... STAMP DUTIES ON NEWSPAPEDS. kptiblic meeting of Booksellers' Society. and othersiriendly to the removal of the taxes ocrknowledge, was held on Monday night in the theatre of the Mechanics' Institution, Southampton-buildtags, Chancery -lane. The theatre ...

... PETITION AGAINST THE NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTY. On Monday last, at twelve o'clock, a meeting of the inhabit - ants of the borough of Leeds was held at the Court-house, in that place to petition Parliament for the repeal of the stamp duty on Newspapers. George Goodman ...

... ABOLITION or TAXES ON * ILNOWLEDGE. The following letter is written by Mr. O'Connell, in answer to an invitation to him to he present at the meeting on Monday next, to consider the question of the abolition of the Stamp-duty on Newspapers : _ 10, La ...

... nothing less than a total abolition of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers will meet the requirements, or satisfy the demands of the nation. Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your honourable house wholly to remove the Stamp Duty on Newspapers ...

... will not presume to object to any reduction in the stamp duty, it is of opinion that the whole amount cannot fairly be entitled a tax upon knowledge, because, in consideration of a sum paid for the stamp, a newspaper is forwarded free of postage to all ...

... meeting will not presume to object to any reduction in the stamp duty, it is of opinion that the whole amount fairly be entitled a tax upon knowledge, because, in consideration of a sum paid for the stamp, a newspaper is forwarded free of postage to all parts ...

... as a substitute for the proposed stamp duty of one penny on all newspapers, an optional stamp, conferring freedom of postage; so that newspapers not requiring to be circulated by post might be pub lished without a stamp, as was now the case with the Literary ...

... ABOLITION TAXES ON B.NOWLEDGE• The following letter is written by Mr. O'Connell, in answer to an invitation to him to he present at the meeting on Monday next, to consider the question of the abolition of the Stamp-duty on Newspapers : _ 10, Langham-place ...

... SLAVERY ABOLITION BILL. The house went immediately into committee on the Slavery Abolition Bill. Mr. STANLEY moved the reading of the 25th clause. The Chairman said the question was as to the insertion of the sum of twenty millions in the blank left for ...

... system on stamps, by which he would save 10 or 12,0001- to the country. Lord Althorp had reduced the insurance duty to assist the farming interest; he intended to carry the reduction still further. 116 then adverted to the newspaper stamp duty:— Before ...

... Robinson, • The petition was ordered to be printed. STAMP DUTIES (NEWSPAPERS.) The ATTOR NEV-GENER AL presented A petition from the printers of Nottingham, praying for the diminution of . the duties upon Newspapers. SLAVERY The TTOR NEY:CENERAL presented ...

... applied to other leases. He also proposed that administration bonds, which were now subject to a Stamp' duty of 205., should only be liable to a S. Stamp duty. He did not think that the, revenue would lose any thing by any of these 'alterations. Of the ...