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    278 The New Gagging Bill

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    The following' paper has been handed to us with a request for its insertion , with which we readily comply . Our number must have passed through the press before the close of the discussion on Mr . Wakley ' s motion ; but whatever the result of his attempt to procure the total abolition of the Newspaper Stamp , we know not how to anticipate that any thing so monstrous as some of the following clauses can possibly be

    adopted by the House of Commons . We cannot imagine how any person should have been found that could dare to frame them . They seem to us to go near to constitute an act of treason against the people . We trust the country will do its duty on this occasion , and not submit to insult and tyranny as the accompaniments of the reduction of a tax , the existence of any portion of which is an infamy .

    THE NEW GAGGING BILL . INTRODUCED BY MR . SPRING RICE . Abstract of some of the Clauses affecting the Press , in the proposed Bill for the Consolidation of the Stamp Duties . Clause \ 66 . —Declares that all political pamphets published periodically and within a month , shall be considered newspapers . So that the * Poor Man ' s Guardian , * which under the old Trash Act was decided to l » e a legal Publication , could not now be published without a Stamp . The Mirror of Parliament , Lancet , and similar publications may be construed to ( all within the meaning of the Schedule A , referred to in ibis clause . 168 . —Before a newspaper can be printed an affidavit must be made at the Stamp Office , setting forth the title of the Paper , intended printing office , and publishing office , private residence and names of printers and publishers , and of other persons in any manner concerned in publishing such Newspaper , with the name of the Proprietor , or two of the largest proprietors . Affidavits to be renewed and amended in certain cases , and whenever required by the Commissioners . Thewords in italics in this clause are an addition to the old law . 1 G 9 . — Penalty for printing a Paper without making the above

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    And the star loved the dew-drop , and it was without shame , for its whole being was filled with a devoted affection . And behold , when the dew-drop knew this , a new life seemed burning within her , and around her on the moss shone a pale , but blessed light . With the day-light ' s coming it passes away , but now , ever again at even-tide , it is filled with life and light . And those that saw her called her a Glow-worm .

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    MR . SPRING RICE AND ^ THE NEWSPAPER PRESS .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 278, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/14/