... ABOLITION OF THE PAPER DUTY. Mr. Gladstone, on Friday evening, gave the following interesting account of the various uses of paper in :—The paper duty is in many respects a bed duty, and I will show presently thatis is un- tenable. In the first place ...

... of the proposed substitution of an adhesive stamp, for the impressed stamp, is now some- what doubtf uL The proprietors of papers with large stamped circulations, have shown that the use of adhesive stamps would be all but impossible, and the poet-office ...

... 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 ...

... their assent to the bill. In conjunction with the Paper Duty Abolition bill was another measure called The Newspaper Circulation Bill, having for its object the abolition of the impressed Duty Stamp, the prohibition of the right of ...

... minor charges unon dock warUmts, licenses to eating-honses tell wino and beer, alteration the duty game certificates, the removal of the exemption from stamp duties on certain cheques, and other small items, would yield 38«,000/., making, together with 610 ...

... 200 years that the House of Lords should not meddle or interfere with questions of taxation. The question of the abolition of the paper duty was as nothing compared with the constitutional question involved, With respect to the constitution, it was, as ...

... THE PAPER DUTY AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The Scotsman underitauds that it is * almost certain 1 ' that the Government will resign in the event of Lord Monteagle's amendment on the Paptr Duty BsjpM* Bill being successful. Efforts are being made to create ...

... income-tax should be 9d. with the paper duty con- tinued, or 10J. with the paper duty repealed ; and by j 245 against 192 the House of Commons declared iv favour of a lOd. tax on the owners of property, and I the total abolition of the most odious of all forms ...

... MR. COBD P, ON TH HOUSE OF RDS AN. THE PAPER DUTY. The letter constituents has just been received from Cobden, by Mr. Al.) Healey, of une, 1860, Sir, —I regret to be unable to accept the the public meeting of the ; bat feeling that my constituents have ...

... engages to reduce her duty on coals and coke in 1861 ; and on flax, hemp, jute, and other items, from Ist June, 1361. Ou the Ist of October, 1861, France will reduce duties ou all articles of British production to an ad valorem duty of 30 per cent, and ...

... intention of doing so. THE PAPER DUTY. Sir S. NORTHCOTE asked whether newspaper proprietors who may have in their possession any stamped sheets the day when the proposed new regulations for the abolition of the impressed stamps takes effect will be allowed ...

... out periodically to replace those whkh were consumed. qualification fob offices abolition bill. Lord Tetnham moved the second reading of the Qualification for Offices Abolition BiU. Lord Chelmsford opposed tbe bill, on the ground that the declaration now ...