... system of lighting dues. It was pointed out that the duties were levied at our ports when in almost every other country there was no such impost. The speakers considered that it was a national duty to provide lights, buoys, and beacons, and should therefore ...

... Office 2,610,000 Telegraphs 500,000 | Packet Service 1,135,000 f Abolition of Purchase 853,000 Total £ 71,313,000 The reduction of the duties on coffee and chicory, the income tax, and house duty, is expected still to leave a quarter of a million in the hands ...

... appointed to inquire into the operation of the newspaper stamp duty has presented its report. It consists of five articles, the of which provides that from the 1st of January next the stamp duty upon newspapers shall be abolished. Article 2 makes it obligatory ...

... watch-cases—to commence on July ûth. The abolition of the licence for playing-cards dates from September 2nd. The ninth resolution abolishes the stamp duties for policies of insurance, and substitutes a stamp duty of Id. This measure will ...

... showed what had been the result when the paper duty was last reduced. Previous to 1836 the duty on nrst-class paper was 3d. per lb., and on second-class paper lid. per lb.; and in 1836 it WAS equalised, the duty being fixrd at ljd. per lb. In 1836 the consumption ...

... 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 ...

... 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; ...

... 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 ...

... would be a duty of 69. per cwt. on chicory. yielding £ 90,000. There would be penny stamps ftnd threepenny stamps on certain trade documents: eating' houses, including pastrycooks, would be allowed licenses tOl sell wine or beer. The duty on game certificates ...

... chemists, and by Williams, chemist, Bute-street, and ARCR.D^, HP.RDIFF^ Ser.t safely by POST for 18 stamp*, by .TO].,) Voooer, I hani.acentical Chemist. 18 stamp*, by .TO].,) Voooer, I hani.acentical Chemist. 237, Tottenham-court road. London. 8098' ...