... reductions of duties. We propose the abolition entirely and immediately of the duty on butter —(cheers) —which yields £95,000 a year the duty ou tallow, which yields £87,000 ; the duty upon cheese—(cheers) —which yields £44,000 ; the ...

... interest are rendered liable to the stamp duty of Id by the new stamp act Mr Laing replied that the government had no intention of imposing any new liability, aud that, according to the opinion of the board, the stamp act would impose no such liabdity. ...

... to his duty up a certain level, but with any little disgust the man of fortune sells out or he retires to attend to his property, or to devote himself to his pleasures. He has no inducement to stick to the service and rough it when the duties become irksome ...

... whether, in reference to the Cattle Plague Bill, the compensation clauses could not be put into secood measure, so that the stamping out bill might be proceeded with without delay. Sir G. Grey said it was impossible to separate the compensation clauses from ...

... Skirwith Abbey. Mr D. Robertson has given notice that, when the changes and alterations on the newspaper stamp are proposed, he wiR move that the postage stamp on newspapers not exceeding two ounces in weight, and not exceeding one price, shall be one halfpenny ...

... provincial; but Mr Ewart has happily combined these duties ; he has never forgotten that though the member for the Dumfries Burghs he has duty to discharge the whole nation. How well he has discharged that duty we have partly i>ointed out: how well he has attended ...

... lecturer. The Impressed Stamp on Newspapers.—Yesterday, in answer to our burgh member, the Secretary of the Treasury stated that the impressed stamp newspapers would be continued, to save the trouble ! of affixing ordinary stamp, but that it would not ...

... Falkirk burghs. Colonel P. L, M'Dougall has been appointed Adjutant-general of Militia Canada, and will undertake the principal duty of organising the local forces of the colony. On Wednesday night, as Lord Desart was going upstairs to his bedroom, he slipped ...

... Then it is said—Oh, why do you come then among those who go for manhood suffrage ? I will tell you why. I consider it the duty of every public man who has any, even the slightest influence, even such slight influence as a humble individual like myself ...

... named ; after which the meetiug adjourned. Division—House or Commons. —April 27. —For the third reading of the Church Rates Abolition Bdl, Sir A. Agnew, J. Mackie—majority, 235. Against it, J. J. H. Johnstone —minority, 226. Unreported Criminal Prosecutions ...

... half-way the matter wages. Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., has, regret to say, owing the unsatisfactory state of his health, felt it Ills duty announce to his constituents at Coventry that it is not his intention to ask for renewal of their suffrages at the approaching ...