... had confided dble to him the duty of watching the progress of the bill for qua the repeal of the paper duty through Parliament during the pist and present sessions, and to the best of his ability be he had performed that duty [h-ar, hear]. The committee ...

... without one of these elements has signally failed. It is felt that there is no practical injustice in these duties, while the abolition of the Paper Duty is really equivalent to framing and glazing ethe people's mind afresh. It is true that penny literature ...

... Mattin'sle- Graxd, engaged In the duty of receiving letters by payment, money for correspondence postf restente, ?? for the sale of stamps and stsmped envelopes. Ihe portion of the building appropriated to this par. ticular duty In situate on the south aide ...

... stands, all printed publications must be lodged with the proper officer, and be stamped. Hitherto, by tacit understanding, Episcopal Circu- 3- lars were relieved from stamp-duty and from i- ordinary formalities, on the supposition that they were confined ...

... sungesting the abolition of the new taxes in aid of Charges fer Colieo- tioa of 'enus-let, the Quarter par Cent.; 2nd, the Stamp on Writs of Entry; Sed, the Stamp on Delivery ; Orders'; 4th,'-the'Stap on Warrants; and 5th, the Stamp ori Bills of' Laing-had' ...

... establishmont of the lPenny Magazine and I 'Chambets' Journal. The abolition of the newspeper t stamp, he seaid, had given a great impulse to newspaper c literatute, and now that the paper duty wes abolished, t we had free trade in literature as in other things ...

... actually been only 529,0001. As regarded spirits,, there was an abolition of the differential duties, making a reduction of duty on brandy of 446,0001. ; but . in July an additional duty had been placed on foreign spirits, which was estimated to yield ...

... Governmeut to reduce the duty on all articles, in suoh a manner as would benefit the nlemy inistead of the few. Which would benefit most the working-claeses, ?? seduction of the tea and sugar duties or the repeal of the paper duty [Cries of' Tea and sugar ...

... there is here no room for difference of opilionI, the law having long ago pronounced repoir the subject in bloody letters stamped into our history. I allude to the case of Governor Wall, hanged for mnrr- der, in consequence of thie death, inder the lash ...

... the loss had acually ?? only 5290 (01. AsI egarued eptits, there was an abolition of the dltfrential duties, mainag a ?? of duty on brandy of 400,0001.; but ia July an additional duty Lead been placed on foreign spirits, which was et-i. mated toSield,400 ...

... &e. It eutamerates the numbers. that were existing to June, 1855, when the minnows sprang t into life on the abolition of the penny stamp duty, It E shows that the family then wmesigited of 660, that from that t period to .Tune, 1860, only five years, ...

... reduced by the pavments which the Bank makes to the State to the extent of £188,078 per annuta in respect of composition for stamp duties and of profit on the issue of notes. The act of 1808 assigned to the Bank, as a remuneration for its charges and its ...