... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... STAMPS ON NEWSPAPERS. CASE OF MR. HETHERINGTON AND M. CLEAVE. In the comparatively barbarous days of Queen Ann, the first stamp duty was put on pamphlets and Newspapers—a halfpenny on a half sheet, a penny on a whole sheet. The government then held and ...

... STAMPS ON NEWSPAPERS. CASE OF MR. HETHERINGTON AND MR. CLEAVE. In the comparatively barbarous days of Queen Ann, the first stamp duty was p u t on p amp hl e t s an d Newspapers—a halfpenny on a half sheet, a penny on a whole sheet. The government then ...

... not exist one whole year in England. There was now a surplus revenue, and the government might take off the whole of the stamp duty. He lied seen 20,000/. voted to North America, 80,000/. voted to the Consuls of England—like water from a goblet. Let them ...

... Wire's argument as to what was news, the clause of exemptions from the stamp-duty showed what the Legislature thought would have been• deemed news, and chargeable with the duty, but for the exemption afforded by that clause. Among those . exemptions ...

... alternative with us now is, death or victory—a penny stamp or no stamp at Nobody is pledged to the Penny Stamp—the Chancellor is not pledged—the Tories are not pledged—the Whigs are not pledged—but to no stamp at all, the Liberals both in and out of Parliament ...

... to propose the total abolition of the stamp duty, he could carry such a measure through the present House of Commons. Mr. Hume had answered in . the negative. Mr. Hume explained. He had said the total abolition of the stamp ...

... the stamp duty that be 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 ...