text:  FOREIGN CORN; and we beg the special attention of all parties to this portion of the manifesto of Sir Robert Peel:-- "Look at the capital invested in land and agriculture in this country--look at the interests involved in it--look at the arrangement that has been come to for the commutation of tithes--look at your importation of corn diminishing for the last ten years--consider the burdens on the land peculiar to this country[14]--take all these circumstances into consideration and then you will agree with Mr McCulloch the great advocate of a change in the Corn-law that 'considering the vast importance of agriculture _nearly half the population of the empire are directly or indirectly dependent on it for employment and the means of subsistence_; a prudent statesman would pause before he gave his sanction to any measure however sound in principle or beneficial to the mercantile and manufacturing classes that might endanger the prosperity of agriculture or check the rapid spread of improvement