... iso more of them at presold. It is enough the remark what no one deny, that the modifications of the newspaper stamp duty, the advertisement duty, and other ‘taves on knowledge’ wire all proposed and carried the avowed understanding that newspapers, as the ...

... juncture of European affairs, the entire of the above duties, and therefore are not desirous that a trial to the effect should be snail,. There cannot he a doubt but that the abolition of the duty on paper would be a great benefit to the public at large ...

... have a very dangerous weapon Lis-hands. At the time the stamp duty was repealed the questionwas mooted before, and wo wrote upon it then as we write now, advocating the abolition of the necessary stamp, but upholding the claims of the public to protection ...

... the motion, a dabite ensued, when the house divided— Ayes, 111.4?ri , ty 154 -78 The reports of the resolutions upon the Stamp Duties and Drainage Advances were brought lip, and leave was given to bring in bills founded therrtni. The fact4,r.es read the ...

... which cries out to him that its relief is the one thing needful. Hops, soap, newspaper stamps, windows, tea, tobacco, timber, attorney's certificates, bricks, stamp duties, malt, &c, &c. Each makes out the best claims, and a refusal seems monstrous. But yet ...

... fcbetr.r which regards the impressed stamp. The abolition the paper duty is boon for which we have been «1 ; praying j but away with it for ever soomr than b. j should see it purchased the price of lha red 1 Stamp. Who requires to told how much that | ...

... whatever that manufac turcr or treadcr may not avail himself the right of paying duty in anticipation, without being called account tor it. In England all spirit* are paid duty on once, aud there is just the same ground* for characterising it harshly in one ...

... committee upon the stamp duties bill. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, ob.erring that there had been much mioti.prThen.ion on the subject of this bill, stated that, by the altetat•one made in it, there bad been reiluctiona, hut no increase of duty. Ile had said ...

... valorem duty on British manufactures of 30 per cent waste be reduced to per cent. cun. aideration for these advontnges the British Governmeut the ituiueduite unqualified abolition uf all duties on Freucb The duty hrnudy descends the colonial ...

... it. Chairman then reported progress and the Ileum adjourned at a quarter past o'clock. a.m. [[OUSE OF LORDS—TusaiDAL The Stamp Duty and Passport Bills read respectively a thud limo and passed. Semi tiou took place in reference to certain acts of aggression ...

... Postage Stamps, Practical Hints fur Emigrants to our Australian Colonies, will be sent post free. For freight or passage apply to T. t. Lenny and Co., 10, Water-street, Liverpool. Joins G. Agent, Keil. T. K. If xxnearsus, „ Trim. ABOLITION OF ME INSURANCE ...

... so unlike • oewspaper, was one, and as such ought to pay the stamp-duty. It was during this year that an organised struggle of friends of the pt commenced for the abolition of the stam-duty, the removal of the ' taxes on knowledge.' In the five years ...