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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... Pensions (British Forces in India). Windsor Suspended Canonries, Public Works (Ireland), Edinburgh University, Inland Revenue, Stamp Duties Probates, &c., Revenue Departments Accounts. The house adjourned at 35 p.m. ...

THE LEOMINSTER TRAGEDY

... Strawberry Cottage, where she went I through a day's work at washing, a, duty which i she performed there periodically. She left the house for home at six O'clock in the evening. At abolit half-past six o'clock it appear a itegr heard cries of 1 Murder p ...

THE PAST SESSION

... a committee of the House of Commons for the abolition of the newspaper stamp and the esta- blishment of a limited copyright in articles of newspaper intelligence and comment. With regard to the window duty, the credit of its repeal does not rest with ...

EXTRAORDINARY BIGAMY CASE

... himself while on duty the other morning. George Fisher, the man whowas accidentallyshot at Nottingham on Guy Fawkes-day, has died from the effects of the injury. The Stockport town council has resolved to petition Parliament for the abolition or reduction ...

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS

... granted in the peculiar of Writtle. The effects ti were sworn under £20, and the charges for probate W !xt were £3 7s. lOd., stamp duty not included. Under ri the present system, should any bona utabifia in a dif- a, = ferent diocese from that in which probate ...

GROSS OUTRAGE ON THE FRENCH IN EGYPT

... TAXATION.-A petition from inhabitants of Liverpool, praying for reduction of expenditure, immediate abolition or reduction of the tea, sugar, and coffee duties, and for the earliest possible sub- stitution of direct for indirect taxation was pre- sented to ...

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

... regulations inflict upon British trade. Stamp Ernra on Foreign Bills or Exchange —In the earlv part of the year, your council suggested to the Chancellor the i*xch(quer the desirableness adopting scile of these duties at the rate of Is. per £100, instead ...

MR. CARDWELL IN LIME STREET WARD

... had. Considering they had taken off all the duty on cotton it would be uncommonly strange thing if that article had contributed more to the revenue than it did before. But what was the use of taking the duty off the raw material, cotton ? Why, to promote ...

ANNUAL SESSIONS FOR THE COUNTY

... 203 of them praying for its total abolition, and the others were for a modification. Tliere was a notice ask. ing to take the matter into their consideration, so they had perhaps better take the question of abolition first. Mr. Greene thought they could ...

PARLIAMENTARY STATISTICS: SESSION 1854

... Colitiuuance two it 1%erchtaut Shipping Metropolitatn Sewers 6. Th Usury Liars Rtepast Union Charges Costinutnce clothi Stamp Duties: to improve scale burials beyond the Metropolis were Stanelart of (lold and Silver Ildemnity10 Waves. . Net- loreset 1 ...

PAUPERISM AND CRIME

... mitigate some of the fi at brutalities ot our prison discipline, as well as ag u- by the abolition of the use of the cruel - cat' saB h1 What is here urged is the duty as wefl as the Sa al necessity of a total elimination or separation mi of the criminal ...

JURISPRUDENCE & THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAW

... the con mtrY drew 30 millions of money --nearly half' of the whole of its revenue- from customs, duties on spirits and foreign wines, and fros a excise duties on British spirits and malt: His lordship pointed out what migbt be done by woi'king men if they ...