... The Government presented a bill relative to tbe abolition of the nesvmaper stamp duty. ITALY. Fwannce, June 2, Evening. The heilee asserts that the Minister for Fireign Affairs has lodged s complaint with the Government respeatin its want of vigilance ...

... STAMP DUTIES BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that, in t 4 present state of business, he felt it necessary to propos. in order to facilitate the passing of the Stamp Duties which it was requisite to do immediately, that of it should be omitted ...

... posed changsts would consist in a lowering of the stamp-duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation, and, in cases of offences against the press laws, the substitution of the correctional tribunals for the present system of admi ...

... The Newspaper Stamp —The proposed abolition of the newspaper stamp will be an unwelcome item in the budget to many of our readers. The present system, leaving it optional to the public to obtain stamped unstamped copies, is found highly convenient, while ...

... THE NEW. ER STAMP Tue Editor of the Scotsman has addressed a lengthy letter to the Chancellor of the Exche- quer on the subject of the newspaper stamp, detailing his views of the probable results of the abolition of the impost, and averring that it would ...

... be more anxiety among Mr Cobden and his friends for the abolition of the newspaper stamp tax, than among the public themselves. Indeed it is open to grave doubts whether the abolition Would really be a boon to the public. News- paper purchasers do not ...

... NEWSPAPER STAMPS. have read in the “Times” an article under the above title, quoted from the *• Exami iner,’’ condemning the nbditionof the penny stamp and recommending the reduction of the duty on paper. Under present circumstances we should be sorry ...

... committee on Soap Duties Bill, Mr J. WILSON stated that it was proposed to postpone the reduction of the duty on foreign Soap imported until the sth of July 1854, and to provide that the privilege of Importing soap froze Ireland duty free shall take effect ...

... REPEAL THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. The bill for the repeal of the duty on advertisements having now received the royal assent, our re- duced scale of charges, formerly announced, comes into operation with the present number of the Journal. Advertisements ...

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

... to the propriety of removing the duty itself, for its reatrictive tendency has been admitted on all hands, and its repeal may be said to have been rendered a matter of necessity by the abolition of the newspaper stamp and the rapid development of cheap ...

... REPEAL THE A DVERTIS EMENT DUTY. The bill for the repeal of the duty on advertisements having now received the royal assent, our re- duced scale of charges, fotmerly announced, comes into operation with the present number of the Journal. Advertisements ...