... future rate of duty on this class of goods, The loss, indeed, would have been nominally £90,000 greater, but we believe this sum would soon have been more than returned, In addi- tion to these changes are a few alterations in the stamp duties aud licences ...

... legacy duty to real property an to increase the duty on Scotoh and Irish spirits. By these and other changes he obtained an estimated surplus of over £E2,000,000. This sum he devoted to the repeal of the soap duty, the reduction of stamp ...

... like manner, 'when the old newspaper stamp duty was reduced to a penny it was said that the rate would never pay the Post-office for the copies it would have to carry, and for years after the reduction of the duty people remained in the belief that the ...

... there y were no sugar duty at all,-ln other words, that the g sugar duty should be proportioned to the amount of s saccharine matter contained In any sample Imported. a1 Mr. GLADSTONE, while making a considerable re- i duction in the duty on all kinds of sugar ...

... pest bee entailed a very lso-ge Increase -if expense on the g Pest-eflice, and that it has made the primary duty. of the ?? department-the duty of distribsating letters-more diffi- enr Cult of performance than it might otherwise have baso. By th esalihet ...

... Id# have the Government stamp on, and were posted principally WS in London and elsewhere on the Saturday evening for ccc, delivery on the Sunday morning in the prdvincial towns. iu ince the abolition of the compulsory-starnp, duty the bulk tisof the newspapers ...

... Government, and to justify the discon-' tent of the Irish people, we make the following statements,. After complaining of the abolition of the Irish Parliament,' t which the document affirms embodied the independence of t Ireland, the writers go on to say The ...

... down. I three writes of ftcsri fortes to the under-sberiff, instructing I him to place them in the hands of Stamp, the sheriff's officer. Stamp levied on two of the writs, buo not upon the plain-( tiff's. 'He subsequently took Byre upon a capies at this ...

... existence, A draft petition to the House of a H. Commons praying for, a reduction of the duty on firs insur- Al tnier- ance to one shilling per Cent, and for the abolition of any Hq ~ast-s exemption was submitted to the Cou~ncil and agreed to. An C. arkc. ...

... in writing, the document was produced. M r. IFerns, for Petty, objected to its admission on the grotunhd that it was not stamped. Mir. Turner submuitted tbht h 'was entitled to put it in as a memerandumn. Mr. Br, after looking at the document, which was ...

... in the course of' the morning. The dteceased was ye employed on night duty at the timeb of the aecident, and five Ic minutes later he would have been relieved by the men on Iyday duty. r. A MWAN B3URNING PIfIsELiF TO DEATH IN maf in 'Wart's CaLoTlusE-Near ...

... ComPany, share In that large increase of fire Iceucance buolness here which may he expected to followv the antici- rated abolition of the heavy and impolitc etansP tax at present im- posed on pollooee of ino.ran.s. No promotion mcony igivon in connection ...