... would enor- nmously increase. The British Government should secure the abolition of the lilkm and other enactions on transit in the interior by consenting to higher import duties. UIritish merchants should have tho same rights of residence in the interior ...

... are to have the duty on their horses reduced from £12 to £S ; the stamp duty on proxies to vote at railway and other meetings is reduced from 6d. to id.; maritime re-insurance is legalised on payment of a shilling stamp; the stamp ...

... a time of peace s The Customs are ale total including an at- additional duty on foreign chicory,estimated at £15,000, St- 0xcise, expected, will furnish £l9,483,000,and - the Stamp Office £8,460,000, allowance being made for the proposed reduction of hawkers' ...

... also propose carry two ounces of other printed matter for the same price. The loss to the Post-office by the abolition of the impressed stamp duty is estimated amount £120,000 ' and the loss on ttife other arrangements to £250,000. I now come to the subject ...

... their License Duties- and a crowd of brewers have since fonund their warV to the Conservative bencesl~ to fightt the battle of their trade with their own hand~s, But then again the railway proprietors demsud thme repeal of the Paseengee D~uty, and we are ...

... reduction is in the Tea Duties. Itxs now ten years since Mr. Gladstone proposed to reduce this charge to is. per pound, but the breaking cat of the Crimean war upset his calculations on this as on many other points, and the duty has remained to the present ...

... The Excios shows an increase of £352,10t, Lses notwithstanding the abolition of the duty on soap, the anticipa- lietion of which has led to a clearance ofstocks. The sale of Stamps aisis once more disturbed by the prospect of remissions, bet they 5508 ...

... are to some extent affected by the abolition of a the hop duty; and as the rest of the diminution is largely ci attributable to the gradually declining consumption of d spirits caused by the increased scale of duties, there is e little reason to mourn ...

... Tlssble way. GOLD ANCC SILVER PLATE LICENSE DUTY. WA :letter ha' laid before the Council from the Worcester Chamber of Commerce enclosing a COpy of A resolution of that body in favour of the abolition of the license duty now paid by retail dealers for Belling ...

... on the 23rd of 31t February, 1698, and referred to in the last annual 571 report, with respect to the abolition of the obnoxious __ differential duties charged by the French upon the )71 West Coast of Africa, have resulted in a manner - satisfactory to ...

... on a summer cruise, with all the his command, acmpanied the a»d The Civilian informed that one of the results of the abolition public executions has a fall in the value of iu Newgate-street, L-'ri'loa. the neighbourhood of St. Bees, the other diy, ...

... was withdrawn, and Mr. Kelly took. his seat. THE ABOLITION OF IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. Mr. MACDONALD, M.P., at the invitation of the Pre. eident, addressed the Congress on the subject of the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt, but before doing so called ...