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.

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.

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.

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.

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