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

What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

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

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

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

Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

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