... Excise, the decrease amounting to £617,000 on the quarter, and £1>194,000 on the year; but this is explained by the abolition of the Paper Duty, a tax from which about £1,300,000 used to be annually raised. The diminution in the produce of the Property Tax—£l7 ...

... IN THE DUTrCH WEST )d INDIES.-The following are the regulsiiionsadlopted respect- -in iv iing the slave abolition at Surinam 1-11 *l 1. The abolition of slavery on the Ist JuflY, IS63. h * 2. The owneris to receive i compensation Of 300 guilders t1 iY ...

... issued a notice that any letter mailed with the stamps at all soiled or defaced will be treated as unpaid. The New York press generally condemns the oourse of the government in thus repudiating its own stamps. The Sta York Tima says they have now no Intrinsic ...

... the principal On 8 . 8 /' as appears, and three women, were also arrested. |2 'be premises were found engraved signatures, stamps of a O Jr y French and foreign firms, as well as models of their * Ve d biliH, wliich would have sufficed to deceive any It ...

... considerable monetary pressure, accompaunied by many failures of ma.uc- DNy i: o ATw) CUGTR Sif o A R ~ The law for the abolition of slavery in the Dutch West Indics, July, 1563, has passed the Statcs General of Holland by a majority of forty-five to ...