... Advertiser, 10,500 9,000 10,000 While it may frankly be admitted that since the removal of the paper duty, and the consequent abolition of the stamps on newspapers generally, these returns do not furnish that excellent criterion fur jud4ing of the superiority ...

... themselves. .When they sec ,ask for the abolition of the penny stamp. in the name i of the public, I ask what will the public get by it ? evi It would he Pure fudge at this time to endeavour to Ou1 separate thle penny stamp from the privilege of postage. ex( ...

... throe resolutions assail the advertisement duty, the newspaper stamp tax. and the paper duty; the last economically impolitic, the stamp tax police mistake in the form of an impost, and the advertisement duty tax not upon commodity but upon ...

... THE STAMP ACT. The house went into committee on the stamp act, when the resolutions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer were propo red by Mr. Wilson, and carried without amendment. bill was founded upon them and brought in. Mr. Pmi.vn brought forward his ...

... that the | various excise duties are in each other's way, and that | their abolition increases the power to pay direct taxes. Let notion, then, about the honour of the country interfere in preventing the repeal of the paper duty; the honour the country ...

... the House that the paper-duty was not itself tax which should be maintained as a permanent source of revenue. The paper-duty laid on in the reign of Queen Anne, in conjunction with the advertisement and newspaper stamp duties, for the express purpose ...

... of stamp, would, if issied ih2 six daily in- stalmnents, pay sixpcnce of stamp. The inconvenience thence arising has come to be mucth more feit of late than before, from ?? cases-I St, the increase of adivertisemrents since the repeal of the duty, which ...

... and indeed of the arguments of those who so loudly characterise the stamp as a tax on knowledge, is in describing the newspaper stamp atax. Since the reduction ofthe newspaper duty to one penny in 1836, is not, properly speaking, a tax, but rather to ...

... as the entire abolition of the stamp ; and not only so, but it would introduce class of small and cheap dailies with which the larger an.l penny stamped sheets would be unable to compete thev would wore an entire exemption from the stamp granted papers ...

... of the Newspaper Stamp Act, and the anomalies ana evasions that it occasions iu postal arrangements; to the unfair competition to which stamped newspapers arc exposed with unstamped publications ; to the limitation imposed the stamp upon the circulation ...

... POKII6M STAMPS. fAKK A STAMPS, 7d, including W.lktfcla, OrMM, Uonm, Bam, b, Per full Irann wM, ef other Fhm. tee IMaM Pnapotaa. li CMelegue, JIM free. Sreaunt, Oiimn, 00,, Omr B*~a. tata. STAMPS.- 1? Caklone Peering Ekflvfc, Ooleakl Poe- Stespe ser (he ...

... REPEAL THE PAPER DUTY. A meeting furtherance of the repeal of th® paper duty vvas held at London, the London Iftvern, on Thursday evening—Mr. Cowan, M.P. the chair. At half-past -ix o’clock about 100 persons were present, but during the proceedings about ...