text:  In the due prosecution of our subject we cannot avoid the topic of the new corn-law even were we so disposed; and we shall at once proceed to our task with two objects in view--to vindicate the course pursued by Sir Robert Peel and set forth briefly and distinctly those truly admirable qualities of the existing Corn-laws which are either most imprudently misrepresented or artfully kept out of view by those who are now making such desperate efforts to overthrow it