... that a deputation befoimedfor that purpose; that a petition be pre- sented to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce the stamp duty on bills of loading from 6d. to Id.; that the attention of the Executive Committee of the Cham- ber be directed to the question ...

... lie., and in St. Petersburg 13 £ c. The new duty now levied will advance the price in this and the other Black Sea. ports to 29-6c. per pood, and if we add to this the Custom House formalities in paper, stamps, &c., the additional cost, in tire face of ...

... State Church clergy to the hilt. 6. It was killed by the abolition of tax on im- ported food by that renegade executioner. Robert Peel. 7. It was killed by the abolition of duty on paper ''nd of stamp on newspapers, as Church- men forewarned t.he woild, when ...

... in the stamp duty would have reduced the revenue from this source by £ 200,000 a year Instead of losing by the reduction of deed stamps from 35s. to 10s, the sum realised left a pro- fit of i;100,000, while the doing away with the ad valorem duty on bills ...

... fact is the abolition of the duty on paper—the stamp duty, &c., introducing the admirable cheap literature which was now enjoyed. Remember (said Mr. Vivirn) I am not now referring to the Western Mail. (Laughter.) This subject-the abolition ...

... could not accept the boons offered by the Government in the abolition of the brick duties and the reduction on stamps, as a fair recompense for the great agricul- tural wrong. The stamp duties on marine insurance ought to have been included. ...

... in the stamp duty would have reduced the revenue from this source by £200,000 a year Instead of losing by the reduction of deed stamps from 35s. to 10s., the sum realised left a pro- fit of £100,000, while the doing away with the ad valorem duty on bills ...

... is but an incident in the great general ques- tion of justice to woman. He asks if the question be less sacred than the abolition of slavery in America or serfdom elsewhere. The most important period of life — the first — is, he says, entrusted to woman; ...

... ded man must consider their just rights ? We fed assured that they will perform their duty. Five hundred towns, repre- sented by a thousand gentlemen, have stamped the Dissenting community with zeal and earnest- ness in the cause: and if we may take the ...

... an Exchequer rich enough to afford a remission of taxation, the window duties possessed claims at least equal to those ofbi-icks or stamps. Beyond the inevitable weight of this duty, the scale according to which it was levied rendered it peculiarly and ...

... less than 50 years the whole newspaper press has been revolution- ised in consequence of the abolition of the duty on paper, the newspaper stamp, and the duty on advertisements. THE MEANS OF EGRESS IN PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. ALL new theatres in New York have ...

... 1760, and both tea and sugar might now be made luxuriee of the rich if duties enough were imposed upqa them. 'I he wine duties were duties of protection, Idifferential, not revenue duties. Mr. Gladstone then: proceeded to develope a supplementary measure ...