... committees in the Corps Legislatif. With reference t) the press, the proposed changes woald consist in a lowering of the stamp duty, the abolition of the neces. sity for a Governmcnt authorisation, and, in cases ci offences against the press laws, the substitution ...

... 200 years that the House of Lords should not meddle or interfere with questions of taxation. The question of the abolition of the paper duty was as nothing compared with the constitutional question involved, With respect to the constitution, it was, as ...

... Bill. The same year, and on other occasions since, he voted against Sir John TrolawnL's Church-rate Abolition Bill. In 1859, He voted against the Abolition of the Annuity Tax (Scot- land) Bill, The sameyyear, he voted against Lord John Roqsell's Amend- ment ...

... for the diminution of the duty on wines, for tha diminution of the duty on brandies, and for the abolition of duties on certain manufactured goods, of which silks are by far the most important. By the diminution of the duties on wine the ...

... clauses requiring that penny )rn and threepenny stamps shall be placed upon agreements t and other documents, and cancelled under a penalty of £20. a its he lawyers expect a harvest from the abolition of the by stamp of 35s. on wills bequeathing heritable property ...

... future rate of duty on this class of goods, The loss, indeed, would have been nominally £90,000 greater, but we believe this sum would soon have been more than returned, In addi- tion to these changes are a few alterations in the stamp duties aud licences ...

... cases, the public interests would be promoted by the abolition of patents. ' Lord STANLEY (Lynn) remarked that some feeling was Bntertained that the abolition of patents would involve the abolition of copyright; but there was a marked differ- ence in ...

... ee2n That until the abolition of tho Scotch Bible printing )f monopoly, the prico of Bibles in Scotlaned and England wiae, through the operation of the monopolies in both countries, ig very high; and that, in consequeuc of that abolition, the e, price was ...

... heavy blow given to our trade by the war in America, notwithstanding, too, the abolition of the duty on foreign-made paper, the Customs show an increase of £L368,223. The Stamps, too, on which bad tradei must always avec an ,-in-lious tendency, increased ...

... legacy duty to real property an to increase the duty on Scotoh and Irish spirits. By these and other changes he obtained an estimated surplus of over £E2,000,000. This sum he devoted to the repeal of the soap duty, the reduction of stamp ...

... aiprotective ed differential dutly. The grand feature of the wine duty was ite pro. 111,1itotY power. The foreign duty was 5v . 10u., colonial duty IN., and there was a virtual excise duty of As. 2C . a gtsl~on, and the natural consequence, namely, great ...

... towards the expenses. BUT HOW STANDS TIHE FACT? Supposing that property paid half the income and pro- perty tax, half the stamp duties, half the assessed taxes, and all the land tax-though this latter impost, by a process as ingenious as that which has reduced ...