... of law of public safety, Article 75 of Constitution to be 'modified, reversion of electoral law, suppreseion of newspaper stamp duty, and trial by jury for press offences. Ninety-eight deputies have agreed to this programme. Clement Duvernois, it is said ...

... cent, duty on railway passenger receipts, and to charge a duty of 1 per cent, on all railway receipts, including those for goods' traffic—to reduce the income-tax to 4d per El, and the sugar duty by 50 per cent. With regard to the stamp ...

... agreed to. The following bills passed through c,rnmittee : Public Works (Ireland); Edinburgh University; Inland Revenue; Stamp-duties on Prthstes, &C. The House adjourned at seven p.m. ...

... exercised in regard to expenses incurre•l for public works. He likewise advocated the suppression of the nctrois, and the abolition of stamp-duty upon newspapere, and of the impost upon salt. In conclusion, he proposed the introduction of the Income-tax. M. Goma ...

... proposes to impose a duty upon car- SEtirts of half the amount now paid by stage and omnibuses. —He proposes that, instead of a duty of 5 per cent, on Railway Companies with exemptions in favour of excursion traffic, there should be a duty of Si per oent, ...

... 000 on the year, the total amount being £18,047,000 against £19,492,000. This result is, of course, owing to the abolition of the Paper-duty, which amounted to something like the difference between the two sums. The surrender of this considerable source ...

... down their circulation could equal the imposition of a heavy stamp and advertisement duty—the first necessarily raising the price of the sheet above the means of the 00•210011 people, and the duty on advertisements destroying all chaser of any great success ...

... 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 ...

... £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 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 ...

... thought be Mould not have been bent to Parliament in vain. (Loud cheers.) The bon. member then reverted to the Petrone(' Abolition Bill—and referred to it as paving the way for a union of all the Scottish Presbyterian Churches. A feeling as to the necessity ...