... the duty on corn or cattle, or do they wish a duty on imported cotton These questions were toe hastily put, Nobody desires a duty on imported cotton, for the simple reason that cotton is a raw material; and nobody asks for the old Corn Laws, because there ...

... or the other. .. Farmers appear to havt made ap their mind; to see the effect q ,e Of the repeal of the corn laws, and hare not hurried their corn a forward. 'In most of the agricultural districts the deliveries :dfrom the growers have rather fallen off ...

... still prices of vwheat continue from Gia ,es to week to wveek to retrograde. If the expected alteration in the GIa ques- corn laws had been a recent proposal, there would be less reason (tea eeting to feel surprised; but the repeal of the enactment of ...

... of cotton or of corn, lest we damage some other of equal or greater importance. After our experience of the corn laws and similar laws which the Legislature meant should be beneficial, it is greater wisdom not again to make such laws than to ...

... addressing his Lordship in favour of the total abolition of the corn law. The occasion on which Sir R. Peel tchouht proper to declare his opinions in fa- ycur of the total abolition of the corn laws. The occasion on which Sir R. Peel thought proper to declare ...

... bucolic belief, the sun of 1- E~ng~and ^etfor over at the repeal of the Corn Laws accordine to the same party, wvent down for the ?? n period ?? the alteration of the Navigation Laws. And in 1852, at the expiry of another triennial cycle; ifl tilh a- sunU ...

... which existed in a Great Britain under the old protective tariffl wfwhich existed previously to the repeal of the Corn and the Navigation Laws, he said that evee alter the latter were swept away there were still left a 'very considerable number of articles ...

... AGRICULTURE. ! IREVIEW O THE DUITZSK AND FOREIGN CORN TRADE I DIGtIEG THE PAST WEEKC. (From eke Marke Lotne Express of Menadow) itse twelve months for which the corn laws of 184S 'were ens-I pended, in consequence of the failure of the potato crop in ...

... Huskimson and Mr. Grant were'equally silent IV6 with respect to it; indeed. during the whole inter- I -view, the question .ofthe Corn Laws,, though so in- w- timately connmcted- with that of free 'trade, seemed kir- to be carefully avoided. With the exception ...

... termination of the financial year has arrived, the inevitable stagnation of trade consequent upon the suspended condition of the corn laws, and of the many articles included in the tariff, was of course to be borne in mind. This paralysing ingredient has entered ...

... have been subjected to by the depreciation of their pro- perty, in consequence of the legislative interference with the corn laws, having so reduced their-means as to allow them no choice but to sell their produce at whatever it will bring as soon as ...

... pressure at all to undergo. What was the price of barley before the abolition of the Corn Laws? From ?? time when the sliding scale began, andaverageswere taken under that law-that is to Bay, from the period from 1827 to 1846-the average price of barley wag ...