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

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.

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.

Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

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.