The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-23 00:00:00

FiIESTATFANIAN . . Mr. PRESTON said he &mid not suffer the pre- of the lepatt Mill, he . shiatild nose tOininen't upon , go e s tinn to pass without giving his decided opi. 'those parts of it to which he would have objected if ,s u mo th e subject. HP then beion to show the he haA' been prOtent. In first place, there was a ~rout adventeges of agriculture, from the time of mistake in the report, 'which stated, that mi.&kola two m ost sagacious and politic Prince, Henry VII. lion had placed the remunerating price at' router that j, whose reign it was allowed that pasture land was a 80s. and soitstelioee it. This'wes retiree mistake, but c lear profit, but that the cultivation of co rn was a m i g ht very natura ll y ta k e place in that:trig a report B rest risk, and therefore Ought to be protected by all upon such voluminous evidence. Ile believed that there for meal's that were possible. That gre a t sage of was no surveyor who slated a higher *price the:l'l3oi. t !, e law, Lord Clike,' wee malty years afterwards, except Mr. Easton. That Geolleitotik had, itoareikr, s hoo the subject was bettor understottd, decidedly said, that it would probably fall to 645. if 'owe' and a ihe same opinion. From the time of Lord Coke, other cherges*ere diminished.'M KMAtirelthed sbled a:rital!ture had risen in estimation, and was now 7.55. as a lair protecting price to the 'fainter: Mr. sirited to that height, that du r i ng the late tremendous Mant had stated, to his knowledge, that braide land snidest, had enabler! this country to triumph over 'in Scotland had tripled Within twenty years: and he a n her enemies. Ileconllessed he was not surprised' had also stated, that he thought 754. a fair protecting t o find that the citizens of London were impatient price. The estimate of almost all the Surveyors had suit clamorous 'spinet paling 30 percent. mote for been made on the supposition of existing prices and theft bread than was paid in the country. There was rates: It appeared, therefore, to him, that it was Ho ossou for this: they ought unquestionably to quite inconsistent with the evidence to say now that h,te their food es cheap in London as at Exeter, 80s. was the proper remunerating price. It appeared o,pre meat was srrld for sd. and Gd. the pound, to him, that judging from all the evidence, the fair ; tshich in London/etched Iod. Ile was clearly of protecting 'nice would be between 725. and 765., and' „ p im o n, that unless the Parliament encouraged the 'he should therefore consider 745. as abbot that pric& agricultural interest of the country and supported the The country should recollect that we were not noW farmers, witich was the only sure way to make bread making atry alterations in the old system of the Core c heap, the worst consequences must follow. Laws, but it was merely following op the principle Sir F. FLOOD reqttorted the indulgence of the of those laws which had been long established. Intl m o or till he said a few words on the present clues- °Opt/Shinn had been founded on the want of lifer- firm, which he was the more induced to offer to their mation that the House was possessed of last year..-- c re.sideration, because neither of the last speakers He also objected to such high sums as were proposed had said a syllable on the state of Ireland. He ad• for the protecting prices. Ile would not consent 'erred to a meeting which had taken place .in the! thht . roch prices as I-101: Or 120 s. should be Axed as minty he had the honour to represent (Wexford), : the protecting peke ; neither would he last year(whett consisting of laymen, spirituals, and other agricul. I the 'loose had so little information) consent that wrists [a laugh], and from these proceedings, it ; 90s. should he fixed as that price. He was convinted would be seen, that such shei.ting was of one opinion,l that there mist he some protecting pike, and he had aat there could be no distinction or difference of i already stated his - opinion of what that should be un. interests between the agriculturists and the manufac. der the present circumstances. He concluded with rulers, and he who was not a friend to either was in I expressing his approval of the system of WatehoOs.:, enemy to both. Ireland had in the course of eleven lug imported corn, as one grea t ev il he'd hithotto's , tears sent to ibis country eleven millions of quarters been the sudden fluctuations to which the market deri at gaup, and this was a fact which ought to con- i liable. vincethiscoontry how very important the connection ! Mr. PONSONBY was of opinion, that the Retto:.'l _ __ licresl—Thersferai andther vies of this 40eitiOn— its