... adkvocatea tho abolition of the-duty dl$ teA mld sugar before the abolition of thc paper (ty. Soda oaftervwauds another placarel appeared., aunutincittg thlat r~. Watts and Mr.. W. P. Roberts vwould move an ameculrmtat in favour of the abolition of the tax ...

... of last session. The abolition of the' Neispaper Stamp partly amcounts for a loss of 103,344 under the hend of Stamps. We were told that the. Post-office. revenue would be largely benefited by the. abolition of the Newspaper Stamp, but this ...

... GLaADsromc's first financial year, and by his great Budget, lie reduced the duties on Tea, Sugar, Stamps, and Newspapers, with some of the Assessed Taxes; and he entirely abolished the duties on Soap, Adver- tisements, and a host of 2ninor articles. At the saime ...

... articles. The abolition of the duty on bricks came into operation on March 16, 1850, and, setting the draw- backs against the payment of arrears, -we are not aware that the comparison of the two quarters is much affected by that change. In stamps the decrease ...

... 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 ...

... l can. b - gone into by them, ElMAlX'1 ON OF THlE DUTY ON FIlREi INXUIIxNCEc. Tlelo was read a letter from MIr. Chas. Maxlield, agent to the Asaociatiou for the Abolition or1'idue- tioni of tihe Duty on Fire Insurrnces, stating that Mr. H. Ii. Sheridan ...

... prorernent. The question of a stamping depart- ment for Liverpool had for some time enraged the I attention of the committee, and on the 7th July . last the inland Revenue Department announced I thit the limit of stamping at the office in Victoria- st ...

... would enor- nmously increase. The British Government should secure the abolition of the lilkm and other enactions on transit in the interior by consenting to higher import duties. UIritish merchants should have tho same rights of residence in the interior ...

... commercial policy, its ;justice being beyond the possibility of dispute or difficulty. The Excisc, notwithstanding the abolition of the duty on bricks, appears even in a still more favourable light. f Under that head we find tlse increase on the year . amounts ...

... are in growing request, as a consequenc of the abolition of the. duty but the trade is almost exclusively on home account. Tinplate-workers are very busy on japanned boxes and baths, toilet wares, and stamped goods. Printed trays and plaques are in growing ...

... are to have the duty on their horses reduced from £12 to £S ; the stamp duty on proxies to vote at railway and other meetings is reduced from 6d. to id.; maritime re-insurance is legalised on payment of a shilling stamp; the stamp ...

... t i stamps, £474,487; post-office, £25,000; taxes, £51,345 ' t I property tax, £225,169; and the customs, notwithstanding v the decreased duty upon, and the suspension of business a h in, tea and other articles pending the debates on the t duties to be ...