... Commons, the abolition of the advertisement duty and the stamp duty, and on the prospect they no hbad of the abolition of the re. maining restriction, the duty on paper, being also abolished. Dr. Watts moved ...

... moved that thie repeslof the duty on pae as inexe dient. The whole of the debate It a~o~the qeto whether it weatl expedient to'have en income-a o d in the pound with the paper. duties continued., or of l0u. with the paper duties abolished. On a division the ...

... REPEAL OF THE PAPER DUTY. A meetinsg of gentlemen conneoted with the Lon- ?? provincial press, and others interested in the do of the paper duty, was held on Wednesday at repo s ffeeOhuse, Fleet-street, the object being to PeeleS 0 motion of which Sir ...

... carried out measures which led te the repeal of the advertisement aL.' the stamp duty-(hesr)-aud which be trusted would now, -Ai to their consummate vio- ?? repeel of the duty on paper. That meeting was convened in consequence ot * request mmade to the ...

... 'a The whole of -the debate turned on the single quesfion; shall the income-tax be 9d., with the paper duty continued, or 1id. with the paper duty repealed? and' the House of Commons decided by 245 tf 12 in, favpur of 10d.'on the owners of property, and ...

... liable to any higher rate of stamp duty than 2s. 6d. (exclusive as aforesaid), such lease or tack shall not be available unless stamped with a particular stamp for denoting or testifying the payment of the full and proper stamp ...

... on the day the r educed duties came into operation, erual in amount to the ditiereuce between this duty hitherto paid on British hops ; and the duties to bh levied on hops in future, as otherwise fabreign hops at the reduced duty will compete unfairly with ...

... price of brandy; of 7s. in the duty on currants ; of 4s. in the duty on raisinS and ?? , of 3ois. in the duty on hops, involving of course a correspoinding reduction in the price of beer ; of atotal abolition of the duties onl butter, tallow ...

... new tariff, the reduction of the duties on wine, spirits, I and sugar, as well as the total abolition of the duties on a number of ! small articles all tending to swell the revenue. We believe, however, that the wine duty may be considered au exception ...

... 1760, and both tea and sugar might now be made luxuries of the rich if duties enough were imposed upon them. The wine duties were duties of protection, differential, not revenue duties. Mr Gladstone then proceeded to develope a supplementary measure of customs' ...

... any way with rapeot to the excise paper duty dit wan under Ihe seventh aetude, which provided for the.ed if miteton of general merchandise from F~ranca at no cuotomsne r, duty exceeding the amount of any excise duty imposed upon the eame commodities In England ...

... of a return to wisdom onthe pirt of the House of Commons, in the narrow majorities by which the Church Rates Abolition bill, ard the Paper Duty Repeal bill, were carried. We are told asaio, by notorious Coxservatives, that conservatism, is gaining strength ...