Produced by Colin Bell, Jonathan Ah Kit, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note The punctuation and spelling from the original text have been faithfully preserved. Only obvious typographical errors have been corrected. The Economist: OR THE POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL, AND FREE-TRADE JOURNAL. "If we make ourselves too little for the sphere of our duty; if, on the contrary, we do not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object; be well assured that everything about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds. _It is not a predilection to mean, sordid, home-bred cares that will avert the consequences of a false estimation of our interest, or prevent the shameful dilapidation into which a great empire must fall by mean reparation upon mighty ruins._"--BURKE. No. 3. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1843. PRICE 6_d._ CONTENTS. Our Brazilian Trade and the Anti-Slavery Party 33 The Fallacy of Protection 34 Agriculture (No. 2.) 35 Court and Aristocracy 36 Music and Musicales 36 The Metropolis 37 The Provinces 37 Ireland 37 Scotland 38 Wales 38 Foreign: France 38 Spain 38 Austria and Italy 38 Turkey 38 Egypt 39 United States 39 Canada 39 Colonies and Emigration: Emigration during the last Seventeen Years 39 New South Wales 39 Australia 39 Cape of Good Hope 39 New Zealand 39 Political 39 Correspondence and Answers to Inquiries 40 Postscript 41 Free Trade Movements: Messrs Cobden and Bright at Oxford 42 Public Dinner to R. Walker, Esq. 42 Dr Bowring's Visit to his Constituents 42 Anti-Corn-law Meeting at Hampstead 43 Mr Ewart and his Constituents 43 Miscellanies of Trade 43 Police 43