... said the best remedy would be to repeal the stamp duty on newspapers at once. Sir F. THESIGER described the difficulty there was in framing a bill to meet the case. Mr COBDEN also urged the abolition of the stamp on newspapers, owing to the difficulty of ...

... THE NEWSPAPER STAMP. The clauses which the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes to add to the Newspaper Stamp Duties Bill —they will be found in another column of this day's issue—will make that measure all that can be desired. They will confer upon Newspaper ...

... Tickets One Shilling each, at Mr Gallie's Buchanan Street. POSTAGE STAMPS—RECEIPT STAMPS.—A misapprehension appearing to exist with regard to the use of postage stamps for denoting the duty of one penny which a ill be payable for receipts on the payment ...

... the public, and ries Moreover, it is insinuated that the widely circulated newspapers are inclined to oppose the abolition of the stamp duty because they dread competition, and that it is their wealth which enables them now to defy the rivalry of their ...

... Delphic utterances from determining upon their abolition. The house di.vided on the proposition, Ayes B9 ' Noes l9O-101 The remaining resolutions for repealing the advertisement duty, the newspaper stamp, and the customs on foreign books, were then put ...

... GIBSON moved a series of resolutions, declaring the expediency of repealing the excise duty on paper, the stamp on newspapers, the advertisement duty, and the eustorni' duties on foreign books. Dividing his argument into two branches, first, as to the article ...

... in the stamp duties, in the transfer of property, value of £l,OOO, and above that amount they should be equalised. Ile proposed a similar course with regard to mortgages, bonds, and all sums under £1,000; and, also, to reduce the stamp duties on leases ...

... horse Duty. Land tax redemption reduced Ili per cent. Tex Duties reduced from 2s '204 to Is per lb in three years. Nearly all existing Tariff Duties reduced to 10 per cent. 5 per Cent-on Customs' Duties repealed with a few exceptions. ...

... 016,314 611,486 446,564 Deduct Decrease. 446,564 Increase on the ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON PAPER. In our last number, we threw out some suggestions on the propriety of abolishing the duty upon soap, and from the London journals of this week we observe that ...

... have been an equalisation of the stamp duties; and if the plan to be acted on is to be that announced by Sir C. Wood, which we now exhibit, there cannot be two opinions but it is an equalisation to increase the stamp duties, but by no means to reduce them ...

... legislation comprised in two or three clauses. This appears to have been Sir Cornewall Lowis's one idea in the revision of the Stamp Duties Bill: to reduce its several provisions to one, and effeet its main object by a briefer enact men t. B u t in the pursuit ...

... the votes. ABOLITION OF THE NEWSPAPER STAMP. The following resolutions with reference to newspaper stamps, moved by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, were agreed to :— That it is expedient to repeal the exemption of newspapers from postage duty, sod to charge ...