... ; excise, 18,428,925?. ; stamps, 9,324,849/. ; land tax, 1,107,517/. : assessed taxes, 2,124,708/. ; income tax, 9,101,991/. ; Post Oflice, 3,937,308?. ; crown lands, 426,268/. ; miscellaneous sources, 3,035,963?. Of the duties levied by customs and excise ...

... motion was agreed to. Leave given to Sir J. to introduce a bill to repeal muoh of tho act 55th Geo. 111., cap. !84, imposes stamp duty five shillings certificates of Marriage, and of any persona having received the Holy Sacrament. Sir C. O’Loohlbn moTed the ...

... pleaders and conveyancers by placing them on the same footing as attorneys and solicitors in respect of licence duties ; to reduce the stamp duties ecclesiastical licences where the present licences were so high as to form a :eiio'is burden or prevent tho ...

... 000?. lie also proposed to reduoe the duty on fire insurance to a uniform rate of cighteen- pence from the 20th of June next, and to substitute for tbe duty of one shilling on fire in ur ance policies a stamp duty of one penny. By this arrangement there ...

... regard to the expenses incurred for public works. He like- wise advocated the suppression of the octroi* and the abolition of the stamp duty upon newspapers, and of the imposts upon salt. In conclusion, he proposed the introduction of an income tax. M. ...

... 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 ...

... regarded the sugar duty between France, Eoglsnd, Belgium, and Holland, the right non. gentleman procee led sta o necessity for such mea>ure, which would l*o effectually carried out by the abolition of the duty or enue juice - abolition about which her Majesty’s ...

... the question now before us ? Are we asked to consider tho abolition of the malt duty or are we asked to consider its reduction ? I put aside the question of tho abolition of the duty. That abolition would be the death* warrant of the whole ...

... following resolution: —“That tbo position in which the British paper trade has been placed the abolition of the import duty on foreign paper, leaving the foreign export duty on ruga full operation, one of great hardship to the Butiah manufao* tircr, and call* ...

... i* the question now before us? Arc we asked tcccrMdvr thcaliohiion the malt duty or arc wo asked cor.si • r if-s reduction put aside the qu stion the :i the duty. That abolition would be t «r deathwarai-t the whole our system of indirect taxation thisr ...

... ITALY. (from our own correspondent.) TURIN, March 14. As the discussion in Parliament upon the important question of the abolition of capital punishment draws to a close it is by no means easy to anticipate the ultimate decision of the Chamber. At one ...

... tLOß of the Exchequer proposed, part of his B.nlget, that, towards raising the supply granted lieu of the duties Customs sharped on lea, such duties should, ami after the M»y nest until the Ist of August, 1866. be elar.ed importation the rat* of 6d. the ...