... THE PAPER DUTY. MEETING AT EDINBURGH. great meeting bee been held Edinburgh this subject. The principal speakers were Messrs. John Cassell.and Robert Chambers. Sir. John Cassell showed what bad been the when the paper duty was last reduced. Previous to ...

... small remaining timber duty was to abolished, and that, In deference to the reasonable appeal of tho Burgundy growers, the duty wine in bottles was to be assimilated to the duty on winoa the wood. By the abolition the timber duty a sum £307 ...

... of the corn-laws, enumerating the imposition of a tax upon the succession to real property, the abolition of the advertisement duty and the newspaper stamp; and several measures which had supported his vote, and sometimes by his voice, some of which had ...

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

... full extent of the portico. Six large branch pipes have been fitted up. Tint Post-office and the Newspapers.—The abolition of the stamp duties on newspapers and the substitution of a postage charge have caused a decrease of about one-fourth the number of ...

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

... his mind were the income-tax and tho tea duties, the relative web-lit of taxation felling heavier these than upon malt. He proposed, therefore, to reduce the tea duty lb. Thus, the tea that now rays Is. per lb. duty will hereafter pay 6d.; and he hoped that ...

... required income proposed to equalise the duties Irish and British spirits, abolishing the only remaining differential duty still existing the sister isle. The only new tax which should suggest was a small stamp duty of one penny on bankers’ cheques, from ...

... Medical Lalsarat'ry. IT3. Hoad. N.W. Thirteenth Kdilion.—Just Publi#hed.post free, two stamps. CUKE OF CATARACT AND OTHER EYE DISEASES WITHOUT OPERATION. Abolition pain and danger of operation Medical Treatment. with cases of cure. By EDWARD POWJE3. late ...

... e the reduction or abolition of the present differential duty of one penny per pound on foreign paper, except in the case of countries from which the free export in rags is permitted. Admission of Foreign Spirits at a Reduced Duty. A deputation from the ...

... to.—The tenth resolution, relating to tho imposition a stamp duty on agreements for letting furnished houses for less than a year, was taken next and agreed to. —The ninth, imposing a stamp duty of on licenses for house agents, was next taken and agreed ...

... Federation for the abolition the slate regulation vice was opened by Laffi, iriumvir,and now Slade Professor at Among vice-presidents were Mrs. Butler, known throughout Europe as leader in this great moral movement; Baroness Stamps, daughter of late Prime ...