... ttan at present if the corn laws wvere abolish- cii, by employing a greater proportion of our own Ships. I would ask our shipowners why tbey cmot- tnauc to stanl1 still, while there is a general move- meat against the corn laws ? I am, Sir, yours respectfully ...

... supplies from large purchases of grain made by English buyers last winter and spring, in anticipation of a repeal of the corn laws; and second, from the failure of the rye crop, the staple food of the people in every country in the north of Europe, and ...

... persons have purchased corn on the de- claration of ?? and the unanimous determination of Parliament not to, interfere withi the Corn Laws this Ses- sion; yet within two weeks all the laws are altered, and the merchants who ?? corn upon the ...

... of the allegations of their peti- tion presentetl to the llouse on the lith instant, complaining of the operation of the corn laws. ...

... to stite, ItIve lone much to diinbu r ?? agricultural iart of our population on the great and engrossing ubjects of thre corn laws, nttl of u tnure free ane unrestricted state of our com- merce. ...

... curious fact, that since the abolition of the Corn Laws there has been an im- mense deal more foreign importations of corn into this coun- try than before. For twenty years previous to the abolition of the Corn Laws the annual importations ...

... Belfast Northern Whig.) When the principle of Free Trade iwas first recognised i this country by the abolition of the Corn Laws a few years o the opponents of that measure strongly urged that other tiolls would take advantage of our gratuitous liberality ...

... agricuiture worse off now than it 'was under The operatibonof the Cborn Laws? (Hear, hear.) Now, i faraawe can judge, fanners are better off than they were; before the repeal of the Corn Laws'. ,(Cheers.) Ty 'live now on a much higher standard; they'pay a much ...

... BRITISH CORN TRADE DURING THE PAST WEEK. There is every prospect of business assuming a more heal- thv tone as soon as the long protracted discussion on the corn laws shall have been disposed of in one way or the other. The necessary out door work, p ...

... discontent has, with protection, been removed. In this last year of revolution, where would 1 England have been now had the corn laws not been repealed ? a But now comes the great ?? are landlords and t tenants-their interest and fate are inseparable-how ...

... weather at, the close, has given a further stimulus to wvogetation, and helped forward the sowing of Lent corn. This has been proceeded with from the corn- meancement under the most favourable circumstances. No chieck has yet been sustained by the wheat plant ...

... large quantity of flour, Indian Corn, &c., on passage from America; therm is I consequently no chance of any immediate scarcity being felt, I and as the time approaches (Feb. 1, 1849) for the cessation of the present corn laws, further encouragement will ...