... ant had arrived in Buena Ayres. The committee of congress is much praised for its readiness to recommend the abolition of the six per cent duty on wool ; this will lighten the sheep farmers of as impost of 200,0001. per &anew. Montevideo.—Business dull ...

... Hones or Commors.—Siessp Duties.-0o the motion of Mr. Ilimowr, a return was ordered of the senses of all the newspapers in the United Kingdom to whisk stamps were issued doting the year 11852, stating the ~umber of such stamps issued to gosh eewspoper; ...

... the two ,editions of the same paper. The duty alone thus amounted to 79. Among the $bjects Saccessfully accomplished in great part by the advocacy of the Athlerian may be named the abolition of the Stamp Duty an i of that on paper, The whole of the profit ...

... it could be done. Experiments made by increasing the Customs' duties had always failed, whereas an increase of the malt tax hlad never hitherto failed. The argument that the - additional duty fell upon the producer, not the consumer, was 1 refuted by the ...

... last and previous sessions, adverting to the diminution of the tea duty, the abolition of the soap duty and reduction in receipt stamps, the inerease in the Sootoh and Irish spirit duties, and the extension of the income tax to Ireland, and ...

... espies arising as each resolution was read. The report was eltlmately agreed to. Ifelespoper Stamp Duties e the order for gain into upon the Newspaper Stamp Duties Bill, Mr. COWAN and Mr. BARROW offered some suggestions in favour of the repeal of the iotions ...

... bill ( ereoud reading) to the 31st inst., the settlement and poor removal bill (tecond reeding) until Friday nest, the stamp duties (committee) until hlonday, the 3rd of April. Income Tar.—The house having gone into committee of ways and means, The CHANCELLOR ...

... made to secure a surplus, and, as no form of taxation was more popular or less annoying than stamps, he proposed that when a check was drawn there should be a stamp; and this tax, he estimated, would produce 2300,000. Mr. Disraeli, in conclusion, took a eherful ...

... on tea, are re- duced. The reduction of the stamp duties on receipts must of course also be expected to manifest itself in the statement of the first three months after the changed law. When the stamp duties were first reformed by Sir Charles Wood, some ...

... country at large. In the repeal of what have been called the taxes on knowledge. vii., the newspaper stamp. and advertisement duty. mid the excise duty on paper, was brought ab Hit through the exertione of Mr. Thomas Milner Gibson, at that. time the colleague ...

... body to co-operate in the efforts now making in various parte of the kingdom for their abolition. Among them were the duty on paper, the newspaper stamp duty, the duty on advertisements, on malt, and on soap. For himself, he thought it ...

... wait for Mr Gosohen's next Budget before raising the question of the tea duty, but, to take the earliest eveuing he can get to move a resolution in favour of its tohal abolition; The London correspondent of the Freeman's J.eurnal underetands that an appeal ...