... of the country); restrictions on the devise of land to lives not in being; registry: reduction of stamp duties on conveyances; tenant right; abolition nf the Irish Established Church extension of the suffrage, and increase in the number of the Irish ...

... farmer knows that what he wants is not a slice out of his poor's-rate, which would lie addled to his rent, but a good round duty and wheat at 50s. a quarter. If he cannot pay his way under fiee trade you will not set him on his legs by nib- bling at the ...

... the report on the Stamps Duties' bill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to a question from Sir II, Willoughby, said he was unable to lay on the table any statemeut showing the loss or gain from the alter- ation of the duties beyond the estimate ...

... interest or their duty, would do their duty regardless of consequences (applause). He thought he had not said too much when it was imputed to a member of a liberal profession that it was most unwise to employ him, because where his duty and his interest ...

... of the duty on timber. Tney were crowded in cities into ill-veutiiated and ill-l'ghted apart- ments, and it was to improve the smatory condition of the labouring poor that he proposed to lepeal the window duties. The most objectionable duties that woul¡1 ...

... by 59 a,'«in*» 24 •Mr. llea'iUm moved a resolution that the stamps upon receipts should be abolished. The Chancellor of the Exchequer observed, that the sole gr. urHl upon which the abolition of this tax was pOllftl t that people did not like to ) ay it ...

... NEWSPAPER STAMPS.—After a long discussion the House divided upon this question with the following results: For the first (proposing the abolition of the paper duty) 107 Against 195 For the second (proposing the abolition of the stamp ...

... unfavourable to the Customs duties. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, that in adopting a course which seemed inevitable, he had scrupulously avoided giving any opinion one way or another with regard to the Customs duties, and he believed he bad been ...

... apprenticeship from £ 120 to X80 50,000 Reduction of Advertisement-duty from Is. 6J. to 6d., and abolition of Stamp-duties upon news- paper advertisement supplements, 160,000 Reduction of duty on hackney-carriages from Is. 5d. to Is. per day ...

... re-lllIpurttlOl1 on payment of the uew duty of Sd. per cwt. Steps would be tiken by the Excioe fo prevPut such operations. TIIE STAMP DUTIES.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer intimated that wheu the Successiun Duty Bill was disposed of, he should move the ...

... markable. The Excise shows an increase of £ 352,101, notwithstanding the abolition of the duty on soap, the anticipation of which has led to a clearance of stocks. The sale of Stamps is once more disturbed by the pros- pect of remissions, but they nevertheless ...

... demands were then made—one for the repeal of the Advertisement Duty, amounting to £ 80,000, and another for the abolition of the Certificate Duty, pro- ducing an equal amount; and if both duties were re- pealed, the financial operations of the year would ...