... less a person than Lord Stanley. Are hear of an agitation for a halfpsuny stamp for isewspepere. Mr. Gladstone proposed--or was shout to propose—the abolition of the impressed stamp, but his resolution was overcome by the representations of • powerful section ...

... had actually been only £529,000. As regarded spirits, there was an abolition of the differential duties, making a reduction of duty on brandy of £116,000; but in July an ad.litienul duty had been placed on foreign spirits, which was eetimated to yield £400 ...

... railways, savings banks, indigenous sugar, and kindred subjects. In 1844 he was a member of the commission respecting newspaper stamps. He adhered to the revolution of 1848, and offered the advice of his experience to the provisional Government, several members ...

... the year 1838 to the year 1816 to bring about that great change, the abolition of the corn law. A Parliament was elected in 1841, with a majority of ninety pledged against the abolition of that law. the result showed how much is to be done by continuous ...

... there wdald be a duty of 6s. a cwt. on chicory, yielding £90,000. There would be penny stamps and 3d. stamps on certain trade documents; eating-houses, including pastry cooks, would be allowed licenses to bell wine or beer. The duty on game certificates ...

... no &wage in hia ways. They remonstrated, aa in duty bound. Me defended hie honour, sad to wipe o ff all stain produced the document w hich bad signed, asserting it was invalid, as it was without a stamp. THE RENT Or A GAMING TABLI.—It is stated that the ...

... remaining timber duty was to he abolished, and that, in deference to the reasonable appeal of the Burgundy wine growers, the duty on wine in bottles was to be assimilated to the duty on wines in the wood. By the abolition of the timber duty ...

... of the duty on tea was this, that at present it was a much heavier duty than the corresponding duty on sugar. The duty on tea eat more than 100 per cent.; the duty on sugar was about one-half the value of the article. By reducing the tea ...

... thus proposes to consult every just r,.t of the commonwealth! lie reduetion of a peony on the income-tax and the abolition of the paper duties am practical features of the Bilged The latter of these proposals could take no one he surprise. It would have ...

... increased, and to equal' se the duty on wino in bottle and wine in wood; to remove the duty on pepper, and to repeal a portion of the duty on locomotion. There was at present a rate on omnibuses of Id. for every mile run. That duty it was proposed to reduce ...

... were the income.tax and the tea duties, the relative weight of taxation falling heavier upon these than upon malt. He proposed, therefore, to reduce the tea duty 6d. per lb. Thus, the tea that now pays Is. per lb. duty will hereafter pay 64., and be hoped ...

... especially for duty off bathing places on the coast, where on some days many thousands of people go into the water, and of this large number some are sure to get into danger, and the roller is placed outside the transom, to enable the man on duty to pull anyone ...