insurance policies I of serail amount, it announced that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has intimated that he has directed that in the act consolidating the stamp duties, which le In coarse of preparation ...

... have enabled each one of those volunteers to spend his day at the Crystal Palace. People have sneered enough at the idea of duty having anything to do with the matter; but if any one will take the trouble to go through the day's work he will scarcely carry ...

... is taxed less than England and Scotland. It pays neither land tax nor house tax, establishment licenses, railway duty, patent medicines duty, nor licenses to sell patent medicines. It pays a reduced dog tax. The relative taxation per head in Great Britain ...

... advocates of Disestablishinent and Disendowasent was religions equality. He believed that in Wales the great idea was the abolition of the tithes. But we could no more get religious equality than social equality; what we could get, howevi-r, was equality ...

... amply justified in calling it a serious case when a man was brought before him who had been detected using the Customs Office stamp on board ship, and marking articles just as it they had been passed by the regular officers. The man had been an officer, and ...