... the Registrar's- Bill, referred, on the motion of Mr Henley, to a select committee; various defeats and surrenders on the Stamp Duties Bill; the vote of the Lords, on the motion of Lord ?owls, against the union of the common and the episcopal fund; the narrow ...

... advertisement duty. But to it was. Your readers will remember that in April last, and before the budget was introduced, Mr Milner Gibson carried • vote in opposition to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, recommending the abolition of the Is 6d duty on advertisements ...

... before there was a great Increase in the deliveries; end as in cam of rises in the duties, the revenue 111 d not recovered for the first year. He believed that the duty-paid stocks would be soon exhausted, and that the revenue would rapidly show its ordinary ...

... taxation may be stated as follows: EXCISE. Abolition of the soap tax, £1,126,000 STAMPS. Reduction of the duty on life assurance from 2s 6d per cent. to 61 per cent. 29,000 Reduction of receipt stamps from the present scale, ranging from 31 to ...

... £19,500,000 rise receipts were set down as £27.740,000, have realised £27,326,000; stamps estimated at £10,0100,000 hive produced £11,002,003; Land tax amt house duty, supposed to be worth £2,450,000 to the revenue, have yielded C 2,496,000 ; l'roperty ...

... to impose a duty upoa oartiers' carts of half the amount now pail by carriages and omnibuses. Fifth—He proposes that, instead of a duty of 5 per cent. on Railway Companies with exemptions favour of excursion traffic, there should be* duty of Si per cent ...

... of Richmond's motion implying a vote of censure on Government for the assumption of the Royal prerogative to procure the abolition of purchase in the army. This vindication of the dignity of the Upper House does not in the smallest degree affect the ...

... to the propriety of removing the duty itself, for its restrictive tendency has been admitted on all hands, and its repeal may be said to have been rendered a matter of necessity by the abolition of the newspaper stamp and the rapid development of cheap ...

... infallible, and who entertain a settled conviction that the side it supports must always prove the winning side. Believers of this stamp must be pretty severely exercised, for the organ on which they pin their faith seems hardly to have s mind of its own in ...

... desirous of becoming posseseed of the above-smell Annual le reqvesiedto suite as inessitate application, inclosing a Postage Stamp, to ANDKILSONI BOX 30, General Post-tMlos, London, KC., who furnish the fullest particulars by return of Poet. FRIDAY MORNING ...

... which been removed since then—a reduction from the fourpenny to the penny stamp—a reduction of paper duty —Ube establishment of a penny poet—and the abolition of the advertisement duty, hwl all taken place since he had a publisher, and were all very great ...

... THE FISHERIES' BOARD. A report in our last number would show that a majority of the Wick herring curers are averse to the abolition of government superintendence over their business. A decision so odd, in these days when free trade is held in universal ...