... voted for H. Martel's amendment recommending the abolition of warnings, the subatitution of judicial for administrative jurisdiction over the press ; the lowering of the stamp duty ; and the abolition of the law which required the authorisation of government ...

... The Government presented a bill relative to tbe abolition of the nesvmaper stamp duty. ITALY. Fwannce, June 2, Evening. The heilee asserts that the Minister for Fireign Affairs has lodged s complaint with the Government respeatin its want of vigilance ...

... STAMP DUTIES BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that, in t 4 present state of business, he felt it necessary to propos. in order to facilitate the passing of the Stamp Duties which it was requisite to do immediately, that of it should be omitted ...

... posed changsts would consist in a lowering of the stamp-duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation, and, in cases of offences against the press laws, the substitution of the correctional tribunals for the present system of admi ...

... CONTEMPLATED ABOLITION OF THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. On Thursday evening, Mr. MILNER GIBSON brought forward his three resolutions for the abolition of the excise duty on paper, for the removal of the stamp duty on ...

... any alteration is to be made in reference to newspapers, that the advertisement duty should be taken off entirely, and the stamp duty left alone. Take off the supplement stamp, and you confer a boon to a very partial extent. The public will gain by the reduction ...

... committee on Soap Duties Bill, Mr J. WILSON stated that it was proposed to postpone the reduction of the duty on foreign Soap imported until the sth of July 1854, and to provide that the privilege of Importing soap froze Ireland duty free shall take effect ...

... to the propriety of removing the duty itself, for its reatrictive 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 ...

... Packet Hull Advertiser IVhile it may frankly be admitted that since the removal of the paper duty, and the consequent abolition of stamps on newspapers generally, these returns do not furnish that excellent criterion for judging of the superiority of the ...

... obnoxious duty cannot be too soon taken away. We observe, accordingly, without any satisfaction, a paragraph on the parr and advertisement duties in the Sun newspaper. Most assuredly it is not our interest to say nay to the abolition of the paper duty and the ...

... the indulgence they now enjoyed by practice—namely to stamp or not stamp parts of their publications, and to extend the same rule to all the rest of the newspaper press, which would be allowed to stamp that portion of their Issue which they wished to send ...

... 4 ABOLITION srarrity IN AMERICA The Times Richmond correspondent, in a letter dated March 23rd, from that city, says: 'lt is a solemn thing to cry aloud for abolition and spare not; for, disguise it as you may, the abolition of slavery means the extermination ...