... committees in the Corps Legislatif. With reference to the press, the proposed changes would consist in lowering of tnc stamp duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation, and, in cases of offences against the press laws, the substitution ...

... committees in the Corps Legislatif. With reference t) the press, the proposed changes woald consist in a lowering of the stamp duty, the abolition of the neces. sity for a Governmcnt authorisation, and, in cases ci offences against the press laws, the substitution ...

... ABOLITION OF CHURCH RATES. Sit JOUN TRELAWNEY meved the second reading of the bill for the total abolition of church rates, Ile said that last session petitions, ll?ntd by 699,000 persons, bad been presented in favour of his measure, and although pumarous ...

... 200 years that the House of Lords should not meddle or interfere with questions of taxation. The question of the abolition of the paper duty was as nothing compared with the constitutional question involved, With respect to the constitution, it was, as ...

... THE PAPER DUTY AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The Scotsman underitauds that it is * almost certain 1 ' that the Government will resign in the event of Lord Monteagle's amendment on the Paptr Duty BsjpM* Bill being successful. Efforts are being made to create ...

... House of Commons against the unqualified abolition of this ancient parochial charge and ecclesiastical district in England ale*. Let; the clergy look to this : they will be the first to suffer by church-rate abolition. . . .„ . The Church Institution (4, ...

... the first duty of statesman who sets himself to grapple with the subject The reformation of the offender is, of course, an important object to be kept in view in dealing with the criminal classes. But charity begins at home ; and the first duty of society ...

... trades have done, how wondertufly cheapness increases demand. In all the great centres of population since the abolition of the mewspaper stamps, an almost fabulous increase has taken place in the circulation of newspapers ; in London, Manchester, Dublin ...

... July 19. A bill has been proposed by the Minister Finance for the modification of newspaper stamps and the abolition of the duty on advertisemente and of stamps for circulars containing ments. AMERICA. [By Atlantic Telegraph.) New York, July 18, 6 p.» ...

... HOLLAND. Tae HAcug, March 13,—The Second Chamber has approved by 41 votes against 31, a bill for the abolition of the newspaper stamp duty both upon home and foreign journals. The bill is to take effect from the 30th of June, ...

... opponents were altogether against that, and we had years of labour to induce them to get rid of the newspaper stamp, to get rid of the duty on advertisements, and finally to get rid of the tax upon paper. (Hear, hear.) They did not know spparently themselves ...

... LIVERPOOL. TOTAL ABOLITION OFTIIK DUTY ON KIRK INSURANCE. The Director* the London Lancashire Fire Insurance Cjoipany, In the full expectation that the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer will adopted lor the total remission the Duty on Fire Insurance ...