... For ourselves, we may 3tate that we deemed it prudent to await the issue of the change—to see what effect the abolition of the Paper Duty would have on the Paper Trade, and how far we should be warranted, justice to ourselves, in making a still further ...

... total amount reduced in income-tax and tea duties amount to £3,200,000. In addition to these large reductions, Mr. Gladstone proposes to dispose of £143,000 of the surplus by the abolition of the eighteenpenny stamp on bills of lading and by toe penny charge ...

... respecting the religious scruples of those who conscientiously differ from her tenets or forms of worship. To the unconditional abolition of Church Rates, I am therefore decidedly opposed. I am a friend to social progress, and not opposed to a consideration of ...

... Kingdom should not have the impressed stamp, but a penny postage stamp attached. We beg particular attention to this; as paj>ers addressed to persons residing in Foreign parts, though bearing the impressed stamp, are not unirequently returned to us by ...

... foreigner got his beer duty free; immediately it left this country he was allowed the drawback. The speaker next alluded to the benefit considered would arise to the chief consumers of beer, fie labouring classes, by the abolition the duty, expressing his opinion ...

... half hours. The Tea Duties.—At a meeting of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce on Thursday it was unanimously resolved, That a memorial be presented to Parliament narrating the arrangement made by Parliament in 1853, by which the duty on tea was to have ...

... first, how doee.the fact that the probate duty takes no cognisance of settled property preclude it from being so extended as to take cognisance thereof 1 Of course the words probate duty mean the stamp duty paid on proving a will. But one does not care ...

... consequent on the reduction of duty, licences to sell it should be reduced or dispensed was also agreed “That tbe Chamber petition Parliament, recommending that provision should made fur the abolition of those small but vexatious duties recently imposed on tbe ...

... in the imposition of public burtheus, can the duty on insurance be defended ; while there are other reasons for arguing for the repeal, or at least the diminution, of the impost. It is especially the duty of the Government to encourage habits of forethought ...

... For ourselves, we may state that we deemed it prudent to await the issue of the change—to see what effect the abolition of the Paper Duty would have on the Paper Trade, and how far we should be warranted, in justice to ourselves, in making still further ...

... 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 was more than 100 per cent.; the duty on sugar was about one-half the value of the article. By reducing the tea ...

... 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 ...