... THE UNIVERSITY TESTS ABOLITION BILL This Bill, brought in by Mr. Coleridge, stands for a wood reading to-day (Wednesday), and, acoordiag to • recent statement of the Home Secretary, the Government, and the Conservative party generally, will put forth ...

... proportion of the taxpayers, while the reduction of the tea duty is a concession which will affect every member of the community. The tea-duty possesses superior claims for remission over the malt duty, and, as shown by Mr. Gladstone, even after the remission ...

... propose the entire Da immediate abolition of the duties on butter, tallow, cheese, oranges, lemons, eggs, nuts, and nutmegs. It was also proposed to remit the timber duties to the colonial ratesj, end to reduce the duties on currants, raisins, figs, hops ...

... a distance, by needing a Poet order or Stamps for the amount, irtil have the &ate sent by mall free of postage. ABOLITION OF FIRE INSURANCE DUTY. imperial !Ire Lararasee AGENTS Will socapt Proposal*, 'barging Duty (Provisionally) from dais of ardor mill ...

... THE PRESS AND THE PAPER DUTY. It may not be amiss to give a brief explanation of the provisions of Mr. Gladstone's Budget as it will affect newspapers. At present the proprietors of all newspapers, who use the government stamp, are compelled to register ...

... 000 on the year, the total amount being £18,047,000 against £19,402,000. This result is, of course, owing to the abolition of the Paper Duty, which amounted to something like the difference between the two sums. The surrender of this considerable source ...

... morning they pick up their spoil. We hear of an agitation for a halfpenny stamp for newspapers. Mr. btladstone proposed—or was about to propose—the abolition of the impreseed stamp, but hie resolution was overcome by the representations of a powerful section ...

... Paris respecting the negotiations of the treaty of commerce witii France. 'the Noble Karl called attention to the abolition of the duty on coal, which, he said, In the event of war, would enable Franbe to supply our enemies with steam-coal. He expressed ...

... hawing been deranged by the Arerioan war, tho duties may be revised on Jan. 1, 1`.48. Great Britain engages to recommend to parliament the abolition of duties on wool And timber, and to reduce the duties on wines in bottle to the same rate as if imported ...

... proposed to repeal the duty on timber, and to equalis the duty on wine in bottles to the duty on wine in wood There were two more changes which he proposed to make. Finn of all he proposed to relate the duty pepper. (Laughter.) it was a duty ...

... the present meaning of the word abolition and its meaning some years ago. :•7ow, that cry portends an (IA to Slavery as an institution. Twenty ears bel: it did nothing cf the kind—it simply exteisiel to the abolition of the Slave trade itself, riot of ...

... tax from 6d. to 4d. in the pound, the reduction of the tea duties to a shilling, the abolition of the timber duties, the equalisation of the wine duties, and the remission of the pepper duty, the revenue, for the quarter just ended, gives a ...