... PAPER DUTY. Amon° tire many good things in Mr. Gladstone's Budget, we venture to think none are better, or will be more welcome to the country, than the abolition of the Excise Duty on Paper. This duty on paper, constituted one of the taxes on knowledge ...

... supported the amendment. —Sir M. said that nothing but the total abolition of chureh-rates would satiety dissenters.—Mr. WATLINOTON was strongly opposed to the principle of abolition, but at the same time hoped that this question might speedily be removed ...

... retains the Income and some other taxes, and at the same time pro. poses a revision of our Custom and Excise duties--the abolition or reduction of duties os important articles that will largely tend to develop and extend several branches of commerce. His scheme ...

... 12 per cent, on 1859. The gross receipt on stamp duties varied little from that of the pre- ceding year, tbe amount being -£8,292,749, an increase of about a half per cent. The proportion from tbe penny stamp on icceipis and bankers' checks was £411 .-135 ...

... deeds of the yeai. He accedes at last to the long-'Urged demand for a reminion of the Paper Duty. In this, as on the proposed abolition of the newspaper stamp, we are ourselves much interested, end should probably be heard with a degree of suspicion. ...

... for the produce of penny duties. While he roots up a large impost like the paper duty, be also removes a petty tax upon dates. It is the searching revision of the tariff, the spying out and excision of protective and paltry duties, that constitutes the ...

... sugar; they were merely revenue duties, and involved none of the complexities of differential duties. The labouring classes were more benefitted by an enlarged system of free trade rather than by telexing individual duties es creating higher price for labour ...

... the provision which he should have to make to meet it. It would, however, be the duty of the govern. went to lose no time in framing that estimate, and it would be his duty without delay to make the mammary financial statentest. HARBOURS OF REFUGE.—Mr. ...

... sugar duties are to remain as they are for another year ; but, under the provisions of the French Treaty, all duties on French manufac- tures are to be abolished at once ; the duty on brandy to be reduced from 15s. to Bs. 2d., being the excise duty on home-made ...

... show that if the duty on spirits had been raised 104., the Chancellor of the Exchequer would have saved to revenue £2,000,000, which together with the .£1,000,000 he might have added to it by deferring the abolition of the paper duty, would have enabled ...

... was his plessing duty to move thst the thanks of the board be presented to Mr. Alderman Brayshaw, for the able manner in which, aa chairman, he had conducted the proceedings during the past year. He had discharged the onerous duties of bis office manfnlly ...

... the opinions already so strongly expressed by the board, in favour of the adoption of ad valorem duties, and against the system of levying specific duties, as being impracticable, so far as regards the manufactures of this district. The directors, nevertheless ...