... departed, but here is a clergyman proposes that we should put our very postage stamps in mourning. He suggests the of a black embossed penny envelope stamp, exactly similar to the stamped envelope now in use, with the substitution of a black pigment for the pink ...

... the duty of the State to bear the whole of the expenses of education, which it made compulsory for its own benefit, denied that it was the duty of the State to educate the people. To say the State had already acknowledged its duty was wrong. duty was ...

... of revision one jot. Nothing less than the total abolition will gain over a single democratic vote. M. ile Cronsseilhes, the Minister of Public Instruction, has rctnrneil to Paris, and resumed the duties of his department. The Marseilles journals announce ...

... printers and booksellers the borough Brecknock, praying that the excise tax upon paper, the tix upon advertisements, and the stamp-duty on newspapers, may be abolished, leaving the proper authorities to small chaige for the transmission of newspapers post ...

... ia favour of reimpoaition of duty on corn; bnt there great deal ia our fiscal policy which requires investigation. I sac large quantities of luxuries introduced into this country free of duty, and that the money which duties those luxuries might furnish ...

... year at the theatres has not brought the public that necessary instalment of reform which has long been demanded by the abolition of the harpy system. We are, indeed, a longsuffering public. At all the London theatres, save the houses at the East-end ...

... Morley had recently said iu the Hone of Commons that the temperances question was, perhaps, the most important since the abolition of slavery. (Applause). Ho cougratulated the alecton of lbol,olllllre that the Hon. Arthur Walsh wee on the side of the majority ...

... referred to in the Merthyr resolution. If the authorities of other districts will only put the law in motion and do their duty, nothing can prevent the Aet from being a success and a blessing to Wales. A dreadful Lolls-balloo le being made by a few ...

... was that that its last meeting. It would be his duty on Monday * lav the table papers containing account of the pro-10 the Conference, including, he hoped, those of fetnrday • and it would also his duty, and that of Earl ..oil m the other House, to moke ...

... of Chins and in the schools of Japer ai.l Slaw. already employed in the telegraph', services of Japan, China, and Kw: I. stamped upon the silver coins th is from the mints of Osaka and already used by Chinamen themselves a means (If communication between ...

... persons disregarding the notification. More persons than Mr. William Sikes will be interested to learn that since the abolition of the duty on silver a demand for articles in the solid metal has sprung up, and is being ministered to by the Sheffield manufacturers ...

... —urges the abolition or reduction of duties on necessaries, raw materials especially, and argues that this is possible without injuring any interest, as what the labourer now gains in wages, and what the farming classes gain from protective duties, they lose ...