... obvious that the reduction in the stamp duties on deeds and the abolition of game certificates must concern the country more than dwellers in towns, while the benefit arising from the abrogation of the penny stamp newspapers will exclusively enjoyed ...

... probate, legacy, and succession duties. He ( proposeb to do away with the distinctions in the probate A duty on the property of testate and intestate persons, and to charge on a scale on the principle of a 2 per cent duty, I rising in intervals of £O up ...

... he said it was his duty to stamp cups, but he had refused to stamp earthenware cups. It was his duty to stamp measures in such a way as to prevent fraud; and he refused to stamp earthenware cups because he had ...

... also propose carry two ounces of other printed matter for the same price. The loss to the Post-office by the abolition of the impressed stamp duty is estimated amount £120,000 ' and the loss on ttife other arrangements to £250,000. I now come to the subject ...

... House a complete estimate both as to the abolition of the existing system and the reconstruc- tion they proposed. Mr. GLADSTONE denied the assertion that the bill had been narrowed to the single question of abolition of purchase, or that the matters which ...

... then amount to about £272,938, as against £259,526 in June last. Mr. Samuel Peters (secretary of the Foreign Sugar Bounties Abolition Committee) begs to acknowledge with many thanks, the receipt of £5 worth of Bristol Tavern and Club Company's tickets for ...

... euumerated, and some brief remarks were made upon most of them 'They were The Bankruptcy Laws, the equalisation of the stamp duties on inlan and foreign bills of exchange, the increase in the weight of single letters to and through France from \ an ounce ...

... their License Duties- and a crowd of brewers have since fonund their warV to the Conservative bencesl~ to fightt the battle of their trade with their own hand~s, But then again the railway proprietors demsud thme repeal of the Paseengee D~uty, and we are ...

... to appease the advocates of a free breakfast table by taking off half the duties on coffee and chicory; while his fourth and last concession is the abolition of the holise duty on shops and offices in which a servant lives for the protection of the premises ...

... surplus in reducing wI the duties uponcoffee andohieoryone-half. '[hepresentduty th on coffee was now 28a. per cwt. He proposed to go reduce it to 14s., and the duty upon chicory, which was fr( 26s. 6d,, to 13s, 3d. The Excise duty upon chicory which was ...

... auth'ority to repudiato the Commercial c Treaty with England; bult the refusal of the deputies to sanction the proposed heavy duties on foreign textile c fabrics led to a hope that the dennciation would .be staved off. The President, however, has found ...

... value £10, the property of the Midland Railway Company. Mr. J. I. Clifton defended. P.C. Clothier (220) deposed that he wac on duty at the railway terminus on Saturday evening, when his attention was drawn to the prisoner, who was carrying the box produced ...