... TEE PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE INCOME TAX. MAGISTERIAL PROCEEDINGS AT LEAMINGTON. I Yesterday, at the Town Hall, Leamington, before Messrs. E. Wheler and J. Panton Gubbins, James Martin and Edward Crofton, the two men who were arrested on Tuesday by Mr ...

... County Court registrars are to perform the duties of registrars in bankruptcy, the present registrars still con- tinuing to act as taxing masters, subject to the revision of the taxing master in London. Abolition of the offices of official assignee and ...

... met at twelve o'clock. ABOLITION OF Cl1URCH RATES. Numerous petitions having been presented for and against the abolition of church rates, Sir J. TIIELAWNY moved that the House go into com- mittee upon the Church Rates Abolition Bill. After some remarks ...

... triumph over the gigantlo difficulties which beset your path when this journal was started. The paper duty, the stamp duty, and the advertisement duty presonted obstacles which were almost sufficient to deter anyone from Issuing a cheap nowspaper. Lloyd'8 ...

... withdrawn. THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. v The report on the Irish Church (Stamp Duties) was d brought up, and agreed to. The Irish Church Bill was recommitted, and a clause g imai-ted imposing a stamp duty on any order of the Coin- e missioners of Church Temporalities ...

... member having complained that already the mails- these were coaching days-were so heavily laden with news. Eapero that if the stamp duty were removed Ia would not ber so, to travel in the mail coaches. (Lughter.) On the 10th of January, 1840, the people of ...

... remission of taxes. The duty on cards lie proposes to reduce from Is. to 3d. per' pack ; and to charge colonial and foreign bonds at Is. Sd. per cent. Ile also proposes to commute the hop duty, and to levy in its place a duty of 3(d. on every barrel of ...

... branch or position they may be. In the case of the stamp dis- tributors, who are not entitled to superannuation or com- pensation for loss of office, your committee wvould recom- mend that the abolition of the present system should be gradual, end only ...

... surplus of £1,350,000., which is thus disposed of:- Abolition of timber duties ?? 307,000 Equalisation of wine duties ?? 58,000 Abolition of duty on pepper ?? . 112,000 Reduction of horse and carriage duties ?? ...

... 000. worth of stamps, two months ago, from the Man- Chester Stamp Office. Ile givos the name of CHIAL-LES 1ATT. Ile applied on Thursday after- Doeon to Mr. NVALIUEni, tho Chief Examiner of Spoilt Stamps, for the value of a £1. bill stamp, alleged to have ...

... uainls (with reference to which the Bk- mingliam (Chamber also Ics a. resolution to phropose), equsli- actioll of thce stamp duties on inland and foreign bills, spoilt bill stcminfps, acd tribunals of commerce. The llsdalhcsboreugli Chamcber las given ...

... of British 1-orces in India, Windsoi Suspended Canonries, Public Works (Ireland), Edinburgh University, Inland Revenue, Stamp DutIes on Probates, &a., and Revenue Departments Accounts Bill. The House adjourned at 7 p.m. HOUSI OF £'OMMOYS. The House met ...