... nine Committeee the Corps Cegis-18 With reference to the press, the proposed changes would consist lowering of the stamp duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorization, and in cases of offences against the press laws, the substitution ...

... tiptoe! an *sport duty on rage. This will go far to reutra!ize the benefit of the nearest). An export duty is equivalent to an import duty, lira its working in this Instance is the same as if we hued foreign rags, bet let in livelier paper duty free. Were this ...

... THE NEWSPAPER' STAMP DUTY. The cheap knowledge gentlemen think they have gained a great triumph in the Report the Stamp Duty on Newspapers, whioh has just made its appearance. Already they consider the question settled, seeing that the Timet, with ...

... human use. The duties charged on malt enter into the price of the article. mokes a greater demand upon capital to carry on the industry. The duties are added to the ordinary profits of the tradesmen, and therefore, in consequence of the duties, greater burden ...

... THE INDIAN STAMP DUTIES. Lord FITZGERALD moved for a return of the taxes and duties raised or levied on the administration of justice in India by the stamps which it is necessary to affix to the documents used in legal procedure. In doing so, the noble ...

... of the value of one halfpenny, and oiie of the yiltie of three halfpence. The halfpenny stamps ale to a single stamp, a newspaper cover erlng a stamp, and card for the new card postage. On the card, the address and the postage ntamp placed one rids, and ...

... NEWSPAPER STAMP ABOLITION BILL. Tbs following is an abstract al the BiD introthwed by Mr Madatooe, Into of the Ezetiequer, to alter end amend the law as to the damp ditty ow newspapers : • Sill to alter saki amend the Starer Pule. Newsrooms the Mellott ...

... ve of what their contents might bo; and instead a general abolition of the duty, proposed remove from a single supplement only, treating the question less with regard to the removal of stamps from supplements than as enlargement of newspaper space . »0 ...

... ABOLITION OF CHURCH-RATES. Numerous petitions having been presented for and against the abolition of church-rates. Sir J. Trei.av. moved that the House go into committee upon the church-rates abolition bill. After some remarks from Mr. Packe in opposition ...

... repeal the stamp duty on newspapers at once. Sir F. Thesiger described the difficulty in framing a bill to meet the case in order to avoid the other difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory judgment from the Courts. Mr Cobden also urged the abolition of the ...

... EXCISE DUTIES. The remaining excise duties noticed in the report are the duty on hops, which has slightly increased, and the paper duty, which also shows an increase in the quantity charged. Some remarks are also made on the prevailing adulteration of ...

... do not appear to have been very unanimous in their testimony; but, upon the . whole, they seem favourable to the abolition of the stamp duty. It is generally believed that established newspapers are opposed to any alteration on the present system, as likely ...