... opposed the abolition of the paper and stamp duty, as he said at the time, simply because the finances of the. country would not allow it. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Lloyd) and Dr. Evans were in favour of the repeal of the paper and stamp duty. ...

... Extension of Commerce, the Education of the People, the Reduction of National Expenditure, the Abolition of Compulsory Church-rates, the Adoption of the Ballot the Abolition University Tests, and the Extension of the Franchise. With reference to the much-vexed ...

... deem to be the duty of every Government fair and legitimate means, to favour and promote. The report of the Committee on the Malt Tax now published. Should I succeed the object of ambition, and chosen as your representative. it will be my duty, when that ...

... service, under the authority of Elizabeth, chap. 4, sec. 4S. The lower rate of newspaper advertisements, owing to the abolition of the stamp duty, has, no doubt, rendered newspapers important auxiliaries in bringing about engagements of this kind. But the Register ...

... £513,000. The customs duty on foreign spirits showed an increase of £126,000., principally under the head of Geneva and other spirits, but there had been a falling off in the duty upon rum ; there was also an increase the excise duty upon the sugar used ...

... nation, and therefore unsectarian and general its character. On the subject of the Malt Tax, I in favour of its diminution or abolition, whenever the Chancellor of the Exchequer can spare the money. To effect this object, and to lighten the burdens of the_ ...

... addition to the heavy duty upon paper, the stamp upon every newspaper was fourpence. What would you think, what would our friends behind us of tbe Daily Post say, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed to put a fourpenny stamp upon every number of ...

... public administration. The tax on Government concessions is to be extended to all the provinces of the kingdom the registry and stamp taxes are to be more regularly collected: the income tax, wblcn is present higher than that in England, will be replaced by ...

... of the measures which he ha* advocated-Reforra, the abolition Church rates, freetrade, the abolition of the newspaper stamp and the paper duty, the admission of Jews to Parliament, and the abolition of the property qualification—adopted by ...

... know them sufficiently, and the men who only abuse them do not know them at aU. Conscientious.—A member of the Society for Abolition of Capital Punishment objects paper hangers.— The Censor. It is said that when a Russian husband neglects beat hs wife for ...

... submitted to you; among others, a biR for increasing the number of deputies to the Lower House, and biR for the aboHtion of the stamp duty on printed matter, for which an equivalent wiR be substituted. The revenue suffices to meet the expenditure of the State ...

... sent the prisoner the transfer, duly stamped. The prisoner then made the affidavit referred to, alleging that those stamps were spoiled stamps, and thereby endeavoured to obtain the value of tne stamps from the Stamp Office. The prisoner had ...