... substitu- tion. As to duties on gold and silver plate, and licenses for dealers in them, the Inland Revenue Department may substitute avoirdupois or metric equivalents until the law is changed, and the same may be done in assessing customs duties. Considering ...

... THE ABOLITION OF UNIVERSITY TESTS.I Last evening, a meeting, under the auspices of the Bir- nminghamn Central Nonconformist Committee, was held at the Assembly Rooms, at the Royal Hotel, in support of the complete abolition of University Tests, There ...

... TEE PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE INCOME TAX. MAGISTERIAL PROCEEDINGS AT LEAMINGTON. I Yesterday, at the Town Hall, Leamington, before Messrs. E. Wheler and J. Panton Gubbins, James Martin and Edward Crofton, the two men who were arrested on Tuesday by Mr ...

... uncertainty as to what might be done with the duties, and the public declined to purchase plate and to pay duty upon it in the expectation of the duty being removed. Moreover, the agitation to abolish the duty, in which Mr. WVatherstois was prominently active ...

... PLATE DUTIES AND COM- | PULSOIY [ALTLMARKG. A representative of the Daily Post waited yester- day upon some of the principal Birmingham traders who are interested in the question of the repeal of the duties on gold and silver plate and the abolition of ...

... County Court registrars are to perform the duties of registrars in bankruptcy, the present registrars still con- tinuing to act as taxing masters, subject to the revision of the taxing master in London. Abolition of the offices of official assignee and ...

... PAPER DUTY AND! XR. CASSELL'S LECTUREi. To the EDITORe f the DDLY-P0or. Sir,-Almost beyond caleulation Shave been the benefits resulting to the public generally, b 't to the working classes in particular, from the Tepezal of tl)'e newspaper stamp, in the ...

... met at twelve o'clock. ABOLITION OF Cl1URCH RATES. Numerous petitions having been presented for and against the abolition of church rates, Sir J. TIIELAWNY moved that the House go into com- mittee upon the Church Rates Abolition Bill. After some remarks ...

... triumph over the gigantlo difficulties which beset your path when this journal was started. The paper duty, the stamp duty, and the advertisement duty presonted obstacles which were almost sufficient to deter anyone from Issuing a cheap nowspaper. Lloyd'8 ...

... withdrawn. THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. v The report on the Irish Church (Stamp Duties) was d brought up, and agreed to. The Irish Church Bill was recommitted, and a clause g imai-ted imposing a stamp duty on any order of the Coin- e missioners of Church Temporalities ...

... member having complained that already the mails- these were coaching days-were so heavily laden with news. Eapero that if the stamp duty were removed Ia would not ber so, to travel in the mail coaches. (Lughter.) On the 10th of January, 1840, the people of ...

... thle equalisation of the spirit duties, but the effect on illicit distilllation emust be carefully watched ; the stamp duties he thought had been over estimated. Mr. FAQAN objected to the increase in the Irisle spirit duties, and said it certainly would ...