The General asked to be argued with. I have never been invited to argue with a General before, and I find I have been saving something up. He says the duty falls…
I have been sent, from the American desk, two columns upon the new playhouse: one delighted, one indignant. I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with the lady entirely and…
My esteemed colleague finds the new playhouse a fine business and has generously offered its proprietors three suggestions for making it a finer one. I have read his column twice. I should…
I attended the new sort of playhouse on Tuesday and I confess I have thought of little else since, principally as a business matter. The novelty is this: there is no play.…
A shilling returned is not a shilling gained, if it was your shilling to begin with, and if it went to the capital and back it will not be a whole shilling…
Strip the wig off this business and look at it. A tax is a hand in a pocket. That is all it is. Every other description of it is decoration, and the…
My colleague from the Treasury desk writes beautifully about credit, and I notice that every arrangement he proposes ends with more clerks in the capital and fewer shillings on the farm. I…
I have been asked to keep this brief. I have therefore removed the tables, which were the best part of it, and I want that noted. A nation is not judged by…
I have read the King’s column. I will not answer its tone, which answers itself. I will answer its arithmetic, because the arithmetic is doing harm. A duty laid upon goods at…
We are given to understand that Our subjects have questions respecting the new duties upon imported goods. We are pleased, though not obliged, to answer them. The first and most persistent error…