... THE WINDOW DUTIES. meeting of the inhabitants of Bath was held in the Guildhall, on Thursday last, at one o'clock, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the total and immediate repeal of the Window. Duties. The attendance was very large ...

... future at the rate of THREEPENCE PER UNSTAMPED COPY, instead of fourpence, and fourpence per stamped copy instead of fivepence. The abolition of the Paper Duty is in itself far from advantageous to newspaper property. One farthing on each brodsheet is ...

... cheap newspaper and the manifold advantages the public derive from its prompt production. While the stamp duty, the paper duty, and the advertisement duty—not to mention Draconian libel laws —harassed newspaper proprietors, it was impossible for them to ...

... remissions of duty. Notwithstanding the further July in tbe duties on sugar, the produce of l »e Customs for the quarter ending last Saturday is £115,682 than for the corresponding quarter last year notwithstanding the sacrifice of the duty on bricks, the ...

... of forage for tbe cattle. The Press Committee of the Austrian Reichsrath has decided in principle upon the abolition of the newspaper stamp duty, and has also declared in favour of permitting the street sale of newspapers. President Harrison says nothing ...

... the Excise, notwithstar ding the abolition of the brick duty, £343,018. The yes it's decre:ise in the Stamps amounts to £179,995. It can hardly be expected to be less than half a million when the new s ■cade of duties has been whole year in operation ...

... Special pleaders and conveyancers would have the same allowance of license duties as attorneys. The stamp duty ecclesiastical licenses in certain cases would be reduced. The stamp duty on charter parties would be reduced toGd., subject to ...

... quarter's Excise, notwithstanding the abolition of the duty on soap, the loss of which fell very largely on the winter quarter, shows decrease of not more than £113,790. The very liberal alterations of the Stamp Dutie3, and the very tedious system of ...

... that power may be seen in the insane rage into which all the cheap press, which iuteuds to benefit largely by the abolition of the duty, has lashed itself the mere notice given lord Monteagle. The strangeat thoories of the Constitution are suddenly broached ...

... charging a stamp duty of £2 upon licences to be taken out by house agents, not being licensed auctioneers or appraisers; reducing the stamp duties upon licences to hawkers and pedlers trading in a certain manner ; charging, lieu of the valorem ...

... The abolition of all stamps on receipts, a penny postage head being substituted, a gain of £155,000 a-year. The abolition of the additional five per cent, imposed by Lord Melbourne's Government, on all the Customs duties; the abolition of ...

... treaty with France, tbe Premier stigmatises it as gross error the penny was put to meet the charge necessary for the abolition the malt duty. Mr. Gladstone, having been written with reference to some recent outrages upon children, and asked whether he does ...