... -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 ...

... Mr-MmNRna GIBSON, in the shape of a repeal of the excise duty on paper. Then he tries to conciliate the shipping interest by a great reduc- tion in the duty upon foreign timber. Then he reduces the duties on currants, and raisins, and figs, and hops, and game ...

... 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 ...

... thas siews, the duties of the company's agent might reasonably be performed by the British consul; if, also, the money thus raised would go to some one having nothing to do if not to the consul, what objection can there be to the abolition of a charge for ...

... property at. Ic kea, accommodation bills, extra charges on goods re- ch moved inland under bond, the equalisation of stamp ni duties on inland and foreign bills, registration of on trad.e-marks, Government control of railways, face de tory Acts, carriage ...

... 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 ...

... the worst fallacies which surround the question of 'ycurrency into very distinct relief. The programmo r' recommends the abolition of the privileges of the ?? of England, the completion of the free trade I Ifabric by the addition of free trade in moue ...