... ABOLITION OF THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTIES (hrom the Morning or Friday.) The bill for abolishing the Advertisement Duty received the Royal Assent last night, and comes into operation. this day ; and we have, theretore, the satisfaction of announcing that the ...

... ASSOCIATION FOR TOTAL ABOLITION OF TlE ANNUITY-TAX. Last night a meeting of this Association wasa held in the upper room of Queen Street Hall, to E hear a statement respecting the present position t of the movement-ex Councill0r Burns presiding. n The ...

... of stamp, would, if issied ih2 six daily in- stalmnents, pay sixpcnce of stamp. The inconvenience thence arising has come to be mucth more feit of late than before, from ?? cases-I St, the increase of adivertisemrents since the repeal of the duty, which ...

... distinction. In 1758 the Lords refused their assent to the suspension of certain Customs duties on Irish tallow; in 1811 they threw out a bill for re- ducing the duty on molasses, and although they adopted the successive remissions of the Corn- laws down ...

... REPEAL OF THE PAPER DUTY. A meeting of paper-makers, publishers, gentlemen connected with the press, and others interested in the abolition of the duty on paper, was held yesterday in the upper room, Queen Street Hall, for the purpose of meeting a deputation ...

... silent on the subject of the newspaper stamp, or so far as an opinion was expressed by any leading section of tI e press, was opposed to the change. But it is decided- ly favourable to the abolition of the paper duty, the defence of which has been abandoned ...

... mnonth. NEw DUTY ON STAGE CAsIsaAoES.-Under the new Inland Revenue Act, just printed, the duty on stage carriages licensed to carry not more than eight persons is reduced to 10s, aud for a supple- meitary licence for the period, 6d. The duty per muile to ...

... be published. The stamp duty war, in fact, a prohibitory tax on modern history, im- posed on the great mass of the rural population of the coun- try—(loud cheers). And what was the fear entertained from the abolition of the stamp duty ?—that ...

... the c present year was within three of 500. Of I these 323 are papers which have come into a existence since the abolition of the stamp duty P in June 1855; 174 are old papers, formerly d publishedi' at fall price, but now become cheap t] papers-making ...

... institutions of the yet the paper-duty dated only from the last war, and the stamp-duty from the time of Queen Anne. The evidence of Mr Kni. gh: and Mr Chambers showed that the * Miscellany” of the latter had been exti the paper-duty, while Mr Knight stated that ...

... prayer for a reduction of the malt duty, and Mr Sheridan has placed his annual motion in the Parliamentary notices, calling on the House of Commons to pledge itself once more to the abolition of the fire insurance duty. It must, however, be remem- bered ...

... then presented in favour of Mr Milner Gibson's resolutions for the repeal of the adver- tisement duty, the stamp duty on newspapers, and the excise duty on paper. Among others, by Mr Ewart, from the pro- prietors of newspapers at Dumfries ; by Mr Cowan ...