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present tariff is opposed to Free-trade principles. The 
minute duty on corn was the only relic of Protection, and 
this it was hoped mig'ht be abolished within a year or two. 
But, considering that the customs and excise duties on some 
twelve articles raised nearly two-thirds of the revenue, it 
was exceedingly unlikely that any other mode of raising a 
like sum could be devised which would not more severely 
oppress trade and create fraud and injustice. There was no 
reason why we should look with special favour upon foreign 
and neglect home trade, and he thought we were in danger 
of overlooking the fact that not a few license and stamp 
duties interfered with trade far more in comparison with the 
revenue raised, than did equalised excise and customs duties 
on a few articles of large consumption. 
“On the Use of Logotypes/’ by Mr. Charles Wilson 
Felt, of Salem, Massachusetts. Communicated by Pro- 
fessor Jevons, M.A. 
I have recently brought to England for the purpose of 
practical introduction, a series of inventions for the more 
rapid composition of printers’ type. These inventions have 
been gradually perfected during many years spent in expe- 
rimenting ; but as my present purpose is to notice only one 
of the auxiliary improvements, I pass over the mechanical 
inventions with the remark that the difficult operation 
known as “justification,” and supposed by printers to be 
beyond the possibilities of mechanism, has been successfully 
accomplished. 
The work of the printer is of course largely controlled by 
the nature of language, and yet typographers seem to have 
entered the domain of literature only so far as to make a 
somewhat rude estimate of the number of the various letters 
and characters employed. It has been many times sug- 
gested that two or more letters might be cast together, or 
even whole words cast in one piece, and many times too 
