... ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. - on NMonday a Meeting of the Freeholders of the County of Surrey took place, at tbe Spread Eagle, at Epsom, for the puirpose of adopting Resolutionsi, and voting Petitions to both 1-olises of Parliaenett, on the subject ...

... and commerea in Turkev. The delegrates recom- mend, inter acia, the abolition of the Ill export duty, likewise the abolition of the transmit duty of 1% ; the suppression of the new stamp tax, intro- duced without previous acceptance by the ...

... number ot persons would in ure it the duty was reduced to Is. The present system preseed particularly on the poor man, who could not insurut 1002. for loss than 7s. 6d., the premium being 3d,, the duty 3s, and the stamp and policy le. 6d. Mr. DAY observed ...

... amounts. The Tea Juty was reduced last July, and the abolition of the Soap ?? thof July. Thealtera- tions in the Stamp Duties camueintooperationin October. We believe that, with regard to the Tea Duty, while the immediate loss to the revenue was fully 950 ...

... harvest, that in the very moderate duties still levied on it there is a decrease of £95,000, The diminished duty on tea is answerable for £190,000, while there is a fall of £10,000 in the duty on tobacco, and £55,000 in the duty on wine. These losses are co ...

... may be stated as follows: EXCISE. Abolition of the soap-tax . ?? ?? * ?? flI26,000 STAMPS. Reduction of the duty on life asssrance from 23. 6d. per cent. to 6d. per cent. ?? ?? ?? ?? 29,000 Reduction of receipt stamps from the present scale, ranging from ...

... shows an increase in this branch of revenue, and the year one of £965,77S. The abolition of the Newspaper Stamp is the main cause of the reduction under the head of Stamps. The falling off in the Post Office receipts and in the Assessed Taxes is easily ...

... Attorneys' certificates re-l duced one-third, and No alteratioss stamp from 1201. to 801. Abolition of tax on nesvs-l paper supplements, and | reduction of advertise- olteration, meat duty from ls. Gd. to Od. J Daty on cabs and hackney- coaches from ls ...

... the pvoiligiulls advwlitagei of cileap food ald low duties itu auglienting the revetaue of the state. At tie beginuilg of this s.es. sion Sir Robert Peellowered tlez duty onsugar, abolished the duties on Colton and stlves, and1 on a great variety of sulall ...

... adties, and the total abolition of the duties oD many articles of minor importance in the Customs. A considerable amount of the deliciency in this branch of the revenue arises from the payment of the drawbaek on sugars in hond, the duties on which had beeti ...

... inhabited houses and shops, £100,000. of the tax on male servants, £50,000. of the license duty on dogs, £50,000. of that on horses, £100,000. out of the stamp duties, and some £8,000. at snost out of the incomne-tax--or, in all, about £000,000., out of an ...

... yielded £1,902,787, all other items (except House Duty) showing Decreases. The decrease of £1,004,750 in stamps is stated to have been chiefly due to the decline in the receipt of legacy and succes- sion duties as compared with the very large receipt in 1892-93 ...