... voted for M. Martel's amend- ment recommending the abolition of warings, the substitution of judicial for administrative juris- diction over the press; the lowering of the stamp duty; and the abolition of the law which required the autborisation [of government ...

... cri- ticism as that which the concession of the right of debate in the Chambers calls forth. The reduction of the stamp duty, and the abolition of the necessity of previous authorization for the establishment of a new journal, -are laudable mea- sures. The ...

... STAMP DUTY ON NEWSPAPERS. A meeting of newevenders, convened by circular and advertisements, was held last evening at St. Martin's- ball, Long-acre. The meeting was convened for 7 o'clock, but it was an hour later before the chairman, Mr. WILD, accompanied ...

... column in length pays no more duty than thatof he A. the poor girl who wants a place ais howus~maid or cook. Re- wi a- peal the stamp duty and you free the newispaper from a Th lgreat burthen : the reduction of the stamp fromi fourpencei to m Isone penaty ...

... their goods. The advertisement and newspaper stamp duties he regarded as equally objectionable, and the time had come for thoir repeal.. Mr. Alderman BALDWIN also spoke strongly in favour of ?? of these duties; if they were remove he believed that they ...

... your ob- 4 ecbeteremoval, as 'Speedily RS possible, of all taxes o Iupoa knoledge, but ?? S the game right of prlnting both stamped copies '(for post) land ueapeI coies (for local crcualation). of your journals as Is new 'enjoyed -b y fifty GnS London, ...

... assailed-tha advertisement duty, the stamp duty, and the paper duty-the latter alone remained, and the association would not have discharged its duty to the public till the paper duty was re- pealed. The ...

... repeal of the 0 paper duty because it was one of those duties the repeal of i which was calculated to put a considerable sum of money tl into his pocket, and because he had sometimes doubted a whether there were not other duties which were perhaps a more ...

... repeal of the stamp duty, I wish to give in my adhesion in( to the movement which you are promoting, so far as the abolition of that duty is concerned. The paper duty, as a financial measure, stands on a different footing. But me the ...

... moved that thie repeslof the duty on pae as inexe dient. The whole of the debate It a~o~the qeto whether it weatl expedient to'have en income-a o d in the pound with the paper. duties continued., or of l0u. with the paper duties abolished. On a division the ...

... loss. This would be the ease even if there were no stamp; but the effect of the stamp is to bring about the balancing point much sooner than it would occur if E the sheet were duty free;, sa that tho stamp practically e cOnULU ts the circulationi, and limits ...

... 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 ...