... took interest in politics, and liked read the.r penny paper. Well, then, who opposed the reduction of the stamp duty and the abolition of the duty on paper? ( The Tories.”) Yes. If Lord Derby and his friends had had their way, the working man would not ...

... PROGRESS OF THE CHEAP PRESS. {From the Qbserver.) Since the abolition of the penny stamp, the only authentic method of ascertaining the circulation of newspaper has been submitting to some independent authority for examination all the books, cash accounts ...

... THE UNIVERSITY TESTS ABOLITION BILL This Bill, brought in by Mr. Coleridge, stands for a wood reading to-day (Wednesday), and, acoordiag to • recent statement of the Home Secretary, the Government, and the Conservative party generally, will put forth ...

... THE SALISBURY AND WINCHESTER JOURNAL. , From the Official returns, last .Stamps i.-sncil to the Newspapers Great B the vear IS'JV.; ;. it appears that the number issued to tlu, Salisbury & Winchester Journal was 90,000, n which far exceeds that any other ...

... 33-inches breast with stamps ?? for 8 heads, nearly new, 1 28-feet ditto, 3i-feet 1-ea-t with iron stamps axle for 16 heads, 1 30 feet water wheel 3 i feet breast, with iron axle cranks and balance jobs. 1 16 heads iron stamps axle, nearly new, watp-r ...

... are undisciplined and irregular. The distributors of stamps, th« collectors and surveyors of taxes, the collectors and officers of excise, represent three divisions of Revenue servants. The duties the former have in certain instances been transferred ...

... Reduced one-half Duty on Coals, Slate and Tiles.. Repealed .. Duty on Hemp, Drugs, Cotton Wool, Currants and Fruit .• .. .. .. .. Reduced Stamps on Marina Insurance and duty on Advertisements .. .. .. Reduced Stamps of Fire Insurances on ...

... the rueesuree which be has &demoted - Reform, the abolition of church ratea, fees Made. the abolition of the newspaper stamp o',l the pep r duty, the admiminn of Jews to Parliament, and the abolition of the property qualification—adopted by ...

... were only 600 Presbyterian ministers, and no one contended that their duties were not well discharged ; but the Anglicans were more than three times as numerous. What were their duties ? In Cashel there were 40 parishes, in Ossory 25, in Limerick 22, in ...

... newspaper stamps were issued from the Stamp-office, giving free transmission of newspapers post m the United Kingdom. After the Ist of January next, dog licenses may be procured not only from the supervisors of excise and the distributors of stamps, as hitherto ...

... could wish them be, it is because my profession has hitherto imposed on me duties in other parts of Her Majesty's dominions. If you consent to bind to you new ties', and new duties, I will endeavour to fulfil them with all the energy I possess, and in all ...

... confidence of the nation, and the printers in particular, as shown in his advocacy of the abolition of the stamp and advertisement duties, and the repeal of the paper duty ; and that his proposal to disestablish and disendow the Irish Church is fo ° nde( * ...