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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... £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 ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Journal
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3061 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PARLIAMENT, LAST NIGHT

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3208 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

General News

... were effected by it; first, a reduction of the duty for each dog from 12s. to 55.; secondly, tbe abolition the exemption of dogs in tending or driving cattle or sheep; and, thirdly, the collection of the duty means of a licence for each dog, under the management ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1868
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3874 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TIMES WEDNBSDAVaPRIL 29 1868 WEDNESDAY 29 1868 THE HOSPITAL are to that the collections last Churches and ..

... of capital punishments has been before Parliament a proposition for the abolition of this un-Christian and barbarous mode of despatching murderers been debated for the abolition of the gallows defeated in a small House by a majority of 104 the face of ...

Published: Wednesday 29 April 1868
Newspaper: Coventry Times
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5721 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MARRIAGES

... having received postage stamps from an errand boy of Mr. Edwin Slater, of St. Ann s Square, knowing them to have been stolen. The boy, it will be remembei’ed, des- troyed letters which he was entrusted to post, and took the stamps to Howard, who was in ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1868
Newspaper: Aris's Birmingham Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 6144 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE IRISH CHURCH

... that the time has arrived when it becomes the duty of the Government to consider the question. The Exhibition of 1867 has opened the eyes the country to the question in a wonderful degree; but it becomes the duty of manufacturers to examine the whole question ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1868
Newspaper: Aris's Birmingham Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 6526 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... lice is adeiaing for the Cheatar Cup won his trial in acantor. Apsplicatione moot contain dIrected envelope, enclosing four stamps.-Address DMr. F. Robinson, Westminster TvrWestmInster Bridge, London. Coasmlsaons executed fre f lar-ge. PostdfI~cs orders ...