... The Government presented a bill relative to tbe abolition of the nesvmaper stamp duty. ITALY. Fwannce, June 2, Evening. The heilee asserts that the Minister for Fireign Affairs has lodged s complaint with the Government respeatin its want of vigilance ...

... lees than L2O, the duty payable should be five shillings, and that other 14111141 the Stamp Duty should be twenty shillings. lie ititeuded to propose a reduction of the stamp duty on bills of lading from to 35., and the ...

... STAMP DUTIES BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that, in t 4 present state of business, he felt it necessary to propos. in order to facilitate the passing of the Stamp Duties which it was requisite to do immediately, that of it should be omitted ...

... posed changsts would consist in a lowering of the stamp-duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation, and, in cases of offences against the press laws, the substitution of the correctional tribunals for the present system of admi ...

... ABOLITION: OF OFFICES. The Statement of the proci.v..ilitigs of the Treasury, nith respect to several offices. %%Meh i ere reff mil to Mr. Rider, Lord Pinning, and Mr. Sturges Pourne, been printed. These gentlemen recommend the aLolition of Me office ...

... committee on Soap Duties Bill, Mr J. WILSON stated that it was proposed to postpone the reduction of the duty on foreign Soap imported until the sth of July 1854, and to provide that the privilege of Importing soap froze Ireland duty free shall take effect ...

... to the propriety of removing the duty itself, for its reatrictive tendency has been admitted on all hands, and its repeal may be said to have been rendered a matter of necessity by the abolition of the newspaper stamp and the rapid development of cheap ...

... obnoxious duty cannot be too soon taken away. We observe, accordingly, without any satisfaction, a paragraph on the parr and advertisement duties in the Sun newspaper. Most assuredly it is not our interest to say nay to the abolition of the paper duty and the ...

... the indulgence they now enjoyed by practice—namely to stamp or not stamp parts of their publications, and to extend the same rule to all the rest of the newspaper press, which would be allowed to stamp that portion of their Issue which they wished to send ...

... annum. To meet this .C 1.700,000 the Right Hon. Gentleman proposed to make an adjustment of the duties on colsmial and foreign timber and sugar. The present duty on Canadian timber is 11, per load, and on Baltic 56t 6d; and by the intended change the impost ...

... time. Lord BROUGHAM presented some petitions on the subject of the Excise duty upon paper, and addressed some observations to the House in favour of the abolition of the stamp duty on newspoprs. Several bills of minor importance passed through committee ...

... collection of the paper duty, are quite as numerous as those which for many years it was engaged in exposing, as connected with the advertisement duty and the newspaper stamp. Nothing will tend so much to the abolition of the paper duty, as ...