... 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, ...

... position of the cern trade. It appears to be generallv un- derstood tlint the Government do not intend interforing wits the corn laws, tc less they should obtaina a decided majority at the next - general election; matters tvill, therefore, remain aS they ...

... 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 ...

... Liberal chamber, and that both the city and the chisosber had renl embued with the free trade idea since the abolition of the Corn LawS. Some very strong reasons must lhve Inmduced the Glasgow Chamber to make a depar- i turs from its former attitude. Last year ...

... 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 ...

... misrepresentation of the most t gigantic character to maintain that as the f cheap loaf has come since the abolition of the Corn Laws, it came because of them. Yet this sweeping perversion of history, phil- osophy, and fact has been one of the most powerful ...

... monopolizing institutions by which they are more especially of y ' injured' and oppressed. I& r- In relation to the Corn and Navigation Laws, Mr as ccLindsay says:- .f se Let sis supepre that both were still in force; very high refo ad prices, through scarcity ...