... once your export duty on roal-remit entirely and at once the duties on articles of l,ivurv —reduce materially and at once the duties on wine and spirits, and on gold and silver plate, and I will th*n -droit all your articles on duty not exceeding 30 per ...

... equivalent, total abolition of the duty on paper, and the abolition of the impressed stamp on newspapers—which may be a slight advantage to newspaper proprietors, inasmuch, as when a paper is sent from hand to hand one postage stamp will not ...

... immediate and total abolition of the j duties on all French manufactured goods, with the exception of those upon two or three special articles. The duty on brandy was to be reduced from 153. per gallon to Bs. 2d. per gallon, the duty now chargeable upon ...

... All manufactured articles imported into France from this country are to be admitted under a protective duty but coal to be admitted under a revenue duty, and we are to bind ourselves not to make coal an article of revenue to ourselves, that is to say, it ...

... cleared for them all strangers except sons peers. THE PAPER DUTY REPEAL BILL. Earl GRANYILLE moved the second reading the Paper Duty Repeal Bill. He and, that after repeated condemnations of the duty in the other house, tbe government had decided to propose ...

... whicti was reduced by errors and uiiscalcu- .£264,000, and £700,000, the of the paper duty available for the financial year (if it should the House Common* that the duty should bj levied), those three items would amount to £1,464,000. Deducting this sum ...

... our having renounced the right to lay an expoit duty on coal. The Emperor of the French had since imposed an import duty on coal, on which we had abandoned the right which we had to impose an export duty, and foreign potentate had thus secured an amount ...

... upon Mr. Ellison, present fulfilling similar duties at Newcastle-oc-Tyne. He is very J highly spoken of by the local journals. It is understood that some short time will elapse before he assumes his duties here. The Borough Treasurer of Salford is about ...

... millions created by the China war His plan is very simple. He appropriates the unrepealed paper duties. He hopes to realize a million by puttiog an addition duty of Is. lid. per gallon upon spirits ; and the remaining million and a half to be borrowed froaa ...

... Exchequer, has literally forced through committee, with, we tr.ink, something like indecent haste, the Income Tax Bill and the Stamp Duties Bill, in order that they may get into the Lords before Easter. the House of Lords last night, answer to motion of Earl ...

... Bill and the Stamp Duties (No. 2) Bill passed through committee. The Customs (No. 2) Bill and the Daienoe the Realm Bill were read a second time. The Spirits Bill was read u third time and passed. The Spirit Duties Bill and the Excise Duties Biil passed ...

... disputed award. T HE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE PAPER DUTY. MEETINGS IN MANCHESTER. Great alarm has been shown by the Liberals of Manchester at the threatened opposition in the Houae of to the repeal of the paper duty. On Monday meeting, convened by circular, was ...