... upon them, yet they now desired to put an end to a portion of the fire duty. Now if the fire duty did not yield the same amount, it could not be applied to a reduction of the malt duty, and therefore if the hon. member for Dudley's motion should be carried ...

... 31st. December, 1 1858. The additional progressive stamp duty of g 501. was paid at the end of the third year on I 3,692 of thatnumber, and 9,409 became void. I The additional progressive stamp duty of 1001. was paid at the end of the seventh year ...

... Chinese customs duties, which had been objected to, those officers were not under the authority of the British, but were employed by and responsible to the Chinese officials, although we hada interest in the proper collection of those duties, as out of them ...

... arrangement a would be made to prevent newspaper propmetorsi who may have in their possession any stamped sheets when the abolition of the impressed stamp takes place, from suffering any loss. m The ArroeRav-mra-as moved for leave to bri in a bill to amend ...

... we C had got the advertisement and stamp duty off, there caine hi as desperate fight, as you remember, about the paper duty fs 'When the House of Commons, caraying the budget of Mr. tl Gladstone, repealed the paper duty, the House of Lords, 21 following ...

... country bound itself not to place on any French N article on which an excise duty was charged a customs duty L higher than that excise. It followed, therefore, that if the n pap duty of 1id. per lb. was maintained, they wkid be 1obliged to reduce the customs ...

... AND STAMP DISTRI- BUTORS IN SCOTLAND. Mr. E. CRAUFURD asked the Secretary to the Trea. sury whether there wast any intention of making a change in the office of collectors of taxes and distributors of stamps in Scotland, by transferring the duties to officers ...

... MOSES and 80N take this opportunity of announc- I ing that they intend giving their customers the full benefit ofI the abolition of the duty on Silku, Gloves, &c. B.S MOSES and SON, Corner oi Minorles and Aldgate, and Corner of New Oxford-street, and Hatt-street ...

... leave -undone, and that the oath 'can create'the Lense of 'duty 1 to which, in fact, it only appeals It is indeed ,difficult to understand the object of taking an 'oatl;to perform a' duty; but it is still more diffi- Ccult' to. understand the Object ...

... against any paper not liable to the stamp duty. That was a view of the law which they chose to take, not, as he conceived, in accord- auce with the statute, bht they contended that no paper f not liable to the stamp duty was liable to give security, and ...

... . Post free, packed in wood box, for 18 stamps ; MI two for 30 stamps three for 4e stamps-SMITH and Co., watchmakers, 2, Catherine-terrace, Holland Park-road, Kensing- as, ton, London. rirst quality, 24 stamps. C. WATCHES, JEWELLERY, PLATE.-In *11, c ...

... country, but the commercial value of t which it would be difficult to over-estimate. While the abatement of excessive duties and the abolition of prohibitory ones in France has formed the subject of protracted uegotiation betw-een the Imperial Government and ...