... tiptoe! an *sport duty on rage. This will go far to reutra!ize the benefit of the nearest). An export duty is equivalent to an import duty, lira its working in this Instance is the same as if we hued foreign rags, bet let in livelier paper duty free. Were this ...

... ABOLITION OF CHURCH-RATES. Numerous petitions having been presented for and against the abolition of church-rates. Sir J. Trei.av. moved that the House go into committee upon the church-rates abolition bill. After some remarks from Mr. Packe in opposition ...

... districts, of Scotland especially, the abolition of the impressed stamp will prove a great annoyance to the publishers, and a serious grievance to the readers of newspapers. At present the use of the impressed stamp is optional, and a large proportion of ...

... the dealers the usual manner. There will a 10-s the repeal of the paper duty in 1860 —lB6l of £1.000,0,0. AIIOLITION OF TUB NEWSPAPER IMPRESSED STAMP. The abolition of the paper duty w ill save L.20.000 a-yesr in the establishment of the Board of Inland ...

... en Knowvledge, so ed called, has not prospered in the hands of the Ministry to this session. The proposed abolition of the newspaper di stamp, which, instead of being a tax on knowledge, is an a much prized public boon, in aid of thie circulation of ...

... wholly passed. The Income-Tax Bill and the Stamp Duty Hill both received the Royal assent upon Tuesday. The former fixes the tax at tenpence in tho pound, and the latter make important alterations the Stamp duties. The chief points for the public recollect ...

... taxation to the extent of £2,140,000. ABOLITION PAPER DUTY, AND STAMP NEWSPAPERS. There remained about a million to be given in further remission, and in the first place the Government proposed to abolish the Paper Duty. Mr Gladstone pointed out the oppressive ...

... CHURCH-RATES. Numerous petitions haTing been presented for and against the abolition of Church-rates, Sir J. moved that the House into Committee upon the Church-rates Abolition Bill Newdeoate proposed as an amendment That this House will to-morrow resolve ...

... and partly on account of all d the public, stoutly remonstrate against the abolition the z of the impressed stamp, and are not propitiated by the debo repeal of the paper duty, which will go chiefly into Lord the pockets of the paper manufacturers, and ...

... the trade for full allowance of drawback on the abolition of the paper duty. Chater, a member of the deputation, said they anticipated a great fall in the price of paper after the Ist of July, should the duty cease on that day. Mr Gladstone remarked—Then ...

... and tea a duties ; resorting to 9d in the pound income tax, I' and foregoing all attempts to relieve the public of b the more pressing items of taxation. The second, to A give up the war duties on tea and sugar, retaining only e peace duties, and fall ...

... tomorrow. STAMP-DTTTIES. In Committee of Ways and Means, resolution proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was agreed to,imposing a Stamp-duty on promissory notes for sums exceeding £4000, for every £1000, or part of £1000, instead of the duty now payable ...