... repeal of the Stamp Duties, Mr. LEICESTER presented a petition from Poole for the abolition of Slavery. Mr. METHUEN presented petitions from Littleton, Castle-comb, and the females of Cullom, in the county of Wilts, for ' • the immediate abolition of Slavery ...

... Wakley, M. Churchill. NEWSPAPER STAMP AND POSTAGE by John Crawfurd, F.R.S.—Mr. Wakley has ben the first to break the dangerous and extraordinary sluml4r which, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement bf his Stamp Duty project, creptover the dozen ...

... his direction. The duty was cast upon him, and he should discharge it to the best of his ability, so long as he retained his present office. (Cries of Order.) He thought it right to take the steps he had taken, because it was a duty in the successful ...

... were 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 ...

... Glamorgan, for the abolition of !lavery, Mr. ABERCROMBIE presented a petition frorn a congrekation in Edinburgh for the better observance of the Sabbath; a petition from the letter-pressmen of Edinburgh for the • ti.Ornediate abolition of all Taxes on ...

... Shrove Tuesday, the Ifich instant, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the total abolition of the stamp duty on newspapers. Mr. R. Sutcliffe was called to the chair, who, in opening the business of the meeting, stated that ...

... operative then. The Education Act !of prepared the way tor the popular .journal of 1913 no more surely than the abolition of the Stamp and Paper Duties in the middle of the century made possible the peony oevrapaper of its closing de,eades. _ ...

... Dublin Steam-packet Company's Bill; and from Hemston for a repeal of the stamp-duties on newspapers, and also for the liberation of all persons imprisoned for offences against the Stamp Acts. Mr. HAWES presented a petition from Lambeth against the Poor-law ...

... Chancellor of :the Exchequer broilkht forward his proposition for the repeal of the newspaper stamp duty he should propose to substitute the repeal of the duty on soap. • The house then, 612 the Motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, went into a cpmmittee on the ...

... and the modification or abolition of certain excise duties. The duty on glass has been abolished, that on auctions lessened, about four hundred different articles of foreign productions or manufacture which formerly paid duty are now admitted free, and ...

... of the Ecclesiastical Courts Consolidation Bill. A petition was presented from the town of Drogheda against the abolition of the stamp duty on Newspapers. Lord DUNCANNON moved the first reading of the Irish Constabulary Bill. He proposed to move on Monday ...

... 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. He then adverted to the newspaper stamp duty : Before ...