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than get rid of restrictions on the corn trade by a 

 slow process, which should begin to-morrow and end 

 twenty years hence, the English would do far better 

 if they had sufficient patience, to leave the Corn 

 Laws untouched for twenty years ; and then repeal 

 them at a blow." 



The author shows that there is now an enlarged 

 field of employment for British capital and labour in 

 a trade with China, and that the Chinese Govern- 

 ment, if it has the will, has not the power to prevent 

 it, and the dollars or silver bullion which we should 

 receive in exchange for our manufactures " would 

 purchase cheap corn the produce of Virginian labour." 

 That, thus, an immediate free trade in corn would 

 raise the standard of wages and profit, by enlarging 

 the field of employment, and would enable the people 

 to obtain bread at half its present price ; then, as the 

 labouring population would not increase suddenly, 

 " the bulk of the people must be able to purchase a 

 great deal more than twice as much animal food as 

 they now purchase. At present, they buy very little 

 animal food." ' f By giving to the bulk of the people 

 the power to buy animal food, the present demand 

 for animal food, might be immediately doubled, 

 trebled, or even quadrupled ; and thus the transition 

 from corn growing to the production of other kinds 

 of food might not have to wait upon the increase of 

 population ; whereas if the sudden process of repeal 

 were adopted, the power of the whole labouring class 

 to buy animal food being thus suddenly and greatly 

 increased, then the increase of demand for animal 



