how his own contribution is wasted. Again, the expense of collecting direct taxes is much less per cent- than customs, enhanced by the cumbrous machinery of our preventive service. The mere expense of collecting customs is trifling, but is quadrupled by …

proportion of our silk exports is sent to our rival, France. Thus have we received a salutary lesson on the benefits of competition, in a branch of manufacture which of all others is peculiarly hedged in with difficulties to this country. Why, then, are …

of purchase, or our tastes. Notwithstanding the vast increase in our powers of production, the demand has more than kept pace with it. If people had not worn more clothing, after the introduction of the spinning jenny and the power-loom, the markets wou …