... committees in the Corps Legislatif. With reference to the press, the proposed changes would consist in lowering of tnc stamp duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation, and, in cases of offences against the press laws, the substitution ...

... } taxes on knowledge?” The following are the heads of the measure :— First— The ext re abolition of the Newspaper Stamp | | Duty. Second—The abolition of the Duty on Advertise. nents, This has not hitherto been put forward as one of the ...

... committees in the Corps Legislatif. With reference t) the press, the proposed changes woald consist in a lowering of the stamp duty, the abolition of the neces. sity for a Governmcnt authorisation, and, in cases ci offences against the press laws, the substitution ...

... for some time been very eccentric in his manner. Lip-service of Ljkeral M.P.'s. In a report just issued the Newspapo* Stamp Duty Abolition Committee allude when there is no chance of success. The accession of Mr. D'lsraeli and about forty Conservatives ...

... ABOLITION OF THE PAPER DUTY. On Tuesday, at noon, meeting the Yorkshire paper manufacturers, convened circular, was held at the White , Horse Hotel, Boar liane, Leeds, for the purpose of taking steps with a view to obtain the abolition of the duty on ...

... ABOLITION OF THE NEWSPAPER STAMP. t THE CHfANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER was last night to propose resolutions in the House of (Coumnons a s preparatory to an abolition of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers. We say the ...

... OBJECTIONS TO THE ABOLITION OF THE e NEWSPAPER STAMP ANSWERED. It andun andof IT would be a newv thing in the world, if the off sands interests fostered under a vicious system did not rise no ,'inactle utp to oppose its abolition. The Newspaper Stamp has Cli ...

... that nothing less than total abolition of the Stamp Doty on Newspapers will meet tbe requirements or satisfy the demands of the nation. Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your honourable bouse wholly remove the Stamp Duty and lo adopt surh other measures ...

... STAMP DUTY ON NEWSPAPERS. We had hoped that the present ministry, upon their restoration to power, would have immediately announced their intention of repealing the newspaper stamp duty; that they would have thus obeyed the dictates of policy, justice ...

... , reduction of the stamp duty in 1836, they do not j apprehend any injurious consequences from a total abolition, though they admit the prevalence a, contrary opinion. We confess we cannot understand why the repeal penny stamp duty should ...

... NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTY. The following excellent remarks on this ire from Col. last letter to Reform Association, which appeared in the Hull Dbserver of Tuesday “J yesterday presented the petition from Hull re- the same day, praying for the total abolition of the ...

... NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIES. THE L Ds IMELS, 25. The discussion of the Newspaper Stamp Duties caine before the House of Commons on Monday evening, when the Tories headed by Sir Cherles Knightley, thought fit to bring forward the scheme of reducing the ...