... TIHE CORN LAWS. SIR RoBnET P1EL'S statement, explanatory of his pro- posal to modify the Corn Laws, was to have been made on Wednesday evening in the House of Commons, and all is suspense uttil it arrives. In the mean time, we do not see any reasons for ...

... THE CORN LAWS. 1c)N this subject a cornmmnuncat50 appears in the fourth page of the ?? of this day, to which we refer, for the purpose of removing a fallacyor misapprehension which seems to exist in the minds of many of the advocates of an abolition of ...

... CORN LAW\'S. The followimg petition ?? (lie County ?? Grand J ury and signed iy till the niotivbers, save Nr W. S. Crawford, has been forwarded to Pmarliauiment for prrsentation :- To thle Right i-Ion. the Lords Spinilitaml indi Tmimpom l, ilt I'arlimnitent ...

... exertions of Chartists and ?? Law leagruc combinators, to compass the total repeal of tile Corn Laws. Even the moasure proposed by the late Governnment fell far short of this. It appears that the Chartists arejitining with the Corn Law ...

... this will be accom- pli;.hed by the repeal of the Corn Laws, for to us it seems clear the community could not prosper without them-when we talk of the Corn Laws, we mean an adequate protection to the corn grower, secured either by a variable ...

... in all cases in whiceh an oath may law'fully he, and shall .have been adlministered to any personb either as a juryicall 1,or a w~itness, or a deponent in any proceeering, civil or e ri- n mainal, in any Clurt of l~aw or Equity in the United King dom, ...

... of ?? Laws, the object nowv prayed for by the petitioners. There was still the sasnedisposition existing on the part of Government.- If any measure could be devised, consistentlv .with the se- curity required by -the landed interest, that the Corn Laws ...

... duty on grain, but he carefullv na-ned his hearers that anything in the siature of a return to the Corn Laws or to the old I protective duties on corn was neither possible nor .desirable. To those statements Mr. Chapiin says he still adheres. faINCsE' ...

... membered well, in 1840, when the poor-law system was in its infanoy and n-ost unpopular, he had been choseu in a small debating society in Newry to sustain the neeative side of tbe question, whether the poor-laws wpere for the benefit of the country. ...

... means. In one circular he aoked for aid for the two children of Colonel Verronett .Thompson, author of the catechism of the corn laws, and in another for an association called the Land Tenure Reform Aseoolation. Both circulars were drawn up with great care ...

... included Dissenters of vsarious creeds. The following Members of the Government voted for Mr. Hume's motion, respecting the Corn Laws, on Friday night :- Lords'Droicannon and Howicki Messrs. 'Littleton; Ellice,' 'Poulett Thomsonj Vernon Smitlh, Bernel, La- ...

... duties on coals by Mr. Pease; of the duties on biicks by the same I-Ion. Member; of the malt tax by Sir W. Ingilby * of the corn laws by Mr. Fryer; of the stamp duties on newspapers by Mr. E. L. Bulwer; and the abolition of Church rates by Mr. Divett. OPORTO ...