... Licence duty foot-hawkers,n 31,000 Duty on soap and paper makers, gold workers, &c., 6,000 Reductions of stamp duties, . 200,000 Loss on change in newspaper stamp, .. ?? .. ?? 50,000 Penny off the Income-tax, ?? 1,320,000 Reduction of sugar ...

... and before it can be stamped a formal pro- cess of application must be gone through, involving annoyance, risk, and an amount of expense which, in the caste of pol1icies of eail value, is often as much as the original stamp duty. The committee also object ...

... firstt place, the stamps on powers of attor-] ney affecting the publie funds Dare. wholly exceptional, and thieir abolition would .be , justified, just as the existing special rates are1 Justified, just as the absence of stamp duty on the transfer of ...

... in the same way the addition to the revenue derived from Stamps only proves that we have laid on additional taxation. The increase principally arises from the Succession Duty, and from the stamps on bankers' checks, and on proceedings in the Probate amd ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... delayed in order to take, advantage of the dct reduced scae of duties. In the Excisei the decrease on the V1., quarter is 2501,000, of which;C244,000 isijocounted foe byea por- th lion of the~ hop duty beinig postponed until the'uext quarter. :A The reduction ...

... quarter's Excise, notwith- standing the abolition of the duty onl soap, the loss of wisich fell very largely on the winter quarter, shows a decrease of not more tatan £113,970. T'le very liberal alterations of the stamp duties, and the very te- dioussystem of ...

... heads of malt and spirits, and in some degree from all the duties, with the single exception of hops. On the Stamps there is an in- 0crease of ��37,262, which occurs chiefly in the legacy duties. A decrease of £23,052 in the Assessed Taxes, is q owing to ...

... to the Chancellor (f the Exchequer, in favour of the abolition of stamps on marine policies. On the motion of Mr. BOLTON, the meeting agreed to f rward a memorial to the same effect. PEMMPE DUTIES. In connection with a communication frorm the Singapore ...

... flourishing public news rooms in A1los, but the great redae- le tion in the price of newspapers since the abolition of the com- d pulsory stamp acted as an extinguisher to them both. BIRTHS. At 28 Gauze Street, Paisley, on the 9th instant, Mrs Archd. ...

... 'Notwithstanding the reduc- tion of the income-tax' the derangement in the means of comparing the hop duties, and the temporary depression of the stamp 'duties, we have an actual nett surplus, from the lnatural and steady increase of our ordinary revenue, of ...