... ultimate extinc- tion ef the income tax, with its substitute, waa a great mea- sure. The reduction of stamp duties, the abolition of adver- tisement duty, the re-adjustment of the assessed taxes, and ] the diminution upon attorneys' certificates, were all ...

... future bankruptcy income and expenditure which the Attorney-General has prepared, — a balance-sheet which, including the new stamp duty on all com- position and arrangement deeds, shows a cer- tain surplus of £15,000 a-year. We have no doubt that hon. members ...

... portion of our surplus in reducing the duties on coffee and chicory. (Hear, hear.) I propose to reduce the duty on coffee by one half. The duty now upon one cwt. is 285., and I propose to reduce it to 14s. The customs duty on chicory is now 265. 6d., and I ...

... Wilson waa not in duty bound to assist the police and apprehend the persona h« saw committing outrages and robbery en respectable person* at St James's on the 3rd of June ; and If he wUI issue sucii orders aa will define the duties of military men under ...

... Commerce held yesterday, it was resolved to memorialise the Chancellor of the Exchequer in favour of the abolition of easterns duties and the excise duties on chicory and sugar. Mysterious Affair at Reading. —Yesterday S™ e B Tv, e kT T ere breakil 'S ice ...

... thereupon.- Customs Acts (Tobacco Duties;— report thereupon ; Births and Deaths Begis- tration (IreUud! Bill— second reading: Illegitimate Children (Ireland) BUI -committee j Supply— committee ; Drainage (Ire- land) (Stamps)— report thereupon: Drainage of ...

... members of the House of Commons had an interview with Mr. Wilson, at the Trea- sury, yesterday, on the subject of the abolition of the duty on clover seeds, and placing the expense of the extra con- stabulary force in Ireland upon the Consolidated Fund: — ...

... William Cubitt, and Mr. Brunei. Mr. James MacGregor— Stamp Duty on Papers, fee- To call the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the house to the inexpediency of continuing the pre- sent stamp duty on papers used hy non-resident and ab- sent p ...

... animus. All this legislation was intimately connected with the Stamp Duties Act, and he could state that it was originally Mr. Gladstone's intention, after the abolition of the newspaper stamp, to have proposed the repeal of the acts now referred to ; but ...

... of Finance will submit a bill to the National Assembly for the abolition of the stamp upon all publications, and the substitution of a tax of 20 per cent, upon paper in addition to the duty of 10 per cent, which already exists. All newspapers and reviews ...

... BUSINESS FOR THIS DAY. ORDERS OF TEE DAY. Irish Church (recommitted) Bill— Committee in respect of a ! clause for mux .sing a stamp duty on any order of tbe commis- sioners of Church temporalities in Ireland operating as a con- ; veyance cr mongtge of i roperty ...

... if the penny stamp were taken off their daily journals? It is in consideration of that penny stamp that the Government lends its postal machinery to carry our broad sheets free to the remotest corner of Great Britain. Take off the stamp, and how should ...