... should infinitely prefer unconditional abolition to the scheme of Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Neate moved as an amendment the following resolution:—That no scheme for tho total, or partial, or absolute, or qualified abolition of church rates will be satisfactory ...

... tbe proposed changes for year 1366-67, Mr. Gladstone put the result thus: Timber Duties £307,000 Wine Duties 58,000 Pepper Duty 112,000 Stage Carriage and Post Horse Duties 85,000 Conversion of Debt 502,000 Total £1,064,000 Leaving unappropriated surplus ...

... assurance that the claim of the Crown was satisfied by tho payment of the legacy duty, and that in his opinion legacy duty, and not succession duty, was clearly the duty to which the land was liable, made a decree for the specific performance of the agreement ...

... further conversation ensued, but led to no result. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Tuesday. ABOLITION OF CHURCH RATES. Mr. Hardcastle obtained leave to bring in a bill for the abolition of church rates. COMMUTATION OF CHURCH BATES. Mr. New degate also obtained leave ...

... delegated to the local authorities, and the result of the working of the Act had been tbat manj* places the disease had been stamped out and large number of cattle saved, though the cost of a considerable loss of that description of property. The Act also ...

... Bickersteth, Bishop of Ripon. According to the Leeds papers he has been compelled to abstain from the performance Lis episcopal duties. Nomination of Members of the Local Board of Health.—The following nominations have been made: Acton Tindal, Esq,, Mr. James ...

... that office was, we believe, the last time he took part in any public duty. In private life he was amiable and kind, as a man of business persevering and upright, and in his public duties he secured the respect of his fellow townsmen as consistent Liberal ...

... and a corresponding number for England, to see that county Boards discharge their duties efficiently. Mr. Senior—The money has been gathered there and the disease stamped out. The Chairman—l question whether many did pay to the society. That would not ...

... likely to catch them leaving than one man's. I know it would be the collector's duty, nevertheless. Mr. Wootton—The overseers have the responsibility and ought to do their duty. Mr. Fowler—l don't blame them for not doing it. Mr. Ward—l know from experience ...

... 1849, and bear an effigy of Queen Victoria. The fabrication of such counterfeits requires arrangements for engraving and stamping, and also the use of a certain amount of capital, quite beyond the means of the ordinary forger. Some of the coins, we hear ...

... of the roads throughout England, and the expenses about to be thrown upon certain parishes by the immediate and partial abolition of tolls in particular districts, earnestly presses upon the Government the expediency of taking into their early consideration ...