... customs duty on tea of i5 florins per icolb. I need not say that this proposal, contrary as it is to the principles of free trade, meets with strong opposition. The result naturally is that people are afraid that the abolition of the stamp duty will fall ...

... this year the re- newal of the increased salary given to bims last year in consequence of the additional duties thrown upon hima bv the abolition of the Compound Householders' Act.- The Clerk stated that last year the parishioners in vestry assembled ...

... acts of plain duty but questionable expediency, such as the liberation of the slaves in her West Indian pos- sessions; when she succours the oppressed without gain to herself, as in the recent expedition to Abyssinia. One such act stamps her Christian ...

... held yesterday. In a few weeks, he said, the works on the south side of the river would be completed, and it would now be the duty of the directors to pro- ceed with the works between the Bridge- gate and the junction with the Coatbrlidge Railway, and likewise ...

... think it will be felt by everyone who it conversant w;ith politicS that there is an especial duty laid upon the constituencies of the kingdom, and an especial duty upon that portion of them which Is for the first time intrusted with the electoral right. ...

... heavy du paper, the stamp upen every uewspa er ?? tece at thst time every advertisement, t at a srant wee wntredtorhacmaugtl yt be old- aegh lwaysthe f gi~evter trfing pdraidra duty to thle~g etiate fnotless thore b0t ver heavy duty on paper, and 4d. ...

... think it will be felt by everyone who is conversant with politics that there is an especial duty laid upon the constituencies of the kingdom, and an especial duty upon a por- tion of them which is for the first time intrusted with the electoral right. (Hear ...

... done more than had previously been done in thirty years, to put an end to slavery and to promote free trade. The abolition of octroi duties on articles of primary consump- tion brought from the country into the towns, may be criticised as having been dictated ...

... not been made core secure, by the abolition of the law which was supposed to give ample rotection to that interest. In the dark ages of politics, too, the press was heavily taxed. There las the stamp duty, the paper duty, and the advertisement ity, which ...

... editor, Jos eph Bucher, of Passau. A new and not unimportant reform is about to be introduced in German schools, viz. the abolition of all afternoon classes. It was principally during the past summnrer months that the experiment was almost forced upon the ...

... local charities, £f500 each to the Church Missionaty Society and the c Foreign Bible Society, and £10,000, all free of legacy duty, to found an institution or fand for granting pensions to aged and distressed members of the upper 5 and middle classes-preference ...

... son3ebody's duty to set it going. An iy engine necessitates an engineer, and a -law pre- E thsupposs theexiptenee of somebody to enforeet. :y Butthee. ilaborate uachinery of our eriminal law. Af. is expected move of .it's ow aecord. Itis 1 everybods duty to se ...