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1843. Law were repealed, there would be no need for emigratio™
ir. 39. A Free Trader moved for a committee to inquire into tho
burdens and exemptions peculiar to the landed interest. A
county member proposed an amendment that the Hous?
should direct its attention to Associations which, in matber®
affecting agriculture and commerce, pretended to influence the
Legislature, and which by their combination and proceeding®
were dangerous to the public peace and inconsistent with
the spirit of the constitution, Cobden retaliated with #
vigorous account of the state of the labourers on the county
member’s own estates, and by the telling fact that in the!
very county of Dorset one out of every seven of the popul#”
bion was a pauper. On the occasion of Mr, Villiers’s annus)
motion for a committee to cousider the duties on foreig®
corn with a view to their immediate abolition, Cobden made
one of the most spirited of his speeches on a subject on which
it appeared that everything had been said.® It was circulated
by hundreds of thousands of copies, and produced a great
affect upon opinion. The Government introduced a bill ff
the repeal of the restrictions on the export of machinery
Cobden supported the removal of this last prohibition on the
Statute book. Later in the Session, he made a vigorod
attack on the Sugar-duties, and the policy of giving a pre
ference to the produce of the British colonies, when the
colonies contributed nothing to the revenue, and burdened

struggle between the mother and the grandmother to retain possession of
shild. As these emigrant-vessels departed from the Mersey to the United
States, the eyes of all on deck were directed back to the port whenoe they
hed started, and the last objects which met their gaze, as their native Jan
receded from their view, were the tall bonding-houses of Liverpool, wher?
nnder the lock—he was going to say the Queen's lock, but under the look
of the aristocracy—were shut up some hundreds of thousands of barrels of
the finest flour of America~—the only object that these unhappy wanderer
were going in quest of.” Hie friends, he wag told, did not know he had #0
mnch sentiment and eloquence in him,
i No. 17. in the oollected speeches