... of the duties on Z corn, and the navigation laws, until the 1st of Septem- ber next. The object of these measures is to increase the facilities for the importation of foreign corn, until the proceeds of next harvest are secured. The proposal was met ...

... of it is devoted to an attimptto prove, that there was no Irish scarcity in 18445-6 to jAstify Sir Robert's repeal of the Corn Laws; though there Aid come a real scarcity in 1846-47. AnotheT portion is appro- priated to- a -eulogium on. the Cornv llw of ...

... tl large class of manufacturers deemed their energies sadly a tramped by the operation of the corn-laws. All they de- ci zired was the abolition. of those laws, to give fair scope to a, their powers of production, even after those powers had p been tasheu ...

... fla- grant evil be remedied? AGRICULTURAL RETURNS. AT the time when Sir Robert Peel proposed the gradual abolition of the Corn Laws, he intimated that it would be expedient to adopt measures for obtaining returns of the amount of agric'ltural and other ...

... consideration of the Corn Laws to that of the Na vigation Laws, and pointed out by various statistical d'etails the restrictive and injurious effects of these laws, and he therefore, prilposed the suspension of the Navigation Laws with ...

... gradual extinction of the Corn duties, while it failed to t satisfy those favourable to their immediate abolition, ex-a cited the deadliest hostility of many of his own party, who had agreed, although reluctantly, to his Corn-law of i '42, as a final measure ...

... manufactures to a lge amount, as a medium of payment for our imports.U GRAIN TRADE.-The rapid-manner in which the Corn and Navigation Laws Suspension Bills have passed loth ]ouses 3 of Parliament, has produced a, reaceoid_ nthe grain trade; and prices ...

... one of the measures of compensation offered by Sir Robert Peel to the landholder for his fancied loss from a repeal of the corn laws, and it was a safe one; for while it unques- tionably confers a great boon on the landlord, it per- manently provides -for ...

... It was no longer doubtful that Ireland must have an efficient poor law-not a poor law which did not take more than £300,000 a year from an annual rental of Z13,0o0,0oo, but a poor law similar in essence and in spirit to ; that of England, which would ...

... It was only necessary for him to refer to the agitation against the corn laws. Five years ago, when there were compara- tively few in Abeideen took part in the opposition to these laws, Captain Fordyce came forward both with his cozun- tenance and his ...

... first time. LAW OF MABBIAGr, IN SCOTLAND. The Lord Advocate next asked for leave to introduce abill to amend the law of Scotland affecting the constitution of marriage in Scotland. He did not intend to interfere with the principles on which the law of marriage ...

... mnadle with their operatives during the anti-corn-law aait;ttiun, and to give thtir support to a ten hours bill, as they had promised to do if the operatives would support them in obtaining the repeal of the Corn Laws. He then refuted at great length the ar-uments ...