... character. The great grievance was that of the stamp duty imposed on all newspapers, placing them entirely out of the reach of the poorer class of workers, It was in 17113, under Queen Anne, that this stamp duty began. By gradual increase it reached, in the ...

... impossible to amend a system so radically wrong-the only remedy being in the sisnul- rec taneous abolition of all existing stamps and taxes an, (except postage stamps, not properly a source of re- boi ventc), and the substitution of an entirely new system, tic ...

... with the completion of the war with Russia. That year saw one Liberal measure passed by the Government-the abolition of the compulsory newspaper stamp; but Lord John Russell's secession, in consequence of the breakdown of his Vienna negotiations, appeared ...

... PUNCiLi THE BENEFIT OF THE BUDGET. The duty on timber abolished, Will do the poor builders great good; Hurrah for the difference demolished 'Twixt wine in the bottle and wood! e Hurrah for the sheer abolition On pepper, ye grocers, of due! How much we ...

... to the Chainber of Deputies the passing of a law for the abolition of season tickets for all places where dramatic and musical entertainments are given and for imposing a duty (by means of a stamp) of 50c. on all free passes, and one of 10 c. on all paid-for ...

... establishment of the Penny Blagazine and C'hamb7eris 0 Journal. The abolition of the stamp duty on newspapers, r he went on, had given a great impulse to newspaper litera- tare and now that the duty on paper had been abolished, we lad free trade in literature ...

... additional, about 1,800,0001., which will leave from 200,0001. to 700,000o. to be spread over a reduction of taxes on knowledge, stamps, paper, hops, malt, and other obnoxious taxes. All the claims and clamours, therefore, for abolishing any'of those taxes are ...

... following Scotch members—nine in number—voted in the minorit of 100 in favour of Mr Milner Gibson's motion i for the abolition of the Stamp on Newspapers:—The Hon. E. P. Bouverie, G. Dune: W. Ewari, J. Fereus, Alexander Hastie, Archibald Hastie, J. Mame ...

... important facts in connection with the newspaper press is the abolition of the Paper duties effected by Mr. Gladstone, of which iMr. Routledge gives the following account:- The Paper duty came forward to claim a decent burial end in 1860 Mr. Gladstone ...

... the approaching session. Mr. Milner Gibson advocated a reduction of the tea and coffee duties, and the repeal of the paper, newspaper stamp, and advertisement, duties. He observed that he would rather the window tax should be abolished alto- gether than ...

... ruffian than a hero of romance. But abouthalf-a-century ago the smuggler's location began to fail him steam and the abolition of duties increased the daniger and lowered the profits, until, nowadays, the longihore salt who buys cigars at the tobaccon- ...

... banquet. His speeches in the House won praise from the most accomplished masters of debate, and one of them, that for the abolition of negro apprenticeship, obtained that still rarer triumph, the conversion of opponents in the subsequent division. Yet the ...