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THURSDAY'S PARLIAMENT

... and the customs duties Austria, after an early date were not to exceed twenty-five per cent, ad valorem on any description of British goods. He proposed to repeal tho duty on timber, and equalise tho duty on wine in bottles to the duty on wine in wood ...

Published: Friday 04 May 1866
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2779 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

COMMERCE HOUSE, 62 HIGH STREET, ELGIN. MACINTOSH, Draper, has a large Variety of Ladies' and flentlomen's Black ..

... that it is for individual States, and not for the general Government, to pass such a measure, and therefore he deems it his duty to resist this additional stride towards centralization. It is hardly possible to judge at this distance whether this act of ...

REFORM

... their own indomitable energies. The repeal of the Com Laws, which gave the poor man cheap loaf—the abolition of the stamp, paper, and advertisement duties, which opened fresh channel for labour, and gave weekly organ every remote district—the foundation ...

IRISH ENDOWMENTS

... fairness and equity by which religious grants are made. It is no part of the duty of the State to legislate on matters which pertain solely to the human conscience, or to stamp one system as truth and another as error ; and consequently if religion is to ...

Published: Friday 02 March 1866
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1124 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

(81 TELEORAPU TO ELGIN.)

... in wood. The duty on timber wax as bad as it could be. It was a protective duty, and duty on raw material of which this country etoo.l in great want. It was an article of great bulk, of which we requlre 1 large quantities, and to levy a duty upon it was ...

BNGLAND

... morning. Ihe schooner sunk, but the crew got on board the brig. Numerous petitions are being presented for the total abolition of the duty on Fire Insurance. The Prince and Princes of Wales have consented to attend the approaching musical festival at Norwich ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1866
Newspaper: Stonehaven Journal
County: Kincardineshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1251 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IRISH ENDOWMENTS._

... fairness and equity by which religious grants are made. It is no part of the duty of the State to legislate on matters which pertain solely to the human conscience, or to stamp one system as truth and another as error ; and consequently if religion is to ...

Imperial Parliament

... had commenced carrying newspapers along the whole extent of their lines means of an adhesive hd stamp, and if so whether it was not expedient that the stamp for transmission of newspapers by the Post-Office should be reduced to the same amount The Chancellor ...

Published: Friday 02 March 1866
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5482 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

JOHN BRIGHT

... to overturn the Government at the opening of a great Continental war, tempted the Great Tribune from the path of honour, of duty, and of consistency. nd yet among many of the middle classes it is astonishing what distrust is frequently expressed regarding ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1866
Newspaper: Huntly Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1981 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE ELGIN AND MORAYSHIRE COURIER

... the braes, no other qualification being admissable. (Laitehter.) Our national poet has said, the rack is but the guinea stamp- -bat he has also said, the mane the gowd for a' that Prior to the Reform Bill of 1832, the elective franchise was only ...

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... extsent, Hist duty en pepper lest year was £124,000, pi our and allowing for the months which had elapsed, the abolition Of ucl cry this duty would take a further sum from the sur'plue of £112,000. be ere Ho next proposed to apportion the duties from locomotion ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1866
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6115 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

REFORM MEETING AT BRANDERBURGH

... have the brass, no other qualification being admissable. (Laughter.) Our national poet has said, the rank is but the guinea stamp—but he has also said, the man's the gowd for that. Prior to the Reform Bill of 1532, the elective franchise was only enjoyed ...

Published: Friday 13 April 1866
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2501 | Page: 6 | Tags: none