... Army (not including abolition of pur- chase) Navy Civil Service Bevenne departments Post-office Telegraphs Packet Service Abolition of purchase Total .£71,313,000 Thu is £1,423,000 loss than tho actual grants of last year, and admitting that ...

... THE ADHESIVE POSTAGE STAMP. With reference to a recent paragraph respecting the resolution said to have been passed by the Town Council of Dundee, to the effect that Mr. James Chalmers was 'the originator of the adhesive stamp, and not Sir Rowland Hill ...

... number small duties, and announced his intention to abolish the licenses for foot hawkers, still makers, sellers of playing cards, sospmskers, paper and wstchcose makers; to abolish the progressive stamp duty deads, reduce the 355. stamp charged beyond ...

... an active part in urging upon Parliament, and in other ways promoting the repeal of those obnoxious duties—the newspaper stamp, the advertisement duty, and the tax upon the production of paper, and his great public serviced in this respect were recognised ...

... seven-eights have accrued to the public. The Abolition Committee see no reason to doubt that the effect of the repeal of the railway passenger duty will be similar to that of the repeal of the stage carriage mileage duty, which means that it will benefit the ...

... 000 4. Reduced stamp (2s Od.) apprentices’ mdeutures o. Health polices stump reduced from od. to Id 0. Income tax—balance profit and lo>s 7. Abolition of duties gold and silver plate (including drawback; Reductiou 2d. per lb. tea duty 1,.500.000 0. Reductiou ...

... Press at the two periods.” Referring he progress of the Press in Great Britain, and especially to the abolition of the newspaper stamp and advertisement duty,' our American contemporary observes: These (opedlments have been swept away. The result has been ...

... 000 of the tax on male Berrante, X 50,000 of the licence doty on dogs, .£50,000 of that on horaee, jCIUO.OOO out of the stamp duties, and some j£S,OOO at most out of the income tax—or, in all, about .£500,000 out an aggregate of £23,000,000 is all that ...

... the rush to clear toss at the reducid duty in tho Juno quarter gave surplus then which brings down tho loss tho six months £151,000. Mr. Goscben, hosrever, estimated for loss million and half this year on tho Tea Duty a'.one. Only a of that aum has thus ...

... Lord Derby, to urge the desirableness of procuring, in negociations wit regard to commercial treaties, the reduction abolition of duties levied foreign countries the export of paper-making materials and the import of manufactured paper. laird Derby, in ...

... published, 2 stamps. BENSON'S new PAMPHLET of CLOCKS, the largest yet published, with designs and prices. Free, 2 stamps. BENSON'S new PAMPHLET of JEWELLERY. illustrated. 2 stamps. BENSON'S new PAMPHLET of SILVER and FLEA FRO-PLATE, illustrated. 2 stamp. BENSON'S ...

... Budget, which sought to meet an estimated expenditure upwards of £72,000,000 by increasing the income* tax, and imposing stamp-duty upon match-boxes. The match-makers of Bethnal-green and SpHalflelda rose at onee np in arms, and the of the month they set ...