... commission to the National Portrait Gallery Bill* and a number of other measures.--The Earl of Northbrook advocated the abolition of the duty upon silver plate, both as a means of increasing the value of silver and in the interests of freedom of commerce, and ...

... price at a time when a salmon cautbt in home waters is not in tot Alt , —Tueiday'• ABOLITION OF DISTINCTIVE STAMPS FOR TELEGRAMS. The assimilation of the penny adhesive stamp. for postal and Inland Revenue charge. having been re. ceived by the public with ...

... the proposed work at snow The /telW I offer is nothing more or leas than the provisions contained in the Act for the Abolition of Compulsory Ohara Rates, ill and Vie., cap. 109, 31 July, 1388. 8. Extract Such inhabitants may assemble in Vestry, and ...

... sideration of the Government. Replying to Mr. Watt, he stated that the new 6d. stamp on contract notes would be cou6ned to co .tracts over £lOO, lesser sums requiring only a Id. stamp seat present. Mr. W. H. Smith stated, in answer to Mr. Watt in reference ...

... the Daily Gozetrer, It may be added that in 1846, eeren years before the abolition of the advertisement duty, and nine years before the sweeping away of the compulsory newspaper stamp, there were 6,M journals in the United Kingdom ; but in the thirtyhve ...

... paid servants of the Post Office, or that branch of it which includes the letter carriers, both in town and country, by the abolition of Sunday postal deliveries, has been strenuously promoted throughout the kingdom during the past few weeks, and more recently ...

... amble to rove, having no instructions hum the peetar qae beach Is made unapproachable iron the Feria Government. A 10 per ant, duty is now use to whim. the native. , tarn it, end the only levied at the Madeaseate part. Nlauntius rum, of the village is, weeding ...

... action might be brought by any purchaser who had been deceived. A simple phut would be that every maker should be compelled to stamp his goods with his name and his country. Let Geneva watches bear the Geneva hall mark and the name of the Swiss maker, and ...

... troe.'— The ir•ohl. The dock of penny pAtege-stamps e the ailable Post fillies having beivoine tibial -god, the new stamps av fur pots(' or receipt are being issued. The ordinary receipt and penny ,postage stamp are still available receipt ur pstage and ...

... Convervatives and Liberal Unionists had not been able to find a better speaker to occupy the chair. (Laughter). Fortunately the duties of Chairman were sot sufficiently onerous to require any greet effort at eloquence, as he merely had to introduce to the mein ...