... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... improvement of £400,000, but this was converted, by the abolition of the sugar duties (£2,000,000), into a, decrease of £1,600,0o00. In Excise he hoped for an augmentation of £918,000, and in Stamps of £330,000. Now let us see how far these figures are ...

... still more unfavourable but for the recent increased pay- rments for spirits, made through apprehension of j an enhanced duty. Stamps, the third and last of the great heads of revenue which serve as indexes of the national well-being, also show a marlked ...

... dies by the return- ay ing-offiter for stamping votig papers. as After some discussion, the amendment was negatived by to- 160 against 80. Lord CLAUDE HALIsLToN then 'moved an amendment clh that the dies or stamps for voting papers be provided byj by the ...

... dimensions. Household 1 suffrage, vote by ballot, the abolition of the property aqualification of members of Parliament, the abrogation. of the Protective system, the reform of the Irisk church, thie abolition of church rates, cheap postage, r the removal of ...