... nothing but unconditional abolition woidd satisfy them, although they were not desirous of taking away from the Church a single ?? wliich rightly belonged to it. Mr. Watlington spoke strongly against the principle of abolition, and hoped that the question ...

... libel, and at the same time the amount of the security was increased. As at that time the stamp duty on newspapers was ia force, it was ret unnatural that the duty of enforcing the law of secu- rity should be committed to the department which was already ...

... Poaching Prevention Bill— committee ; Courts of the Church of Scotland Bill— second reading; Judgments Law Amendment (Ireland) [Stamp Duty]— committee thereupon ; Fisheries (Ireland) Bill— committee; Drainage (Ireland) Bill -as amended to be consi- dered ; Elections ...

... submitted to you — among others a bill for increasing the number of deputies to the Lower House, and a bill for the abolition of the stamp duty on printed matter, for which an equi- valent will be substituted. The revenue suffices to meet the expenditure of ...

... on Government concessions ; by the more regular collection of tbe registry and stamp taxes ; by tbe reorganisation of tbe Government tobacco manufactories ; by the abolition of the existing income tax and the substitution of a general tax on all in- comes ...

... jjillions a year to the Treasury : such as the increase of the tax ou personal pro- perty, the abolition of free towns, and the new J addition to ihe stamp duties. The measures which are to re-establish the equilibrium of the budgets ; will come by aud by ...

... support such a plan at present. M-. Lubbock then ! avowed 'iims«lf .in favour of the abolition of ?? rates, and au aiteratiowiu- the present system of tne paper duties, as rogs wereriiw exported dutyfree, giving a large bonus to the foreign paper manufacto^r ...

... the new 2 j ,- : money. 2. The stamp duty : • . to say :» considerable imposts, which do w . tion of a journal by any but tly ri .. to bear the heavy expenses. , amendment which proposes to subject non- rl ds t ti stamp duty, from which lupt ;. to the present ...

... or any other duty that has been repealed for the last 20 years. (Hear, hear. ) It is perfectly true this is an increasing duty, and I admit that the duty is not one of those which bas the greatest claim to be repealed ; but it is a duty of that kind ...

... prices FRENCH SILKS DUTY FREE— GRANT and iASK late Williams and Co. have iust received a large importation of NEW FRENCH SILKS, which they are enabled to sell at greatly -reduced prices in consequence of the abolition of the duty. Grant and Gask l*eg ...

... reduced hy the payments which the bank makes to the state to the extent of 188,078/. per annum in respect of composition for stamp duties aud of profit ou the issue of notes. The act of 1808 assigned to the bank, as a remuneration for its charges and its ...

... thought that tbe income tax aud the tea duties ought to be reduced before the malt tax was got rid of. This Mr. Bentinck looks upon as a griev- ance. But he must know perfectly well that tbe reduction of the tea duties and the income tax benefited the ag ...