... -The French Committee of Emancipation and the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, feel it to be their duty to take advantage of the presence in Parisof yourHighness, respectfully to call your attention to a question to the eolution ...

... addressed by you on the 9th inst., to the Chancelor of the Exchequer, request. isg, with reference to the proposed abolition of the duties on wood and timber, that the officers of customs may be authorised to continue to measure wood goods as hereto- fore-a ...

... giving the legislative Chamber control over the items of each Budget may, together with the new stamp taxes and the increase on the salt and sugar duties, cause an equilibrium to he attained and preserved. The immediate gain from the conversion of the ...

... Chancellor of the Exchequer said that if the old duties continued, and at the same rate of production, he might calculate upon a revenue of £70,170,000 for the year 1803-01; but, as he remitted duties calculated to lose him £3,778,000 in the year, this ...

... that etan#'duties on inland and foreign bills be assimi. ]lated. 1lhis was agreed to, and it was further resolved that a memorial should bepresented to the Commissioners, asking that in future stamp officers may be required to give new stamps to an equal ...

... is estimated at four millions. The duty on tea is now one shilling a pound; it is to be reduced to Six- poence. The Income tax is now sixpence in the pound; it is to be reduced to fourpence. The fire insurance duty on ordinary property, not stock-in trade ...

... coimnnunmcatiomis. A letter (.accomipaiiieil by a form of petition) was read rom the Association for the abolition or reduction of Fire I nsmranec Duties, soliciting the mo-ol)zeatioii of the Chanml)er in promoting the aims of the association. After somaae ...

... colotny, and to place the governing power of the country in the hands of an oligarchy Tie Government measure provided for the abolition of the franchise for ever, and the substitution, for the Legislative Couicil and the House of Assembly, of one chramber of ...

... r of Stamps concerning any facts or cir- cumstances upon which they are to execute the powers vested ii them, or for the verification of any accounts of or concerning the dutiesunderthairmanagement, orforany other purpose relating to such duties, shall ...

... half-p st one o'clock until eive, terminated. The duty on probate on the Will of the late Sir ienjecmin Lee Guinness, which was paid in Dublin on Friday, amounted to the large sum of 416,500 for stamp duty alone. n, EHIGET ONT CAPITA, PMqISHMElTB.-ThO following ...

... were held at stiffer prices, and chiefly brought in ils, 3d. duty at 41a., 10s. 6d. duty at 39a. to 403. od., and 9s. 7d. duty at 33s. od. to 319. 6d. Of Natal, 488 bags sold, 10s. 6d. duty at 37s. 6d. to 38s., and washed 36s. 6d. to 3ja. per cwt. The ...

... impulse given to the market at the termina- tionof last week by speculative purchases, made on the supposition that an abolition of duties is to bo expected, has notbeen sustained, and purchases can again be made on more reasonable terms. We reduce our quotations ...