... the cordial terms in whicgn it was proposed In reference to the duties of High Sheriff, of which something has been said, they are becoming beautifully | less. Tt was once said of the duties of the Lord Privy | Seal that “they performed themselves'; that ...

... thought the principal origin of these attempts was to be found in whntm called the ‘* assassination press.”” He held it the duty of every civilized Government to operate in putting down with a strong hand theso nefarious enterprises. He believed the Government ...

... Revenue in regard to the law regulating the stamp duty on agreements for letting furnished houses and apartments for terms less than a year. “The law requires,” the notice states, “that such lgreemuntl shall be stamped either before or at the time of execution ...

... favour of the abolition of compulsory vacciuation, or of doing away with cumulative penalties for refusing to comp%v mtf. the present law, the question being received with hisses and laughter. Bacon Dimsdale said he would not vote for the abolition of compulsory ...

... thereupon. The Freisinnige Zeitung learns that the German Government is contemplating the introduction of a tax on matches and a stamp duty on receipts, in orber to cover the new expenses for military purposes. Mr. Monro, Chief Commissioner of Police, has addressed ...

... must be the most practicable and the least unpopular. The public revenue was raised by three methods—by duties upon foreign articles imported, by duties upon articles of domestie manufacture, and largely by a systew of direct taxation, A very considerable ...

... | If that was doue, he had no doubt that before very | long they would have the Tory party stamped out, as he hoped before very long smali-pox would be stamped ‘ out (loud cheers). Speaking of the House of Commons, | he said the nonsense talked about ...

... beon taken by the Government to carry into effect the unanimous Re-port of » Select Committee which in 1887 recommended the abolition of hereditary pexsions, payments and allowances. ‘When the House resumes wfrer the Easter recess Mr. Bradlaugh will call ...

... conscientious discharge of their duty by exposing them. Against the maintenance of such a system, involving THE SYSTEMATIC INPRINGEMENT oF THE MoraL PRINCIPLE, it is hoped that every Taxpayer will be impelled by @ sense of Moral duty to enter his indignant protest ...

... different measures in metal with the imperial stamp, and in buying earthenware pots it was very easy for them to compare the latter by the standard maasure. There was no excuse for such neglect of a common duty to the publie, and especially to the labouring ...

... ATTENDANCE COMMITTEE. The composition of this committee was : Revs, Bury, Cole, Mills, Potts, Messrs. Skinns, Laverack, Lintin, Stamp, Trafford, Usher, Williams SN NOT VERY BUSY. ~ Mr. LAVERACK thought the question about the attendances of members would be ...

... the duty. When it is borne in mind that not less than 71,000,000 of newspapers per annum—or about 200,000 27 daypass through the Post-office, and that the average weighbt of each is not less than three ounces, since the abolition of the stamp duty, and ...