... which abounds in the Crimean eamps, The Coaxcerwonr of the Excuequer stated that he sheuld bring forward the Newspaper Stamp Duties bill on Monday. The Lorp-Apvocate moved for leave to bring in a bill providing for the education ot the people in Scotland ...

... in the departments connected with the army. The first great reform to be proceeded with after the recess will embrace the abolition of the Ordnance Department, and thecomplete consolidation of the business hitherto transacted by them with the War Department ...

... the house, but an apprentice | youth in the timber yard was employed occasionally to assist in some of the ?wn\'i(-r lu.qunM duties. On i’riday morning they had risen, as usual, at an early hour, ‘and the nephew had gone to business for the day at a little ...

... and a true politician. I'ne Northern Examiner, a paper published in Newcastle-on- Ivie twice a week since the abolition of the mqn: stamp, anncunced to its readers on Wednesday that its price (2d. a copy) was not ing its proprietors, and that from that ...

... Customs’ tariff had, however, been revised by Sir R. Peel, and the only duties of a protective kind which now existed, were those on foreign spirits and on malt. The 'stamp duties and assessed taxes had been revised, and the whole revenue of the Excise ...

... Illustrated News in giving a Review of the If it be true, as has been said, that notables repre- | Ring says:—Since the abolition of the betting houses, sent, rather that create, public opinion, Mr. Spurgeon ivwhlch dealt an fmmense blow to the Ring by ...

... carried two of their points, the abolition of the Advertisement duty and of the Newspaper Stamp, whereby a very considerable revenue has been lost; and they are now more resolute, if possible, to get the duty off Paper. The Manchester party have all along ...

... minnte | was the duty of the Government to find a remedy for the | tl,u windows on the north side there are some fragments deaeription of all the interesting objects whicli met the eve | evil, eicher by rostrictive regulation or total abolition. |of e old glass ...

... the East India Company have received formal notice | that it is the intention of the Government to bring in a Bill for the abolition of the double government.” The | anuouncement is substantially correct; the Chairman has received an intimation that it is ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS—TUESDAY. The Stamp Duty on Passports Bill was read a third time. The Bishop of Oxford gave notice that he should on Tharsday next present a petition from Jamaica, relative to Spanish slavery, and call attention to the subject. Lord Brongham ...

... Where do we find that * ribald press” which it was confidently predicted we should have when the stamp duty was removed, and again, when the paper duty came off? The middle and working classes of this country owe an immense debt of gratitude to the cheap ...

... armed with a catapult, with which they intended to procure food in the shape of small birds. Among them they had four postage stamps and a pemny. As they trudged towards Birkenheag a rain storm came on, and by the time they reached that town their courage ...