... Ellis, hon. secretary of the Railway Passenger Duty Association, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Monday, and presented memorials praying for the abolition of the railway passenger duty. Monday morning the brig Hampton, of Dublin ...

... SOCIETIES AND THE STAMP DUTIES. • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to Mr. W. H. Smith, stated that a letter from the Inland Revenue office, intimating that checks drawn in behalf of building societies were liable to stamp duties, was not written ...

... tot he House of Comn. mons a petition from the inhabitants of Swansea, praying for an alteration of the law respecting the stamp duty on building leases; also from the inhabitants of Neath, against any extension of the Contagious Diseases Act to civil c ...

... regard to the abolition of the duty 011 cotton goods, considering the dislike of the natives of India to direct taxation it was unwise to get rid of import duti. s. Earl GRANVILLE bad heard no defence for pressing the abolition of the duty ...

... the head of stamp duty, which was not under the control of the Government, and which perhaps it was not desirable should be under their control. He referred to the Legacy Duty. It must also be re- membered that the amount of the legacy duty in 1871-2 was ...

... hand of stamp duty, which was not under the control of the Government, and which perhaps it was not desirable should be under their control. He referred to the Legacy Duty. That it must also be re- membered that the amount of the legacy duty in 1871-2 ...

... yield produced £27,736,000, or jeil2,000 beyond the estimate. Stamps were estimated at £11,000.000, and they produced £10,800,000, or £110,000 less than the estimate. The Land Tax and House Duty was esti- mated at £2,500,000, and produced above the estimate ...

... reduction of taxes the followlI18 n«Tnftlr T m i?1 842,^000 Income Tax, one penny off. £ 9000 000 Sugar duties, abolition of oiso'oOO Horse duty, abolition of £ 4,322,000 In conversing with him in his own Pftrl°™. hp uaj evening, when he mentioned the calcu ...

... in the Financial Reform ' for 1879. Dividing the amounts annually raised from Customs, Excise, house duty, 'name and property tax, land tax, and stamps (see page 162 of the almanact), by the calculated population for each correeponding year (see page 120) ...

... in this case 'tis not I that want flapping:- The Scribe who reported made slip with his pen. Each hour of the day some fresh duty elicits; The world little recks of their jading amount: My readings of Homer come seldom, like visits Of angels. Their sum ...

... it. Mr. BJSIIGHT also pointed out the advantages which had arisen from the repeal of the Navigation Laws, the abolition of the paper duty, and the opening up of commercial relations with the world on a scak of unprece- dented magnitude. Alluding tG ...

... first time since the abolition of unjust restrictions that the Senior Wranglership has been won by an alien to the Church of England, and the circumstance is there- fore all the more gratifying, as tending to prove that the abolition of exclusive rights ...