Abstract
Corn became abundant-the price fell, and with it fell the rents and profits of the agriculturists ; but the people at large were not starved, and hence it is the belief that the Corn Laws have not really much raised the price of corn. The author believes that the gambling propensities induced by the present system of Corn Laws raise the price at one time unnecessarily, and lower it at another. The author cannot regard the Corn Laws as a question between agriculture and manufactures, but as one purely commercial, and to be decided by the principles of political economy. Besides, although in my opinion neither the Corn Laws nor any other legislative restrictions have the power to regulate at will the price of the food of man, yet I do believe that they have considerable power to damage the healthy action of trade on the price of the necessaries of life.
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