... croupiers. {nu proposing the toast of the evening, the Chairman said if more of the nobility were of the stamp of Lord Lothian the motion for the abolition of the House of Lords would, be believed, weet with very little sympathy. Ihe toast was received with ...

... disendowment of the Church. 6. Free elementary education. 7. Abolition of the game laws. Free rod fishing. 8. Payment of members of Parliament. i 9. Affirmation to be substituted for oaths. 10. Abolition of perpetual pensions. 11. Triennial Parliaments. 12. ...

... and Selkirk in Parliament, and he had always, far as his abilities enabled him, conscientiously endeavoured to discharge his duties there. Allusion had been made to their proceedings in Parliament in reference to Scotch business. He could not say that they ...

... increased from £3,870,000 in 1880-1 £4,200,000 last year. The great mciease in stamps was accounted for partly by the accident of exceptionally high receipts from death duties on some great estates, and also from the improved administration of coUection ...

... Dec. £ £ Customs 35,300 34.433.0n0 —767.000 Excise 33.700,000 33,100,000 —600,100 Estate and Succession Duties 13,300.000 13.850.000 >650,000 Stamps 8,300,000 8,300,000 Land Tax and House Dnty 2,500,000 3,550,000 * 50,000 Property and Income Tax 38,600 ...

... way of mixing revenue, and wan H-ttrr prepared move for an extension i«* |»»im*t|>|«> than support a resolution for ; Its abolition. was a tax that appearing to . j pay very well some districts, (laughter.) • ! Saxpkrsox thought the tax led to much immorality ...

... Varieties. The Bristol City Council have resolved to petition Parliament for the abolition of public nominations elections. The daughter of Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, girl of twelve years, is said to possess much of the great talent of her mother ...

... Hicks-Beach proposed in his Bndget speech on April 14th to impose a duty on imported grains of 3d per cwt., and on their flour, meal or milled products, of 5d per cwt., to raise the stamp duty on cheques, &c., from Id to 2d, and to increase the income tax ...

... cautioning them against repetition of the offence, Bailie Trotter dismissed them without imposing a fine. Stamped Newspaper Covers.—After Monday next, stamped newspaper wrappers will not be sold at the post offices a smaller quantity than twelve. Concurrently ...

... and deputations from those affected have urged that the State ought to render some aid in the matter, either by the abolition of the duty of £3 per ton on wire-netting, or by some other mvans. The Minister has not as yet given any definite reply, but he ...

... of all existing suffrages. (*) The abolition of dual voting elections. Simplification of the registration laws, mostly baaed on provisions of the Scotch law. (4.) Alterations in the law aa to the appointment and duties of registration officers. (5.) Tbe ...

... understood. In early times, he said, the Catholic priests- inculcated it a duty incumbent upon the cultivators land that they should give one-tenth the produce to the church, and if this duty was neglected they were visited with excominuuication. Over all Europe ...