... debt and to panish frandalent debtors bas just been issued. It will come tmto force on the Ist of Jammary next, when the abolition of imprisonment for debt, with certain er- ceptions, will take eflect, and debtors in custody will be Some respecting the ...

... customs by the abolition of the duties on butter, tallow cheese, oranges, lemons, eggs, nuts, nutmegs, paper, liquorice, dates, and various other minor articles. The duties on timber, currants, raisins, figs, (cc., are to be reduced. The stamp on newspapers ...

... 1,780,000 Army (not including abolition of purchase) 14,824,000 Navy 9,508,000 Civil Service 10,652,000 Revenue departments 2,621,000 Post-office 2,610,000 Telegraphs 500,000 Packet Sendee 1,135,000 Abolition of purchase 853,000 Total ...

... NEWEST in certiiio cases would reduced. The stamp duty on character of parties would bo reduced to 6d., subject certain conditions. There were also alterations regard to marine assurances stamps, and stamps on accidental death, personally injury, and ...

... newspaper stamp. The following duties have been materially reduced or abolished:—Tea, sugar, bread, dried fruits, shoes and clothes, hats and caps, timber for building or furniture, the postage letters, the stamp on newspapers, and the duty on advertisements ...

... Then there would be a duty of 6s. cwt. on chicory, yielding £90,000. There w'ould be penny stamps and 3d. stamps certain trade documents; eating-houses, including pastrycooks, would be allowed licenses to sell wine or beer. _ The duty on game certificates ...

... public sotivities, the most endaring memorial of which is The Hales. whieh be founded immediately after the abolition of the Newspaper Stamp Duties. Indeed, if owr memory serves us oor. reotly, it was the first after this great reform came w eaw the copy ...

... oroposes to consult every just int» rest of the commonwealth! Tho reduction of a penny on the income-tax and the abolition of the paper duties are practical features of the Budgf t. The latter of these proposals could take no one by surprise. It would have ...

... last year’s total, given above, is included the expense (609,409) of the troops sent to Canada. Paper duty, newspaper stamps, and advertisement duty have been driven out of England to take refuge in America. Their imposition is now seriously discussed ...

... —Togspay, June 4, 1861. duty on per was condemned by Sir Henry Parnell in 1 , and now every otLer excise duty, except those cn spirita and fermented Jiquor aving been abolished, this still remained. The result ay those abolitions bad beep the content and ...

... March Id. NEWSPAPER STAMPS.—In answer to Sirs. Northcote, Mr. Gladstone said that some arrangement would be made present newspaper proprietors who may have their possession any stamped sheets when the abolition of the impressed stamp takes place; from suffering ...

... actually been only £529,000. As regarded spirits, there wss an abolition of differential duties, making a reduction duty on brandy £446,000; but in July an additional duty had been placed on foreign apima, which waa estimated to yield £400,000. So that ...