... PAPER DUTY. Amon° tire many good things in Mr. Gladstone's Budget, we venture to think none are better, or will be more welcome to the country, than the abolition of the Excise Duty on Paper. This duty on paper, constituted one of the taxes on knowledge ...

... LITERARY SELECTIONS. . _ . STORY OF THE ABOLITION OF TORTURE IN FRANCE. Dunixo my stay in Paris, a good years ago, I had the good fortune to be inho. to Madame de a lady of an ancient and family, slid far advansod in yeah My oesiralgo friend, for so Ilove ...

... 1861. THE REPEAL OF THE PAPER DUTY. IT will be known to our readers that. after Monday next, paper will be free from duty. The repeal of the taxes on knowledge—of the stamp on newspapers, the duty on advertisements. and the duty on paper has ...

... supported the amendment. —Sir M. said that nothing but the total abolition of chureh-rates would satiety dissenters.—Mr. WATLINOTON was strongly opposed to the principle of abolition, but at the same time hoped that this question might speedily be removed ...

... retains the Income and some other taxes, and at the same time pro. poses a revision of our Custom and Excise duties--the abolition or reduction of duties os important articles that will largely tend to develop and extend several branches of commerce. His scheme ...

... deeds of the yeai. He accedes at last to the long-'Urged demand for a reminion of the Paper Duty. In this, as on the proposed abolition of the newspaper stamp, we are ourselves much interested, end should probably be heard with a degree of suspicion. ...

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... See as to include the postage. Letters en stamped might be put into the letterhox as at present. Some I years afterwards, we find Mr. Knight striking a gocd • blow in favour of the abolition of the paper duties, in a pamphlet called The Struggles of a ...

... sugar; they were merely revenue duties, and involved none of the complexities of differential duties. The labouring classes were more benefitted by an enlarged system of free trade rather than by telexing individual duties es creating higher price for labour ...

... present the charge on a charter pally wee Is., be pro( to reduce it 1, 61. The duty on reineuranee, imuosed last year, wee proposed to he removed, as berdeeseme, and the duty on what were tinsel polities in marine inseranees wee Min to be reclined, and ...

... the provision which he should have to make to meet it. It would, however, be the duty of the govern. went to lose no time in framing that estimate, and it would be his duty without delay to make the mammary financial statentest. HARBOURS OF REFUGE.—Mr. ...

... seek the abolition of spelt • tax. Nor. as • partied gentias. do we think it probsble that it will be abolished. In one or another we may rein assured that an Income Tax will be oontinued for some time to come. It should, connivently, be the duty of parliament ...