... of Cambridge without success. During this interval he entered into the great movement which had for its object the abolition of the duty on corn, and became one of the most successful orators of the League. In 1841 he was invited to stand for Manchester ...

... Government should spare no effort to bring about the abolition of that unsound system. Among the suggestions put forward was a proposal that commerce within the Empire should be encouraged by imposing a duty of an equal rate on all imports entering the Empire ...

... authorities, the task of purchasing • stamp will be rendered more easy in,the future than it has been in the past. At the same time as there has been an agitation for the more convenient procuring of postage-stamps, there have been thrown out:several ...

... to a crowded assembly commensurate with the importnnee of the subject. • The great anniversary gathering to celebrate the abolition of slavery throughout the British dominions half a century ago, was, therefore, held at the Guildhall, which is much larger ...

... fractional part of fifty barrels brewed. All these duties, with the minute interference with manufacture they involved. are swept away. The maltsters will receive a ilrawliack on the malt on which duty lira been pall, but which still remain. in their ...

... give the leading feat•.rts of the draft prgmtutne. It embraces the abolition of • ice duties on tea, coffee, cocoa, and fruit ; the egnalisation. con,li-Intion, and graduation a death duties; the graduation aud differentiation of the income tax ; reform of ...

... and • large quantity of valuable property including n number of watches, was stolen. The usual number of policemen were on duty at the time. Richard Le Fleming Shepherd, described as • medical pescutiimer, of Bennington. Lincolnshire, was fined land coats ...

... the Daily Gaxteer. It may be added that in 1846, seven years before the abolition of the advertisement duty, and nine years before the sweeping away of the compulsory newspaper stamp, there were 551 journals in the United Kingdom; but in the thirty-five ...

... Increase na Ireland. In the Okla )ear 18.0-1 hundred detections made; to the 1831-2 the number rota to 800. The stamps on succession duty in the ;sit financial year produced net, £738,334 84. Id. The New York papers contain graphic tiorcriptions of a ...

... isnablered that a reduction of the Indian duties on cotton goods would be as cinch in the interest of India as of Lancashire. The Indian Covernment intended to provide immediately for the total abolition of the duty upon grey goods. He would not what further ...

... quarter ending 31st December, 1381, 'compared and stamped 771 weights and 93 measures at Adpar and Llaudys- Isal, those weights found a trifle lighter thau the 100.11 indards were adjusted and stamped. The chiirged amounted to .C 4 6d, which sum I have ...

... of the Canadian Parliament on the 17th ult. Th. removal of the duties on tea and ooffee will lessen the cost of those important articles of food to the people, and the repeal of the stamp tax on bills of exchange and promissory notes will be appreciated ...