... legislative duties. If two parallel columns were drawn, and if on the one side were tabulated the dates of the repeal of the advertisement duty, the abolition of the compulsory newspaper stamp, and, last and greatest, the repeal of the duty ...

... customs duty oem foreigti Spirits showed ai iticrease of £120,000., principuilly stitier the heC aI of Geneva aitd other spirits, but there hal beeti a fallixig off is thlec ilty upol)on t rui; there wac also sin iicrelase il tile excise duty utpoll the ...

... I -OE NEWS OF THE DAY. In the House of Lords, yesterday, the Compulsory Church rates Abolition Bill was brought up and read a first time, the second readingbeingfixed for next Thars- day. Earl STANHOPE moved for the appointmnent of a Select Committee ...

... to you; arm ong others, a bill for increasing the riunuber of deputies to the Lower losuse,.anul rt bill for the abolition of the stamp duty on printed matter, for which an eqrivalerit will be substituted. The revenue sufficcs to meet the eapsuditure ...

... GovCrnmillt would not shrink from asking P'arliamlelnt to support ox-Governor ELYiE, in his defence, if they felt it to be their duty to do so, after watching the evidence at the trial, 'J'he Ilollse then went into Comnilllittee onl the Scotch Reform Bill. ...

... between Austria and Hungary. A&ioNc tlse very ffirst of the duties which thle newly-enfranchised voters will expect aisd deunid from their representatives iin Parliament will be the abolition of the ratepaying clauses of the Re- formn Act and the re-enactment ...

... ld again ani again. Heo advocated the ballot, finisucial economy, rerslios O 1 ditties on articles of const nption, the abolition of thle rat-epaying clase's, saIIC nit lth more etelnded systemls of edlthatinic He nsipiealed to the Liberlsa to sited, ...

... tC.'-Thc Liedyp Post -w-s - xirst published on Friday, the 4th Deeembert 1857. *' E. H. W., 'Walsall.-(1) Send the m an a stamped 'receipt., dolivered by hand. (2) Six months. T. L. -The Bishops sit in the House of Lords as Barons, and oan speak and ...

... Hat WO FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1868. NEWS OF THE DAY. In the House of Lords last night, Mr. GLADSTON1E'S Compulsory Church Rates Abolition Bill was referred to a Select Committee, Earl RUSSELL not objecting to that course. Some other bills were advanced, and their ...

... this narrow escape to the notioe of street smokers, in the forlorn hope that they will be more careful than is their wont, to stamp out every particle of fire from the fusee or paper they have used, or, most assuredly, their earelessness will some day cause ...

... er, Herr Oberlauder, is dead. The najority of the Legislative Committee of the Chamber of Deputies are in favour of the abolition of capital punishment. PARIS, MAY7 16 (Evenisir). The report current, yesterday, that the Frenchs Cotsul had addressed an ...

... inconvenience to the public, has been commenced by the London cab proprietors. A movemnent has just been set on foot for thme abolition of the system which allows only a certaiii isumlber of privileged cabs to ply at the railway statiosis. At a ineoting, on ...