... I_ half. Duty on soap Duty on slates and coals Duty on tiles .. Duty on hemp .. Duty on drugs .. Duty on currants and fruits Duty on cotton wool .. ...

... manufacturers in proportion to quantity made. Total abolition of soap-tax. Universal Id. receipt stamp. Apprentices' indentures to be reduced from 20s. to 2s. 6d. Attorn i es' certi &Iles reduced one-third, and stamp from £l2O to .£BO. [Mr. Gladstone, however ...

... the stamp duty that he wished to address himself. If only a penny stamp-duty were to he retained, its effect in keeping newspapers out of the reach of the working classes would be as certain - as if the duty were retained at its present ...

... the stamp duty that he wished to address himself. If only a penny stamp-duty were to be retained, its effect in keeping newspapers out of the reach of the working classes would be as certain as if the duty were retained at its present amount ...

... For the Abolition of Tithes in Ireland, 13 petitions, signed by 8,249 persons, have been presented. 18431 persons have signed petitions in favour of awarding compensation to Mr. Buckingham. The number of petitioners for the Repeal of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers ...

... Sir W. INGILBY presented a petition from certain owners and occupiers of land in Lincolnshire, praying for the abolition of the stamp duty on insurances. Colonel SIBTHORP supported the prayer of the petition, and hoped that a tax which so materially affected ...

... over the British Press in point of circulation, and the necessity which existed for enabling the stamped Newspapers, by means of the abolition of the stamp duty, to compete with the unstamped. In Great Britain, according to the calculations of Mr. Bulwer ...

... 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 ...

... will be 'mid on Primrose-hill, on EASTER MONDAY, at Two o'Cluck, to Petition the House of Common for the Total Abolition of the Stamp Duties Newspapers. and also the Release. of Mr. Cl.,ave and others suffering under the operation of such odious and unjast ...

... advertising-sheets. The amount accruing to the revenue from this stamp duty—only £400,000 —would be of no importance whatever when weighed against the great and general advantages of abolition. If any government desires popularity, let it take the matter ...

... last session of Parliament, preferred the repeal of the tea and sugar duties to that of the paper duty, but with every respect for their opinion I could not but feel that the duties ou knowledge combined every evil of the other taxes I have named. (Hear ...