... with the completion of the war with Russia. That year saw one Liberal measure passed by the Government-the abolition of the compulsory newspaper stamp; but Lord John Russell's secession, in consequence of the breakdown of his Vienna negotiations, appeared ...

... to the Chainber of Deputies the passing of a law for the abolition of season tickets for all places where dramatic and musical entertainments are given and for imposing a duty (by means of a stamp) of 50c. on all free passes, and one of 10 c. on all paid-for ...

... additional, about 1,800,0001., which will leave from 200,0001. to 700,000o. to be spread over a reduction of taxes on knowledge, stamps, paper, hops, malt, and other obnoxious taxes. All the claims and clamours, therefore, for abolishing any'of those taxes are ...

... important facts in connection with the newspaper press is the abolition of the Paper duties effected by Mr. Gladstone, of which iMr. Routledge gives the following account:- The Paper duty came forward to claim a decent burial end in 1860 Mr. Gladstone ...

... ruffian than a hero of romance. But abouthalf-a-century ago the smuggler's location began to fail him steam and the abolition of duties increased the daniger and lowered the profits, until, nowadays, the longihore salt who buys cigars at the tobaccon- ...

... banquet. His speeches in the House won praise from the most accomplished masters of debate, and one of them, that for the abolition of negro apprenticeship, obtained that still rarer triumph, the conversion of opponents in the subsequent division. Yet the ...

... states- men and m an of letters. It was founded in February, 1801. The Advertisement Duty was abolished in 1853, and the year 1855 saw the last of the newspaper stamp which had existed since the days of Queen Anne, and, after some variations, reaching ...

... engaged in connexion with the salo of unstnimped newspapers. This wvas at the be. ginning of the fight for the abolition of the stamp duty on journals, an impost apparently designed to neutralize the extension of popular knowledge of politics and social ...

... mere bout at fisticuffs with a dusky son of Darkest mn Africa, who deplores the ways of ' Darkest Eng- bh land. The abolition of duelling in England was F indeed a fatal blow to the dramatist. Among those Sw who particularly distinguished themselves ...

... subject the meet- ing was Unanimous. Ille would, however, observe that the newspaper stamp greatly facilitated the circulation of news. MVr. EwAeRT, M.P., supported the abolition on the ground that it would tend to the establishment of local newspa- pers, wehich ...

... tile author to prepare this work for the press. It was Dearly ready for publication when he became so seriously ill that the duty of bringing it out at the time for which it was announced devolvud upon another. The work was scarcely in the bands of the ...

... for the identical object of regulating the stamp laws, must be held to have a different meaning in the two, for the simple reason that the one Act conferred an exemption, while the other subjected to a duty. The exemption was liberally construed, so that ...