... 000/. j also proposed to reduce the duty on ' fire insurance to a uniform rate of eighteenpence from the 20th of June next, and to substitute for . . the duty of one shilling on fire i nsura nce policies a stamp duty of one penny. By this arrangement there ...

... shall go in duty, I do not think that on that side there is much injustice. Now what is the case as compared with wine, becauee it is said that the duty on wine has been reduced almost to a nominal rate? On champagne, sold at 12s. a bottle the duty is only ...

... offences against which they were directed ; but, if a newspaper had to contend against fine and imprisonment, to say nothing of stamp duty and caution money, it enjoyed the protection of a jury, which Alone was a sufficient guarantee against any arbitrary freaks ...

... unions of working men are capable of rendering good service both to capital and labour, and that it is not so much their abolition as their reformation which is to be desired. If ever we are to see arbitration effectually established, organisation on either ...

... provocation. On Shis question of Italy we differ from M. Thiers, as he himself stated (order). M. Rounett.—l sail that it was my duty to define the character of the Opposition. M. Thiers now represents an Opposition which he combatted some years back. M. TLITERS ...