coniectitivelncase of reisie: . Hi (MG Posi sonity). ink a itirtiOthat trilteti on economy hall stStfd, that `lnellille'tif rtnti ininhlrdd increase 'of the prices - rif tabouran s tlitnnl; Thtetg surdity of matt newer advanced a more absurd pod: . Hen, in the sense in which it had'beep Rent was 'the surplus produce of the thrones., no. thlisg wore, ' that' is, 'whit lie .paid 'to else firopitelore attire deitticthig the incidental expettges'dfilis cibti p this autouttfof the produCtiee (retire of his' Production was, in fact, national wealth ; the Mari the farmer can produce, • the higher lie can pay s for who would venture to assert that a country increas . .. ing its this ratio, was not advancing in p ros p er i ty ? —[Crlis of He a r!].-le they adverted •to the state of frelatia, and tonhtsiiid - that' her 'kith weighed heavily 'with him, In a consideration' like the preY.' sent. She 'never could nob' become a rhanufacturing country, at least comparatively with this. He need not state the cause.—He would, however, say (and %e meant no inviditis retrospection) : that the poker of Engtditti 'had been 'for 6do . yehri levelled at her depression, foolishly indeed Tor the end'enbit.. try, as it las cruelly oppiesslie for . theisi her; and the . hitter consequence was, that the resdurtes of Ire.; land had been c onver t e d into unnatoral,channels.— It were vain to dwell it s pen this recollecti o n. Th e lirtlclet of UniOn set at rest thiPos sibility of Ireland's being a manufacturing coblitryi, she 'can be an agricalidral And,' and front ter ester. rise of this occupation, can .meet and add the edit: i sumption of British manufactures. [gear, hear !] The law of his Hon. Friend (Sir J. Newport), not leng 'since enacted, for the . free 'lMportitintt of in Into this country from Ireland, had done mord! for the geneial benefit of the whole empire, than any public Istsi had effected since theNavigatiots Act — [Mar, hear !]=Loot[ to 'the :fact=see the iuPply of Food thts carter& h* te6elvia that aespitfobi': measureL-aftd wobld any'Gentlerlitfirwho heard nibs';' prefer that such a channel' f intercourse should'take its source in the Baltic ils.preference to the nearer and more immediate Opening which the Sister King-. eavreen the two ;Tee of Elm United Kingdom was to ! lutions proposed to the Committee, were proper, i dom preleittedl—[Loud chee r s. ] —He was sure he each other. Viewong be the light he did, he and as such he felt them entitled t o hi s su pp or t.— . v0616'144 fully believing tlett the tithe had it length'; he thought the lloase ' ' SZE I duly hound to encou. [Hear !]—Whatever unpopulatity may attach to gone by' *hen' the mischleiont mode of rejardihg .. e , rage the agricelturealreland, and he should there- ' this opinion, strange as it may appease, that unpee ; Ireland was practised. He (Mr. I'.) would as soon I fere vote for the loges; Shut. ; pularity would he to him an additioted reason why - now entrust the affairs of Ireland, with the uecia.el Lord BINNING said; that after the Hear avid he should give those Resolutions his support.-- sary informati o n appended t o them, to the consi-1 able manner in which lois Right Hon. Friend (Mr.: [Hear fl—When the Ministers, with whom it was deration and adjustment of the British Represents.' Robinson) had introduced this question, he (lid hope ' his lot generally to conte n d upon adverse point!, Gees in Parliament, as he would to that of any 1 Gentlemen would have abstained from considering it . came forward, as on the present occasion they did, otherbody composing a part of the' Legiilitiire of . as a party question. He saes sorry to observe, that 1 with a measure fraught with general, though to the empire.—[Loud and eolith:aid chierY.l-Tiiii' , some Gentlemen, however, had used .inflammatory men unpalatable, consequences, lie would be Right lion. Gentleman here referred to the 'Wen's', language, which was calculated to affect all the dif. ashamed of hiniself if, thinking that measure a Whig data regulating the importation price of ferent orders of the community, and to lead to on- . right one, he took advantage of whatever unpopu. grain; and in his opinion the standard of 80s. was founded and improper conclusions of the real object i larity may attach to it, to withhold the conc ur re n ce al on e th e f a i r r em un erati o n.— [ Hear!] —His view of of th e measure under consideration. The Noble ;of his aid to promote a common ohjett in which the question led him to accept that price, and at ito Lord then proceeded at considerable length, and with i they fortuitously agreed.