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

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

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

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 see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

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.

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.