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... right hon. gentleman said there appeared to be a belief that the Laud Act of 1.570 required large amendments. It would be the duty or the Government carefully to examine the condition of the law, and if they believed its provisions were insufficient, they ...
... Banks were being carefully considered. Lord John Manners explained that the colour of the new penny stamp and that of the new twopence-halfpenny stamp had been decided on at the Postal Union Congress at Paris. Mr E. Stanhope informed Sir Chas. Dilke that ...
... the 14th of April, 1847, at the price of 4d. This price was gradually lowered j to 2d; and in the year of the abolition of the , Stamp Duty, the Mail was issued at its present , price. It wag then only a four-page paper; later lon it was published on ...
... statement by Lord Beaconsfield regarding the Customs L 1.9,300,000 idissolution. Lord Sruatutort an.lCAllrert.t., who hail in- Stamps 'tended to call attention to the Eastorn Que.- Land bud ‘tion, delayed doing so until the Foreign - house ditty 2,701 ...
... ary, and under the former bead he placed the abolition of the law of primogenitere, the situplidcatiun of land transfer ' the abolition of all preferential rights of landlords over other and the abolition of the game laws. His **extravagant and revolutionary ...
... Leipsic, but haa refused the offer. Of NEW POSTAGE STAMPS.—Following tip the recent improvement. in the penny postage stamps, the Post Office authorities are about to halfpenny stamps and three-halfpenny stamps of a new design and colour. The new halfpenny ...
... under the penn i es i n t e„ Bank can do , great cities -and either throw them open fur sun. so by purchasing penuy portage stamp., ! inspection or altogether at their owu - discretion. If they insure with any of the BLACK-NEBS.• and as as these amount ...
... necessaries of life are cheaper than in England, yet the Grist-tax is an abated intolerable burden, and the agitation for its abolition resembles in many that for the repeal of the Corn-laws in this country tive-aud-thirty years ago. It is the mere hated because ...