... right hon. gentleman said there appeared to be a belief that the Laud Act of 1.570 required large amendments. It would be the duty or the Government carefully to examine the condition of the law, and if they believed its provisions were insufficient, they ...

... Banks were being carefully considered. Lord John Manners explained that the colour of the new penny stamp and that of the new twopence-halfpenny stamp had been decided on at the Postal Union Congress at Paris. Mr E. Stanhope informed Sir Chas. Dilke that ...

... the 14th of April, 1847, at the price of 4d. This price was gradually lowered j to 2d; and in the year of the abolition of the , Stamp Duty, the Mail was issued at its present , price. It wag then only a four-page paper; later lon it was published on ...

... precisely of the stamp urged in the British House of Commons twenty years ago, ant by Mr G. F. Young and his fellow agitators outside. The Davy, he &Mares, mist be reined by this meiniere —bemuse. through the abolition of the ditemetial duties by shich it ...

... servitude. INLAND REVENUE STAMP DUTIES.—The duties formerly denoted by adhesive Inland Revenue I stamps of the value of 2(1,3d, Ike 91. la, and 23 6d, , or by combinations of those stamps, are now de-1 noted by postage ...

... and our nobility have left us, and the capital has a Church. no trade, and an unendowed legs. But he apologises for the abolition of them old hereditary offices, though he does not defend it, by alleging that they had been employed in the hands of Government ...

... -- es 4 while his own in that the crofter qoartion not he wattled by . ion to obleation, his him* emodetind Items smatter stamp onotio e 1 leasship although be emend sio sd s . o i i : al j 6 = to teheire that them on inn. in ss ii..iaj gp. ..,. tic ...

... Leipsic, but haa refused the offer. Of NEW POSTAGE STAMPS.—Following tip the recent improvement. in the penny postage stamps, the Post Office authorities are about to halfpenny stamps and three-halfpenny stamps of a new design and colour. The new halfpenny ...

... Taxpayers are thankful for an, signs of retrouchospnt, but w.mld it not have been Si well to begin a Little higher up? A FARTHING STAMP.- It KM, absurd W think that we should be obliged to pay for seeding he smallest packet to the other side of Leaden as much ...

... London :Society for the abolition of l'omoulnory I opposite corner in ovenpiedbythe Drexel building punted. . .. .. _ . . -ot S — TAMPED ENVELOPES. A poetal notice iIS issued to the effect that a cheaper class of stamped envelopes. called commercial ...

... island, Before the Scotch Patronage Abolition Act of sot his brother is factor. The men all fish '1874 was passel, be, although an Eitiecopalian. for the storekeeper; and the Couoregational discharged the difficult duties of patron to a large elnisser on ...

... deprecate the system of employing paupers to act se a.,.eata the sick in. stead of appohling pea and reepossible officers to that duty. Is the present owe happier, that Mn was ordered tea and other woorishowat but ill. not dear that elm actually received it ...