... stated to be £1,150, instead of £10,250. The registrar notices that the Act 27 and 28 Viet., e. 56, ss. 4,5, abolishing stamp duty on probate or letters of administration, wherfe the estate of the deceased does not exceed £lOO in value, will be of great ...

... up to more than two-and-a-half times its usual rate. This has been entirely changed since the growth of commerce and the abolition of the corn-laws. In 1848-9 the home-grown wheat brought to market was estimated at one-seventh less than the sales of the ...

... so indignantly denounce, Sir Robert Peel brought in his famous budget of 1842, with its sliding scale, its abolition, or reduction, of 750 duties of greater or lesser importance, and its other wellknown features. Cobden and the league would not accept ...

... to move in procuring their total abolition. The fountains, even supposing them to be in good order, were not to be compared to similar ornaments in other towns; they were nothing but mere squirts, which per- formed a duty about six houns a week, and which ...

... renew it, as he thinks it wiQ be better to extend Covent Garden Market in consequeuce of the rapid increase of its trade. Abolition op Capital Punishment in Bwitzeb- t.\ni>. — Two of the Swiss cantons, via., Freiburg aud N tifcbatel, have for many years ...