... accurate estimate of the amount derived from stamps on delivery orders. Other duties were collected hy the same stamp, but the best conjecture that he could arrive at was, that about £40,000 was collected from the stamps delivery orders. In reply to Mr M‘Evoy ...

... this portrait a testimonial rarvive him. Mr Campbell was one of fie early pioneers who took active part forca the abolition of the duty on newsppen. He''suffered imprisonment for the mk, and defended himself manfully for the took in. hastening the privilege ...

... them higher military rank. Mr Fenwick asked if the Government were prepared to bring in a bill for the abolition of Passing Tolls ? Mr Milner Gibson said he wonld give notice next week of the day upon which he would introduce bill. Sir E. COLEBRooKE asked ...

... had taken the leaves, and was acquitted by the jury.—PoW Mall Gazette. Abolition of the Office Stamp Distiubu- TOH.—It has been finally seftlel that the offices and duties of stamp distributors are t ...

... fifteen years, and alluded again to his idea of a free breakfast table. which means, our readers are aware, the abolition of the duty tea. coffee, ami sugar. He appears likewise think that wine and tobacco are overtaxed, but if would look to it he would ...

... o'clock. THE PAPER DUTY. Lord FERMOY asked the Chancellor the Exchequer, whether, in consequence of the rejection of the bill for the abolition of the duty on paper, intended to remit some other tax equivalent the amount of the paper duties Mr A. STEWART asked ...

... presented to him. he pares them down bis own dimensions, and then claims them as being entirely his own. When the abolition of the duty on fire insurance, for instance, had been advocated for years, and when the surplus of the national revenue became ...

... policies were pursued. first the differential duty upon brandy was abolished, surrendering 000, but in July the duties were raised, which reduced the loss to the revenue to 46.000 only, while the increased duties on the other spirits made an actual increase ...

... course, the paper duty, but besides that he either was the mover in Parliament for the removal of the stamp duty, or he was one of those who took a very part in Its abolition. The same remark applied to the abolition of the advertisement ...

... providing what he calls free breakfast table. This idea of Mr Bright's is put forward under the pretence that the abolition of the duties tea, coffee, and sugar, would prove a special boon to the working classes, but any one who takes the trouble to look ...

... substitute for them a tax on realised property. rendering the income tax and the tea and sugar duties annual taxes, they went long way towards facilitating their abolition, while, at the same time, they have the greatest encouragement to an annual renewal of ...

... Hon. E. P. Bonverie Was read, intimating that he would, as requested this Board, give the Lord-Advocate’s Bill for fine abolition of the 37th sec. of the Poor Law Ant his best attention. The minutes of the Law and Finance Commitgee were read and sustained ...