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raising of cheaper corn than ever yet has been 

 raised," nor with the selling it in the English 

 market if the landed interest, the only interest 

 which could be injured, be content with the pro- 

 tecting power which the Corn Laws now afford, 

 a protection for the British and Irish grower 

 against the competition of independent nations, but 

 not against the competition of our own colonies, if 

 the landed interest be satisfied with the Corn Laws 

 as they are, the manufacturing and commercial 

 interests, and the country generally, have no good 

 reason" to complain of those laws which give them 

 the opportunity of obtaining " cheaper corn than 

 has ever yet been raised" from a colonial market, 

 and a market <c as secure as any distant market 

 ever was," and which market " might be ex- 

 tended continually with the progress of coloni- 

 zation." 



I have endeavoured to show in these pages, that 

 as the probable average price of wheat of home 

 growth, even if we have no more corn for years to 

 come from our colonies than we have had for the 

 last two years, is not likely to exceed 54s. a 

 quarter; and that to meet this price the outgoings 

 of the farmer must be reduced to enable farming 

 capital to receive " its fair return" the outgoings 

 which admit of reduction, and the extent to which 

 the reduction can be carried. 



That the outgoings which the law imposes, 

 though they admit of such reductions as would 

 afford relief, yet the greatest reductions which can 



