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... mam item of those expenses however, would be taken out of the way if the paper duty were abolished, for the British Workman now pays to the Exchequer, the shape of a paper-duty, the sum £300 a-vear It obvious that the retention of this sum the pockets of ...
... 4d. in stamps. Letters so posted must be marked registeredand if any letter so marked should not have the necessary number of stamps upon it, it will be registered at the various offices through which it passes, and double the number of stamps originally ...
... the broad world and witnessing the millions of faces that have been made happy a consequence of the com-law abolition and the reduction of the duty upon tea, little did we dream that the ghost of Protection had again appeared in Saint Stephen’*, the member ...
... are now only to charged at 6d in tbe pound. The duty, therefpre, on incomes of the lower denomination ■will be a penny less than last year. The Chancellor in addition, therefore, to a reduction of duty, ha* given this clas* the benefit of one half-penny ...
... , £300,000 is to be got from a penny stamp bankers ch»qu(s. The speech occupied the delivery aDout two hours quarter. The Chairman having put the formal resolutions, Mr. strongly objected to the raising of duties Irish spirits, though, in all other respects ...
... SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Th» Pap«e Duty.—Al m«ting oftha committee of the Aieocietion for Promoting the Repeal of the taxes oa Knowledge, held Satorday last, the following resolotioos were agreed to;—“ That the exeiie duty on paper obatructa literature and ...
... customs had risen over the estimate £953,000, ; excise, £2,475,000. ; stamps, £247,000.; income tax, iX560,000. ; post office^ £50,000..; .and telegraphs, £600,000. In the excise duties, spirits alone stood for an increase of £1,370,000., the tctal receipts ...
... fro a government the condition parliamentary support. CIIURCH-HATE ABOLITION BILL. (Front the Star and Dial.J is thirteen weeks to-day, since the second reading of the Church-rate Abolition Bill. The third reading was to have been moved this afternoon. The ...
... examination to be a delusive test. Mr S. Hill objected to the stringent powers given to the Com- missioners, Mr Charley to the abolition of the powers c lhe Ordinal y, and Mr Raikes to the Examining ; I. â The Bill was eventually read a second time ; - ordered ...
... and utility with which Lord Lyons had discharged his duties Washington. no one of many thousand cases had he failed obtain the highest approval of the Government; and to show how laborious hia duties had been, might mention that in the year his despatches ...
... postage stamp for newspapers sent by their lines. Thus the post office is annually losing revenue through not meeting the requirements of the country in the carrying of printed matter. We believe that the abolition of the present im- pressed stamp with its ...
... £513,000. The customs duty on foreign spirits showed an increase of £126,000, principally under the head of Geneva and other spirits, but there had been a falling off in the duty upon rum. There was also an increase in the excise duty upon the sugar used ...