... sent by post. Moreover, the Austrian had to submit to a stamp duty, i abolished n Hungary, but not in the remainder of the empire, though many efforts have been made •to obtain it. total abolition; and this adds nut only to the cost of the papers, but ...

... right hon. gentleman said there appeared to be a belief that the Laud Act of 1.570 required large amendments. It would be the duty or the Government carefully to examine the condition of the law, and if they believed its provisions were insufficient, they ...

... Banks were being carefully considered. Lord John Manners explained that the colour of the new penny stamp and that of the new twopence-halfpenny stamp had been decided on at the Postal Union Congress at Paris. Mr E. Stanhope informed Sir Chas. Dilke that ...

... the 14th of April, 1847, at the price of 4d. This price was gradually lowered j to 2d; and in the year of the abolition of the , Stamp Duty, the Mail was issued at its present , price. It wag then only a four-page paper; later lon it was published on ...

... statement by Lord Beaconsfield regarding the Customs L 1.9,300,000 idissolution. Lord Sruatutort an.lCAllrert.t., who hail in- Stamps 'tended to call attention to the Eastorn Que.- Land bud ‘tion, delayed doing so until the Foreign - house ditty 2,701 ...

... precisely of the stamp urged in the British House of Commons twenty years ago, ant by Mr G. F. Young and his fellow agitators outside. The Davy, he &Mares, mist be reined by this meiniere —bemuse. through the abolition of the ditemetial duties by shich it ...

... It new dednitely settled that the ibe• lose of the sew postage stamps will = In Feb. Three will be needy Is materetood that work duo Mn. bee to mitts* of anklets with the britoging awe stamps. Hews Dffaeleie-ta Me end H onc In three to Wagprepared who ter ...

... new system inaugurated uncles the auspices of Lord CardwalL The salient features of this reforms then introduced ware the abolition of purchase and the introduction of short service. The result of the former was to du away with the influence of money and ...

... ary, and under the former bead he placed the abolition of the law of primogenitere, the situplidcatiun of land transfer ' the abolition of all preferential rights of landlords over other and the abolition of the game laws. His **extravagant and revolutionary ...

... corresponding period oi last year. Customs realised 7,809,000, against 8,271,000 ; Excise, 10,374,660* against 10,944000 ; Stamps, 4,009,000, agMust 4,614,000; Post Odice, 1::.',770,000, against 2,722,000. The balance in the Bank of England last Saturday ...

... be taken by the publicans to keep clear of everything that would give • handle to those who are working for their total abolition. finch an end might net indeed be 1 far off, if the licensing authorities throughout the country were steadily to follow ...

... servitude. INLAND REVENUE STAMP DUTIES.—The duties formerly denoted by adhesive Inland Revenue I stamps of the value of 2(1,3d, Ike 91. la, and 23 6d, , or by combinations of those stamps, are now de-1 noted by postage ...