... perboshel; butler, from IPs, &s per cwt.; and raisins, from fHl.lolOs. per cwt • •• •• 242,000 Ditto of duties minor articles food.. 70.00 ft Abolition of duties 123 ditto .. 53,00 Whatever difference of opinion may exist with reference to the merit* of the ...

... elsewhere. Foreign journals are to par like stamp duty, except there should diplomatic conventions, standing in the way of the regulation. (Note. —Considering the size and supplements of English journals, the stamp duty will something very serious.) Political ...

... to established, andTWulTdelivencs will then take place. The Si number of letters during the past year was has the abolition of the stamp, and the low . c emte from that source has been mission of book packets has experienced during^lB. ,5 the enormous ...

... £2.600,000. He also proposed to reduce the duty on fire insurance to a uniform rate of eighteen pence from the 20th of June next, and to substitute for the duty of one shilling fire insurance policies stamp duty of one penny. By this arrangement there would ...

... to abolish onceand totally all duties upon manufactured goods; to reduce the duty on brandy from 15s to 8s gallon, or the level of the colonial duty; and on foreign wines generally from 5s 10d to ii gallon, the latter duty to be still further reduced on ...

... at 10.30 am. Petition against the Abolition or Chubch Hates.—We have been favoured by the Rev. Montague Hawtrey, Rural Dean, with the following copy a proposed petition to both Houses o Parliament, against the Abolition of Church Rates, which suggests should ...

... has happened, and of this the Commissioners very justly complain. The Excise and Stamp Duties, the Land and Assessed Taxes, are of course all dealt with. The Spirit Duties appear to have increased considerably, spite of the temperance and teetotal societies ...

... construction of Watch made, with tbeir prices, post tree for 2 stamps, from which buyers can select. Also a catalogue of Silver and Electro Plate, containing 300 illustrations, post free for 6 stamps. J. W. Benson, maker of the Great Clock for the Exhibition ...

... his first resolution respecting the paper duties, but rather do so on the two latter propositions—forthe repeal of the newspaper stamp duty and for the repeal of the advertisement duty. He believed the paper duty ought also to be repealed, ...

... wae then ordered to read a third time to-morrow. On the consideration of the Stamp Duties Bill as amended, Mr. Bentinck moved the omission of the clause imposing a stamp duty upon contract notes, wbich, hs said, would legalise every species of gambling ...

... amount of no less than nine millions of Customs duties had been repealed. It was equally hopeless to expect to make good the deficiency from the Excise duties, because one million and a half Excise duties had been reduced within the same, ten years since ...

... Monday, April 22. STAMP DUTIES. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated the course he had resolved to take with respect to the Stamp Duties Bill. The actual proposition carried by the vote in committee the other night was that the stamp on ...