—[Loud cries of Ilear fl other, he Thought, could a Safe prbleclidis I* Wee great ability, to contend, that the interest of the I—The1 —The vote which he meant to give, was not one on. His Hon. Friend (Mv. Birhig); foe irhiviiin- 1 emufacturers was closely combined with that of the i deduced from partial calculations of detail, bat lents and extended informatiOn upon this, as on ad iiiidimlders ; and that if the latter were not protect. : front, a series of general principles; first, that no other subjects, he felt not only the highest reaped,. el, the coesequence to the country at large would 1 country so great and auspicious in wealth and station but admiration.—Ellearne- had started opinions he destructive and subversive of that prosperity ' as this, should ever for e an instant adroit. into here different tyros hit jai. Poweenby's)—but he emild.. which, through the medium of the encouragement ! policy, that the main subsistence of het pe(ipTis WO i concur in the tuitions ' wlieh cheracterhed • ali l,treti'fnre riven to the ngriculturist, 11;1(1 crowned I should, under any circumstances, be depetident upon Iffm.iiilibliPs view of the-sailoo ., —iiidie t tbi thought': 111- arduous contest in which we laud been engaged.lthe resources of a foreign Pewdr.- - -[llear, ken] they were 'pkuliarty urifdrtUriete. The litnitatidil" There was an eldsay ieg,deseriptite of the prosperity 4 ---However tree it may be, that a perfect freedoei . end reducing scale were particularly objitetionable— of the counter. to whirl) lie could not help alluding lof commerce should exist among nations in gene.: for what would he their direct operation? Nothing —he meant,' •lie plough, the loom, and the sail."— 1 ral, and even among individuals in particular; it less than this—that the farmer would be told, for a The plough was put first, because it was considered I was yet equally true, that in almost every instance certain time, and no longer, his interest was .worth , the great souice of the success of the others. Ile 'it was impossible this equality could practically sub- consideration. If hi was entitled to auy aid at - a11',.1 would ask, was it now meant to degrade that sist, and even if it were possible it could, and thit to be effective-It should have a proilied of pediment& ; ploughs It it was, he did not hesitate to say, that i in this particular case its precticabllity was nraW . cy—Ellear, .hear!)—or else the agriculturist would ; the doorufal of our manufactures and our commerce fest, still he would contend it would be onerise to ' not tempt his capital fo eo fluctuating a steerrity.— ' must follow ; and with this impression on his misol e adopt it upon the present oceasioli.—[Hear'!)—c' [Near!)—t u t would not: incite thd 'risk of sinking lie fully acceded to the aesulutions which had been. How' was it possible to command !Mt' equality ets his preyetty in a pursuit,. the reward of which et «posed. . . . testily weight foil—could they satiety thetalieffei l Mille beinteiceptect by ‘er a foreigner at, the - moment) Mr. ROSE said, that on a former night, an flop.:, thee - they could' cotentatit theototdie . edriciettebee" "Sett the'''Brifisi 'grew - wax . - Seeking 'the fait Centleman (Mr. Baring) had assumed, that he had of foreign legislationev act evi toleave a' taftchatiett relfiedtotitfdn'of his' eltittietked i &phi& and insli: 4 mitirely chauged his opinion and view of the subject: of digit not being Housed •tora centla44l state' of : try.=-:[Grits of Mar; Acal]--in" thh'eetisil clf - , lie eould venture to say, that his motives were as dependence?—[Near!]—As little Wilf It potable . discossion, it had been said - that • the ' inesslitre i lee:it:nested as those of any oilier Member, awl for them to establish a peretoct vitality' In syriteei s lu contemplation would snake food dearer for 007 'Sat there was nothing which could bias his conduct . between the farmer and - the manellieturete The °Mil' people—Vicar, hear a—and that the Legisia. ) !vino the common iutereats of the country. He I had as good a right as the ether to the rethilativel tune Onghtte view With caution a proposition tending certainly could not agree with that llonournlile l pro t ection of his properly.-qCrics of Hear !]