... mnonth. NEw DUTY ON STAGE CAsIsaAoES.-Under the new Inland Revenue Act, just printed, the duty on stage carriages licensed to carry not more than eight persons is reduced to 10s, aud for a supple- meitary licence for the period, 6d. The duty per muile to ...

... there was an increase are the Spirit duties, the duties on Sugar and Tea, though the favourable difference in 1862 was not very important'in amount, being less than £133,000. In the revenue derived from the duties on Malt, Hops, and Wine there was a decrease ...

... The Chancellor of the Exchequer had recently taken the duty off paper because it stood in the way of popular instruc- tion, and now an agitation is being raised for the abolition of the paper duty in churches, because it is supposed to stand in the way ...

... provincial in theatres. de? TUR1ISe POSTAGE-STAMPs.-Turkey has just bn issued postage-stamps, having long been the only ?? in Europe that had not adopted that mode ex of paying for letters. The Turkish stamps are of ala four different colours, and all ...

... impose a duty upon carriers' carts of half the amount now paid by stage carriages and omnibuses. FiFTe-He proposes that, instead of a duty of 5 per cent. on Railway Companies with exemp- tions in favour of excursion traffic, there should be a duty of 3sA ...

... Pioceedings forwarded to their ad- dress sill please reinit Postage-stamnps equal to the number ?? stamp for each Paper, posted singly, or Three stamps when Two Papers are to he sent lnder one cover. In towns accessible by 'bus or railway, News-agents ...

... the repeal of the taxes on literature and the Pross ; the advertisement duty repeal, 1853; the repeal of the, compulsory stamp on newspapers, 1855 and the repeal of the paper duty, 1861. During the proceedings it was stated, as an indi- ,cation of the ...

... which choked him, and he was kicked and stamped by Souther. This sort of punishment was continued and repeated until the negro died under its infliction. This is no quotation from Mrs Stowe, or an abolition newspaper, but from the opinion of the Judges ...

... people instead of to the Magistrate to prevent pub- lic-houses being allowed in any given locality; that the abolition of the Corn-laws, the abolition of slavery, and all other great questions, never rose to command public sympathy and support till, instead ...

... serious injury done to our trade and commerce by the dreadful struggle now being waged in America-in spite of the abolition of the Paper Duties and the reduction of the In- Icoine-taxto 9d per pound-theexpansivepower of our national industry should be suchas ...

... 'qualified by nature, habit, and education for the efficient ful- filment of the multifarious duties of the office. An abstract of the matter to which these duties refer is given in the first statement in the me- morial, and a mere glance 'at 'that abstract ...

... elevation, on such weak-minded and deluded laymen as Mr Duncan M'Liren, ?? Russell, Fyfe, and Greive, with many others of similar stamp and character ; or such ministers as ol Dr Johnston,Professor Kirk, the Messrs M'Ewan, a and not a few of like independent ...