... (Hear, hear.) X might go into the question of the newspaper stamp, the question of the papjr duty. You recollect that when the House of Commons by a large majority bad agreed to repeal the p..per duty, and to make your penny press so admirable as it is at ...

... Ultra-Tory.' He also says of him that he spoke with th- greatest disgust of the respect paid to public opinion. He said that; the duties of a ruler are patriarchal and pa- ternal. He ought to consider tie moral discipline of the people as his first object, to ...

... ) In America there is a system of placing a stamp on the cask of beer. This stamp is put on every cask, and not found there is no fraud if it is because no retailer will buy the cask unless it bears the stamp. That system would, however, be impracticable ...

... obviate any necessity for the scandalous hours of duty now prevailing. Sunday work is a grievance which, in a movement affecting hours, demands attention. Sunday work cannot be re- garded as other than extra duty, beyond the de- mand of the custom of the country ...

... landlord was a great means of im- poverishing the country. He considered that several of thp remedies might he carried by the abolition of the law of primogeniture, an aboli- tion of entail, and that all ownership of land should be absolute owner-hip, and that ...

... Advertisers and others having occasion to remit small sums to this Office are requested to send 'POSTAL NOTES, INSTEAD OF STAMPS. The notes may be obtained every Post-oifica in the kingdom for the following sums and charges :— Amount of Postal No.e. Cost ...

... cent, of legacy duty, and in respect of that 1 per cent. to add £ per cent, to the probate duty. As the legacy duty of 1 per cent, attaches to rather more than half the pro- perty subject to probate, the proposal to augment the probate duty by$per cent, ...

... added in postage stamps. Wattle*. AGENTS Wanted to seil Improved Indiarubber Stamps. Useful in every house oi business. £ 2 £ 3 per week easily earned.—Apply for tenns and specimens, enclosing stamp, to K. Henry Bright, Rubier Stamp Manufacturer, Chippenham ...

... the man to do what is wanted. He lias made some few useful alterations but the bold scheme of a halfpenny post, and the abolition of the paltry postcard, would be a reform which would identify tlie name of Mr FAWCETT with Post-omce reform for all time ...

... in the toom of Mr Grant-Duff. THE FORGED STAMPS AT DUBLIN. Mr A. M. SULLIVAN (H.R., Meath) asked whether it was a fact that several thousands of legal documents from Dublin were invalid through forged stamps having been used upon them pre- sumably by ...

... of the duties were £220,000 short of the estimate. On the whole, however, the estimate has been very close, and the House may like to. compare the proceeds of the beer duty with the proceeds of the old malt duty. In 1879-80 the malt duty—the ...

... object to stringent provi- sions against the importation of abominations from the American press. (Hear, hear.) As to the abolition of trial by jury, the im- position of fines on districts where outrages were perpetrated, and the proposed right of search ...