... Prussian Code, one cannot voluntarily change religion before the age of fourteen years. Newspapers and the Stamp Duty. The abolition of the compulsory stamp, whilst it wrought splendid reform in journalism, entailed an injustice a la.ge class of the trading ...

... for the reduction of the duty to Is. 6d. all round, thereby introducing uniformity in the duty. The wisdom of the course adopted by the Committee has been verified by the result. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has reduced the duty to Is. 6d. on all insurances ...

... preferred getting a fid. duty properly secured to them rather ss. duty which they only obtain in very few instances. MARIXX AMD The duty on ro-insursnoe imposed last year was proposed to be removed as being burdensome ; and the duty on what were termed time ...

... round numbers estimated at four millions. duty on tea now one shilling pound; it is to be reduced sixpence. The income tax now sixpence in the pound; it is to be reduced to fourpence. The fire insurance duty on ordinary property, not stock* in-ttade, ...

... ceased to inculcate the idea that duties on tea and sugar are oppressive. The publicans say that the increase on the duties on spii its will be no increase of the price, but falls on the vendor. It is certain that the duties on tea and sugar would never have ...

... ABOLITION OF THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH IN ITALY. Tt JAN. Stind - a - i — la - st . a popular meeting held at flrrocia. with the objeot af supporting the bills for the of the punidlineet of death, and the sappreeeion of religious bodies. The assembly tw ...

... NEWSPAPER STAMP RETURNS. The Exeter Gazette is boasting of its circulation of stamped papers. Since our reduction price to One Penny, our interest lies abridging the use of the impressed stamp. got no moro profit on a stamped paper than we do on an unstamped ...

... are forced to pay £6 duty every year, although, in the preliminary steps to be taken before apprenticeship, they have to con tribute largely to the Imperial Exchequer, by the payment of the stamp duties ibed by law. The stamp duty on ...

... the 11th of JANUARY, Instant, at Half-past 2 o'Clock r.w., to adopt Measures for Promoting the Abolition of Stamp Duty Annually Charged on Certificates. By Order of the Council of Cork Law Society. JOHN W. BOURKE, Hon. Sec. 179 ...

... form of a Bill, he should have good reasons to show why a reduction or abolition of the stamps on clerkship and admission would not be preferable to the repeal of the certificate duty. He hinted some of them, and there is no doubt that, when the question ...

... LITERARY SELECTIONS. . _ . STORY OF THE ABOLITION OF TORTURE IN FRANCE. Dunixo my stay in Paris, a good years ago, I had the good fortune to be inho. to Madame de a lady of an ancient and family, slid far advansod in yeah My oesiralgo friend, for so Ilove ...

... 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 ...