... bear a ponnly stamp, and each advertisement had to pay a tax of Is. 6d. to Government, and if & grocer in his announcement happened to state that he was also an insurance agent, t:. tax was charged as if for a double advertisement. This duty was exacted ...

... of India Bill. The House then went into committee, in succession, upon the Burials (beyond the Metropolis) Bill, and the Stamp Duties (No. 2) Bill, the clauses of which were agreed to after discussion Several bills were read a third time and passed. In ...

... extent by party feclings—have again and again protested against the abolition of corporal punishment in the Navy. They have protested in vain, the Government adhering to the abolition. We are not.fond of flogging men, whether in the Navy or out of it. ...

... were vindicated by Mr. Gladstone. The resolution was agreed to. On the order for the second reading of the News. paper Stamp Duties Bill, Mr. Deepks moved that the second reading be postponed until the 30th of April. He observed that, while “the Chancellor ...

... the quarter the fees for verification, stamping, and adjusting,amounted to £ll6 9s. 2d., and the expenses for travelling, &c., £lO6 6s. 3d. In District No. 1 the inspector had been engaged in verifying, stamping, &ec., in the Gainshorough and Lincoln ...

... even by Mr. Gladstone, and all had attempted to secure their abolition, with the difference that Lord Salisbury’s Government had succeeded in getting foreign powers to agree to the abolition, while other Governments had not. He could say positively that ...

... best into the work. At the baptism™ of children, the church virtually undertook sme responsibility in regard to them, and that duty should be recognised and dizcharged. They too often assumed that children must first go into the world, and then bo brought ...

... quarter in 1868 was 435., this had fallen in 1880 to 335. Id., and the anticipated improvement in price from the abolition of the malt duty in that year was not realised, the price having fallen to 27s 10d. for the year 1888. The average price for the ...

... present the diseasehad been stamped out. Mr. njl{)umed until Thursday, on the charge of haying pub- Knatchbull-Hugessen complained of the imposition of lished a book with an lr‘vmmml tendency. Both dethe railway passenger duty, and moved *That pending fendants ...

... 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 ...

... Minor, the comprises in itselt a difficult theme of no inconsider } done away with, and we are not gone to llup (‘logs ()jrt duties of which we can never dlwhur‘zn. and the possesable magmtade.” And oven supposing we limit our field | (lnughter). Then there ...

... Goschen (one of the most woderate of men) he says that land in _Euflu.nd, including land tax, including succession duties, including stamp duties on conveynnciuf and mortgages, besides the various fiscal burdens on land, pays & ger cent. In Holland it pays ...