... REPEAL OF THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. The shilling duty on advertisements has been at last repealed. The act is not yet, we believe, in operation ; but we expect an official notification of it every day. This abolition of a shilling on every advertisement—big ...

... meeting, ol proposing him tor the chair, and be was unanimously adopted (hear, hear). It was their duty support their chairman in the per* f innance of those duties in that r»om, and not only that, out to »ee that out doors his conduct, that reupicl, does not ...

... proposal of sacrificing so large revenue the duty now yields. If the dnty bo not abolished, then the newspaper press should insist on allowing thing* to remain as they now are not suffering any interference with the stamp,* and the right of transmission which ...

... Mr. said fell II to be his duty to call upon tiic committee to sustain the decision otthc house a former occasion—tliat all the duties now payable ujwnadvertisements should rcpxaled; and, to move an amendment—“ That all duties now chargeable advertisements ...

... THE ARMY WITHOUT CHIEF. STAMPED, 5 ...

... pmumuju. HOUSE OF LORDS—ThuMDAT. After a reference to the assassination Darcy The second reading the Compulsory Church Kates' Abolition Bill was moved by Bail Rmsell. After considerable discussion, the second reading was agreed to, and the House adjourned. ...

... Manufacturer) moved that the duty on paper be abolished. Mr. Reynolds and other members supported the motion, when the house dividedfor the motion 107—against, 195—majority against, 88. On the next, for the abolition of the newspaper stamp, the numbers were— For ...

... Inland Revenue Departrotnt, spot which, cm the abolition of the i mpressed stem on newspapers from the tiist of Octots r, 187 , the duty devolved of pioviding wrappers bearii. h;tlf-1 en .y postage stamps and adhesive halt pinny I,bas, issued in the yr ...

... doing. On Thursday in the House of Commons government successfully resisted the abolition of the stamp and paper duties ; but were beaten by a majority of 31 the advertisement duty. The New Ross Election Committee did not allow Mr. Duffy Ids expenses. Mirth ...

... were printed paid a duty of per pound, each copy issued stamp duty of Id., and each adveriisementatax of Js. ld., the prices were necessarily high, and the circulation—as compared with the newspapers of today —small. With the abolition the “taxes on knowledge ...

... opposed Mr. Milner Gibson’s motion for the abolition of direct taxation on the press—on the true source of knowledge. Here is whig consistency. In spite of Lord John and Company, however, the abolition of the duty on advertisements was carried by a majority ...

... truly, Joseph Fishes. John 8 Gardiner, Esq.. Controller Stamp Duties, Ireland. While it may frankly be admitted that since the removal of the paper duty, and the consequent abolition the stamps newspapers generally, these returns do not ...