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... THE CORN LAWS. A conviction of the truth and importance of the sentiments LX- p ressed in a short treatise, just published, entitled, Brief Remarks on the Rise and Progressof Agriculture; with a Refutation of Lord t, Milton's (now Earl Fitzwilliam) ...
... had a corn law. True ; but what sort a corn law ? Nothing; like ours. And his lordship read a description of the protective'corn laws of the countries mentionedby Lord Stanley and pointed out the utter want of ...
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... argued that the f price of labour and high rents enlitanced the value of grain. These Corn Laws bad taken eighteene millions a 1 year from the naiols-take off these Laws-add these a cighteen millions to the tinds of tile nation, and retruce (I tire Government ...
... THE CORN LAWS. Never was there a greater fallacy than the idea that a fixed duty oat the importation of toreign corn would protect the interests of the grower in this country, or contribute to the comfort oftheconsumer. Unfortunately this delusion, while ...
... CO1RN LAWS. 1, At an ndjourned General Meeting of Landholders anrid _ Commissioners ot'Sopply, from several counties ill Scot- c lanl, csiiecially assembled to consider thc question of an t alteration on the existing Corn Laws, held at the Water- loo ...
... t hie afiu~rifee, amml gicutc wlitcutras .~cror.gl..- , :~iti stipi tal be vvithii tcais frra'i: It.- A free iinis port of' corn ist-ill ?? Iitlv himvo thse eloect':. 'I ce price orf Itt-it laour Lid tlfutt.Ied ?? twenty ye.ars gene'ailly, tiltt (lid ...
... produces a larger quantity of corn or meal than it did two centuries ago, and before Corn Laws existed. At this same celebrated meeting Haddington, an old East Lothian labourer comes forward and bears his testimony against the Corn Laws as ...
... consumer complajins tiat the corn law raises thie price. of bsrcad by exclrding the cheap corn of other countries; and yet we import a greater quantity of corn than at any former period: tie snldhslder a ain dreads a free trade il corn as ...
... THE CORN LAWS. A short statement published by Mr Painter in the Strand, has the following statistics and conclusions, that according to the census 1831. there are in the United Kingdom 2,470,411 persons above twenty years of age employed in agriculture ...
... prices of liritihis corn mmust fall to the samne rates as 4 those of the Continent, which, is; seasons of ordinary produec. tiveness, would be ruinously lozing ones to your Petititioners. That such als injury as the repeal of the Corn Laws, caesnot be inflicted ...
... THE CORN.LAWS. . That, if tie present Corn Regulations ivere repealed, the farilers would not be able to pay their rants ; and that, if the fhriner0s were ruined, the Comner'cial and Manufacturing interests woulid pro- p portioniably suffer, are propositions ...