... consumer. The price of salt is now very nearly four annas per maund less than when the present rate of duty was fixed, and an increase of the duty to that extent would raise the retail price very little, if anything, above what the people have been accustomed ...

... Foreign-office, and was of opinion that it was thoroughly deserved. He thought the abolition of the duty on stamps of marine insurance policies and the reduction of the duty on fire insurances very desirable, and trusted that they would engage the attention ...

... Foreign-office, and was of opinion that it was thoroughly deserved. He thought the abolition of the duty on stamps of marine insurance policies and the reduction of the duty on fire insurances very desirable, and trusted that they would engage the attention ...

... the Bank Prussia, and to establish branches in other German States. . , . * The Finance introduced bill proposing the abolition the duty Prussian wines. The Military bill was referred to special committee 21 members, and the bill respecting disabled soldiers ...

... they might as well expect teach a man to swim without going into the water. He would proclaim immediate and uncondition abolition. (Applause.) There would no doubt be much suffering for the negroes, especially time of war. No doubt there had been a great ...

... e more efficient, and not by taking from it duties which legitimately belonged to that department. appeal had been made for the abolition of the stamp duty on marine policies, and for the reduction of duty on fire insurance. It was difficult ...

... loaded with duty, when converted into malt, of about per cent., Bd. per quarter. That your petitioners particularly bog draw the attention your honourable house the anomaly of a high duty upon mall, surviving the repeal of the Customs duty upon coni and ...

... facts, it is by no means clear that the South is as yet thinking of peace. She cannot have peace without abolition, and rather than accept abolition she will probably make at least one more effort to dictate her own tenni. Victorious over Sherman and Grant ...

... in behalf of an abolition of those excise laws. Twenty yearn ago he wrote a pamphlet, addressed to Lord J. itusaell, when them was a duty on glass , on paper, on hops, and on malt; one by one all these bait gone but the latter - the duty on malt was leR ...

... Punshon then described the progress which the movement for the abolition of the slave trade had made up to the time just before Wilberforce died, and referred to the Bill for the total abolition of slavery, as far as England was concerned, which the present ...

... Thunderer, cost £2,000 a-year. the obstructions which formerly weighed on the news, paper press—the stamp duty, the advertisement duty, and the paper duty—were now all reineved. arid present position shewed that what Engl.:dame:l by their valour they know ...

... Improvement Act. Also a copy of petition to Parliament, from tho Town Commissioners of Blackrock, praying for the abolition of the duty charged upon Fire Insurances of stock in trade. Ile (the Chairman) would have them read, and it would be fur them to ...