... TuEDAle. APRIL 12. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Mfarried Women's Acknowledgments Bill-second reading; Stamp Duty on Deeds Bill-second reading ; Annuity Tas Abolition (Edinburgh and Montrose, &c.) Act (18605 Amendment Bill-second reading; Sunday Trading Bill-second ...

... contemporary, the Northern JVY9ig, on the subject of the newspaper stamp, and in the discus- sion, strange to say, it is the young conservative nobleman who advocates the abolition of the stamp, while the liberal journalist aupports its continuance. Among ...

... own. We allude to those taxes which are justly stigmatleed as the taxes en knowledge, namely, the duty on paper, the advertisement duty, and the stamp le duty on newspapers. In connexion with this subject, wie refer with much pleasure to some expressions ...

... agitation doesinot seem to be consistent. The majority of the duties which would be abolished by this decisive stroke of the financial guillotine are duties on articles of luxury, while the duties on some articles of comparative ne- cessity would still remais ...

... he gave up a million and a half of tea duty, besides 210,0001. of currant duty; but that head shows a decrease of only 944,0001. Under Excise he gave up 386,0001. to beer, besides 200,0001. for abolition of duty, and drawback payable, on silver plate; ...

... other causes. Some old stamp duti s repeled, and waiting for the new reductions, to come into operation to-morrow, have no doubt lessened the receipts from that source in the last quarter. The total abolition of the soap duties, which produced 12,0001 ...

... renret not being able (from indisposition) to attend this evening, to join in the demand for the abolition of the penny stamp on newspapets, the advertisement duty, and the excise on paper, all of which are injurious to the public in every point of view. But ...

... petitioners also highly approve of the pro- posed redaction of the duty on tea, the. abolition of gra- duated receipt stamps, and the alteration in the duties on I cheese, raisins, and many-other articles affecting the' work- P ingeclasses of her Majesty's subjects ...

... inhabited houses and shops, 100,000?. of the tax on male servants, 50,0001. of the licence duty on dogs, 60,0001. of that on horses, 100,0001. out of the stamp duties, and some 8,0001. at most out of the income tax; or 3 in all about 500,000?. out of an aggregate ...

... Collet himself in the Jubilee volme of C The Daily Nevis, published in 1896. The News- paper Stunip Duty, the Advertiement Duty, and the ' }4per Duty, he there explained, had been enacted to- gefher in .1712. BEary neeper, if a half- aheat, paid a half ...

... If the weeping willow was frozen last winter it is the gardener's business to plant another, but keeping up the tomb is a duty which the family will share with none. M. Jules Ferry who, fearing opposition to, lay primary instruction, proposed to go first ...

... tha~t the duties included in his resolutions were most bur- densome and injurious in a financial point of view. The reasons ordinarily alleged to excuse the im~position of the stamp duties were utterly fallacious. By according to a stamped newsepaper ...