... by the Corn Laws, or is it not ra'her caused by the system pursued in these districts. The steam- power there employed is equivalent to 7,000,000 of able- bodied men, and we find no more than 60,000 are required. Would a repeal of the Corn Laws effect ...

... M. OUVRARD ON THE CORN LAWS. The following letter has been addressed by M. Ouvrard to the- editor ofthe Observateur Francois . — '• Sir— The settlement ofthe Corn Law question has foi a long time been a source of embarrassment to the mos able Ministers ...

... second act ; tbe New Corn Law, the Tariff, the Canadian Corn Law, were passed ; the League was in full and energetic operation ; Lord Spencer and a few other practical farmers had declared they did not fear the effect of a Free Trade in corn ...

... Tilt' FRENCH CORN LAWS. • The Mom tur coe tains an anicle on the corn question, in reply to an inquiry by another journal, why foreign corn which is abundant at Marseilles, is not sent to Havre. Ihe Moniteur says that the Government has done all in n« ...

... CORN LAWS AND HIGH PRICES. One of our liberal contemporaries has favoured t hie readers with the following interesting disquisition | on the Corn-laws and on high prices : The prices of agricultural produce can only be kept up in this country ...

... been previousiv „ : struggle for life an.l death of unexampled - . ' tion. The distress occasioned by low prices Corn Laws, and not the Corn Laws to hia the previous balf century the country had rienced the vicissitudus of scarcity and exc ...

... place, the subjects of the Corn Laws and the Poor Law were promi- nently adverted to. And first for the Corn Laws :— Earl Bathurst, in proposing the healths of the suc- cessful competitors, mentioned particularly the name of Mr. John ...

... taxation of corn — it never wa.-; part of the financial regulations. The measure proposed was one which would ruin our agriculture, and bring in fo- reign corn at a taxed price much higher on the average than that paid under the existing laws. His Lordship ...

... aboli- ' tion of the Corn Laws. j In the first place, they will suffer by a serious diminution 1 of their rent charge, on the reduced price of corn, aud in many ' localities, especially in the heavy clay land, will be utterly i unable to levy any at all. What ...

... Mr. ACLAND, M.P., and the CORN LAWS. (From the Exeter Gazette.) We have the highest gratification in laying before our readers a most important fetter with which we here been ho- noured, addressed br Thomas Dyke Acland, Esq., M.P. for West Somerset, to ...

... BARON CHAS. DUPIN on the CORN LAWS, In the sitting of the 18th of September last Baron Charles Dupin addressed to the Royal Academy of Moral and Poli- tical Sciences a memoir on the effects of the English laws relative to the corn trade. The Baron being ...

... THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF BcLFAaT AND THE CORN LAWS. (Frsm the Ulster Times.) Our readers are aware that the Chamber of Commerce, a few days since, resolved to present a petition to the House of Commons in support of the Government scheme for re- ducing ...