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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

OUR SUGAR COLONIES AND THEIR EXPORTS

... difficulties as Jamaica. They have had to meet in succession the cessation of the slave trade, the abolition of slavery, and equaliza- tion of the duties on free and slave grown sugar; but they have surmounted these difficulties, and are now in a position ...

Published: Monday 18 December 1865
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1428 | Page: 4 | 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 

PARLIAMENTARY

... MAGUIRE moved that the position in which the British paper trade haa been placed by the abolition of the import duty on foreign paper, leaving the foreign export duty on ra ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1865
Newspaper: York Herald
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3909 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

TO THE ELECTOR. OF BULL

... post free for 14 stamps, of the Proprietor, Chemist, la, Tottenham Court -road. don. Proprietor of Savory's Eastern Depilatory for and effectually removing superfluous hairs. Warranted perfectly harmless. Prise 2s, or post free 21 stamps. Asset iOr the ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1865
Newspaper: Hull Daily News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 2794 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... beer was attributable the duty. was willing to allow tba f 20 percent, the price of beer was due to the duty on malt, what reduction of the malt duty won'd sensltdy the price beer. The duty was now BJd bushel. they reduced the duty to Is 2d, ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1865
Newspaper: Whitby Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5106 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE PATENT OFFICE SCANDAL

... advanced out of pnblic moneys for the purchase of stamps, and had in 1863 taken £5OO (in purported sepaymen ) out of public moneys and put it into kis private pocket. 3rdly. Tuat he had purchased stamps at wholesale prices, sold them in the Patent Office ...

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... attention to certain bills now before the House for rendering valid letters patent for inventions which bad not been duly stamped within the time limited for that purpose; said ho did not intend to oppose tbe second reading of the bill. Lord Chelmsford ...

Published: Tuesday 28 February 1865
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1852 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE NEW TARIFF IN AUSTRALIA

... and the poor, it is a portion of the Government plan to assimi- late the duties on tea and opium to those of South Australia, and to reduce the duties on sugar and the export duty on gold from Is. 6d. an ounce to Is. an ounce, which, with other changes ...

Published: Friday 17 March 1865
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4099 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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 

Correspondence

... of his genius for dealing with the little. At present policies of in- surance bear a stamp duty of Is. Taat is paid once for all on tbe issue of a policy. It is the duty on the premium only that is paid annually. But Mr. Gladstone thinks this awful shilling ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1865
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4601 | Page: 6 | Tags: none