... the tax- payer. There were the tea duties, the sugar duties, the income-tax, and the paper duty. He chose the two latter. He would knock a penny off the income-tax, and repeal altogether the excise and customs duties upon. paper. These would absorb a million ...

... advertise- maent duty has been repealed. The stamp upon newspapers, after numerous variations in price, has been abolished also. And now the Excise aud Customs Duties upon paper have followed in their wake. Presuming that the duties now repealed will ...

... I THE CHURCH RATE QUESTION. $ ON Wednesday the second reading of Sir JOHN THIELAWNY's bill for the total abolition of Church-rates was carried by a majority of I fifteen. There was a tolerably full house, the a numbers being, for the bill 281, against ...

... would not apply to subjects of other powers becoming privateers. CUSTOMS DUTIES. In reply to a question, Earl ox GaREY and RiPONe said that the government considered the customs duties ont articles of manufacture imported into India imperative under the financial ...

... passed. 4. This act may be cited as The Church- rate Abolition Act, 1861. THE LEEDS MERCURY IS PUBLISHED THREE DAYS A WEEK, NAM-ELY, ON TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND SATURDAY. 1 PRICES. UNSTAMPEPM STAMPED. ON TUESDAY AND TiiURSDAY 2d. 3d. ON SATURDAY ?? 3 d ...

... remission of the duty upon malt. Mr CAVE, was sorry to find that the repeal of the war duties upon tea and sugar was to be indefinitely postponed in favour of the paper duty. Mr OSBORNE had last year opposed the abolition of the duty on ...

... any too angry in tone for the delicate ears of officialism. sion, The Afoeiteur, therefore, gives notice that i willb sid the duty of the Government to make religion re- ol spected, and to evince this respect in a6 practical form it announces that two pamphlets ...

... Papal States, was contained ic the despatches already laid upon the table, WINE DUTY. The CiANcEsLcot of the ExciHEquEt said government did eot intend to adopt an uniformi duty oil foreign wines, nor to depart from the alcoholic test. TilE HULL TRINITY-HOUSE ...

... (Hear, hiear4) Whlat right lied Ilon. ble Gentlesnen opposite to assume that the Lords would noct in p5s5 thle Paper Duty Abolition Bill, if it wvere sent uip to tlicnc in the ordinary way? To jumble up so ihlo umecy diffei-enst elesmients in cue bill ...

... is highly calculated to imsislead even the most 0: careful, viz., stamping their notes as having passed through e a banking company, thus: L91103 Oct. 16, 1860. £5, and bearmlg stamped in an t oval ring, Re-issued by the York City Banking Company A ...

... aliases rho of the company. Lookingi at lire cantirigeney of tire ird abolition of outward wharfage rates, speedily, or not later than 1865, he ohrjectedl to ths legislative stamp elf ne- artificial value being put upon therol. Coming then to tire two ...

... lirogress which liad since itakien pilace, front the introduction of the band press amid a the steami press, and the abolition of the stamp duties. From y the life of Caxton, hie drew the lesson of earnestness and h perseverance as the necessities of success ...