... hmtd; withdrew, a clause providing for the exemption from estate duty of provision made during lifetime for the payment of duty. Mr. Gibson Bowles moved the abolition of settlement estate duty as imp:: by ::: Act of lfll,lbul after a debate withdrew roposal ...

... advertisement duties, or the taxes on knowledge.” The reduction of the stamp duty from 4d. to Id. in 1836 was a grand step in advance; but the crowning triumph (not reckoning the total abolition of the paper duty, which is yet to come) was ...

... difficulty beisrlM _____ The propoeed abolition C uroh-ratea is awakening powerful nepseition. An kfl ten ial deputation wailed upon Lord Derby, on Monday, for the porpese stating their views against the b ll lor the abolition of Churchratee introduced by Sir ...

... for newspaper proprietors in the long run, if the impressed stamp were abolished altogether, and postage stamps always used. That a newspaper should be sent over and over again for one stamp seems to me as contrary to good policy as that a letter should ...

... the abolition of the tes duty 2d in it. off ten, at a cost to the revenue of so caused the another towards a free breakfast the aid of the Conservative oft men into the Sat of » the boat's bottom Usly the three Sir Stafford Nortboote’s abolition pf the ...

... spread of humanitarian ideas may. have contributed to the spread of leprosy. Humanity dictated the abolition of a cruel though effective means of stamping out the disease; but, unfortunately, wiser sanitary regulations were not enforced in its place. The ...

... dering the reign of the present Emperor—many °cations have been afforded for the display of this sincere satisfaction. The abolition of serfloin, the restriction of the use of corpond punishment, the tepuilisation of the laws on the subject ef imprisonment ...

... ii the facilities for the labourer had been compelled tot the of and The lawyers’ fees and heavy what his him. He had d stamp duties which had to be paid for the transfer of this of + he believed he had a right land were monstrous and absurd, and omall ...

... t*ieir party on Mr. Wise m« t on j against 106 Mr. Monsell’s; against 197 the question of »he BaUof 12 against 227 on the abolition of church rates, n commit***©, and 13 against 2GB on tho third reading of the U‘t-nam* d m«war©. A Prophecy Fplfilled.—lt ...

... given bring in a Bill to amend (he Copjhold Aets, and (he House adjourned. _ The House of Lords met on Tuesday, when the Stamp Duty on Passports Bill was read a third time. Lord Lyttelton complained that although the HoUM of Common! had paaaed resolution ...

... time past, and it was at last letters were in the babi hem, and that Mr. Howarth re stamps, and gave the boys pastry and Mr Howarth, and at la bis bouse. and found stamps to the value of £3 whieh had been torn from the Manchester y, and, by guilty, was ...

... 1541b. for Chancery stamps, and 2,2331b. for India postage stamps. An Anomaly. —The Statesman remarks Strange to say, now that tho penny stamp has been abolished several years, and that a chsap daily press has been established, with larger aggregate circulation ...