... that the price of that commodity was regulated simply by the law of supply and demand, and was not affected by the abolition of the corn laws. The period following the abolition of the corn laws, he contended, was followed by discoveries, ...

... Shopping Gazelte of Pridad.) [ The grand advantage which the advocates of free-trade expected to derive from the repeal of the corn laws was (if there was any truth in their ark tents) an immense increase in the conmmlerce of the country. We are told that, if ...

... larie for the capital employed upon tbem. Under the corn laws land was made to grow corn I which should have not grown it, and now, with low prices, must cease to grow it. With free tiade in I corn, land must depend on its own quality, and on I the capacity ...

... soon arise. Landlords can assist their tenants in a far more substantial form than by telling them that the repeal of the Corn Laws has brought on all the present dis. tress. This is sympathy, no doubt, of one sort-and the affirmation may be true, in a ...

... detailed the various measures passed ,f by Co'servative Governments for the benetit of the working classes-the repeal of the corn laws, extension of the burgh fraiichise, ant Sir Richard ) Cross's Factory Act. He criticised very severely the efinancial anrd ...

... land laws, that if agriculture won't pay you must turn to something else. But these laws are the sadue as those under which you E formerly lived and prospered. Alter them as you will, l and abolish rent if you will, you cannot even then - grow corn to compete ...

... the maddest of all the mad wri. in thing towhich he had ever had to listen was wrorkin sly the proposal to. abolish the Corn Laws. Adam to bank Ise Smith and Ricardo had even then penned replies ap- duff of sly plicable to the modern opponents of Free ...

... Stanley of Alderley said they should not be satisfied with anythinga less than a ten shililing duty on corn. If they did not get that the repeal of the corn laws was passred under false pretences. Mr D~rove (Henley) moved an amendment that the qnestion be made ...

... movement having for its object the abolition of the Laws of Primogeniture and Entail, and more particularly in Scotland, the obnoxious law of the Landlord's Hypothec. Opposed, on principle to the Game Laws, I shall not only vote for the.r being struck from ...

... niillioiis impirted, and 271 el millions exported. Compa-ing these figures with xl those before the repeal of the Corn Laws and tl Navigatio)n Law., our trade had multiplied fivefold I, sine! then. All the chief branches of industry have P participated in ...

... walges of female cotton few operatives in Lancashire have nearly doubled' full, since the year before the aboiition of the corn litti laws. At the present moment, Mr Bright says, late, 'England is suffering less than other countries, and (the where acute suffering ...

... GAME LAWS. A MEETING of TENANT-FARMERS and . OTHERS in the Countv of Aberdeen, interested in the MODIFICATION of the GAME LAWS will be held on Friday the 23d June curt., at One o’clock, p.m., in the Corn Exchange, Aberdeen—Wm. M‘Combie, Esq., Tillyfour ...