... rendering necessary an undue amount of capital for the manufacture of the taxed articles. After noticing the abolition of late years of the duties on various manufac- tured articles, he said it was true that the newspaper did not pay at its present price ...

... 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 ...

... 15. NEWSPAPER STAMPS.—In answer to Sir'S. North- cote, Mr. GLADSTONE ^id that some arrangement would be made to prevent newspaper proprietors who may have in their possession any stamped sheets when the abolition of the impressed stamp takes place, from ...

... less a person than Lord Stanley. WE hear of an agitation for a halfpenny stamp for newspapers. Mr. Gladstone proposed-or was about to propose-the abolition of the impressed stamp, but his resolution was overcome by the representations of a powerful section ...

... half hours. The Tea Duties.-At a meeting of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce on Thursday it was unanimously resolved, That a memorial be presented to Parliament narrating the arrangement made by Parliament in 1858, by which the duty on tea was to have ...

... what had been the result t when the paper duty was last reduced. Previous to 1836 ) the duty on first-class paper was 3d. per IK, and on second-class paper 1tn. per lb.; and in 1836 it was P equalised, the duty bein? fixpd at ljd. per lb. In 1836 the ...

... unlike a newspaper, was one, and as such ought to pay the stamp duty. It was during this year that an organised struggle of friends of the people commenced for the abolition of the stamp duty, or the removal of the taxes on knowledge.' In ...

... news- paper stamp. The following duties have been materially re- duced or abolished:—Tea, sugar, bread, dried fruits, shoes and clothes, hats and caps, timber for building or furniture, the postage of letters, the stamp on newspapers, and the duty on adver- ...

... full extent of the portico. Six large branch pipes have been fitted up. THE 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 in the number ...

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

... remaining timber duty was to be abolished, and that, in deference to the reasonable appeal of the Burgundy wine growers, the duty on wine in bottles ^as to be assimilated to the duty on wines in the wood. By the abolition of the timber duty ...

... had actually been only £ 529,000. As regarded spirits, there was an abolition of the differential duties, making a reduction of duty on brandy of £ 116,000; but in July an additional duty had been placed on foreign spirits, which was estimated to yield £ ...