Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.

The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.