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 On the importance, advantage, and necessity of having a 



moderate price, to preserve the fair balance between the 

 great interests of the country ; and what is meant by a 

 moderate price 42 



The present Corn Laws not inoperative, and their protect- 

 ing power should not be impaired, although the future 

 average price of wheat be not likely to exceed 54s. a 

 quarter 44 



The labourers in husbandry would be sufferers by a low 

 price of corn occasioned by an increased supply from fo- 

 reign independent nations, but not by an increased quan- 

 tity produced from our own territories 48 



The difference between the circumstance of the agricultural 

 interests and the manufacturing and commercial interests. 

 A free trade system of policy, though it may be beneficial 

 to the manufacturing and commercial interests, may not 

 be so to the agricultural interests 58 



The various arguments which are used by the advocates of 

 free trade in support of their system. Their incon- 

 sistency 62 



The effects of an extension of trade without a corresponding 

 extention of home agriculture 78 



There is a wide field for the profitable employment of capi- 

 tal and labour in improving the agriculture of England, 

 and extending it over the half cultivated territory of Ire- 

 land. There is a wide field, too, for the profitable em- 

 ployment of capital and labour in extending our trade 

 with the vast Empires of the East, which does not involve 

 a free trade in corn 85 



To depend on independent nations for a considerable supply 

 of food, a "fearful element of insecurity and weakness" 88 



The best interests and true glory of Great Britain can 

 never be independent of the comfort and prosperity of 

 the agricultural classes J)2 



