Such are the evils which attend the protection of a class of producers who cannot compete with foreign producers of the same article. If home producers can compete with foreign producers, they need no protection, as, _cæteris paribus_, buying at hand is preferable to buying at a distance. Free competition cannot fail to benefit all parties:-- Consumers, by securing the greatest practicable improvement and cheapness of the article; Producers, by the consequent perpetual extension of demand;--and Society at large, by determining capital to its natural channels. ---------------------------- W. CLOWES, Stamford-street. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note The word 'visitor', though more common, is spelled in several places as 'visiter'. Both are retained. Words hyphenated on line or page breaks have the hyphen removed if the preponderance of other occurrences are unhyphenated. Those words occurring midline are retained regardless of other occurences. (summer-house/summerhouse, sea-side/seaside, fire-side/fireside, silk-worm/silkworms, hand-bill/handbill, ill-natured/illnatured, house-wife/housewife, back-ground/background). On some occasions, a word spans a line break, but the hyphen itself has gone missing. These fragments are joined appropriately without further notice here. Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. Given the independent pagination of the original, these are divided by volume. Messrs. Vanderput and Snoek. 7.5 Have you any of your pain to[ /-]day? Replaced. 96.22 of no little import[t]ance. Removed. 108.23 [“]and Gertrude knows that I do; Added. The Loom and the Lugger.--PART I. 62.4 to the lady----[”] Removed. 122.29 got into a corner[.] Restored 122.30 (Pim’[s] own son) Restored. The Loom and the Lugger.--PART II. 4.33 cried the house-wife from the window[,] Added. 12.29 but he would [r]ather not hear him Restored. 15.1 wondering in h[i]mself. Inserted. 94.32 so I won't have any dinner at all.[”/’] Replaced. 109.17 the alarm of the last[e / e]vening Transposed. 142.31 brotherhood of our respective nations.[”] Added.