... the following reductions: To reduce the duty on coffee by one-half, viz., from 2Ss. per cwt. to 14s. To reduce the Customs duty on chicory by one-half, viz., from 265. 6d. to 13s. 3d. per cwt. ; and the Excise duty also by onehalf, viz., from 245. Sd.to ...

... newspaper stamp duty, of about £242,000; or of rather more than one half. The average weight of the nowspipers which pass through the post-office is now about three ounces each; this average having decreased, since the abolition of the newspaper stamp, by about ...

... reduce all prohibitive duties on articles of British produce, and to admit manufactures on a certain list at an ad valorem duty of 30 per cent, to be reduced in three years to 25 per cent. England engaged to abolish all duties on French manufactures at ...

... friendly feeling between nations The item for abolishing the paper duty was, however, at uck out by the Lords. lu the followiag session Air. Gladstone incorporated the abolition of the paper duty in Money Bill, and, you Unow. the House of Lords cannot interfere ...

... There are, of course, some arguments in favour of the retention of the duty, but the arguments are certainly in favour the abolition. What a contrast was the debate on the paper duty to some of those illiberal, narrow-minded notions which the Sidmonths ...

... that wdl accrue to the gas consvimers of the Metropolis, and also to the coal industry the countrv in consequence of the abolition of the coal dues, which it is confidently believed will effected next year, has been prominently brought out at the meetings ...

... possibly for China. The Russian houses are once more showing themselves a little; and the reduction of the duties they have to pay, together with the abolition of the Sonnd dues, raises the expectation of an augmented consumption in that empire of the British ...

... am thankful for your warn- ing.—Miss Ellis. A GUIDE to COURTSHIP and MARRIAGE, sent post free on receipt of twelve penny stamps. DO YOU WANT LUXURIANT HAIR, WHISKERS, &c. ?—Hundreds of testimonials prove the almost magical powerol - ELLEN GRAHAM’S NIOUKRENE ...

... training, helped Peel with the Reform the Tariff finger posts—principle and duty—were which proposed the abolition or reduction of already dictating him Radicalism of duties 730 out more than 1,250 articles future. In his earliest addresa Newark ne ♦Hen ...

... land tax, house tax, and these produced last year X 6,600.000 ; and stamps wlach iucl delegacies and slicer-mum duties, probates and wills, fire ' nice, newspaper, and' many other duties, amount,- . ing to .1111,25001 X Poet-office and telegraph vide, 21 ...

... ordinary mortals quake with fear. But the foorpenny 'tamp was doomed. It's abolition was demanded, and • public opinion strong enough to enforce chat demand had been created, so a penny stamp was made to answer in its place. The agitation hotel five years, and ...

... impolicy of maintaining the paper duty as a permanent source of revenue. Under ordinary circumstances, with strong Government and an , ample revenue, such a resolution might be deemed | the precursor of the speedy abolition of the obnoxious impost; but as ...