... which there is to no duty ; stamp duties on the use of proxies at public meetings are to be reduced from 6d. to Id., and on letters of attorney for the receipt of dividends the duty is also to be reduced ; and the stamp ...

... proper provision for a museum and library of patents. Patents yielded on the average revenue of 000 a-year, irrespective of stamps to the value ol £20 000 a-year, and office foes to £9,000, making altogether a net revenue of about £42,000 a-year. The law ...

... declare themselves, they couple extermination of the slaveholders with the abolition of slavery. A clergyman, evidently a fighting parson of the Reverend Colonel Jaques stamp, writes letter to the New Tribune, in which, although claiming to be a minister ...

... believed that if the malt duty were repealed' the poor would brew tiieir own beer, aud thus enjoy a cheap and wholesome beverage. Mr. Cobden said, looking at iho interests of the consumer, he would prefer the abolition of the sugar duties to that the malt-tax ...

... Gibson does not inform his hearers that those returns a great portion of that is foreign paper, made up in British wrappers stamped with British labels, and sent out as British paper; therefore the allusion to those returns can have no reference to the ...

... that if I convinc it is my duty to dissent on grouads of religious principle, it is my duty to induce my neighbour do so. If the Church of England is an ecclesiastical system in which my soul not safe, it must be my duty to point out his danger to my ...

... social asp ect we find no special reason why the malt-tax _ take precedence of other taxes in its claims '° abolition or reduction. The war duty on sug . still levied, though we have been at peace, all the Great Powers are concerned, for years. The income-tax ...

... engraver, for new method of preventing the forgery of bankers' cheques and other documents by the use of stamp, and new apparatus whereby the issue of stamped documents is controlled. Dated 12th August—William Hudson, gentleman ; Christopher Catlow, overlooker; ...

... great extent been neutralised by the growth of the practice of transmitting postage stamps through the post ; the applications for missing letters containing postage stamps having risen precisely in the proportion in which the applications for missing letters ...

... Suspension Bill was read second time. The Street Music (Metropolis) Bill was read third time and passed. The Inland Revenue Stamp Duties Bill was read a third time and passed. The Railway (Ireland) Acts Amendment Bill, and the Drainage aud Improvement of Lands ...

... the Austrian squadron would not enter theßaltic. Mr. Ewart brought forward his annual motion, proposing, in effect, the abolition of capital punishment. The debate this year was more sustained and animated than usual, owing to the action of the Home Secretary ...

... the independence of Ireland, without a single word of comment. The Landlord, however, is a person of a very different stamp. He raises the question of the expediency of retaining the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland. He is strong advocate for retaining ...