... 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. ...

... strong repugnance to the duty of trying election petitions, and expressed that repugnance in very forcible language. But when the House of Commons insisted upon their undertaking that duty they acknowledged that it was their duty, and the three senior puisnes ...

... 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 ...

... what !life B r i g ht siguificeutly called a Free hreidtfast table,' that is, the abolition of the duties on tea, sugar, and coffee. We believe the abolition of these duties would, in the fir. 4 place, More practically wud immediately benefit the inhabbauts ...

... relations of spouses mad and merry—or go hang yourselves ; But for my bonny Kato she must with mo. Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor frot; I will master of what is mine own : She is my goods, my chattels : she is my house, household-stuff, ...

... sugar duties are to remain as they are for another year ; but, under the provisions of the French Treaty, all duties on French manufac- tures are to be abolished at once ; the duty on brandy to be reduced from 15s. to Bs. 2d., being the excise duty on home-made ...

... there ma I. other countries. The_hilinister of Finance los proposed • for the modification of the newspaper stamps, and the abolition of the duty on advertiselasts. which, if it be carried, will doubtless sea a great boon to press. In the meantime II journalist ...

... show that if the duty on spirits had been raised 104., the Chancellor of the Exchequer would have saved to revenue £2,000,000, which together with the .£1,000,000 he might have added to it by deferring the abolition of the paper duty, would have enabled ...

... was his plessing duty to move thst the thanks of the board be presented to Mr. Alderman Brayshaw, for the able manner in which, aa chairman, he had conducted the proceedings during the past year. He had discharged the onerous duties of bis office manfnlly ...