... the paper duties—would yield to the popular conviction on this question. He believed the Chancellor of the Exchequer was hard pressed at the time, but he had declared that if one duty more than another required to be repealed it was the duty on paper. ...

... STAMP TAX OX CONSIGNMENTS. u, V (' ’■ 1 ' Every day's experience of the operation of the new Stamp demon»tr»tes more clearly the mistake Mr. Gladstone has committed in putting tax of eighteenpeno* on every special consignment. The Chancellor of the Exchequer ...

... the Canadian Parliament on the ITthult. :- “The removal of the duties on tea and coffee will lessen the cost of those important articles of food to the people, and the rci>eal of the stamp tax on bills of exchange and promissory notes will lie appreciated ...

... to the abolition of duties which form the second or supplementary part of the measure we propose for the alteration of the Customs' duties. We propose to abolish entirely and immediately the duty on butter, which yields £95,000 (cheers); the ...

... 1760, and both tea and sugar might now be made luxuries of the rich if duties enough were imposed upon them. The wine duties were duties of protection, differential, not revenue duties. Mr. Gladstone then proceeded to develop a supplementary measure of Customs’ ...

... Corresponding Secretary, ABOLITION OP AUSTRIAN NEWSPAPER STAMP. The aemi oSeial Frsmdenblatt statee that in the Lower House of the Austrian Beicbsrath to-day the Uiniater of Fioanes will introdnoe Bills for abolishing the newspsper stamp duly from January 1 ...

... public money, and, therefore, it furnishes strong argument for the abolition of the stamp. propose, therefore, that the stamp should be abolished on the day on which the alteration in the stamp laws lakea place (hear, hear). But there are certain papers that ...

... of supply, and several votes were taken on accounts of Army Estimates. The Income Tax Bill passed through Committee. The Stamp Duties Bill read a second time. The House adjourned at 6 p.m. [Pee Eeutee’s Telegram. Paris, Wednesday.—The Paris papers contain ...

... this tax were at length effective, and on the 4th of August, 1853, the duty upon advertisements was repealed. The compulsory stamp became the next object of our movement. The penny stamp was viewed as a prohibition upon cheap newspapers, so important as agents ...

... operation of the duty on draught and cheques introduced by the late government and explained that it was difficult to say what that duty would produce, but he thought £200,000 or something lower would be found something like what that duty would add to the ...

... at the same rate as last year, the existing deficit would be got rid of for the future. He next proposed the abolition of the differential duty on Irish spirits, and from this source he auticipated increased revenue of £500,000, the precise amount of the ...

... they were inconsistent with the new measures to procure their virtual abolition. The bill he held in his hand was most carefully prepared by gentlemen well qualified to perform this duty. After some further business of no general interest, the House adjourned ...