... committees the Corps Legialatif. With reference to the press, the proposed changes would consist in lowering of the stamp duty, the abolition of the necessity for government authorisation, and, in cases of offences against the press laws, the substitution ...

... railways, savings banks, indigenous sugar, and kindred subjects. In 1844 he was a member of tho commission respecting newspaper stamps. He adhered to the revolution of 1848, and offered the advice of his experience to the Provisional Government, several members ...

... A bill bas been proposed by the Minister ‘of Finance for the modification of news paper stamps and the abolition of the duty on advertisements, ments. and of stamps for circulars con taining advertise- IN DIA A telegram in the Times, dated Bombay, Jul ...

... of license duties, the malt-, tax, and other taxes, there was no further scope far the financial policy which had hitherto been successful. Mr. GLADSTONE insisted the duty of doing something at the present moment towards the reduction the duty, and appealed ...

... we had. got the advertisement duty «ff and the stamp duty off, there came a desperate fight, as you remember, about paper duty, and when the House of Commons, carrying the budget. of Mr Gladstone, repealed the paper duty, the House of Lords, ...

... all clear that we have gained anything thereby. ( Hear hear, and laughter.) Be that it may, it is our duty, the duty of the Government, and tbe duty of all Englishmen to see that the service does not retrograde. (Hear, hear.) are now in a state of transition ...

... Standard, after commeuting on the reckless Regard for human life which has been exhibited the Fenians, proceeds thus :— of this stamp are quite capable of burning down the great cities of England if they are allowed the Mr. Bright appears be very chary about ...

... clear that we have gained anything thereby. ( Hear, hear, and laughter.) Be that as it may, it is our duty, the duty of the Government, and the duty of all Englishmen to see that the service does not retrograde. (Hear, hear.) We are now in state of transition ...

... could envy the task his learned friend who was to follow him had him. oould wish that were his duty *PPfj| to the sympathies of the jury; could that it were his duty ask them restore native land man who had described himself . own right hand criminal and wanderer ...

... years for the repeal oE the taxes upon knowledge. That agitation had cost less than £4,000, and the abolition of the advertisement, stamp, and paper duties had increased the circulation of newspapers prodigiously. That means, he believed, by acquainting ...

... signed by Mr. Joule to Brett, and it was hi. duty deliver it to the governor of the gaoL On that day I believe there were 26 prisoners in the prison van. Brett took ticket for each of them, and it was his duty to give them to the governor. I saw the prisoners ...

... the naval force, and held out hopes of further relief from taxes within the next 15 years, He looked forward to the abolition of duties, which would have been at the same time the inauguration of free-trade. All his plans and hopes were munud up with peace; ...