It is disadvantageous as impairing the resources of the dependency, which are a part of the resources of the empire, and the very material of the trade which is the object of desire. If a colony is forbidden to buy of any but the mother-country, it must do without some articles which it desires, or pay dear for them;—it loses the opportunity of an advantageous exchange, or makes a disadvantageous one. Thus the resources of the colony are wasted. If a colony is forbidden to sell its own produce to any but the mother-country, either the prohibition is not needed, or the colony receives less in exchange from the mother-country than it might obtain elsewhere. Thus, again, the resources of the colony are wasted. If a colony is forbidden either to buy of or sell to any but the mother-country, the resources of the colony are wasted according to both the above methods, and the colony is condemned to remain a poor customer and an expensive dependency. In proportion, therefore, as trade with colonies is distinguished from trade with other places, by restriction on buyers at home, or on sellers in the colonies, that trade (involving the apparatus of restriction) becomes an occasion of loss instead of gain to the empire. -------------------------------------------------- London: Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES, Duke-street, Lambeth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A TALE OF THE TYNE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU. LONDON: CHARLES FOX, 67, PATERNOSTER-ROW. --- 833. CONTENTS. Chapter Page 1. No News from the Port 1 2. News from the Port 22 3. Grown Children’s Holiday 44 4. Epistolary Godliness 66 5. Nothing but a Voice 78 6. Sleeping and Waking 108 7. Loyalty Preventives 121 A TALE OF THE TYNE. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER I. NO NEWS FROM THE PORT.