... which you have given notice to proposc to the Hlonourable the House of Commons, with refercuce to the Customs Acts and Stamp Duties, and which are now under the consideration of that honourable Mouse, ?? themsclves of the suggestion contained in your ...

... are to have the duty on their horses reduced from £12 to £S ; the stamp duty on proxies to vote at railway and other meetings is reduced from 6d. to id.; maritime re-insurance is legalised on payment of a shilling stamp; the stamp ...

... sweeps them frn away by a total abolition of the paper duty, producing Li exactly a million a year, the abolition of the newspaper fro stamp, on whichs, heowever, there will be no actual loss, an and a reduction of fits duty on hops, ...

... a time of peace s The Customs are ale total including an at- additional duty on foreign chicory,estimated at £15,000, St- 0xcise, expected, will furnish £l9,483,000,and - the Stamp Office £8,460,000, allowance being made for the proposed reduction of hawkers' ...

... lastly a change would be made in the stamp duty on in- surencess given by certain companies against accidental death, personal injury, and damage to plate glass (a laughi). Ilo now caine to the subject of the malt duty, with respect to which a debate had ...

... tariff, it would seem that the burden which was taken ofl by the re- moval of ?? duties was shifted to stamp duties on those Tory articles. As to the paper duty, us an excise duty lie would be glad to see it reinoved lit a proper time. The ...

... only, not affecting the Stamp Duty; and in any such Case the Lease or Tack shall, if required for the sake of Evi- deuce, be stamped with a par- ticular Stamp for denotin- or testifying the Payment ofthe full and proper Stamp ...

... FIRE, LIFE, AND MARINE ASSURANCESonliberalterms. ABOLITION OF FIRE DUTY. e The DUJTY on ALL ASL URANOES is NOW charged to the f4th JUNE ONLY, when it CEASES ALTOGETHER. No cb'rge is made for Policy or Stamp. HENRY T. CHAMBERLAIN, 22, CLARE-STREET. Agent ...

... thesame extent. The duty on pepper last year was 2124,000, and allowing for the month which bad elapsed, the abolition of tbis duty would take a further sum. from the surplus of £122,000. He next pro- posed to opportion the duties from locomotion. They ...

... extent of only £46,000. The I increase in Customs, it must be remembered, has oc- 1 curred notwithstanding the abolition of the corn duties ( for nearly half the quarter. But for that remission the c increase would have been nearly twice as great. The ...

... reduction is in the Tea Duties. Itxs now ten years since Mr. Gladstone proposed to reduce this charge to is. per pound, but the breaking cat of the Crimean war upset his calculations on this as on many other points, and the duty has remained to the present ...

... bill for the abolition of Church-rates, and, amongst others, one against the measure was presented by Lord Derby, 1 who was loudly cheered by the House. Earl RUBSEnL moved the second reading of the Comnpul- r sory Chnrohlrates Abolition Bill. He detailed ...