The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-02 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 2.
Tss earn law expired at midnight on the 31st of
Janney, 1849, said the deafening and joyous cheers
of the guests at the Manchester banquet. Brought
Into =ideate by a grasping and short-sighted house
of landlords, trembling behind the hedge of
bayonets that could not shut out the yells of exe-
cration poured forth by crowds of hungry artisans
to chorus the black and midnight work, the corn law
evaporated amid the gratolating shouts of the emanci-
pated intelligence and industry of the land. For this
odious and iniquitous enactment there is no resurrec-
tion. The ooronetted sages who circled Lord firste-
LEVI board on the night of its death cannot recall it
tolife. A stronger influencethan theirs forbids. As Mr.
COBDEN, with becoming Fide, speaking in the name
of the staunch friends who surrounded him, and the
million. out of doors who backed them in their ten
years' struggle, declared " We are in power upon the
ears law."

It is matter of congratulation for the whole king-
dom that the corn law is abolished for ever. Its
effects may be briefly summed up in the inoontrover-
able statement that it narrowed the nation's field of
productive industry. The effect of its repeal is tan-
tamount to the addition of as gamy fertile acres to
them Islands is shall supply the stores of fowl we
shall henceforth import in addiths to what we grow
at home. With oar innhaustible stores of minerals
and feel, all pissed within easy &teem of the sea,
with the national optimise, inulligeuee, and habits of
effective oxithmens farisety, theme are no conceivable
limits to the amount at pepaktion which Great
Britain my sapped, ma of welch that its inhabit-
ants may assumaisto, bat their power to procure food
ad raw malsrlab upea reasonable terms. The corn
law, by an Miami proems, restricted the quantity of
lied we Nall mean to a Axed amount, and, by
bums sea aemmercial intercourse with foreign
Mimeo nielbecl the demand for oar manufactures
and thus heightened the pries of raw materials from
abroad. Our pepWasa has long outgrown the supplies
of hod Wsk awn law allowed us to zemdve,
dais minim of oar eranitayama to pine upon
safileient nutriment and tatter ea dm verge of abso-
lute *miss. Our espial has ling exceedtd
what maid be renclasestively sal edgy invested
in the inewtrial; otempadino slammed to supply the
compare** maw sap it merlosts within which
its priapic iallasnes landeed Is. The corn-law
masted supply of And for the nation ;
Immesh the pates the-eapkift ; and threw the
Maio at of mnplegment. It was dwarfing and
nfse the whole masa; *rgft into perms-
ture &lap" leads sal want. Its fisa was ladle-
peneabis to prevent smtioaal rule.
All slams ming us have reason to be thankful
that earn law has seemed to exist But apes no
onewill-its extinction scabs mars substantial
and benefit than upon the great landed
proprimena sad the agriculturists in moral. It
premiss& the farmer advantages whith it mold
not bestow ; led him to loss ea a broken reed
which Elwood his aids ; mimed him to aim at pros-
perity by dohnive maim and to persevere in mann-
mg and lemot-bfweking strognita Antiseel the
great leadowners in a paths of ea to the
general hatereste el the emesuaity. t made them
seek to imam sad aphil wealth by a masers
which beamed ell besides. It mole them object' of
distred and bared to the rest of the nation. Their
passed may, the esearfty of their property, is as-
suredly the mesas, of the maw
benseirtk of iden-
tifying the ne-
cessity to which they are
tifying the interests of their alas with interests of
the Mien will tesoseilo the natisa's affecticine to
th°ol- The
the kaftan of property is now
10°°214 to 42d mere paths of
ambition opened them to b.
The repeal of the emu law is a greater revolution
than tbe peados stale Reform Act. The Reform
Act at lb* utmost only gave, to that class which had
Maisel sasient power to carry it, ability to Nue-
do that Pow_or throollY sod tooordiar to recognised
cooldletionali form. The repeal Cribs Nen keg
has altered ;that satire' ocestitution of society of
which statutes like the ma nn Act are mee instru-
ments or coaventicaal soda of szpreeska. The re.

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