... gained. The reduction of the stamp duty from 4d. Id. in 1836 was a grand step in advance; but the crowning triumph (not reckoning the abolition of the paper duty, which is yet to come) was the abolition of the compulsory penny ...

... questions asked were inserted. duty was then charged on advertisements according to the number of lines they contained. Till* duty was afterwards fixed ike fid. in ami Ireland. By an act and 4 William IV. passed in this duty was reduced to Is. (si. Kngland ...

... Grain from every land on this fair earth is now admitted to our porta absolutely free of any duty whatever. For nearly a quarter of a century after the abolition of the Corn Laws, registration fee of a shilling per quarter was levied upon all importations ...

... removal of the shackles which the Press was weighted—the repeal first of the advertisement duty, the abolition of the compulsory stamp, and the extinction of the paper duty—there came a development of journalism which within the last quarter of a century has ...

... Mahoiuedatis, are ruined under the tyranny and opjiressum of the infidel ami treacherous hnglish. It is therefore the bounden duty of all the wealthy people India, especially of those who have any sort of connexion with any of the Mahomedan Royal families ...

... from most art want | Consumption. Now, the state of the Excise dutie prefer test index to the condition of the and un lament | return is cecidcdly of a fav character. 5 Lah Upon the Stamps there isa considerable incre here is | We are bound to add that ...