--! to web mi a' tiseqtteliee. He ridinitted they ilidoiffiti ' G m:dem:ln in his malcontent, that a bounty of IS NVliee the commercial iiiterests'eetire to seek this pre- I se, inefar es testi Tessellate& and cumilsient with the millions was now given by the cemmunity to the I tection, it would then he time for the farmer to do dielpoblie weal, awl with Buell' other' regulations' es they leitl-1101,1ers of this country. Neither could he i same; but be would affirm, that of all classes inl were hound to regard. Ile would even Admit' that a a:eee with hits as to the facility of bringing corn from society, those who labour in hgricoltnre ought to be' ; necessary result, flowing from the present motion, France. Ile was convinced, that ss. a quarter wa• the most favoured by the Legislature =--[ hear ; l aimed be, that probate/ on the very day of its ; uolop. far less than the expellee of carrying it. Although i hear!] — and were entitled to a greater portion of con- tidn, an increase of price in food Ilould'take place. ; in some countries, as in Poland, corn was easily 1 sideration than any other branch of the community. Bet' he erotitd - uNity de6y"that sucti a pii t troliatff collected at the sea-ports by means of great tinviga- 1 ---[Grirs of hear !]—No man respected and ha- effect ivouldirlse.--(llfrar ri—On tbeContiiiry,sthe ' ble rivers ; yet the corn which was exported from 1 !loured, more than he did, the nentufiteturing in. standard' would affix at mgettiting price, whlch'woutd France was collected in different districts, mid terests of the country, but as far as these regarded pvevyut that flucteadng value, so pregnant with brought at a considerable expense to the ports from I th e peace and war of the country, they were' subtii- evil, and would by I steady niarket,. in the course ' which it was aftCrwards to be exported. There cer- delete to the aericultoral.—[/tear !]—So far es 'he of time, anansunibus . annis, and . bring ; the stapl e elide nes last year a most redundant harvest in'; (Mr. Ponsonby) regarded the moral chaeatter of the' artlt i hroffoal to a fair and pi:oPer egeivelent, even, France, and corn could,. therefore, be sold cheap ; people (no mean co n sid e ration in a gotterarquektiony,• sod iireitioetit. He Witold therefore imPlare this' hut lie did not believe that 'Preece would ever be this interest stood far superior to that of the menufiteel Heeler not admit thefallacy';' that' trio' distill& ine" a great exporting ening - Ty. 11e had always, how. Wring body. If he looked to the resources of war, I terests were at variance in the preeenediscuselinto- seer, a decided objection to being dependent upoe ; or the continuation of peace, the greater benefit was ! The great body of the consumers should koow,• that' l l foreign supply. He hail always said, " Protect the ; s triking-6 hardier and a 'bolder raea ' sprung front i to the labour of agricultu r e they must owe that cert.. corn growe rs o f this c o untry In the fi rst place, give !agriculture! permits. Centiderations flowing - fronostant and uniform s upply'of - subsistence which 'albite them a moderate and reasonable Protection, mid thee ' this vie* induced hill • preference .—[ Heat !] !could be ensured by a fair end ndeqinitetoMpeoia. a ti . ..rd every farilitv and relief to the censutner." This 'lt had beeheaid, in one Of the vieos which wag taken : tion. For these reasons he should give' his . cordial II; been a l wa y s his opinion, and, he had never ex- 'of this subject, that it would increase the' price •efl assent' to the ResolutiOns which - had been proposed.' pressed any o ther. Ile bebehtleliat nothing could rent. He (Mr. P.) was not ashamed to avow that it ! [Load cheers.] he more mischievous than an unshackled importation. may so opeete—a good consequent* *mild, orlon i Mt. WHITBREAD said, 'he hoped be should be! When, however, het year it was proposed to change` from this , have its effect, for the farmer would be! excused in delivering it ar his opinion, that the all ti:e laws that regolaterl and controlled the emote- ' enabled to maintain a comfort approximating to that efficacy of legislation in this question had been reueht tation of corn, he opposed so great andsudden an iii. iir his days of greater prosperity. Am! would (ceu. ' oter.ritcd. Ai to - the'relief which the farmer s:reed notation in a system of law's that had existed for 500 tinned Mr. P.) no good result emanate from this Com- ' receive froni it, than mu' perfectly Impiety at the rears. lie thought it rash and - impredent to overturn' partitive - . intiepen'dence of the fernier ? Certainly' present 'beaten tl4 and as in the future, it would 'not' With regard to wh e at ' ll'et system on the sudden feeling of the moment. Ile, there would ; for if the other classes' in society o • con. !be so great as' was twitted. however, then said, that if they h ad this chosen to ceived that they were denied the benefit which the'' had fallen from ao Hon. Friend of his, he must say, 4 grant ifree exportation Of coin at aH time; aed under farmer and the gentleman posteSsed ; they must shot thatlie thought)) cottemenity, to which he . ( r.. . ) ellcircuiusteneee, they shbuld be Particularly cautious their eyes to an obvious consequerkbe— for` it thii