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nization is now better understood ; and under the 

 government of the talented, industrious, high-prin- 

 cipled Colonial Minister, our colonies will, if the 

 present Corn Laws be continued, gradually rise to 

 wealth and prosperity. 



The low price at which abundance of corn may 

 be produced, will give to the colonies a command 

 of the market of the Mother Country, and lower 

 the price of corn grown at home ; to what extent 

 time alone will show. But still there would be a 

 wide difference in the effects produced upon 

 British interests by cheapness thus created and 

 cheapness created by the introduction of corn from 

 countries independent of us. Cheapness .created 

 by the introduction of corn from countries inde- 

 pendent of us corn not produced from British 

 ground, nor by British capital and labour would 

 not merely prevent the employment of capital and 

 labour in extending and improving our agriculture 

 at home., but it would drive away and destroy a 

 great mass already employed on land now in culti- 

 vation, and the effects of which, upon the agricul- 

 tural classes, have been before described. Cheap- 

 ness created by the introduction of corn from our 

 own colonies, created by the employment of 

 British capital and labour, though it will affect 

 the rent of all farming arable land in a greater or 

 less degree, except that in certain situations where 

 there will be a demand for it for the purposes of 

 accommodation, will not affect it anything like to 

 the same extent, as it has been stated would be 



