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VOTES OF MR. BEECROFT, M.P

... Bill. The same year, and on other occasions since, he voted against Sir John TrolawnL's Church-rate Abolition Bill. In 1859, He voted against the Abolition of the Annuity Tax (Scot- land) Bill, The sameyyear, he voted against Lord John Roqsell's Amend- ment ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 956 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE BUDGET

... condition of having a proper printed I stamped paper, because the Government preferred getting ! a 6d. duty properly secured to them rather than a ss. duty which they only obtained in a very few instances. . The duty on le-insurance, imposed last year, he ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2628 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... preferred getting a Gd. duty properly secured to them rather than a 5e. duty which they only obtained in a very few instances. The duty on re-insurance, imposed last year, he proposed to remove as being burdensome, and the duty on what were termed time ...

Published: Friday 28 April 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4402 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

AMERICA

... knocking down and stamping on prisoners, -O.her witaesses confirmed these rtatements, and demonstrated tnat Captain WirzwaTn. very wiling tool in the hands of his superior officers, rrequentl,aUo^riS&eal to outrun the strict line of his duty in infficting ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 978 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT

... no one of many thousand cases had **J»de&to obtain the . highest approval of the Government, and to show how laborious his duties had been, he might mention that in one yearlus despatches rilled sixty folio volumes, and that last year there were in the ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1967 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE NEGRO INSURRECTION IN JAMAICA

... well j the whole moral influence of England, have been incessant and indefatigable in endeavouring to effect JJ c universal abolition of the slave trade, or, fading J* B*,8*, to p rocur e every possible amelioration of the J e sTo's condition as a slave. ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2000 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

... division of those subject to military duty into two classes. He favours the abolition of the commutation clause in the present law, and says the right of citizenship and a home in Missouri onght to be inseparable from the duties of assisting in its defence. he ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2202 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE LONDON PRESS AND THE BUDGET

... is estimated at four millions. The duty on tea is now one shilling a pound; it is to be reduced to Six- poence. The Income tax is now sixpence in the pound; it is to be reduced to fourpence. The fire insurance duty on ordinary property, not stock-in trade ...

Published: Friday 28 April 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2145 | Page: 5 | Tags: Commerce 

LORD AMBERLEY AND THE LIBERAL.ELECTORS i>K LEEDS

... himself so and then give lus opinion. One Elector who wanted to know whether his lordship would vote for the abolition of the differential duties, and another Elector wlio wanted to know whether he would vote for the repeal of the income tax and all other ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Intelligencer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4342 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE,

... safe transmis- sion of the latter article as they are for that of general merchandise. That it is desirable to reduce the stamp duty on charter-parties from os. to Bd. The following resolutions were also agreed to : — DIFFERENTIAL SHIPPING CHARUES. That ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Intelligencer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2844 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MASS MEETING IN RICHMOND.—SPEECH OF PRESIDENT DAVIS TO THE CITIZENS

... form of government becomes de- structive of the happiness or dangerous to the liberties of the people, it is the right and duty of the people to alter or abolish it; in pursuance whereof they did declare them- selves independent States; and whereas, her ...

Published: Friday 24 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1531 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE ELECTIONS

... poor-law reform, the abolition of slavery, the abolition of the corn laws, the abolition of unjust oaths, free trade, the abolition of the navigation laws, commercial treaties with all other countries —(cheers) —and the total abolition of ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 10896 | Page: 8 | Tags: none