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at another; but the foreigner who produces that 

 which we take from him, uncertain how it is to be 

 paid for, and paid for at last, as it probably is, as 

 it must be, in the various produce of this country, 

 does not acquire that taste for the products of our 

 own industry, which, under a fixed and regular 

 demand he would do; that whilst thus, perhaps, 

 we do not receive less supplies than we should do 

 under a different system, they not only arrive here 

 at a dearer rate when they are wanted ; but instead 

 of producing that regular and advantageous ex- 

 change of commodities which leads to increased 

 habits of consumption of our commodities, selling 

 only in uncertain quantities and at uncertain times, 

 all these advantages are lost to us without the 

 slightest corresponding benefit to any portion of 

 the community." If the protection which the 

 present Corn Laws afford is not to be impaired, 

 and the change is only to be a fixed duty for a 

 variable one, then the amount of duty instead of 

 being 10s. a quarter, which has been declared to 

 be sufficient, should be 23s. a quarter, to afford the 

 same protection, and to keep the corn of foreign 

 independent countries from reducing our home 

 grown corn below 63s. a quarter. And if a fixed 

 duty, giving an equal protection can be maintained, 

 which I think, with *Mr. Sanders,, could not, it 

 would be of little consequence to the grower 

 whether the duty be a fixed or a variable one. 



* Mr, Sanders's Evidence in answer to questions 4379, 4380. 



