... STAMPED sd. ments. The following appointments and changes in the corps of Royal Engineers have been announced at head-quarters, Chatham, by command of Field- Marshal the Duke of Cambridge:—Captain R. G. Thorold, to take over the command of the 23d Company ...

... have recommended the adoption of measures which will shortly lead to the total abolition of the French navigation laws. From his letter I understand that all differential duties are also to be abolished, the former in three and the latter in six years from ...

... and if, by an abolition of the duty the amount was reduced one half, there must be individual gain to that extent. He (Mr. Frewen) was the first man in the House of Commons to fight, and that single handed, for the repeal of the hop duty, and he rejoiced ...

... SHEFFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. At the annual meeting of this bodj, on Friday, the ■objects of the proposed abolition of the Canadian Reciprocity Treaty, and the position of British manufacturers in the Zollrerein, were debated at some length. The annual ...

... they were eerie in Reeds, or segues in Carolina. (Cheers.), But in seeking to get this justice dome them, it surely is the duty of public men not to blind themselves wilfully to these two qnestions—first, whether some concession on our part is not essential ...

... getting two lots of malt off tho kiln ; bnt guess my astonishment when the exciseman charged me several shillings duty for each lot of thi.| duty-free malt ; and his reason is that, though I stooped only 21 coombs of barley and took off the kiln 22 coombs ...

... immunities have been chiefly occasioned by the abolition of serfdom. The frontier customs duties have fallen off 6,800,000 roubles. Of this sum the decrease of 1,800,000 roubles due the removal the expect duty upon goods and upon raw cotton, while the remainder ...

... paper has been printed at the Times dike, and has been under the same management as that paper. From 1861 (on the abolition of the paper duty) the of the Tina made overtures to the proprietors of C ri ffee st riing Mail with the view of purchasing that paper ...

... sugar duties, lie found that on tea, taking the retail price 3s. per lb., the duty as it existed at prerent of Is. per lb., amounted to per cent. Taking coffee the retail of Is. per lb., and paying duty of 3d. per lb., it gave a per-oentage of duty on the ...

... the and abuse of this time-honoared institution is, and to hearken to what can be urged against its detention against its abolition. A grand jury has, in the first place, this against it, that intervening, as it were, between the magistrate's decision and ...

... faculties are still good. The committee appointed by the Chamber of Stuttgarcit to examine the motion of M. Buher for the abolition of tee punishment of death, has decided, with only one dissentient voice, in favour of the proposition. Princess Mary of ...

... faculties are atill good. The committee appointed by the Chamber of Stuttgardt to examine the motion of M. Boher for the abolition of the punishment of death, decided, with only one dissentient voice, favour of the proposition. Princess Mary of Cambridge ...