far. belonged, had - been rather hardly dealt with by him, ! with respect to elks/rine importation. As to what mer and the g entlemen were not the perceta'seet of the ' l as well as by the Right Hen'. the Chancellor of the had been said of the **Wendt of Mr. Webb, he must manufacturer's produte, he should . he' glad to hnow, Fesofiegter, on . a former evening. The' reproettr observe that that Gentleman was so perfectly con- who were—Ulm:re hear'!] —No —No greater mischief i that bed been Caste:pen them (most enmeritedly e te' . sineed that prices could not be kept up to what they could arise, than that the two claes of the cote- I would say) he hoped now' to do awayeleyinformlng had been some there - back, that in all his leases, lie tit-unity had opposite or operetta intereats.---[Crier"ofe his lion. Friend rind the Meuse that the priceeof pat a condition that the refill were to fall as the prices hear, hear!]—There was, in {mint of fact, a positive l beer had been toweled thetlay—[Near', hear !)--- I fell. As to the'new taxes, he did not see how they' i dentit y bet ween ' both. It was impossible toeirne I not its tonsecpience of the Artist of the Chancelloe r could affect thelierliets: Attu the poise rates; he prove agriculture, without infusing into manufettete,lot the. Egcheljaer, or' the 'clamber out of ' doers;, was inclined to' believe' Alt AO Wduld - rather fail ' particularly in a c o u n try tike this; the benefit of the i bat in consequence of certain Measure! that , had been than rise. Hula ed Xi be felt himself upon this advantage: In some small States , in aucient time!, taken, and which waited to be put iddiecution 0517 r subject, and witting wobble* infoereadoti, be bad andlesome . feet/ (eery, firo). of modern, this effect i till it was' known' what werelo'be' the plans o f the 'toted for the aa si eintment'ofternitntliteeln Wolf- may not be apparent ; but in. a. nation like theirm. Right lion. Gentleman: ' The price Would havie bor b o een r : elle it.' ?hi' Mittiet eiti ionaidersible time, and 'the one ieterest could not posses resources .iodo- ,kettereibefore, had thOse plane been knoWit . .1 bestowed co nddWcebte tudttiiiptut the InvOtigallon. pendently of the Other: , -add the true 'property -,of IHe had presided that day ate Meeting ' • I A• he had not," bellitSti et the of Teldeensetse; ilthellitif the whole both would always be found reciprocal.--iftear, where the proposition had been received with as imarmaiv much unanimity and good humour as the House had received the information he had just given them. 111. fore he discussed the Subject, he wished to adreit to , what had been said of the great profits of brewerir. The price of a barrel of beer was, 15s. more at pre:. Sent than it was in 1761, and bf those 15t. Govern. meat - took eleven ; while the real increase of profit span every pot of. beer to the, brewer, comparing the present period with that. of 1764 vat only shout the feerfifth of one hilfpett'uy.--[ lieut., hear Ada not, if the Itight Honourable Gentlgmln A{Onitl takit away the axes, the bresters ,Would he 'mast happy to sell their beer still lower. Having thus vindicated. them, he would now vindicate the land-tewArrs and fanners. It had been - said, and most tesjattly;' that the present measure was a combination edge* the great landed proprietors to keep' np the - ienta bf the Country at a most exorbitant rate. It scan oif *et thin [Hear, hear!] ; or if it were, indeed, a tote: bination, it was a combination to prevent the (Terre: ciation of rent beyond its just value, and with lt the de:: preciation of all other property. Thechimoof that had been raised against high renti was a most unfounded and a most uuwise clamour, and had always excited his Indignation. Taking the country through, the rents had not been raised beyond what they ought, according to existing circumstantesi and it should never be forgotten, that the landed interests Weis in separable from our commercial prokper . ity. With re. gard to the witnesses that had been examined, icesei difficult to draw any fixed conclusions from their evi dance, as they were alt called to inSwer a puff.) miler purpose. He felt at every step the difficult*, of legislating upon the subject; and the mere he eon: sidered it the more he was convinced that no plans of legislation could accomplish what was anticipated: When the pries, of bread was high, the popelar ings blinded the judgment ; and he could remember when it was the fashion of the times,rountenanced too by the then Lord Chef Justice of England, to attri bute it all to the acts and piactices of forestatteeii regraters, and middlemen. It was now, however, a time when the people might be told that the fore staller, the regrater, and the middleman were dein; more goad in their private dealings than could be dune by all the plans for public granaries and. warehouses. The middleman Was always the friend of the people. lie colietted corn daring a time of cheapness to sell it oat during a time of 'dearness ; and if in his speculations he sometimes went beyond the mark, he required no other punishment than what his avarice received from being disappointed in its oileulatiorts. It was the farmers who had their landi at the old rents, Whose p i nts had not been raised, because their landlords Intl not laid out any capital On their estates, who were the gteateit sufferers.