... N OT ES ON NOTABILE THINGS. - I .No. VI. ENGLISH FARMING. WHATEVER may be the ultimate result of the repeal of the Corn - laws; one thing is very clear, and no less 'clear than satisfactory-viz., that it is among the English, farmers that complaint.s ...

... the conitesting parties. wroceeding to compare the po~sition of farmers anti labourers now antl before the re- real of the corn laws, heo baid it was now great~ly improved, wvhile generally the condi- tion of agi'ictilture in this counltry was not :svorse ...

... procity which was exploded when the corn laws were abo-s lished, It might be to the advantage of Scotland also if I the monopoly in Scotland were broken down; and if the I Scotch bankers pleaded before Parliament for a law to I enable them to come here, it ...

... d the bocough, pointed out the m I advantages which had arisen from the action by that bh gentleman with regard to the 'corn laws repeal. Mr t ICobden'and Mr Bright had alike frankly admitted that w e to Mr Villiers was mainly due the credit of the repeal ...

... the head of game, the severity of the law, and to the causes of complaint generally on this question. That . grievances exist, we have never denied; so far from e it, we were advocates of the Reform of the Game Laws 1 before anygeneral movemeuttook placeon ...

... repeal of the corn lRwS appears to V have esercised little or no influence on the sales of wheat, inns- g much as the quantity sold in 1840 was nearly the samne as that e sold last year, while in 1848, two years after the repeal of the A corn laws, 6,399,834 ...

... perhaps the one exception of the abolition of the Corn Laws, no measure of the present century ihas so directly and so injuriously affected the landed interest as the Finance Bill which has just passed into law. Many landowners have already required to curtail ...

... that the Ilouse go into Committee to consider the question of the Corn- laws, was at times well sustained, but it had not the uniformity of spirit and purpose on either side that the Corn-law discussions have so frequently presented, The t motion seemed to ...

... electoral Van Winkles, snoozing over certain hazy notions about the passing of the Reform Bill, and the iniquities of t the Corn Laws. Of course, it would be very convenient to keep up the old names for the sake of the rough rule of thumb method of putting ...

... lrVtansAgnew's pe ill for abolishing tle law of hypothec be =assed into law, a t altogether inoriog the part that the eecend elause of that act pri 8Co jar as this meecitlu can understand), re.enacts the present law vith more striniclrcy, and in terms that ...

... the continuance of the Corn laws. 5. Now, those were t;e sort of arguments with which we were met. What has happened since that: For the: it !r-st--how many years--I suppose for the first 20 years after the repeal of the Corn Law, the rent of land in i ...

... clown the Thalnies to Greenwich yesterday for the pur- pose of celebratiug the fiftieth anniversary of the repeal of the Corn Laws. The Earl of K.inberlev, Lord Farrer, Lord Playfair, Lord Welby, Lord Lavey, Mr Courtney, ald a large nuLiber of other members ...