... the house divided, when the motion was negatived to 24. Mr. UEADLAM moved, that in the opinion of the house the present stamp duty imposed receipts should abolished. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the resoluiiou. considered that of all the lax ...

... must emancipate newspapers from the stamp-duty ; or they must continue to tax one set of publications, and allow' another escape tax-free, although there is not a shadow difference between them. The more this stamp-duty looked into, the more indefensible ...

... STAMPS. Mr COWAN begged to ask the Secretary of the Trca>ury whether the Bill relating to Newspaper Stamps w hich stood for to-morrow, would be proceeded wi h before tin Chancellor of the Exchequer had taken his seat in the House ? Mr. WILSON replied ...

... ; in, stead of the general remoral of the stamp duty on newspaper supplements, freedom from the stamp was given to what Was now commonly known as single supplement. It was nut so much the removal stamp duties from supplements as the simple ...

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

... REPEAL THE PAPER DUTY. A meeting furtherance of the repeal of th® paper duty vvas held at London, the London Iftvern, on Thursday evening—Mr. Cowan, M.P. the chair. At half-past -ix o’clock about 100 persons were present, but during the proceedings about ...

... (Stamped Twopence.) PRICE ONE PENNY, Assembly receive the report, »n ...

... THICK 31). STAMPED l.ynll, ( '■all- »y, Munlrosc 24ili n-|*'y i«» j»ui» i.t Uii, iimlint, I .i|>plir ...

... principle of alow rate of imjsort duties. In the Aim-net treaty with Japan. 1 think or 25 per cent. ralorrm was duty imposed on all foreign import* : and I was quite eoaßdent. ■ if we could induce the Japanese to relax that duty with respect to the few articles ...

... resolutely the face, and dealing with hrmly. lie times, which demanded remissions of duties, was hostile moved til the writ suspended until the of June, its abolition, ami because the cliaracter of Mr. Gladstone Mr. EK, Cb.iiriuaii of the Election Committee ...

... IMI*Eli I A I, 1' ARM AM N I In the House of *'omm >ns. the question that the Newspaper Stamp Duties’ Bill read a third time, Mr suggested that the clause limiting the stamps of newspapers through the p. *t Office 15 days should be extended or done away with ...

... article finds voice, which cries out to its relief is the one thing needful. newspaper stamps, papei, windows, tea, timber, attornies’ certificates, bricks duties, malt, &c,, &c. Each makes out claims, and a refusal seems monstrous, what is a million ...