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 ...

LITERATURE

... the de] improvement which has made it the most powerful op of civilizers ; the power-looma was perfected in 1787. Ki The abolition of the Slave trade was brought for- of mnally before Parliament in 1788. In 1782 the tt first practical advance towards the ...

REVIEWS

... measures. The abolition of the Corn Laws, he argues, was a step that necessarily in- f creased ther evils resulting from the potato hi~.itit aird was, moreovei,, a step taken with the design of so increasing them:- 1This repeal of the duties on foreign ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... principles 'the duty of the States to resist the United States Government, of the cities to resist the States, and of the villages to resist the cities.' Why the philo- sopher stopped there we do not know. He ought to have added that it was the duty of each household ...

THE LORD ADVOCATE ON PERIODICAL LITERATURE

... 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 ...

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1862

... its manifest and manifold advantages, and. to the number of the population. In a question of so much importance it was the duty of PUrliament to inteifere, and three msasures, if . sanctioned by legislati'e enactment, would contribute most materiallylto ...

LITERATURE

... 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 ...

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER

... 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 ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... In 1833 something was done by the reduction of the advertisement duty, and in 1836 much more help was given by the lowering of the newspaper stamp to a penny. In 1853 the advertisement duty was altogether swept away, and in 1855 the last penny of the newspaper ...

THE EASTER AMUSEMENTS

... Mazeppa, comes on, and he is very amusing in the recital of his catalogue of woes, all of which seem to be traceable to the abolition of Astley's as an equestrian establishment. Even 'its very name, he says, is changed, for it is now called the Westminster ...

Published: Sunday 12 April 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 14293 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FASHION AND VARIETIES

... 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~ ...

Literary Notices

... happiest lyrics-a season of true literary activity, a re- lieving of teeming heart and brain. Ultimately the abolition of the newspaper stamp, and the disturbance consequent thereupon, wrenched him from his Citizen moorings, and left him for a year or ...