--' What ought to be the object of the House? To do the greatest good to the whole community. They had no right to insist on wheat's being grown at a lower.price than that at which it would afford a fair profit to the grower. On the subject of wages, he had soma years agodelivered an opinion, to which, however unpopular it might be, he still adhered;' namely, that more human misery was produced' by overpayment thee by underpayment. Large ivagerf led to idleness, extravagance, and dlssipallots. There was one class of the labouring community tsho had not SO. fully the means in their own hands of remedy. ing an increase in the price of corn, greater than that to which those wages were adequate—the agricultural class. A rise in the wages of agricultural labour did not rapidly follow a rise in the price of corn ; bat then a fall did not rapidly follow a fall its the price of corn. The wages of the agricul tural labourer had lately risen—the price of corn had fallen—he was, therefore, left in a better situation than that which he had until re cently enjoyed. He by no means thought these ' wages too high at present ; on the contrary, he' thought that when corn became higher they would be ton low. He was not one of those, who approved of the exercise of what was called Old English hose O itality towards the labouring classes in the country— of the eutti4 up of barons of beef, lnil the swiping of barrels of ale. Nothing contributid so much to prodigality, profligacy, and dissoluteness, as this ' misnamed boapitilitY; .but he was fully sensible of i the adventager.which those labouring classes des ived 1 from the residence of their landlords amongst them. In this respect England had a great superiority over other countries. In England there were massy land lords who constantly resided among their tenantry; and those larger owners of estates who durintg iv riottof the yetir attended their duties in ParMtnefit, as soon as those were over returned to Hie est/HA,' to perform their not less important duties in the country. In other nations the pfinCipal lan& owner, wire'drawei to end retained about the iii s: to add to Whit wiii tin* its splendOur, by the dis ' play at red Oa' blue' ritibet;s Una crissel• of one' Iddll'aid , artothet, Which as' sobn as thOY received ' they buttenetl theft coats to bide—fooleries' which ' now, .appeared - to 4e the object of imitation else.' where. There was no place in which the landlords wire so'nuich attachea to the soil as in England.— ' Ili iiemild neve cofisider the Oth6 l side of the ques. tion, on whlcl; alsn'ditrefit exaggration had taken place. The phiWtophers did not quite satisfy him. They were occasionally ins/insistent in their arguments. It was, however, evident that any superabundant production of corn in the court- . tr,y wu'uld ' produce an increased. population.-- . Mi. Malthus' had proved' the.elaiticity of the.prio cipit of population, end that let . people pionkh; ' sow, reap, and work their hearts out, there would always he found some tittle brat or other to consume the superabundant corn which this activity mi*ht produqr. • Nor wait want of habitations a cheek to . pOpirlde on. ffii rftembered a young woman having called . on hini, andNolcl hint that she had lately mar. Heel, and wanted a house on his estate. He told her that he had no house to give her, and asked her why she had not thought of that before she. married ? 46 Lord blest; you, Sir," was the reply p; " I was &lulu% of something else !"-14 lauglq: 4: • ' ..e pa. pitlatiett of the courier) , was working up i y i osiy.. —now much would it be increased by t it' to to • (bele' homes - of the disbanded soldiers and paid-btf sailors, %abate wives would be much more prolific 'lgen% their keeping than they had been in the keep. ing Of the [tight Honourable Gentlemen opposite..... LA loud lauo.l—Much apprehension had bees es. pfaild l leet l!e'should be inundated with foreign corn; In the fist place, % w-ence 'was the corn to woe Some said, from France. Ottur, contended - " • J -" le I