... with the completion of the war with Russia. That year saw one Liberal measure passed by the Government-the abolition of the compulsory newspaper stamp; but Lord John Russell's secession, in consequence of the breakdown of his Vienna negotiations, appeared ...

... PUNCiLi THE BENEFIT OF THE BUDGET. The duty on timber abolished, Will do the poor builders great good; Hurrah for the difference demolished 'Twixt wine in the bottle and wood! e Hurrah for the sheer abolition On pepper, ye grocers, of due! How much we ...

... establishment of the Penny Blagazine and C'hamb7eris 0 Journal. The abolition of the stamp duty on newspapers, r he went on, had given a great impulse to newspaper litera- tare and now that the duty on paper had been abolished, we lad free trade in literature ...

... real facts ? P The French have lowered their duties or, English coal, i ever' description of iron, raw and manufactured, cotton D goods, flax, and various other articles, while England g9 has lowered her duties on wine and. brandy, and abo- 1 lished them ...

... tile author to prepare this work for the press. It was Dearly ready for publication when he became so seriously ill that the duty of bringing it out at the time for which it was announced devolvud upon another. The work was scarcely in the bands of the ...

... and furs K will aeon berequired. The muffs. theocloaks, the tippete are getting ready, and this Is a luxury which affords a stamp for the moat dis- Sr tinguished lady to be known by. Aetracan, though no longer lbe g rge, may yet be assumed as a fancy; but ...

... of the duties remitted wats neai'ly tharee tiiues as great as those of 1842; and it will lie eeen that Sir Robert Peel nowv extended hie experiment still fairther than in that yeat', by stot only remitting hut absolutely repealing many duties. Its still ...

... the ad~vertisement duty off, and the stamp duty off, there came a desierate, fight, as you remember, about the paper duty. (Clheers,) And when a the House of Commons, carrying the budget of Mr. Glad. B atone, repealed the paper duty, the ...

... impossible for any sudden organic change take place in England. referred to the abolition of Church Rates, and the question of Reform. He would ask them how long the abolition of Church Rates had been before the public? For years. Ever since the year 1842 ...

... the sliding scale of duties on wheat should be exchanged for eight shillings fixed duty; that the prohibition of foreign sugar should be reduced to a differential duty of twelve shillings a hundredweight, and the protective duty on timber, instead of ...

... tate of India been attended by Colonel E lephaut ? A WoRD WITH TILE POET LauntEATr.-Ob, Mr. Tennyson! Judy has felt it her duty already to tell ycu that you were writing verses utterly unworthy of your reputation; but iie regrets to see that you have ...

... the navy, ltie Civil entinoerlog, or Ithe duties of tiles conutlng.houes-in eheti any call~ng which a gentleman and a citicen of this fleconntry- might choose for hitsssif, end might heoe by ei'etfrmiog his duty to confer advantages upon the country ov~ ...