... considered a great success. It is to remembered however, that tile system followed result of the agitation for the abolition of the penny stamp newspapers. Wliile the cards are'being made great use of business matters, regret to have received complaints of ...

... country to obtain them. (Hear, hear.) The repeal of the Newspaper Stamp Act was one of the greatest educational movements over made, and ho hoped it would bo followed the repeal of the paper duty (applause), another great tax on knowledge. He tliought it would ...

... with the elementary principles it is the primary duty of Liberalism to apply to public affairs. Or course Toryism revolts at the idea of this innovation. In the words of the St. James's Gozo le, the abolition of the property qualification would be a revolution ...

... questions the day. In well “whipped” house of 566 members, Mr Speaker and tellers included, Sir John Trblawny’u Church Rate Abolition Bill has been lost by a majority of ten. Much we may lament this result, it would be only deceiving ourselves and our readers ...

... Reform Bill, the He- LiuiiT Wises.—Although the eonsump ioa oflight mnee h» trebled in BogUod eiooe the reduction of the rate duty, they here not et present taken the poaition te beverages of daily and general consumption that «o may confidently anticipate ...

... re that the duties were not protective • th ey b ed noon to do with the poor clauses' in had ho no humanitarian or other part of India ; and, therefor e , h e cry would be rai se d% The ember for Guildford very properly that these duties bad bad nothing ...

... rather than def ended the tax. He admitted that while the Railway Passenger Duty produced I:400,000, the Carriage Duty produced over £550,000 a year, and he admitted that the duty ultimately fell on the manufacturer, that is, of course, not only the carriage ...

... revenue up to the required point, proposes lax on liorste and carriages, increased and modified registration fees, increased stamp duties, and tax on contract Holes and receipts. additional taxes ore expected to yield £2.000,0011, and leave a surplus of income ...

... in this county, and they had communicated on the question with both the High flinsoff and the Under Sheriff. It ' being the duty of the Sheriff to summon on the Grand Jury the chief men of the county. irrespective of the fact of their being or not being ...

... ter*e but emphatic terms, and every in Court appeared heartily to sympathise with bis remarks upon the injury which the abolition of the Homo Circuit would inflict upon the localities in ita jurisdiction in which crime was committor). The Grand Jury made ...

... had sent him Parliament, and thdft broke one of hit pledgo. Because when ought have been engaged im his Parliamentary duties, be stamping the country, speaking for, and otherwise advocating the claim* of man to public patronage, who at the time was, under ...

... that I must either stamp or dieeontinue. Ou looking at the Act I found that any paper, two numbers of which were published within 26 days of each other, and containing only or principally advertisements, was a newspaper, and liable to duty. I therefore decided ...