... 15. NEWSPAPER STAMPS.—In answer to Sir'S. North- cote, Mr. GLADSTONE ^id that some arrangement would be made to prevent newspaper proprietors who may have in their possession any stamped sheets when the abolition of the impressed stamp takes place, from ...

... 17t10, and hot!' tea and mum might now be made luxuries of the rich if duties enough were imposed upon them The wine duties were duties of protection, differential, not revenue duties. RETORM AND NEW DUTTEII. Mr. Gladstone .then proceeded to develope a ...

... last session of Parliament, preferred the repeal of the tea and sugar duties to that of the paper duty, but with every respect for their opinion I could not but feel that the duties ou knowledge combined every evil of the other taxes I have named. (Hear ...

... tax given up, or, in other words, that a duty of sixpence a pound in the reduction will be three-fourths the a duty of a shilling a pound. This is, , startling an instance of the recuperative reduction in duty as has ever been eau' he Excise I)uties on ...

... surplus. He proposed to reduce the duty on the letting of small tenements from stimn duty on appraisements to Sd. To reduce the L p Ecclesiastical licenses. To reduce the stamp on the Charter parties from 5s. to 6d. The duty on rZEW laf r,r t0 be '•eiU0TCd- ...

... the illnatured prophecy which foretold a ribald press ” as the result of the abolition of the stamp. But the great barrier to the progress of the Cheap Pres* is the paper duty. We need not inform our readers that this obnoxious impost will come of if Mr ...

... else that can be conveniently done in the way of remission is offered in the abolition of the paper duty. A year's produce of the paper duty amounts to £1,330,000, but as the duty is not to come off till the first of October, only half a year's income from ...

... supply was then with. drawn. The report upon the Irish Church (Stamps) Duties; was brought up and agreed to. The Irish Church Bill was re-committed and a claw,. inserted, imposing a stamp on any order of the Corn. raiasionen of Church Temporalities in ...

... electeral the abolition of official candidatures, the abolition of large galaxies and accumulative! pay, the revision of artiele (which protects functionaries from prosecution), C.O mayors to be chums from the municipal c eirwil. the abolition of the newspaper ...

... cent, or whatever was, the amount of unpaid capital after each instalment had been paid. The 47th Act pro vided for the abolition of the office of High Constable This was old institution which had almost become obsolete. The high constables were appointed ...

... lrowledgc, movement winch be bad the satiefaction of seeing (frowned with the most complete SWUM!. The abolition of the edvertieemert duty, the newspaper stamp, aed the excise onty on paper, was mainly his work, and his services in connection with these most ...

... less a person than Lord Stanley. WE hear of an agitation for a halfpenny stamp for newspapers. Mr. Gladstone proposed-or was about to propose-the abolition of the impressed stamp, but his resolution was overcome by the representations of a powerful section ...