ABSTRACT
The report of the Depression of Trade Commission is likely, if the people may judge by the published, to be ill-received by Fair Traders. It has, indeed, several features out of the common. By a liberal construction the recommendations of the Commissioners may be said to leave matters pretty much where they were before. But there are many who will think they can discern signs of mischief owing to the too close concentration of attention on certain subjects, and the scanty notice given to others. There may be some truth in the reported effect of the agricultural failure; but it is at most a half-truth which is stated here; and, what is worse, it is only a superficial statement of that half-truth. It would, however, be very extraordinary if there was nothing notable to be picked out of mess. In Austria, Germany is taking away the velvet trade, and “English rails are beaten out of the market by Belgian firms”.
