... number ot persons would in ure it the duty was reduced to Is. The present system preseed particularly on the poor man, who could not insurut 1002. for loss than 7s. 6d., the premium being 3d,, the duty 3s, and the stamp and policy le. 6d. Mr. DAY observed ...

... 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; ...

... 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 ...

... monopolies and prohibitive duties thei4 could not escape the notice of men who had studied the ad-ril vautages of commercal. freedom ; and accordingly, in the the year 1850, the law for the abolition of the differential duties for was first proposed to ...

... Mr. Deputy Bedford proposed ?? The Houses s _ of Parliament.-ietr. J.jO. Lawrence, M.P., in reply, w e referred to the coal duty. While admitting that legis- h lation. was generally en the direction of removing taxes hi on necessaries of life, he denied ...

... by a stamped policy. The Board of Trade had desired the opinion of the assoca. tion as to the merits of a proposal made by the secretary at Lloyd's, for a remedy for the insecurity resulting from this decision. It was simply to impose a penny stamp on all ...

... that the Tea i- Duties will form one of the texts on which Mr. Glad- to stone is to dilate this evening in the House of Corn- tn mons, and that a reduction of tax on tea malt be exr a pected. After the vote on the advertisement duty, we in may also fairly ...

... Gladstone's proposal to impose a stamp of one penny on notes of sale of foreign and colonial pro- dueo and on all brokers' contract notes, and a stamp of threepence on stock warrants, as well as a Tegis- tration duty of one penny upon each package of ...

... regard to measurement, shippingoffices, discipline, desertion, seamen's fund, wreck and salvage, passengers, surveys, and stamp duties; and in conclusion say that although they have not felt it necessary to offer an opinion upon matters purely of detail ...

... most heavily on the poor. All Customs and Excise duties, therefore, are paid chiefly by the latter class; all other duties chiefly by the former. I must reserve to a separate letter an analysis of these duties. It will be sufficient at present-the above rules ...

... interferes in any w ay with yourteae ial duties or iftbe hourked-I go a great deal fa rther than that. 1 say the oocutatinn at the strwes Iitg amyslf end rmy brother dirctors to perform ouar osdlinary otffiial3 duties batter mgthaipthe work is a charigo thalt ...