... promote the important object at which it aims. The measure passed in regartl to roads and bridges in Scotland, and for the abolition of tolls, will greatly improve the management of highways in that part of the United Kingdom ; while the Acts relating to ...

... sura be proposes to apply to the almost entire wiping off the duty foreign timber, to reduce the duty on bottled wines to an equality with those imported in wood, the abolition of the duty of 6d a pound on pepper, and the reduction of the charge of Id ...

... 'Next, reduce the duty on agreements for small tenements from Id. T«J reduce thfe duty on appraisement!! £5, with some' provisions lor the relief pleaders and conveyancers. reduce the duty on ecclesiastical licenses. To reduce the duty charter- part from ...

... this he bad prepared tabulated statement comparing the duties to be levied after Ist July next with those at present in force. wool there would be a reduction of 10 per cent., the ad valorem duty at that rate having been abolished. woollen yarn 2s 6d ...

... Publisher on Tuesday night. . terms subscription. UNSTAMPED* Paid in advance. 2d .4s 4d .8s 8d Per Quarter. „ Half Year. STAMPED. Paid in advance. ..Cs 6d l3s Od Per Quarter. „ Half Year. „ Y'ear. 3s Od. .14s Od. Eighth Week of the Quarter ...

... and common sense demands that the boon of the halfpenny postal stamp shall not be spoiled by the regulation that ouly one newspaper is to be carried in the same cover and under the same stamp. At first this looked reasonable, diminishing the labour of the ...

... croupiers. {nu proposing the toast of the evening, the Chairman said if more of the nobility were of the stamp of Lord Lothian the motion for the abolition of the House of Lords would, be believed, weet with very little sympathy. Ihe toast was received with ...

... disendowment of the Church. 6. Free elementary education. 7. Abolition of the game laws. Free rod fishing. 8. Payment of members of Parliament. i 9. Affirmation to be substituted for oaths. 10. Abolition of perpetual pensions. 11. Triennial Parliaments. 12. ...

... and Selkirk in Parliament, and he had always, far as his abilities enabled him, conscientiously endeavoured to discharge his duties there. Allusion had been made to their proceedings in Parliament in reference to Scotch business. He could not say that they ...

... increased from £3,870,000 in 1880-1 £4,200,000 last year. The great mciease in stamps was accounted for partly by the accident of exceptionally high receipts from death duties on some great estates, and also from the improved administration of coUection ...

... way of mixing revenue, and wan H-ttrr prepared move for an extension i«* |»»im*t|>|«> than support a resolution for ; Its abolition. was a tax that appearing to . j pay very well some districts, (laughter.) • ! Saxpkrsox thought the tax led to much immorality ...

... Varieties. The Bristol City Council have resolved to petition Parliament for the abolition of public nominations elections. The daughter of Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, girl of twelve years, is said to possess much of the great talent of her mother ...