... They had been patted a good dc:i too much on the b-ok by memberd of Parlitment, He wam not In favou,! of the abolition of the stamp duties. and now they had a Bill Intro. duced to enable them to mend their dick benefits through the post free. When were ...

... value £10, the property of the Midland Railway Company. Mr. J. I. Clifton defended. P.C. Clothier (220) deposed that he wac on duty at the railway terminus on Saturday evening, when his attention was drawn to the prisoner, who was carrying the box produced ...

... die and , *o and a stamp provided for the purpose of denot ug dutihs directed to be charged under 3 and 4 Viot,, cap, 96, cr illed An Act for the regulation of the duties of postoge, to wit, a postage stamp denoting a rate or duty oi ld., at Brietol ...

... up with any Inconvenience if the disease could mn be stamped out. t IIn the course of further conversation, Major Castle hi said he telegraphed the recommendation of the corn- di mittee for abolition, on Monday, to the magistrates hi clerks at Lawford'a-gate ...

... before the French Tariff Committee on Friday. It decided on the abolition of the export duty on rags and raised the proposed duty of 8f. on paper to 1f.- The Bill for increasing the duties on raw sugars to 53f. per quintal,and on refined sugars to 66F ...

... is chargeable a Stamp-duty of £1, provided the value exceed £20. This unjustly high duty is to be reduced to 10s.; and, whereas the stamp on letters of attorney may at present occasionally amount to £110s., it is proposed that the duty shall ...

... a provisional order adding certain paeisbes to the Gloucester' Highway District, this step baving become neessary by the abolition of tur.- pikes near the city of Glouceste'r. A proposal was also made to take the parishes of Broolithorpa and Harepcombe ...

... proposal as to the postponement of portion of the duty, I am financially unable to attempt snch a thing. There is auother small adjustment I propose with to the Stamp duties, The present law requires duty of five per cent. on the annual value of all ap ...

... however, half-past one arrived and the judge had not reached the court, signs of impatience began to be exhibited by the stamping of feet and otherwise. This was kept up till nearly two o'clock, when Lord Dees appeared and took his seat on the bench. ...

... to work at the colliery they had left.' ' l The duty on probate on the will of the late Sir Bqnjalniu Lose Guinness, which was paid in Dublin on Friday, amfounted to t~he large sum of £16,500 for stamp duty alone. . . : . The Great Northern and Midland ...

... the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts and one by Mr. F. Bisset, from guardian. of Taunton tnion, for the abolition of the passenger duty. THE WINTER AnscsiS.-Friday night's GaceUc con. tains Orders in Council uniting for the purpose of the next Winter ...

... Bill has passed, but shorn of the clauses that would have a rendered it at least partially effective. The Church-Rates a Abolition Bill, which for many yearspassed triumphantly e through the Commons, was defeated in that House on its s second reading by ...