... small licence duties col- lected from the stiil makers, sellers of playing cards, soap manufacturers, paper-makers, and watch-case makers; in all producing about zC6,000 a year. He further proposed to revise the st,mps and equalise the duties between foreign ...

... acts of plain duty but questionable expediency, such as the liberation of the slaves in her West Indian pos- sessions; when she succours the oppressed without gain to herself, as in the recent expedition to Abyssinia. One such act stamps her Christian ...

... issuing them without necessity, they would be made liable to a stamp duty of 2s. 6d. These last two proposals were received with general expressions of ap- proval, while the suggestion of a stamp excited a good deal of merriment. Having noticed an alteration ...

... gain by this ? Why everybody who has the misfortune to know a clergyman of this stamp knows that he does not care a rush for public opinion. He holds it to be part of his duty to defy public opinion, and he revels in doing so—and as for making him amenable ...