... Committees the Corps Legislatif. With reference to the Press, the proposed changes would consist in the lowering of the Stamp Duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation ; and, cases of offences against the Press laws, the substitution of ...

... ABOLITION OF THE PAPER AND NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIFS. All connected with the press will rejoice in the abolition of the paper duty, as relieving the raw material—the blank sheet of all literary ope- rations—from a tax which is less considerable in amount ...

... PUBLIC NOTICES. SSOCIATION FOR THE ABOLITION OR REDUCTION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCES. PATRONS. The t Hon, Lord STANLEY, M.P. Sir James Bart., M.P. Sir VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart., THOMAS SLINesBY DuNComBE, Esq., M.P. GEORGE HADFIELD, -» M JoHN ARTHUR ...

... church rates abolition bill. Sir J. Trelawny the seoonl reading of the Rates Abolition Bill. Kn denied thrt he brought the bill forward in the interests of the Liberatkm Society; and declined enter into a lengthened argument in support of-the measure ...

... revision of the foreign wine duty, which was protective and differential duty. The grand feature of the wine duty was its prohibitory power. Foreign duty was ss, 10d., colonial duty lid., and there was a virtual excise ...

... from the Whine at the Reamed Duty. WRITE WIN ES—llocheicuor ISt and 245, also Mdreobruner 26s per doz. sporkling Hock Ms, also Sparkling Meddle 38s per doz. quartz, and 211 per don. pinta. - Winos tram Spain at the Reduced Duty. 811F.latY (P..le or 264 per ...

... been marvellously restored by very simple means, and as a public duty feels it incumbent him th information toothers similarly affected, receipt of a directed envelope bearing two stamps addressed B. B. Laurie. Hisq., Montague Chambers, Montague Street ...

... Vrocctditio in Varliantent. HOUSE OF LORDS. Friday. June 2L CHURCH RATRS. Lord DERBY, in presenting a petition against the abolition of Church Rates, expressed a hope that the recent rejectment in the other house of the bill for the unconditional repeal ...

... and will, no doubt, be read with much interest. The Newspaper Stamp. —There is a very general feeling that the proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to abolish the newspaper stamp is unwise and injudicious. In the very able article which appeared ...

... principle of alow rate of imjsort duties. In the Aim-net treaty with Japan. 1 think or 25 per cent. ralorrm was duty imposed on all foreign import* : and I was quite eoaßdent. ■ if we could induce the Japanese to relax that duty with respect to the few articles ...

... imported and exported, a penny stamp on all notes of sale, a threepenny stamp on stock warrants, a probate charge on personal estate, a new stamp on leases, a new charge on building societies, an Excise duty and a Custom’s duty on chicory, a ...

... imported and exported, a penny stamp on all notes of sale, a threepenny stamp on stock warrants, a probate charge on personal estate, a new stamp on leases, a new charge on building societies, an Excise duty and a Custom’s duty on chicory, a ...