LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... The items of revenue for the year atre as follows --MAI Customs, £19,'750,000; excise, £26,277,000; stamps, dccc &l'l 019,000 ; land tax' and hoses duty, sar £2644,000; property and income tax, £9,485,000 post-office, £6,319,000; telegraph service, £1 ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4685 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... rOaeiptS are greater this year by the sum of £2,182,978. The pro- perty and. income-tax shows an increase of £3,454,000 ; the stamps come next. with an in- crease of £3 537,000 ; and the other itemns of incre- ment are the Post Office, £139,000 ; interest ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4865 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

Birmingham Daily Post AND JOURNAL

... millions per annum. Owing to the increase in e previous quarlers, howvever, chiefly in stamps B and lnconmc tax-the former being swollen by somo heavy windfalls of legacy duty, and the le latter by the increased rate of the tax-tbe ii net decrease on tbe nine ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6507 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1879

... Lords discnsed Lord Shafteshury's motion on factory labolir Iit India. ?? the Contuiolts. diseussion on tile Indian cotton duties. Mr. Justin M't'artlty ?? elected for county Longfordi, un- opposed. In the Unciversity Athletic Spuortq,Oxfora and Ctambridige ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1880
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9108 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

. MONMOUTHSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS.

... make any remarks as to his conduct as Clerk of the Peace-you all know, as a public man. the way in which he conducted the duties of the office, but I may safely say that there is no magistrate in the connty who did not hear with horror and the greatest ...

Published: Friday 09 January 1880
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3597 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Political

... . plalitial. at ?? TB to Who abolished the sugar duties amounting to 2,228,000!.? U -The Conservatives. lug a- Who abolished the horse duty of 500,000!. ?-The Con- int 20sen'atives. in of Who abolished the in corns-tax on all incomes under £50?. Wile ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1880
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2596 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... associated wvith thle Mayor in encouraging another class of public servants, whose fidelity to their duties was of thue greatest impoctaslice nod whose duties were of no less trying and difficult acharactcr than those of thee Post-otlice enuphoyds. fhn rev ...

Published: Thursday 15 January 1880
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8180 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

OPENING OF THE BIRMINGHAM LIBERAL CLUB

... parties to, The abolition of slavery; that was en act that the Liberal pasty in this country passed. The abolition of slavesy by England has had great effect UpOee the question of slavery evorywhere-hhear, hear)- foil lthough the abolition of slavery in ...

Published: Wednesday 21 January 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 16910 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

DARLINGTON ELECTION

... have, if possible, even more reason to congratulate Mr FRY upon the ability and success with which he discharged the difficult duty of compressing a political confession of faith comprising so vast a range of subjects within so short a space of time. Mr FRY's ...

Published: Wednesday 21 January 1880
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 2628 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MR. BRIGHT & SIR W. HARCOURT AT BIRMINGHAM

... refociced by the notion of the Liberals, who had also brought about the abolition of the newspaper stomp anid the establishment of that immense national boon--the penny postage stamp, He had subscribed to a moniumient in Birmingham to Sir Rowland D Bill ...

Published: Wednesday 21 January 1880
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2715 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LIBERAL DEMONSTRATION AT BIRMINGHAM

... consenting parties. The abolition of slavery was carried by the Libestl party of this country. (Cheers.) The abolition of slavery by England has had great effect upon the question of slavery everywlmore-(hear, hear)- and althoughl the abolition of slavery in the ...

Published: Wednesday 21 January 1880
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 12015 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

MR JOHN BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM

... abuse; but those things had Y been reformed by the action of the Liberals, who Y had also brought about the abolition of the o news;,aper stamp and the establishment of that a immense national boon the penny post. He had 1 subscribed to a monument in ...

Published: Wednesday 21 January 1880
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 2477 | Page: 4 | Tags: News